You'll understand what I mean when I say there's no way we're gonna give up!

I decided to reward myself for finishing my Scriptures paper by posting a blog. :D I love rambling about writing.

So, what am I up to, writing-wise? For now I have two more research papers for school, as well as a mildly creative piece for Lit.

For May I think I've firmly decided on writing my "Missing Door" plot. I'm gathering other plot-bunnies by the cartload, but I won't talk about those just now. I'm a little disturbed by how many sequels I could write. Like, I have two different sequel ideas for "Furies", a potential one for Tasliri (haha which I haven't even FINISHED yet, bleh), and at least one sequel for the jano (this one is almost completely formed in my mind).

Old projects status: Episode CCXII probably will never get looked at again. I didn't do my usual "let's spontaneously create a million continuity errors as I write!" thing so it's basically how I want it except for basic spelling and grammar errors, which I don't care enough about to go and properly fix. I think my next editing project will be finishing off Hell Hath No Furies, because it's in pretty good shape as it's in, and I'd just like to put that one to rest. The Jano is as good as it's going to get for now. Someday I'd like to go and add a lot more to it, because it's rather short, especially the end.

Tasliri.....is my curse. It has so many problems as of now I'm not sure when, or if ever, it'll be done. I'd like to, though. I really would. I owe it to Zarcael, if no one else. :P Cirx is BEGGING for his own story, too. *SIGH*

Besides big projects, I want to get in the habit of writing like a "sketch" each day. Just a short-short story, or a short descriptive/expository piece, just to keep me writing somewhat creatively every day, because I feel like my skills (the little I have :D) have been slipping lately.

How much time do I have for all this? ABSOLUTELY ZERO! Nada. Zip. Negative. I live in a dimension of negative-time. It's awesome.

"You know what they say, familiarity breeds...uh, well, contempt, but..."

The second draft of "Absence" is completely done, so if you haven't read it and you want to, email me.
I had sooo much pleasure writing the ending. I'm very happy with it. *pats* The whole thing still needs a lot of work, but right now I'm just enjoying fangirling about everyone and everything in it. I think I might add a few more scenes.....like, more action creature-kicking scenes. Maybe some sort of scene solidifying Jack and Georgie's....whatever feelings about whatever. I don't feel like I did a very hot job of developing their friendship. And by hot I mean "skilled", not....whatever it is you're thinking. lol.
Anyway this is just me rambling, but this is what this blog is after all. I like the Hounds, I want to extend their scene. I want to give Ian and Josh some more "screen time" but....I think that might be over-doing it.

Who knew ancient Greeks were also skilled barristos?

Whew so as I said in my earlier ecstatic post, I am halfway through my novel. I'm still deciding whether I'm halfway through with my story. I *really* want to finish it in 50,000 words without resorting to one line per scene. This is just really important to my happiness, and this is the first time I haven't been able to tell where it's going to end. The Tasliri one very likely won't be finished under 80,000, I'm thinking closer to 100,000. Absence is about 50,000. This one I really just can't tell if I'm going to run out of plot at 40k, or not be done at 50k.
Sooo yeah we'll see. I'm going to try my darndest, though.
Current locations of my main characters:
Ariadne: in prison (dang it, you're my only female lead, whatcha DOIN?)
Theseus and Adrastus: sneaking into the palace to rescue Ariadne (despite not knowing WHERE she is or if she's even arrested....all very contrived and confusing me a LOT!)
Dionysus: in Athens??? Whatcha DOIN, man??? Eating dinner with the king and TALKING and yelling at Celia when you're bored?? Lamesauce, man, lamesauce.

They just all have problems. They either have too much conflict going on or absolutely none. That's okay. We'll be okay.

In other news, I decided (as a creative exercise) to go through and name ALL fourteen of the luckless Athenian teenagers. Up to now I'd named like, three of them, all of those male. So I've got names for all now, and descriptions for about half of them. When I edit I'll have to add in some bits so that they're at least not a faceless nameless mass of Greekness.

OH yeah so last night Rosie and I went to Second Cup, and I took my notebook cuz I wanted to work through a scene in longhand for once. When we were there there were five employees behind the counter, three of them blond chicks and two of them VERY Greek-looking guys. So again, for entertainment, I decided one of them was Elpidios and the other one was Adrastus. Good times. And then I wrote down what they looked like, and made some further deductions on Adrastus and Elpidios' personalities based on those guys. Very educational. And they really DID look like how A and E looked in my head. Kinda creepy. Like Adrastus is the smaller, "pretty" one, and Elpidios is all big and ponderous. Fascinating. I wanted to use the chicks working, too, but none of them looked Greek at ALL. Hmph.

Note: I actually personalized this blog today! So you'll see a bunch of new stuff on the right, including a list of my projects, helpful writing books I use, links, etc. I'll add more stuff as I think of them. :D

Now for a break?

JaNoWriMo is over! YAY!! If Everyone Cared has a little ways to go, but it's mostly finished. I realized I've been writing 1600 a day since Dec 1st. I'm very, very ready for a break. At least from hardcore writing.
Right now I plan to catch up on school, family, and sleep, and get to work editing Crossing Black Marble. First order of business? Find a good title. LOL! I hate all my titles I've ever had for that book. And especially I nixed the black marble almost out of existence. It's only in the Mangra scenes, and the climax isn't going to occur there after all, sooo yeah. I need a new title.
From my new Writer's Block book:
"This is a work of fiction, only that in many cases, the author could not remenber the exact words said by certain people, and exact descriptions of certain things, so he had to fill in gaps as best he could."-Dave Eggers

The absence of time and space

I'm seriously considering changing the title of my Jano from If Everyone Cared to Absence. But I really like both titles! And they both have a lot to do with the story. Sigh. Indecision.
On the bright side, Jack managed to act despicable, and my MC managed to be not perfect for a moment. Best of all, Mikhail and Maggie are missing in action, which'll gain me hopefully a lot of words to find them.

Keeeeeep holdiiiiing onnnnnn

Yeahhhh Avril Lavigne wants my soul.
The Lone Stranger is online!! Wait...it was already online. It's on someone else's site, with permission! Yay! Check it out @ mindkicker.com.
My JaNo is coming along. It's a little drunk, but coming. Haha. I'm at 28k, and have about 7 days left. That's a lot more hopeful than my last post, but yeah. My MC somehow picked up some vampiric traits along the way. Kinda concerned about that, but yeahhh.
As for the plot, I still have no idea how I'm going to wrap this all up. I feel like it's getting kinda redundant....the vampire thing was unique, haha, but the rest is mostly them going around fighting stuff and finding people. Hum.

Never give up, never give in!

Well I'm at 15,422 words for my JaNo, and I should be at more than 30k right now. O.o
BUT if my calculations are correct, I only have to do 2500 words a day to reach 50k. That's a LITTLE doable. Not terribly...but a little. :D
Pressing on,
Bahnree

Woes of stupid characters

Well I finally got my silly characters out of the hallway. They wandered around in the gym for a while, and now they're about to leave. I'm not exactly sure what's going to happen next, but I REALLY want one of them to get drunk! LOL and since Jack is my RBB (Resident BadBoy), it'll probably be him. Although I could get my FMC drunk, and she could have a "What's a place like me doing in a girl like this?" moment. Hm. hehe so many possibilities!
Oh and I managed to drag Mikhail back into the story, but.....he showed up in THE most annoying way. Grr. He can't just suddenly be a hero! Honestly.
Mikhail needs a slapping, Jack needs to get drunk, Maggie needs some nerve and Georgie needs to be less perfect.

I'm behind! Aren't you proud?

Yes I am about 5k behind. Amazing. Now I can commiserate with my fellow PENers.
I'm also kinda having writer's block. My characters are running down a dark hallway and suddenly there's these weird shadowy things "beating themselves against the ceiling." I have no idea what those are. And no idea if/how they're supposed to deal with them.
And seriously, where in the world is Mikhail? He needs to turn up. He's like....the important plot character that will not show his cowardly face!!! Curses.
Hmmm how could I bring him back...he was supposed to show up to help them save Maggie!!! Gosh. But noooo Jack pulls out his switchknife and does it all by his bad self.
Whatever. I'm going to go LJ about newsteam.

No Subject, haha

Hmm not doing so well on this JaNo. lol I'm like three days behind, and the first week is supposed to be the easy one. Hm. Well. We'll see what happens. It IS a fun story, though, I'd like to finish it.

*commence victory fanfare and confetti*

I did it! w00t! 50k in a month!! Although Peter says some of it doesn't count, but I believe in word-padding so ish to him!
So I'm taking a couple week break from that, and then I'll set to the mammoth task of editing. *pulls out the vodka* Gonna need a stiff drink beforehand. lol.
But for now I'm participating in JaNoWriMo, although I'm not sure if I'll make it this time, cuz I have a lot on plate.. you know, snowboarding and all that. Anyway THIS story is about four highschool students. Let me tell you, switching from an epic fantasy to a highschool drama is quite a leap. lol. Pretty intense. But fun. I'm trying first-person, which I have NEVER done before, so I'm learning a lot.