Yep, I wrote a little on Friday, a little yesterday and a little today, and what have we got? 1,008 words of a ‘fairytale’, which seems to grow longer than expected. It’s not finished, it’s hardly started, and (typically) I wrote it watching tv and happened to steal a couple of characters from Green Wing :D
I will now give you the first 945 words of
The Princess of the Tower (in Finnish) … continue reading this entry.
Yes, I got an idea which is probably long enough to fill 1,000 words but not much more. (It’s not an original idea of mine, but on the other hand I can’t remember who saved who in the original (and I haven’t read it), so it’s original enough.) I still have plenty of time to write it until the end of the month. And just a couple of days more and NaNo site relaunches and Steely Challenge begins. Feeling good again :D
(Physics test on Monday. Newton \m/)
Dark Passion Playyyyyyyy!
(Got that stunning new Nightwish album yesterday!)
Goodbye, Moraaliteoria Challenge 2007! (that name was a joke, really ^^), can’t write anything for the next two weeks ;)
(Vehka threw me with an interesting challenge – I’ll have to think about it with more time)
A Loner longing for the cadence of her last breath
I should be studying philosophy – got an exam on moral ethics tomorrow – but let’s face it, I’m here.
I spend just one and a half day without internet and what happens meanwhile? This blog has been ’sherlocked’ (not a difficult task, though, should’ve done… something *wink*) and I hear that we’ve got a new SC participant (welcoming Vehka!) Then I find myself an admin of a Steely Challenge site (feeling embarrassed now [22]). And a wonderful looong e-mail from NaNo-manager Chris Baty. I’m really looking forward to the NaNo site re-launching in October – there seems to be a lot of exciting things coming up! (Oh why did I start a writing blog – there’s probably going to be one there too. Well, I’ll have three then – who knows what I’ll come up with – maybe I’ll leave my lovely dark passion play unwritten for this time, and write a story of a girl trapped with four blogs and several other sites…)
I’ll just have to make people understand that I won’t have time for anything really. But it’s so fun! (Wanna buy some rewarding chocolate and write now!
To moral theories….
Hamnet (2006) is a story about a young boy and a young girl, who won’t fall in love with each other, ’cause that would be cliché. Hamnet is a wizard (graduated from The Olde Wizarding School), but not a very good one (except in theoretical magic). The story’s set in an extraordinary world called Holeworld (based on my writings for English class), where there is rumoured to be a hole in the middle (not confirmed, however). Hamnet gets swept away from his school and he meets a girl called Celia. And the adventure will- has already begun! I’ll not spoil the events in case someone finds the draft when I die and decides to publish it, but it makes me laugh (which isn’t hard, so no hopes up).
The following is perhaps the best piece of writing nonsense in the whole thing. You try to write a simple sentence… It’s about the town-naming traditions in Holeworld.
Miccoh challenged me to write 10,000 words in October as a warm-up for NaNovember. It’s going to be a piece of cake, thinketh the authoress, and yes, it is half of Screnzy. And I’ve got absolutely no ideas. Well, I do, but they’re not really well suited for SC. I’m thinking of writing fanfics and some short stories, but they’re just my last hopes for SC and projects for some other time. Well, I’ve got a week (when I should write 1,000 words+an English essay+take part in some exams!) to figure out what I’m going to write (unless I decide to try the NaNo-speed and only begin Oct. 25th or something ^^). And I’m dying to get to NaNo, I love how the scenes in my head just get darker and more grim.
Now where did that name come from? It’s somehow connected to me (can’t figure out how [22]). My usual nickname is Steelsheen, or then just Steel. It comes from the Appendices of The Lord of the Rings, and I’m not going to repeat the story anymore, because there isn’t a story.
There will be cable ties and steel included, and perhaps me and the Traveling Shovel of Death(TM) will meet again ;)
Well yes, I did (and still do) have a Finnish writing blog (mainly for making a fuss about NaNoWriMo and Script Frenzy), but then Miccoh suggested I should have an English blog (for having international fans, rolling my eyes here). The real reason for me being here, however, is the much nicer layout (the Finnish blog, too many boxes). And now I’ll get some practice for my English, though I’ll probably post also in Finnish – can’t think in a foreign language after writing 2,000 words per day and going to school.
Anyway, this year I’ll take part in my second NaNo, and as you can see in my sidebar in the future (I hope so!), I won the first one (i.e. wrote 50,000 words of fiction in 30 days), which was great – I started with no intentions to even try to reach the goal, but in the early days I began to think I was seriously in it. I’m also a Screnzy ‘07 (World Premiere!) winner, but I’ll talk about that later.
Hamnet, my NaNovel ‘06 was kind of a… fantasy/adventure thing, though pretty humoristic (or so I think). It’s not trying to be ’serious’ fantasy or anything, but it owes a lot to Terry Pratchett. Writing it was fun. November 1. we had a snow storm, so our bus was half an hour late and I almost missed a Swedish word test. Damn for that. I started on lunch break, since I had fallen asleep and couldn’t start writing at midnight. I rewarded myself with chocolate and crossed the finish line Nov 24. And if you want to see what I wrote, click the ‘more’ button [it's in Finnish, and it's not the first thing I'll be translating. Sorry :) ]
