I've been feeling rather zen lately, and though the crests and troughs of depression have been buffeting me as ever, I feel very removed from them lately.  My written voice has also changed a little bit ever since I secretly signed up for NaNo and began a victorian-style gothic horror novel that has need of my very best grammar and most archaic ( Read more... )

November 2008 - to NaNo or not to NaNo, that is the question. Thoughts?

Did you ever have to put down a piece you were working on for a few months, and by the time you can pick it up again you've COMPLETELY forgotten where you're going with it?

That's so me right now. I've got a GREAT beginning and I KNOW I had a direction in which I was headed... But I've totally forgotten. Crap. Help?

I didn't finish NaNo this year. However, what I DID come up with... well. Hrm. I sent it to my mother because she was bugging me to read my writing. Her exclaimation point-ridden response was much appreciated but I felt a bit overzealous, as only a proud mother could be ( Read more... )

Did not finish NaNo, as evidenced by lack of updates. On the bright side, wrote more than I've ever written before in a single document, so... huzzah for progress. Next year is another year. Hell, it's already another MONTH ( Read more... )

 Money makes the world go 'round.  I'm worried that I'm not going to have enough of it to make MFF function.  I could always take a credit card I suppose but I'm trying to do this without running myself deeper into debt ( Read more... )

I finally got my shipment from the BPAL labbies today!  *dance of joy*

5ml bottles of:

• Samhain
• Bonfire Night
• The Death of Autumn.

An imp pack of:

• Anne Bonny
• Blood
  

Despite my meds (which give me a solid, normal emotional baseline) today is a day of black depression. It's a sobering sign of how bad things WERE when you consider that I feel this horrible with the meds. How black would I feel without them?

It's a shame, really. I feel as though my inability to feel anything but despair and venom is poisoning all ( Read more... )

It began with me starting my car this morning and almost ALL the warning lights going on -- coolant, oil, gas... and then trying to de-ice my windshield and finding myself out of washer fluid. I called work to let them know I needed to give my car some TLC and set out for the nice, large, well-lit and well-stocked WaWa ( Read more... )

I finally finally STARTED and DAMN does it feel good! :-D I needed 8000 words today to catch up. I was pretty sure I wasn't going to make it but I was determined to give it the good old college try anyway.

Now, as the last thing before I head off to bed I present to you the final tally for my first day writing for NaNo:

Today's progress

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