I have a real love/hate relationship with NaNoWriMoOn the positive side, committing myself to meeting the challenge of writing 50,000 words worth of raw, first-draft novelling horror is very good for me. When I succeed before that dreadful deadline (November 30th, 11:59:59 PM), I feel like I've accomplished some little thing, reminding myself that ( Read more... )

Having two jobs can be a bit nuts sometimes, but most weeks I end up with more hours (and therefore more $$$) than if I just worked one "full time" job. The worst part of it is not having as much free time as I used to, but the pros definitely outweigh the cons. I can afford bus passes, loan payments and usual bills, Christmas gifts (nothing huge, ( Read more... )

Nov 21 -
Word count goal: 35007
Actual reached: 46585

Nov 22 -
Word count goal: 36674
Actual reached: -

Nov 23 -
Word count goal: 38341
Actual reached: 50072

DING DING DING DING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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LINKY!Step 1: Click the above link ( Read more... )

Nov 15 -
Word count goal: 25005
Actual reached: 30140

I'm over 5k ahead of schedule.

And I just wrote a, by my low standards, amazing passage.

Go me!

(Meanwhile, I'm not getting enough sleep, eating stupidly bad, and getting damned exhausted. Early turn-in for me tonight. Gah...)

For the first time in my life, I rushed out after work to by a CD on it's release day. +44. Heard it through once, completely, so far. Nice stuff. I think mine is mis-packaged, though. O_o Seriously... the cover art of mine has a green splatter and has a Parental Advisory: Explicit Content warning on it. Yet, digital recognization of the album ( Read more... )

I'm a huge fan of the Saw movies - all of them so far - and I'm running Saw II right now with commentary running ( Read more... )

Nov 6 -
Word count goal: 10002
Actual reached: 15214

STILL ahead of schedule! Woot! :D

Aaaand, I end day 5 with a word count of 12,711 / 50,000. Not bad, not bad at all, considering my calculated goal for this day was less than 9k. I got about 3k words in today. :D

If I can continue at this rate, I'll easily "win"!

So, I came upon a journal entry on deviantART asking people to explain their nickname. Here's what I wrote about mine, "Kristal Lee":

Mine is quite boring... it's just a derivation of my full legal name. I do this because ( Read more... )