When I was in the mall having dinner, I was all excited about rushing home, pulling an all nighter, and working on my story. Now I don't have energy to do anything but stare listlessly at my blinking cursor. I think I'll fall asleep even if I drink coffee, and it would just be a waste of coffee. I'll write tomorrow.

I should have written about 10, ( Read more... )

It is now 1 am.

Judging from previous all nighters, I will be at my most productive from now until the wee hours of the morning, with 4 am being the peak hour of production.

I have downed one cup of coffee, which hopefully will last through the night (I try not to drink too much coffee normally because I need the low caffeine tolerance to get me ( Read more... )

This may be obvious advice and one that some people follow religiously, but many others (like myself don't). So I remind you...

BACK UP YOUR WORK.

For the past few days I've been thinking: hmm, maybe I should back up my recent stories since I haven't done so in about a year. But nah, I'm too lazy. Plus, what's going to happen to it? My laptop is new ( Read more... )

Night 1: OMG BOW TO ME MERE MORTALS I AM THE BEST WRITER EVERRRRR!!

Night 2: I suck. I suck! Why do I even write I'm horrible I should just destroy everything I've done and chase my dream of following a wild donkey around for 20 years it's the only thing I'll ever be good at

Night 3: JUST KIDDING OMG I AM AWESOME YOU HEAR AWESOME DO NOT MESS WITH ME  ( Read more... )

Of course, a great idea for a story pops into my head on the weekend when I really, really need to study for my IB Japanese test. It's hard to concentrate on vocabulary and Kanji when random characters keep sprouting into my mind shouting "use me! I'm deep and I've got a strong personality! you can use me for *mentions new scene that sparkles with ( Read more... )

I've been writing for almost three hours nonstop. My fingers have been flying over the keyboard and veins are becoming more prominent on the backs of my hands and omgwtf I'm actually writing! I've worked on two stories that I had to unearth from a mountain of e-dust first, and they're actually going somewhere. Does it matter that each sentence ( Read more... )

Time since NaNo officially began: 15 hours and 14 minutes

Words written: 0

WOO HOO I'M OFF TO A GREAT START!!

Anyway *cough* GOOD LUCK!! to those who have decided to embark on this journey of insanity, and may we speak lovely words of gibberish to each other for the next thirty days, because I sure as hell won't be coherent.

I'm changing my NaNo plot. There is no way I am going to write a 50,000 word novel about a story that requires extensive research of Celtic mythology, the Arthurian legends, Edwardian England, and steampunk. Just reading through a few posts in the writing forum on Sheroes made me realize just how nuts I was. Plus, while trying to re-outline I ( Read more... )

Should I make a separate Nano/writing journal, or just tag all the nano entries in this journal? I don't know if I should bother making a separate journal, but then I don't want to bombard Nano-ers from the forum who couldn't care less about my life with...uh...details of my life ( Read more... )

I started off my Nano brainstorming with a nice simple plot thread, taken from a summer project that died quickly (the Victorian rip-off I was talking about). After about an hour and a half of fiddling with it, I have a crazy, tangled, knotted, messy lump of yarn. I have Merlin. I have steampunk. I have an all girl's boarding school. I have ( Read more... )