Curse you Forums!

I swear those NaNoWriMo Forums are going to be the death of me. Wordcount wise anyway. I love those things. But they did drive me nuts today. I kept having to post on them when I should've been writing on my new story.

At any rate, my next Yavn story - Jacti - is coming along nicely. I was about to bang my head on the desk for not being able to focus, but after I got over that, I got to a really interesting part and couldn't stop. I ended up with over 3k today. My first day to write 3k in...oh...since November. I've got a day and a half of buffer words now, so if I miss, I should be fine. I'm gonna do my best not to miss.

Possible day though...hm. Well, Sunday we're moving my bro into college, but I can get up early to get those words done, and besides, I have my neo that I can use in the car (if I could focus). But that's the closest thing I can think of right now. I suppose that's a good thing. So as long as unexpected circumstances don't arrive preventing me from writing, I'll be fine. Those would probably mean I would miss more than a day anyway.

Quadruple Loop

I'm dazed and confused (for so long it's not true). Anyway, I've been thrown for a loop four times, and always thrown again before I'm out of the one before. Here are the things that have happened, all of which throw me:

1. My friend who I only know online got her internet back suddenly
2. I finished Rulani
3. Today I found out that I have 60k fewer words to reformat on my NaNo that got corrupted
4. (Very soon after three, just a bit later) I found out that I hadn't tried opening my corrupted NaNo in OpenOffice, and it opened perfectly.

So. I'm mad at myself, my computer, my flash drive, and at Microsoft Word. I don't think I'm going to use it at all if I can help it anymore. Anyway, I have a new, bigger flash drive, since I don't even know where the old one is (it corrupted my file anyway, I'm pretty sure. Although that's my fault to. I had it in the same backpack as some pretty strong magnets), and I'm putting my NaNo on there in OpenOffice, plain text, and Word forms. I'm also changing my file formats to OpenOffice, although I guess I'll keep the Word files around in case I go to a computer that doesn't have it. But Word doesn't like me anymore I don't think. It won't open my files if I just click on the icon anymore, which makes me worry about it's sanity (and me writing this is making me worry about my sanity). So yeah. I'm going to switch to OO. Anyway, I now know my NaNoWriMo novel wordcount. Including some notes to myself and such (none of which were very long):
92,677, or, ninety-two thousand, six hundred, seventy-seven.

I don't know how much I thought it was, but that's plenty long. I'm mostly glad to know.

Now, if you'll excuse me I'd like to enjoy my loops.

Sadness...

Well, I've been working on rewriting my first ever Yavn book, and it went in a different direction than it did at first. And I like the way it went this time much better. It may have helped that now I actually have a world built instead of some vague idea. Anyway, I finished it today, and now I'm all sad. All of my stories are my babies, and I'm sad when I end them. So anyway, if there's anyone out there who wants to read my story, I have it up on Fictionpress. You can find my story here.
Anyway, that's all for now.

Writing Regime

So, I've been writing 2,000 words a day since July 27th, and I haven't missed on a day yet. Also, for a while now, I've been getting up at 5:30 to do my writing. And you can call me an abomination to teenage kind if you want, but I like getting up early like that. I write my words, I'm done by 8 for sure, I eat breakfast, then settle back for a relaxing day. Not today though. Today I went skiing instead of writing in the morning. No biggie, I got 'em done, but it's not near as relaxing.

Another thing I forgot to post (I don't know how I did, maybe in the frantic 4th of July stuff going on) is that around the end of June an idea hit me for a plot for November. It came to me while I was trying to fall asleep (as usual). Anyway, I suppose it had been stewing in the back of my mind for a while, I had actually thought about doing a story around oceans. Anyway, I doodled it down and worked on it, and I think I have it pretty much figured out, although I just got an idea for something to add, which I can always use for a NaNo.

It's almost July!

Do you know what that means? It's almost 4th of July!....That sounds really stupid when you think about it. Of course it's almost 4th of July when it's almost July. Anyway, what I mean is it's almost Independence day. And there's something I must clarify, and apologize if I've decieved you in any way, but here it is, clearly and plainly:

I love fireworks.

I turn into a pyromaniac around the fourth of July especially. So yesterday we went over into Missouri so we could by bottle rockets (they're illegal to sell in Kansas), and today we went shopping around the local tents buying whatever else we needed...for now.
So yeah, just so you know, I like fireworks...and that's about it. Ta!

Second post today? 0_o...more trauma...

There are just a few things I forgot to say:
Yesterday (Monday), was also awesome. Because I did NOTHING.

I woke up around 11:30, ate breakfast/lunch, lazed for a few hours, took a nap until about 4, had some tea 'cause it was teatime for my mom, then lazed around the house until bedtime. Does it get any better? I was really tired, so it was great for me anyway.

The other thing that I didn't actually forget, it just hadn't happened until after I posted, was my mom called me upstairs, then told me I had a UPS package.

Huhwhat? I didn't order anything...did I?

Viola! Twas a shiny Samsung SGH-t439! I had been told that I'd probably get a cell phone before I actually drive, because my brother's going off to collage and my other brother and I will be separate more often. You see, usually us kids don't get our own phones until we get to 15 (which is the age you can drive on your own to school and work in KS), and we'll be on our own more. But for reasons stated above, I get my early. Which is sweet by the way.

Anyway, it's be a lot of fun to play with so far, and....yeah. 'Tis done again.

0_o...Trauma

I did tell you was I going to be gone for two weeks, right? *checks blog* oh...I guess not. Anyway, my absence is actually explainable for the past two weeks (June 7th through....Sunday?). The explanation is as thus:
Media fast for 7th through the 14th. No electronics. Then the 14th my youth group went to Nikiski Alaska (remember me mentioning that?). I came back this Sunday (the 22nd). And I hadn't managed to take the time to write until now.
Verily and forsooth!
Anyway, since I'm sure you're dying to know (yeah right) what I did in Alaska and how it was. Well...first of all, it was awesome. We went to Nikiski on the Kenai peninsula. We stayed in a church called Lighthouse Community Church. We got up for breakfast at 6am every day, went to morning worship, left for the jobsite around....7:30? We'd work until 5pm, then come home, eat supper at 6:30, there's an adult meeting at 7:30, then worship at 8 which lasts usually three hours, but it's awesome. After that we have youth group debriefing, in rooms at 11, lights out 11:30, repeat.

Wednesday was our day off, and we went to Exit Glacier park. I have all sorts of low-quality pictures (apparently a long long time ago in a state far far away I had set it to the lowest setting so I could have 2000 pictures. It was like 0.3 megapixles.), I'll have to show them to you sometime. Even if they're all grainy, they're still amazing. Anyway, I'm really tired after all of the work, and I haven't really been able to get moving.

Oh, one more announcement before I close this blog post: Hey, those of you skimming over: PAY ATTENTION TO THIS!
I finished....the first draft of...my NaNoWriMo Novel, Crystal Glare!

'Tis done.