Stupid 26.
This week, my whole life conspired against me to keep me away from my computer. I was planning on taking Friday night off, so that wasn't a big deal. Mike, Katie, her boyfriend Matt, and I went out to dinner at Dave's Italian Kitchen in Evanston, and then saw "Stranger than Fiction". A GREAT film, and brilliantly written. And let me tell you, if you're doing NaNo, it'll either crazy inspire you or make you feel really bad.
It's a really brilliant screenplay, a wonderful story, and part of me is jealous I don't have a fantastic idea like that behind my story, and the other part of me is depressed because I might never have an idea like that, and the rest of me is in awe of story and really appreciates it. I really loved how you could see the movie building towards its end, with in interwoven scenes of the boy on his new bike and the woman looking for a job and becoming a bus driver. I was a little miffed that although they used Chicago well (River City for his friend's apartment was brilliant location work, that place was so that character), they didn't acknowledge or use street names. Weird. It's both inspiring and uplifting, and I'll admit to crying a little near the end. And the idea of characters being real people, doing what the book is narrating is a very cool idea. I think I'm going to buy the DVD when it eventually comes out. If it doesn't get screenplay nods come award season, I'll be disappointed.
Anyway, yesterday was my birthday, and my driver's licence expired. But since I was born on a federal holiday, the DMV was closed, so now I have an expired licence. I apparently have to sit for the written test again, but Mike didn't have to because he got the Safe Driver's online renewal. That's BS because he's gotten like seven tickets since he last renewed his liscence, and I've had only one. But I have to go out to the 'burbs next weekend to get that shit done. Then we went out to Aurora for Mike's step-niece's 3rd birthday party, which was fun but we stayed too late.
And so here I am on Sunday, behind on my word count goal by 5,000 words. I'm going to be more disciplined this week--less going on, no Lost, etc.--but still. This year I know that I can get the 50K in the month, and I could wrap up the book easily, but it's been tough. It's only going to get tougher next week--Mike's going to get a Nintendo Wii, and I'm going to want to spend all my time with it. I'm sure i won;t be the only NaNoer with that problem.
Also, totally addicted to the Killer's new album. I think I've listened to it ten times in the last two days. The plus side? It's provided me with the soundtrack for the final scene of my novel--track 4, "Bling (Confessions of a King), specifically the last minute or so of it. This is just like the Interpol's "Narc" for being a huge scene anticipating to write. The plus side is that I have this too look forward to in the last chapter, to give me a boost of energy as I head towards the best part of NaNo--"THE END".
NaNo Progress: 25,200/50,000 words done! (over halfway there for 50K!)
NaNo Word Count Ranking: 2,158/77,345 (top 2.79% of) total writers!
My goal for this week is to crack back into the top 2%.
It's a really brilliant screenplay, a wonderful story, and part of me is jealous I don't have a fantastic idea like that behind my story, and the other part of me is depressed because I might never have an idea like that, and the rest of me is in awe of story and really appreciates it. I really loved how you could see the movie building towards its end, with in interwoven scenes of the boy on his new bike and the woman looking for a job and becoming a bus driver. I was a little miffed that although they used Chicago well (River City for his friend's apartment was brilliant location work, that place was so that character), they didn't acknowledge or use street names. Weird. It's both inspiring and uplifting, and I'll admit to crying a little near the end. And the idea of characters being real people, doing what the book is narrating is a very cool idea. I think I'm going to buy the DVD when it eventually comes out. If it doesn't get screenplay nods come award season, I'll be disappointed.
Anyway, yesterday was my birthday, and my driver's licence expired. But since I was born on a federal holiday, the DMV was closed, so now I have an expired licence. I apparently have to sit for the written test again, but Mike didn't have to because he got the Safe Driver's online renewal. That's BS because he's gotten like seven tickets since he last renewed his liscence, and I've had only one. But I have to go out to the 'burbs next weekend to get that shit done. Then we went out to Aurora for Mike's step-niece's 3rd birthday party, which was fun but we stayed too late.
And so here I am on Sunday, behind on my word count goal by 5,000 words. I'm going to be more disciplined this week--less going on, no Lost, etc.--but still. This year I know that I can get the 50K in the month, and I could wrap up the book easily, but it's been tough. It's only going to get tougher next week--Mike's going to get a Nintendo Wii, and I'm going to want to spend all my time with it. I'm sure i won;t be the only NaNoer with that problem.
Also, totally addicted to the Killer's new album. I think I've listened to it ten times in the last two days. The plus side? It's provided me with the soundtrack for the final scene of my novel--track 4, "Bling (Confessions of a King), specifically the last minute or so of it. This is just like the Interpol's "Narc" for being a huge scene anticipating to write. The plus side is that I have this too look forward to in the last chapter, to give me a boost of energy as I head towards the best part of NaNo--"THE END".
NaNo Progress: 25,200/50,000 words done! (over halfway there for 50K!)
NaNo Word Count Ranking: 2,158/77,345 (top 2.79% of) total writers!
My goal for this week is to crack back into the top 2%.