NaNoWriMo '11, ending with 15,000 words.
Oh, I guess I forgot to update my writing journal for two weeks. Whoops.
If there's one thing I'm now thoroughly convinced of, it's that whoever decided NaNoWriMo should take place in November was a dipshit. I mean, December is right around the corner - Winter break for those attacked by school, which I was. Repeatedly. My progress went to oblivion. I had to know this was coming along, with four classes, but I was too starry-eyed about writing. I didn't surpass even last year's record, which was a bigger failure, but I feel like I accomplished more for He's There this time. I'll have to see it that way.
It's kind of funny, though... I was having a smile about the fact that nothing was distracting me this time, as NaNo 2010 had me all obsessed with the musical, and the German musical - it was Phantom Phantom Phantom! and I was still stuck. This year, it started off Phantom Phantom Phantom! in all the right ways, it was most beneficial, and then BAM.
Nosferatu.
Even now, I've only been thinking of vampires. My Phantom passion is out the window. Why couldn't I have written earlier, like in the summer?! When I was taking all those notes - when I CARED so much?!
Things are finally slowing down - the big stuff was due yesterday and I was a success. Two midterms will be on Wednesday next week and I'm not worried about them. I have two chapters of He's There that need adjustments, and one that isn't finished, so I can get back to that, but it won't be as easy as before. I'm afraid I'll have to start relating "Erik" to a vampire in my head in order to get through this, which luckily isn't a serious leap of interpretation.
I can promise the chapters, but I'm strangely not bummed. I simply love obsession and I haven't had one like this over something new since AIW, almost three years ago. I need to find something creative to do with it. That is what obsession always brings, for me - a new, exciting angle and world of inspiration. SAW brought me Dorian and Wooden Light/Unknown Color, Akira brought me the Crystal Palace series, Phantom brought me He's There, AIW brought me... well, more AIW, a world which sometimes I consider as much my playground as the worlds I made up myself.
How will Nosferatu work its way in? I don't know, I just know that it will. Like AIW did for my stale Alice in Wonderland appreciation, Nosey did for my appreciation of vampires.
I think what I like about the interpretation best is that it isn't glamorized, and yet the vampire is still powerful. It shows the give and take of the condition. Super strength, super speed, telekinesis (he could sail a ship with his mind!), immunity to disease, and ESP, yet look at him. He has to "sleep" in plague-infested soil, he's "hideous" (even if I think he's cute), he's all alone (at least Dracula had vampire women), he can never see the sun rise, and yet young virginal girls need only to invite him into their bedrooms to stay all night, and he won't refuse, and then the sun comes up, and.. yeah. By that condition, the most seemingly powerless victims are the only ones who can kill him. You just have to accept that you will die yourself.
That put, as I read in an article, the story and its characters in perpetual twilight. It wasn't black and white, good vs. evil like Dracula was, where the characters were obnoxiously Christian and banned together. Lucy (here named Ellen) had to isolate herself and do away with the vampire by means of cross elimination. It was a new twist that I wasn't used to - that a character, a woman, had to address the darkness in her heart.
But further, that the vampire could be driven to move and made to die because of her, and perhaps a desire for her company, whatever twisted interpretation he has of that. (If I could ignore my own romantic ideal, he's a monster - it seems his idea of romance is simply being invited into someone's bedroom and being allowed to nuzzle them and suck their blood. X3)
Anyway, I've gone off topic. Short version - it's December. I'm returning to my novel, for shizzle-dizzle, and also, Kate and I are about ready to premiere the Crystal Palace 3 website. After months and months, I can finally post the poster on DeviantArt!
I'll now return to my strange world,
♥ J
If there's one thing I'm now thoroughly convinced of, it's that whoever decided NaNoWriMo should take place in November was a dipshit. I mean, December is right around the corner - Winter break for those attacked by school, which I was. Repeatedly. My progress went to oblivion. I had to know this was coming along, with four classes, but I was too starry-eyed about writing. I didn't surpass even last year's record, which was a bigger failure, but I feel like I accomplished more for He's There this time. I'll have to see it that way.
It's kind of funny, though... I was having a smile about the fact that nothing was distracting me this time, as NaNo 2010 had me all obsessed with the musical, and the German musical - it was Phantom Phantom Phantom! and I was still stuck. This year, it started off Phantom Phantom Phantom! in all the right ways, it was most beneficial, and then BAM.
Nosferatu.
Even now, I've only been thinking of vampires. My Phantom passion is out the window. Why couldn't I have written earlier, like in the summer?! When I was taking all those notes - when I CARED so much?!
Things are finally slowing down - the big stuff was due yesterday and I was a success. Two midterms will be on Wednesday next week and I'm not worried about them. I have two chapters of He's There that need adjustments, and one that isn't finished, so I can get back to that, but it won't be as easy as before. I'm afraid I'll have to start relating "Erik" to a vampire in my head in order to get through this, which luckily isn't a serious leap of interpretation.
I can promise the chapters, but I'm strangely not bummed. I simply love obsession and I haven't had one like this over something new since AIW, almost three years ago. I need to find something creative to do with it. That is what obsession always brings, for me - a new, exciting angle and world of inspiration. SAW brought me Dorian and Wooden Light/Unknown Color, Akira brought me the Crystal Palace series, Phantom brought me He's There, AIW brought me... well, more AIW, a world which sometimes I consider as much my playground as the worlds I made up myself.
How will Nosferatu work its way in? I don't know, I just know that it will. Like AIW did for my stale Alice in Wonderland appreciation, Nosey did for my appreciation of vampires.
I think what I like about the interpretation best is that it isn't glamorized, and yet the vampire is still powerful. It shows the give and take of the condition. Super strength, super speed, telekinesis (he could sail a ship with his mind!), immunity to disease, and ESP, yet look at him. He has to "sleep" in plague-infested soil, he's "hideous" (even if I think he's cute), he's all alone (at least Dracula had vampire women), he can never see the sun rise, and yet young virginal girls need only to invite him into their bedrooms to stay all night, and he won't refuse, and then the sun comes up, and.. yeah. By that condition, the most seemingly powerless victims are the only ones who can kill him. You just have to accept that you will die yourself.
That put, as I read in an article, the story and its characters in perpetual twilight. It wasn't black and white, good vs. evil like Dracula was, where the characters were obnoxiously Christian and banned together. Lucy (here named Ellen) had to isolate herself and do away with the vampire by means of cross elimination. It was a new twist that I wasn't used to - that a character, a woman, had to address the darkness in her heart.
But further, that the vampire could be driven to move and made to die because of her, and perhaps a desire for her company, whatever twisted interpretation he has of that. (If I could ignore my own romantic ideal, he's a monster - it seems his idea of romance is simply being invited into someone's bedroom and being allowed to nuzzle them and suck their blood. X3)
Anyway, I've gone off topic. Short version - it's December. I'm returning to my novel, for shizzle-dizzle, and also, Kate and I are about ready to premiere the Crystal Palace 3 website. After months and months, I can finally post the poster on DeviantArt!
I'll now return to my strange world,
♥ J