Archive for September 23, 2007

History pt. 2

{ September 23, 2007 @ 4:10 pm } · { NaNoWriMo }
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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.

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Steely Challenge

{ September 23, 2007 @ 3:57 pm } · { Steely Challenge }
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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 ;)

History, pt. 1

{ September 23, 2007 @ 3:35 pm } · { NaNoWriMo }
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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 :) ]

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