Hey friends!!!
I've been hella busy lately moving partway out of my college house and back into my parents' house (we moved most of my stuff yesterday), so I've not been up to much except that and writing and watching 'Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends' on Netflix.
BUT!!!
CURRENT WORD COUNT: 62,232!!!!
I have been making progress in that at least, and feel sufficiently proud of myself :)
But as of late, I have been EATING MY FEELINGS way too often. Anne and I have a fondue-party planned for later, and I'm going to be planted on the couch writing/watching Soul Eater until the early hours of the morning.
Ah yes, this is the life. Gotta make it last until the 31st when the next part of the journey begins!!!
-S-
Monday, May 27, 2013
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Soul Eater and Black Butler Marathons Are Good For The Soul (heh)
**poke poke** Story? How are you feeling, story? Story?
Word count: 60,039. All done between the hours of 2 and 3 this morning, which was totally not a problem for my sleep patterns and behavior today AT ALL.
In other words, I've been kind of a flaming wreck today... just a little one!
So to offset the crazy, Anne and I have been marathoning 'Soul Eater' (currently watching Episode 12 or so?) and 'Black Butler' at the same time, which is kind of difficult because they're somewhat similar and have characters that can get confused easily. But I like them both, so it's good times!
Oh I are so sleepy. Running errands was ridiculous today. This whole 'resetting my schedule by sleep deprivation' thing is going to blow up in my face soon. Maybe. Probably. I don't even know.
Hey look Sam is rambling!
Anyway, I like my story a lot better now that I've got it back on the move -- and it's convenient that my character is just starting to get really sleep-deprived because of the bad dreams caused by another character. So my current mindset is perfect for writing my character's POV and dialogue -- but everyone else starts sounding deranged too, which is a little worrying.
**cackles off in to the rainclouds, because I haven't seen the sun in at least three days**
-S-
Word count: 60,039. All done between the hours of 2 and 3 this morning, which was totally not a problem for my sleep patterns and behavior today AT ALL.
In other words, I've been kind of a flaming wreck today... just a little one!
So to offset the crazy, Anne and I have been marathoning 'Soul Eater' (currently watching Episode 12 or so?) and 'Black Butler' at the same time, which is kind of difficult because they're somewhat similar and have characters that can get confused easily. But I like them both, so it's good times!
Oh I are so sleepy. Running errands was ridiculous today. This whole 'resetting my schedule by sleep deprivation' thing is going to blow up in my face soon. Maybe. Probably. I don't even know.
Hey look Sam is rambling!
Anyway, I like my story a lot better now that I've got it back on the move -- and it's convenient that my character is just starting to get really sleep-deprived because of the bad dreams caused by another character. So my current mindset is perfect for writing my character's POV and dialogue -- but everyone else starts sounding deranged too, which is a little worrying.
**cackles off in to the rainclouds, because I haven't seen the sun in at least three days**
-S-
Monday, May 20, 2013
I Have a Vampiric Sleep Schedule
Hello internet! Sorry it kind of took me forever to update, but sometimes life sucks. I mean, it doesn't suck that bad, but sometimes I don't feel like being productive, and there's no use arguing with yourself when you don't feel like being productive.
As far as workouts have gone, I haven't done much, which chagrins me to admit. But again, if I haven't wanted to be productive, I've wanted to get up and move even less. I think it's the semester lag still catching me up, but I was expecting to be back to normal much faster. The gap there is probably what's making me anxious and frustrated with myself.
Writing has been going a little better; current count is 58,288. I'm kind of stuck in a boring place with the story at the moment, where Aura (my main character) just seems to keep talking to people and figuring things out and talking to more people and learning more things... it's kind of turned into this vicious cycle of TALKING which I try to avoid as often as possible. And maybe the talking will be useful later on, but for now I'm upset with myself for having too much talking and not enough doing, so I'm going to have to cut straight to some doing. UNFORTUNATELY, all the 'doing' seems to be getting attacked by others, which has happened several times in a row as well. So, I'm going to look up some posts about creativity, and write a drabble from my 'Writer's Block Busters' book, and hopefully get on firm ground again from there!
What's mostly been consuming my time lately is a project that's been blowing my mind. So far it's just in the data entry stages, but I've been looking up how many movies in history were made off of media that already existed (books/novels are most common, but comic books, short stories, plays, and even toys have been the basis for movies). The answer, so far, is A LOT OF MOVIES ARE DONE LIKE THIS, even movies I thought were originally sourced material.
This got me thinking whether I want any future books that I might write to be turned into a movie. I think I would need a LOT of creative control, to make sure the book and the movie were both true to my vision for them... and I would need to make sure it wasn't just a money-making thing. Because that's my thesis so far with this project that I've been doing -- Hollywood has figured out that people will pay a lot of money for something with the same name as something else that they love, even if it doesn't hold exactly true to the source material, and now they're exploiting the viewers. I feel exploited sometimes, especially when I went to see the first 'Hobbit'. I'm not going to see either of the next two, I don't think, because the storytelling in the book is better than what Peter Jackson is doing.
But, if all goes like I hope it will, I might get to present this project to a bunch of nerds sometime this summer (it's literally called Nerd Night) and see what other people think about it. And I think that would be really cool :)
Also, in July, I'm going to be a part of the Russian Exchange program that Duluth's CSS campus does. Every other summer, we send American students to Russia for a month, and they do the same on off-summers. So, since I'm in Duluth this summer, I'm going to be a TA and hang out with them and learn stuff and I'm just really excited to meet them and see what this is like!!! Also, we're going on a canoe trip. ICAN'TEVENTELLYOUHOWEXCITEDIAMABOUTTHIS, IHAVEN'TBEENCANOEINGINTHOUSANDSOFYEARSYESTHISWILLBEGREAT
So that's the score as it stands. Also, I've been going to bed between 2 and 3 in the morning, and waking up around noon (hence the title on this post). I hope to fix that tomorrow when I have to be awake at 9 to go to my parents' house and watch my dog while my mom goes shopping. He's still pretty healthy, but I can tell that the cancer is taking a toll on him, and it makes me sad to watch him die slowly. At least we're getting a good long chance to say goodbye -- and he's already outlived the prognosis that the vet gave my mom a month ago. I'll just be happier for him when he's not in pain anymore...
And on that decidedly cheerful note, I'm going to go look up things about creativity to remind myself that I'm not a complete moron all the time! Yeah :)
-S-
As far as workouts have gone, I haven't done much, which chagrins me to admit. But again, if I haven't wanted to be productive, I've wanted to get up and move even less. I think it's the semester lag still catching me up, but I was expecting to be back to normal much faster. The gap there is probably what's making me anxious and frustrated with myself.
Writing has been going a little better; current count is 58,288. I'm kind of stuck in a boring place with the story at the moment, where Aura (my main character) just seems to keep talking to people and figuring things out and talking to more people and learning more things... it's kind of turned into this vicious cycle of TALKING which I try to avoid as often as possible. And maybe the talking will be useful later on, but for now I'm upset with myself for having too much talking and not enough doing, so I'm going to have to cut straight to some doing. UNFORTUNATELY, all the 'doing' seems to be getting attacked by others, which has happened several times in a row as well. So, I'm going to look up some posts about creativity, and write a drabble from my 'Writer's Block Busters' book, and hopefully get on firm ground again from there!
What's mostly been consuming my time lately is a project that's been blowing my mind. So far it's just in the data entry stages, but I've been looking up how many movies in history were made off of media that already existed (books/novels are most common, but comic books, short stories, plays, and even toys have been the basis for movies). The answer, so far, is A LOT OF MOVIES ARE DONE LIKE THIS, even movies I thought were originally sourced material.
This got me thinking whether I want any future books that I might write to be turned into a movie. I think I would need a LOT of creative control, to make sure the book and the movie were both true to my vision for them... and I would need to make sure it wasn't just a money-making thing. Because that's my thesis so far with this project that I've been doing -- Hollywood has figured out that people will pay a lot of money for something with the same name as something else that they love, even if it doesn't hold exactly true to the source material, and now they're exploiting the viewers. I feel exploited sometimes, especially when I went to see the first 'Hobbit'. I'm not going to see either of the next two, I don't think, because the storytelling in the book is better than what Peter Jackson is doing.
But, if all goes like I hope it will, I might get to present this project to a bunch of nerds sometime this summer (it's literally called Nerd Night) and see what other people think about it. And I think that would be really cool :)
Also, in July, I'm going to be a part of the Russian Exchange program that Duluth's CSS campus does. Every other summer, we send American students to Russia for a month, and they do the same on off-summers. So, since I'm in Duluth this summer, I'm going to be a TA and hang out with them and learn stuff and I'm just really excited to meet them and see what this is like!!! Also, we're going on a canoe trip. ICAN'TEVENTELLYOUHOWEXCITEDIAMABOUTTHIS, IHAVEN'TBEENCANOEINGINTHOUSANDSOFYEARSYESTHISWILLBEGREAT
So that's the score as it stands. Also, I've been going to bed between 2 and 3 in the morning, and waking up around noon (hence the title on this post). I hope to fix that tomorrow when I have to be awake at 9 to go to my parents' house and watch my dog while my mom goes shopping. He's still pretty healthy, but I can tell that the cancer is taking a toll on him, and it makes me sad to watch him die slowly. At least we're getting a good long chance to say goodbye -- and he's already outlived the prognosis that the vet gave my mom a month ago. I'll just be happier for him when he's not in pain anymore...
And on that decidedly cheerful note, I'm going to go look up things about creativity to remind myself that I'm not a complete moron all the time! Yeah :)
-S-
Saturday, May 11, 2013
I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW BLOGGER WORKS
Hey again everyone :) sorry for the super-long hiatus, but school is sometimes hard. But life is better now, and I'll be able to post more regularly! Hopefully at least once a week, we'll see.
But the current trouble I'm facing is that I want to get rid of the e-mail address I'm using for this blog, but I can't change them over. I kind of want to restart on a new blog, but for now I'll content myself with this one, I suppose.
UHHHHHHHH so like I said, school is hard. This semester was obscene, and I didn't like much of it, and I'm only just realizing exactly how strung-out I was the entire time I was in it. It's like realizing you have an addiction and how harmful it is and kind of shaking your head at yourself being like, "HOW the hell did I let this rule my life for so long?" But, all I have left to my college career is student teaching next semester, and then I'll be a big bad adult with a completely new set of problems to face, and it'll be glorious. Because now I know where my limit is on things I can fill my life with!
Also, because of this school year, I kind of gained some weight I didn't want, from stress-eating and not getting enough exercise. So this summer I'm going to be posting progress on this blog (as kind of a self-motivator thinger).
Additionally, I'll be posting word-counts as my writing continues, and maybe talk about some problems/successes I'm finding in my writing. Because that will be huge helpful motivation too :) I think my daily word count goal is going to start off at like 300 a day because I can do that no problem -- but I'll probably move the goal up as the summer progresses.
TODAY, 11 MAY:
'Stormking' project word count: 56,484
This is kind of cheating, because I'm about to type up a bunch of stuff I've written this semester but haven't had time to get onto the Word document, so today's goal will be easily satisfied a few times over. But hey, sometimes these things happen.
But I'm also going to spend some time on Polyvore doing character things, so that'll hopefully count as well. And I need to clean my house, because I swear there's an inch of dust on the carpet of my bedroom.
So, this is probably enough rambling for today... Until we meet again!
-S
But the current trouble I'm facing is that I want to get rid of the e-mail address I'm using for this blog, but I can't change them over. I kind of want to restart on a new blog, but for now I'll content myself with this one, I suppose.
UHHHHHHHH so like I said, school is hard. This semester was obscene, and I didn't like much of it, and I'm only just realizing exactly how strung-out I was the entire time I was in it. It's like realizing you have an addiction and how harmful it is and kind of shaking your head at yourself being like, "HOW the hell did I let this rule my life for so long?" But, all I have left to my college career is student teaching next semester, and then I'll be a big bad adult with a completely new set of problems to face, and it'll be glorious. Because now I know where my limit is on things I can fill my life with!
Also, because of this school year, I kind of gained some weight I didn't want, from stress-eating and not getting enough exercise. So this summer I'm going to be posting progress on this blog (as kind of a self-motivator thinger).
Additionally, I'll be posting word-counts as my writing continues, and maybe talk about some problems/successes I'm finding in my writing. Because that will be huge helpful motivation too :) I think my daily word count goal is going to start off at like 300 a day because I can do that no problem -- but I'll probably move the goal up as the summer progresses.
TODAY, 11 MAY:
'Stormking' project word count: 56,484
This is kind of cheating, because I'm about to type up a bunch of stuff I've written this semester but haven't had time to get onto the Word document, so today's goal will be easily satisfied a few times over. But hey, sometimes these things happen.
But I'm also going to spend some time on Polyvore doing character things, so that'll hopefully count as well. And I need to clean my house, because I swear there's an inch of dust on the carpet of my bedroom.
So, this is probably enough rambling for today... Until we meet again!
-S
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