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just now

{ March 31, 2008 @ 8:30 pm } · { Music, Script Frenzy }
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2 ½ hours until fade-in, I haven’t used Celtx since last June so I’ll probably have to write the first lines with plain old OpenOffice. Not that there’s anything wrong with it.

I keep having serious doubts about Screnzy even now, which is kinda worrying. I’m going to write a comedy script, and though I love watching shows like Green Wing or Frasier, comedy’s never really been my thing. Of course, last time I proved that I can write absolute shit that would interest no one (and this isn’t modesty, I really mean it), but still… The bigger problem, though, is the fact that I’ve got all the exams coming just now. I had two courses maths, and biology and religion and Finnish, so it’s not going to be a piece of cake. Once the exams are over, I’ve lost like a week of the month. I’m so going to die.

I bought a nice new cd, Poets of the Fall’s Revolution Roulette.  Love it.

NaNoWriMo 2007

{ November 27, 2007 @ 10:28 pm } · { Music, NaNoWriMo }
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I feel obliged to somehow sum up this November, but I haven’t really found the time or the energy to do that before. As you may have noticed during the last couple of days, I’ve been a happy owner of a NaNo’07 Winner widget.

It took me 25 days to reach 50k. That’s one day more than last year, but I’m happy with that. My best day was 5,000 words but on the other hand my worst one was only 560-ish words. I think I never failed to write 1,300 words a day last year.

My story was called Imaginary as everything else in my life at the moment (or that’s the title I’m going to write to the Winner’s certificate). I’m of course secretly hoping to publish it one day, but that seems most unlikely, especially given that the novel is so not finished. I’d like to finish something once in my life, so I’m going to try and finish the story to the bitter end.

I managed to get my FMC married and seriously ill, my MMC in love with her and when I hit 50k they were on a strange bridge and they almost kissed. But then there was 50k BANG and I stopped right there. Now I’ve got to study for the whole week, but maybe I’ll have time for NaNoFiMo. The story went on pretty slowly, but I don’t know if it’ll be that slow to read. It’s almost depressing to know that I’d spend probably a few hours reading the story I’ve fought with two hours every day. I really can’t see the thing in a larger scale, it’s just a bunch of events that hopefully form a story, but I can’t see it from a reader’s point of view, if it’s too slow or too fast, not yet anyway. And I’m planning on dedicating the following year to Hamnet (NaNo’06), I’ll try to read it again and maybe edit. Finishing would be cooler, though.

Some very interesting stats:
Words per day average 2,000
Time use 48 hours 47 minutes
Words per hour 1025

Didn’t kill anyone (yet), and I introduced way less interesting supporting charachters than I intended. The whole thing was almost dareless – I used two dares from the Risingshadow forums (the other one was Vehka’s MCs-trying-to-make-each-other-laugh and the other one was to include a bridge in a place where no one in their right mind would build a bridge) and a couple of use-these-words -things (most of them were surprisingly from my maths teacher (such as tyriä, mainio & huikaisevan häikäisevän helmeilevän hieno (x2).) They’re kind of tone of voice things, so they don’t really work on paper, but I wanted them nevertheless. They lose some of their shining in translation, but tyriä basically means screw up, mainio is great, and the last one is just something that is dazzlingly and brilliantly wonderful.

But this time I found that I actually can write in a serious tone. Last year there was constant sarcasm and the whole thing owed a lot to Terry Pratchett. This time I had no particular idol, so the text must be different.

It was my second experience with NaNoWriMo and I’m so going to do it again next year.

(And a lovely song I’ve had on repeat during the writing of this entry: Loreena McKennitt’s Dante’s Prayer (with a Legolas-video o_O).)

Pathetic, I know

{ October 31, 2007 @ 9:21 am } · { Music, NaNoWriMo, Steely Challenge, TV }
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Less than 15 hours until the start-off of NaNoWriMo! I still have to write a couple hundred words of Steely, ’cause I didn’t really have time to write yesterday. I would have of course, but I was hunting for the best House M.D. intro music ever. Found it of course on YouTube, but I would really have liked to find an audio file. Well, you can’t get everything, but I really prefer that theme to the others. We of course don’t have the Teardrop intro, but the music was different in Season 1. I do hate the Season 2 intro music. What I am talking about is this piece of music. I know it’s not any longer than that, but I’d have thought someone had ripped it from the video or something. I found a link but alas, the site wasn’t working.

I really can’t wait for tomorrow. But now I’ve got almos two hours to win SC, so I guess I’ll be doing that. And then I was going to write a short Halloween piece but we’ll see what happens to that.

(And if anyone happened to have that House piece, please do tell me ^^)

Halfway Inn

{ October 21, 2007 @ 7:21 pm } · { Music, Steely Challenge }
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7:03 pm my SC wordcount was 5,003 which means halfway through! It always is a relief – knowing that you’re on the better side and now you’ve written more words than you still have to, and you can tell yourself that it’s only 6½ pages, no more, you can do it. And this gives also some guidance towards NaNo – if 10k makes 13 pages, 50k will mean typing through ~65 pages. I’m calculating this now, because I’ve changed my font from last year’s TNR size 12 to Verdana 9. Usually I write using Tahoma 8, which is quite small, but I’m not using it with long texts, because it eventually gives even me headache.

Of course I’ll be having an Open Office Calc sheet to show me how much I’ve written, how fast I write and how much there’s still to go to the day’s goal. I don’t know if it’s good for me – I find just staring at the graphs brilliant entertainment when I should be writing. Procrastinating is okay, but that’s just pathetic.

And I’ve got another six five minutes before the end of this twenty-minute halfway inn break. What to do? Change the song maybe – I’ve been having Within Temptation’s Our Solemn Hour (brilliance!) on repeat for the last 25 minutes. And Winamp gives me… Evanescence’s October. Suitable.

And in two minutes I’ll be back at my writing. Bye.

Writing and sewing and everything

{ October 7, 2007 @ 3:18 pm } · { Music, NaNoWriMo, Steely Challenge }
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I caught up a little with my SC text today, and wrote about 1,000 words, and I’m beginning to fear that 2k a day will be to much. Not despairing yet, but it seemed so easy last year, and now there’s the second year curse haunting me. But on the other hand – I tend to be inspired by deadlines. And I was thinking of writing most of SC in the last week of October on NaNo pace anyway.

I’m trying to be patient and understanding – it’s no wonder the NaNo site isn’t working very smoothly because of the new system and, well, the season. But for a forum-addicted person like me it’s so hard, when you just can’t get there because the server’s so busy. So I had to come up with other ways to keep me busy, so I took out my sewing machine, and made a practice version of the top of my dress for the Senior’s ball. It didn’t seem so hard to do, though the material will be more slippery than cotton ;)

But today the forums are accessible again. It’s definitely NaNo-season, you can almost sense the excitement, even though I’m probably the only NaNoer in my school. Luckily my friends understand me to some degree, so I can have my “wohoo, it’s November soon!!!” fits and they won’t wonder whether they should take me to the hospital.

And I just listened a couple of new songs from Tarja Turunen’s new album, Ciarán’s Well and The Reign. Sounds good to me, and I’m pretty sure I’ll get My Winter Storm when it’s released.

I’m getting so many ideas for NaNo, that I don’t know what to do with them. Write them in, obviously, because I certainly need all the material I can come up with (it’s so good I realised what my genre might be, now I can use Wikipedia as an endless source of help!), but how I’m going to put all the pieces together? I watched the video for Tarja’s I Walk Alone (very Lórienish scenes with Tarja in a Sharon den Adel-ish make-up, two children getting separated and lost in the woods, and then something darker – yes, we wants a forest, precious!) and that inspired something – nothing specific, but a couple more of vague ideas in my head.

I need to listen to more music, find more pictures and write that SC to get the routine, and now I feel ready for it!

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(I made some lovely banners, and this is one of them)

7 Days To The Wolves

{ September 27, 2007 @ 10:05 am } · { Music }
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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