To create a write-like feel

Seljatar — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:56:30 +0000

I haven’t posted in ages and I’m sorry, but I have a life so many other things on my plate right now (always, actually). I’m exhausted because of the upcoming final exams, I’ve been studying like 8 hours/day and electromagnetism quite simply sucks, you know. And I suck at it. Luckily in a couple of weeks at least this cause of stress will be history (though that’s such a short time, I can’t get into my head everything I’d like to have there).

So I just realised that it’s April next month and that means Script Frenzy and I was driving home today and went like ‘omg, the site must be open o.O’ And I’m not even sure if I want to do it (though I will, of course…), but then I started having ideas like ‘what if I did an adapted screenplay of Imaginary’ and that actually sounds like something I could do. I’d have to finish the novel before, though. Or I dunno. I know how it’s going to end, so I could just draft it and then do the adaptation. Perhaps…

I also noticed that I haven’t said anything about last year’s NaNo here. I hated most of it, the last couple of thousand words were endurable but the rest of it… gah, let’s just say I’m glad I don’t have to return there. I won though, and that was some achievement, ’cause I was pretty worn out back then. And I did write 10k in two days, that’s a small victory too :)

Seljatar — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:10:28 +0000

I just read almost every entry in this blog and guess what I want to do? I want to revisit Imaginary, ’cause I certainly made it sound more interesting than I remembered it being :D It’s still an unfinished thing, and I’d like to finish it because I actually do know how it should end. Knowing me, it’ll never be done, though. But one may dream, surely?

i mean siriusly

Seljatar — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:59:41 +0000

My heart’s bleeding. I’ve just read through this thread and as that Swede pointed out, it’s really weird to think that I know some things about English better than the native speakers. Someone said they felt sorry for the non-native speakers because the language is so hard, and I was like ‘I really thought these things were so clear to everyone.’ I don’t think I’d used any of the words in the wrong way; that is, I know the distinction between all the similar words mentioned in that thread. I’m not saying I don’t make mistakes, but in those cases I’m sure they’d've been completely accidental typos, if made at all.

Oh damn. All my life I’ve been wishing I was a native English speaker and they just keep shattering my world like this.

well…

Seljatar — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:37:37 +0000

It’s October 4th (so like me, all the time stating the obvious) and I haven’t even started on Steely Challenge. Don’t know if I will. Right now I’m busy getting things done (i.e. read) before November (and being madly in love with The Shoebox Project). I think I’m currently reading five or six books from the library, and I’d like to finish them within a reasonable time. I’ve also got school – maths, physics, physics lab, social studies, Finnish and geography and no doubt I’m going to have to write a lot of things. Plus I don’t really have any ideas for SC, and I don’t even really feel like writing.

I might not feel this way in the middle of the month. We’ll see.

Seljatar — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:29:55 +0000

A friend of mine had a NaNoWriMo poster today, she was obviously planning to put it somewhere to let people know about that great event. So, we just started talking about our upcoming NaNovels (she’s set on winning this time and I’m just going to prove something. What and to whom, I don’t know, but it’s just a part of my weird mind to be like that (: ). She told me she had a few characters planned (and they did sound interesting!), and I’m quite envious because I’m not sure about anything at this point. I’ve done this before, of course, but one still gets a little nervous.

So what I came up with during our shortish conversation was some sort of an rpf+God-thingy featuring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in some form ^^ *insert a bit of fangirling* (I spent the weekend listening to Fry’s podgrams and so on). I remember planning a few NaNos ahead and there definitely was a God+Heaven themed thing amongst them, and, well… I think this suits me fine.

But I hadn’t really realised we were so close to November, but oh dear, nanowrimo.org is already closed for whatever they do during this week! This year I’m not going to be one of the first ones to spam the forums (thanks to having a maths exam, several hours of physics lab and singing lesson on the 1st) but that isn’t so relevant as I’m going to be spamming there anyway!

I’m so excited!

well I always thought updating every 4 months is quite alright

Seljatar — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:23:01 +0000

but of course I’ve had nothing to write about since I haven’t been writing anything except blog posts and frustrating Finnish papers and… that’s pretty much it. I finished SF quite neatly, but since then nothing. Wasn’t a surprise, though. I’ve been watching a lot of tv instead :D

This time last year I remember being quite excited about the upcoming NaNoWriMo, now I’m most of the time horrified about the matriculation exams that are only a few weeks away. I’ve had some ideas about NaNo’08, but I’m not at all sure yet what I’m going to write.

I’m strangely intrigued by Yuletide challenge. I’m not sure whether I’m up to it – fanfic has never been one of my strong fields, I feel like poking my nose somewhere it shouldn’t be when I’m even thinking about writing something about characters that aren’t my own, no matter how much I love them. But if I know myself at all, I’ll find myself signed up for that thing too. After all, I never believed I’d win NaNoWriMo when I signed up for that.

Day 26 (oh so close)

Seljatar — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:11:57 +0000

I had good times, I had bad times and then I started feeling desperate because I was kind of stuck (though I actually wasn’t, it was more like an illusion). And then I hit 75 pages and decided that damn right I’m going to do this.

Yesterday evening, at 78 pages I told Miccoh that I was going to hit 80 during the evening and then write ten pages on both weekend days. Today I just sat down and wrote what is currently 12 pages and now I’m happily standing at 94 pages. That is almost 95 which is only five pages away from winning (ooh, mathematics…) and then the sun will shine and all my problems will be gone forever.

Now I’m going to bake a cake (it’s my dad’s birthday tomorrow but the real reason is of course Screnzy :D ) and then watch some comedy and maybe write, maybe not. I’ve got tomorrow and the rest of the month, I’m not in a hurry anymore.

A tiny, boring excerpt:

WATSON

I think I’m bullied.

LIZZIE

At school?

WATSON

At work.

LIZZIE

You work at a school, you twat.

Day 13

Seljatar — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:27:16 +0000

I’ve almost written a whole episode, about 44 pages! This pilot episode covers one day at a crazy school, and I totally suck at making believable* original characters, but I think in my case that isn’t the most important thing. The good news is I feel somehow more able to write dialogue than ever. I don’t know if it’s funny or anything, but at least there might be a bit more dialogue than descriptive passages.

I had an excellent day yesterday; my page count increased with 10 pages. I was behind schedule, now I’m tightly on it. I think I’ll have to write a couple more pages today because I’ve got my hands full of not only maths but physics, chemistry, English, Swedish and piano as well on the normal weekdays. Sometimes I’d have skipped chemistry and English completely, but we have evil wordtests in English and actually things to calculate in chemistry. Something new for a change. And I do love the groups I’m studying in ^^

So… 44 pages. That’s a bit over 7,000 words now. I’m gonna be so fine :D But not if I give in to the urge to watch some more House… Although I’m going to do that anyway…

*after watching Green Wing** over and over and over again, I’ll believe anything.

** I’m actually not payed for advertising GW everywhere and all the time. Should be though :P

Day, whatsit, eight

Seljatar — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:02:40 +0000

Yay, my exams are almost over! I had the second maths test today and it seemed easy enough. Now I have a bit more time for Screnzy (currently I’ve written 13 pages – this is going to be an epic fail if I don’t pull myself together). But I feel so stupid! I’m a fourth-time-participant if you count NaNoWriMos, so I should know, but it wasn’t until yesterday that I realised that hey, I could use some dares! It’s not like I haven’t ever used dares before, I had just forgotten about them completely! And I’m writing an absurd comedy, so dares would fit in perfectly. That was a real headdesk-moment yesterday.

And now I’m going to open my script document, be very brave and write something that felt impossible on Sunday. I’m not going to fail!

… (day 2)

Seljatar — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:27:07 +0000

I have now officially written four pages of my script for a comedy that seems to me quite boring and not funny at all. I think I’ve learned something about tabs in OpenOffice but my writing style is still leaning towards description too heavily. I recall complaining something about being unable to write dialogue during NaNoWriMo. Well, as we all know, scripts are quite a lot about dialogue… But at least I’ve formatted in a nice way, so I don’t have to write so much.

But four pages in one day… that’s ahead of schedule. Maybe, just maybe, I might actually survive :)