Finally

I tried to post a while ago but blogger wouldn't cooperate. Blast them. I finished the things yay me. I'm over my five page quota thank you very much. From there on a played Backgammon, now I think I shall do my homework, such a novel concept isn't it? I have to have two things memorized for classes on tuesday, both of which are considerable. A sonnet and a scene sigh. I shoulddo the mathand the other stuff. But hey this is a writing blog Gah I shouldn't be telling you that. The writing was good, Laleena made a friend, her own age, and Fraser told Abbott all his problems, now we have to have a touching nenan fraser moment, then Balin then bye bye, then I don't know. I think that may stretch five pages but it's iffy. Don't want to push it. Beth and Iwill have to convene soon for bookage, maybe put a lunch hour or two aside for it what ever. Well homework and Chicago are calling. Hello to you to mr windy city.

If you must

I won't keep you from your so persistant muse. I'll work on getting mine out of the lonely labrynth that she's wandering about in now. She keeps coming to dead ends and seeing "BANQUET!" "BIRTH" "MOTIVE" "DEATH" seems like an unhappy place. At least it's her in there and not me. That would suck. Meh. Maybe I'll go read a book or something and let her suffer. Poor muse. I just gave her more character than I'd ever care to before and I now feel really bad for her.

If my cell phone loves me and doesn't take to long to charge, I'll call you later. Please bring Incubus Dreams to school tommorrow, I have to return it soon!

Love ya, wish my muse well.

lol

Yup I mentioned the bouncing. And the oven mitts. She thinks its brilliant. She has every intention of calling him mittens until we all see him on monday. She wants Lauren to call him mittens too. She was so amused. She said she'd assumed we'd meet at like 8am and be done that night. Perhaps. Not my ideal though.

So... writing blog... we're trying real hard to talk about writing right?

My muse is coming back

I may have to go and finish soon, I think your going to have to feel crumby then becasue gripe. Mom and dad are yelling at each other so I had best go so they don't take it out on me. Um banquet indeed I'll think on it. Banquet. Sigh too hard, too hard indeed.

Whimper... whimper...

So... long... away... I feel terribly impatient. I want to do this all today. Like now. Stupid stupid telephone. October 20 is avatar day in Singapor... at least I'm learing random facts while I wait between posts. I have no issues with next Sunday, but I'd be a happier Bethie if we could find a way to do today.

Banquet?

haha ha Mittens

Did you tell her about sewing him into his clothes and the bouncing a ho it makes me laugh to think it to a degree, then I think oh god that's going to be a hard party to plan.

well... let's see

So far so good, gripe. let's see when do we shove it all together? Next weekend you say is "family weekend" right, so not then probably unless you're ok with sunday, but you will have homework probably and have to do that. So the weekend after that, but we'll bbe having about twenty more pages to deel with after that. SO gah.

meh

Raven wanted me to go to her house to move empty boxes to the locker room with her... I donno. I said I couldn't because of Sandor, food, and lack of willing transportation. I told her about Mittens the Eunich though and I don't think I 've heard her laugh so hard in weeks!

So... who writes what next? How, where and when? When will we put it all together? So many questions!

Grumble I agree

Yes this is annoying, coming over won't be an option I don't think becasue then I have to get to and from you rhouse and my dad isn't really up yet, and I'm not dressed and I have homework. Why do your phone lines have to be open again. Incase of sudden fatalities? I think if it was that bad you'd know. Trust me he's not going to magically drop dead they give more notice then that. But then I'm not your parents. That and I don't think my mom wants to let me go.

I really don't have many ideas. I wish I did. We work better when we talk. But we do have to do some stuff. We know it's an engagment party that's coming, relly I don't think you can do much unless of course I finish everything today and we have no idea how long this thing need to be, but next week ytou have to get it all done, right. Right. Sigh it's a bit a conundrum as to what we can do. Gah! Grumble gripe.

The world is against us...

I don't know... This is really slow and getting on my nerves already. I would really like to get this stuff figured out though. Any more stupefying ideas? Maybe you could come over...? I donno! I just don't know!!

sooo

What did rtaven have to say?

oh yes that

I would but I don't have javascript anymore and becasue of that I can't play runescape. I would instal it but dad may have a hissy fit because it was freezing the computer up before, he has to fix that before we can do that.

this is ... annoying.

A cell phone is a glorius invention. However, Raven called earlier and ate the entire battery. There is none left. Zilch. Not a minute of time. We could do this on runescape though. It would at least be better than blogger.

Yes it would be

I get the impression you wanted more of a post than that...

Silly phantom post! Nonetheless, it was an interesting fact.

That would be very hard to type

That is fucked up I had a whole post written and blogger ate it and put that in there instead, some international error or that's what it told me!

Gah! To sum up Didn't realise how much I'd written yay writing zen. bad fingers. Grrr. Why can't we talk on your cell, this would be easier with MSN blast my computer, I feel like charlie brown cause my key board sucks (more opn that analogy later.)

Laliyne

Point of random interest, I did a little research on the name Laleena. It is a traditional Circassian name. Apparently that's modern day Turkey. It was spelt Laliyne but pronounced the same way. Neat-o.

So abbot took over eh? Sounds interesting. Almost done you are you are. But you still haven't met Balin... You'll finish your five before getting stuck like little ol me

Fingers-Taking-Over-Nothing-I-Can-Do

Ahhh. My fingers took over and wrote a really really long Fraser and Abbott part I'm talking mondo est Largoe. Yes like three pages of converstation at one point using a mare as a euphamism. They're like sitting int the grass outside of the Green Speckled (or spotted cause I may have to change that) Toad, discussing Fraser's issues, I've condensed things and it's still that long. I've got one more page to go and then I have my 5 page quota met. Although it will probably go on longer to speed up productivity.

It was eaten.

Dang it! Blogger ate my post!

To summarize: I did 4.5 pages of my 5 per week. I cannot do more because I wrote to the end of what I said I'd take care of. Susie is at a similar perdicament. And I can't talk on the phone because of my uncle who is in the hospital because of what may or may not be related to his cancer. Dang. Here's to our first ever blogger conversation. This should be interesting.

Origonally this was a much longer post. Silly Blogger...

Another.

And another page is done. Just more than a page actually. Two very short scenes. I don't think they had to be much longer so its ok. I also am aware that the last scene was fairly long so it balances out. I don't know why I seem capable of writing only one page per sitting, it is getting annoying and I blame it on being out of practice. I'll do at least one more tonight I figure. I did a T and Dierdre scene, then a T and Darsby but darsby hardly said anything; it was just her sending him to go kill Fantine. Next scene will be a touch longer and will be, I think, the last one it write for this go.

Shiny

My dad did something crazy to my settings wowie!

Any how I've done a woping about 1 1/2 pages and I do plan on more but that depends entirly on my mother's schedual. We've pretty much finished decorating, as far as I know, and we've eaten now all we really have to do is watch a movie says the plan. Says the suzie, "I need to write more" of course as long as it's done tomorrow that's all that really counts, but I've put myself on a schedual and I would like to keep it thank you. Mine is just getting laleena where she needs to be from here on out but it's very important how I do it. Very important, I'm reintroducing a favored character this is always important. I'm so happy for Balin he's going to have a like history, family and motive, I'm so proud of him!

Well heading off now, ciao.

Started!

I did a page. A whole page. All by myself! yay me.

I know it is only one, but I will do more tonight. Yay. A page. I rock. It is about killing a little girl, so I feel bad feeling this happy about it, but it was good. I almost cried. It was tragic. But she's dead and I can move on.

Suse and I had a fairly long conversation about what happens next. Like two hours. What we had... well it still has to happen, but it was pretty bad. We need to find a creative way to kill the king. We talked for like 2 houirs and my mom freaked out. I kinda know why and it is sorta my fault but not really. But that's a story for another blog.

I will write more tongiht. I'm on to a new scene now which is nice. I'm almost done my allotted bit, then we'll have to decide who writes whatever comes next.

Fantine

...Yes that's the name now, yay.

Oh and Fantine for a child lame excuse I mean really you don't think Rita should be a childs name but some adult had to be a child Rita to become an adult Rita. Think about it!

Duel of the character name

But... Fantine? It is a lovely name. I really good name. But for a kid? And in Les Mis she is the factory worker who gets unjustly fired and needs to be a prostitute to pay for her daughter until she gets very ill, std I susupect, and dies, leaving her small daughter to the factory owner, valjean, who realizes how he wronged her. Fantine is Cosettes mother! It would be kinda like naming someone Ariel. There is a definate conflict of interest.

Though. Perhaps. I could. Get. Over. That. If I try really really hard. And you don't like Sabi? I thought that was an amazing name. Gagh.

In any case, I'm glad that you liked the plot ideas. I know, there are just so many possibilities, I was thinking about them all night. She wouldn't be much younger than Deszo in the next book. Well okay, not a lot younget than he appears. People think he's like 15. Whether or not he stays looking just that age we'll have to have long conversations about. Sabi/Fantine is like 10 when she "dies" she could be a match for someone Nenan's age. I thought her turning baddie would be where you'd lean.

I also like how Sabi looks. Luckily, both are easy to type. We've a Falan, a Faron, a Ferninand, Fiona... a few 'F' names. I can't come up with any 'S' names. I sure we have at least one, but I can't think of one. We'll discuss this later.

Umm I'm sorry but...

I really like Fantine. A lot. It seems to work and if she end up indeirectly related to the triplets then well it just seems to work very well especially for the plot and the world. Sabi for some reason bothers me, I think it would work better for another character... it just doesn't suit. I don't know why... fantine also has a more "rich" quality to it. You know like jello to warm pie. Something wonderful like that. Just like Rachel is a better name then Nikkie. Nikkie is a light name airy flitty like Sabi, Sabi sounds a bit like a nick name, while Fantine sounds like a name, a persons name. if ever you want it could be pet named Fanni. That could work but Fantine is a lovely name. I think yes Balin is her uncle wich will make it all the harder when he finds out that the nice people who found and sheltered her also corrupted her you could also go into the lodgistics of Taryne trying to use her as a red herring but having the girl enamored with her uncle adn thus turning it around and hitting taryne in the face with it, plot stuff for the next book is just jumpoing into my head with this! Hah ahahahahahahaha. especially if Dezo has a specific penchant for her, her being so child like and pretty and perfect he could be a closet pedafile, you know her never losing her air of innocence. Yes this could work quite nicely oh god I'm making no sense but that's because I'm so excited! I love getting new ideas!

Ok bethie we'll have the name debate tomorrow when it's important. K? great see you tomorrow!

Names, characters, stuff

I sat down to write oh, 20 mins ago. I realized I hadn't yet named the young girl that Taryne was about to kill. I'd been referring to her as "___" because I hadn't the energy to go look up a name. I came to the conclusion that it was just plain wrong to kill a person, especially a child, before naming them. So I fixed that. These were my four favourites:

Fantine (childlike)
Ava (a bird)
Daya (bird)
Sabi (young girl)

Okee, for explanation of the bird thing, one of them has it mentioned twice that she wakes up with the birds and sings like a sparrow or something like that. I thought bird would work for her.

My favorite for the littel one is Daya. I just like it. It sounds cute. Like a kid. A tragic kid. From what I've already written of her (okay it wasn't much, and there won't be more... she's only in a chapter afterall so it doesn't really matter) it works.

I also like Sabi. It is a great name. I'll name my kid Sabi. K, maybe not. But is a wonderful name. I really really like it. A lot. Good name. So I saw this name, and something hit me. Darsby is getting sent to kill this kid, that mush I've established and will not change. However, I'm thinking Darsby goes all Snow White on us. He goes to kill the kid, but she is too cute, too innocent, and cannot go through with it. He cuts off a lock of her hair, as instructed, and delivers it back to Taryne. The kid gets away, but this isn't discovered until much much later. Like we'll deal with it in the sequel. Plan a) Sabi ends up with Fiannait and Balan 'cause Balan is her uncle and it is a charming family thing. b) She ends up working for the Mistress with the creepy cult thing and either directly or indirectly Deszo, Nyoka and Faron. Or even Deirdre.

Both those plot lines hit me in like a millisecond when I saw the name Sabi. Both of those plot lines work for the name Sabi. Anyhow, it doesn't need to be decided right away. If Susie adores one or the other then we'll foreshadow it, if not, then we won't find out 'till it either happens or doesn't. That reminds me of a Geography video I saw last week "rocks will either cleave into 3 sides or a number that isn't 3". No kidding. Either 3 or not three. Amazing.

Fantine and Ava I'll keep in my mind repetoire. But I don't like them as much. Fantine for one, is a character is Les Mis and I'd issues getting over that. And Ava kinda sounds like Aida which has already been used. I do like the name though.

I guess that's all I have to say about names and such. Seeing the time, I don't imagine I'll write today. Tommorrow I promise. Its a Friday and I've no afterschool crap to do. Ta-ta!

YAY

YAY! SEE EVERYONE KNEW I WAS BRILLIANT ALREADY THIS IS JUST PROOF.

I did all that math in my head before but now... well... I have to let bethie understand some things for herself, it helps her head.

MY post

That was so weird...

Okay folks, this is a self defeating post. I am here to tell you why Susie's plan of five pages a week is a fantastic idea. I could be writing, but instead I'm doing this. Contradicting exactly what I'm about to write to you. I appologise in advance. I appologize for mispelling appologize in that last sentence.

If we each do five pages a week, let us consider the math. That is ten pages a week total. That's a hundred pages every two and a half months. Considering our final manuscript will be about 400 pages give or take, that is ten months beginning to end. We're already more than 150 pages into it. But considering we'll have to do a total read-and-edit (like print out the sucker and read it beginning to end with a note book at hand to catch plot errors) and a copy edit (Spelling, grammar, general punctuation), we're probably looking at the full ten months. What is ten months? Less than a year? Oh yeah.

"But Bethie" says my mind, "That seems an awfully long time, is there no way to shorten it?" Why yes, mind, there is. Consider the following: (I sound like frickin' Bill Nye) We do five pages a week. Dammit, it will get done. I don't care how, it will. There will be weeks we do more. There will not be times we do less. There will be weeks that our creative wee minds will want to produce a whopping 23 pages or something else completly random and doubled digited. Do we count on these miraculous days? No, no we do not. But it is a possible way that those ten months turn into... less than ten months.

What does this mean? By this time next year at least, our book will be shopping for publishers. In theory, it is next September or earlier. If the muses are with us, and oh would it be glorious, we could be done by summer and spend our splendid summer days shipping us off to TOR and the likes. That is so soon. When we spent so so so so long on this, the longest I have ever spent on a single project, it means so much to have the end in sight. Not because I want it to be over, oh no, I've loved every minute. But because in this case, the end, our ultimate goal is but a beginning. If we get this published, that means good things to our future publishability. That means good things to our ultimate dream of newyork times best sellerage as well as being *professional* *authors*. Yes that is intentionally in stars. I had to do something to signify just how super duperly amazingly fantastic that w0uld be.

So 5 pages a week. Not outrageous. No sirree. It can and will be done.

Lost blog?

To write or not to write, much too often the question. It's funny how crazy you get when you write. Ever have a full fledge conversation with a non existant person... Who you made up... Who isn't an imaginary friend. We have!

Um.... how odd.... I just went to the writing blog and this above paragraph ended up in my little view boxie thing. I'm assuming Susie wrote it.... Did blogger eat it? I guess I'll post it then do my own... odd.

Attack

Alright that was just plain wierd... Never mind.

last night I wrote 2 more pages... So yes write at least once a week and get five pages at least once a week. That's the goal... Let's see if I ... And bethie? Can do it! hahahahaha.

Must go do homework now.

So...

here we go folks, ready or not. I wrote, laleena and Fraser have finally met up again, after so very long, it was nice not haveing to keep them from each other or make them feel bad about not being with each other, of course we will just be yanking them apart agian soon, sigh poor darlings. Dad keeps trying to get me to read this Steven King book on writing and how to write, etc. I really kind of don't want to. Not that I don't respect his oppinion on books but I'm finally getting back in my nich and don't want to change that when I start to change things something inside me shuts down and it's like another month before I write again, a vicious circle if ever there was one. I want to write at least once a week (this is a low goal but I may go up from here) it'll just be the beginning Iplan to expand but I'm happy where I am. Yes I love writing but I need a future and that's in my homework, I have lots of that to do but thanks to my pro-day I've had room to write. Yay me! now I mst continue on in my life of writing, ya hoo.

As to my other writing stuff lots of very dark and depressing stuff yay. Raven's haveing an effect on my writing, not a bad thing just an observation.

I've been reading laurell's blog more and more It's great lots of info but in little amounts at a time so that it's not overwhelming and thus an official "change" yay me! I hope one day I can be as succesful as her, it would be so cool! I really want that sort of thing in my future and I think if I continue on this path I might, and Beth as well, we just have to keep on trucking! Of course sometimes I wonder if one of us will just give up and blah it'll sit there, but maybe this is one of the things that binds us so tight deeling with rejection hardships etc as a pair and writing as a pair maybe that's part of the glue that joins us so very very tight.

To reiderate I've done three pages I did like a paragraph the pther day (about a week ago) and this part is getting longer and longer it's fantastic I love the feeling of a story growing and expanding under me shifting and becoming an entity, it'll just be lovely to one day see it as the organism, the creature, that it is meant to be. Sigh I can't wait and am terrified all in one. Lord help me but it is also so very terrifyingto think of finishing it. Ahhhhg. It's going to be pretty crazy finishing somthing that I started in grade eight and have been working on for almost my whole high school career. Wow wierd when you look at it that way!

Well cookies and bed and more writing call. So I must indeed go bye bye. See you all later. Bye bye!

P.S. I know what I'm getting mom for christmas, the new Brian Addams C.D. Finally I know Yay!

Ahh

Ok I'll continue later but I've written, written a good amount like 3 pages and a bit. Must watch a show with mother now so more laet ciao!

None too bad

Three pages, yay me. Three isn't phenomenal. It is, on a good run, about average, but I've olny been just getting into a writing groove again after the slog of beginning of school. Normally one is "Well I looked at it," about three is average and 6+ is really good for a day. So even though it wasn't a huge amount, seeing as my average has amounted to one page per session (And the sessions have been a couple days apart), three pates isn't too bad. In fact, it is a very good sign as we hope more is to come.

As for what I wrote, it didn't come out how I expected it to, and this section will be longer than I anticipated. It is the torturing of the little girl scene. Believe it or not, Taryne at least, behaves better in my fingers than my head. I wans't sure how she was going to rationalize what she was going do to, evidendly though, my fingers were more aware than I was. It works. It is slightly less violent (ie gory) than the origonal plan, but no less tragic, and I was able to have my fingers communicate to my brain (notice the brain doesn't get the credit? I haven't actually written it yet but I no know how to write it) how the girls hand will be chopped off. It wasn't exactly a necessity to the plot, but I thought it would be cool - sick I know.

I even came up with a tentative idea for the next book - and , this is the exciting part - wrote it down! It may or may not, like the majority of our pre-emptive brainstorms, come to pass, but it is an idea. Written down.

I've nothing else really to report regarding what I wrote. I only hope I am to continue at a decent and respectable rate. Poor Susie, (read below) she had issues with an almost forgotten about Lit test. At least she remembered before tommorow. That's about all for now. Tata.

Did it

I did it I wrote, not much. Or at least not as much as I would have liked becasue I realised (just as I hit my groove) that I had a lit test next day and gasp had to study. I didn't have my ttext though so I had to go through my notes, should be sufficient but tomorrow will be a cram fest till the time of the test. I can't write now, I just had my bath and if I do anything other than things that are mind numbing or Lit test related I won't sleep and then I'll be sleep deprived for my test tomorrow, and that would be bad, very very bad. So I report that yes I wrote, and no not much but a recordable amount, not like a sentance but not a significant standared. Still it's somthing. I sound way too wishy washy even to myself.