Good stuff

Ooh Susie's all motivated and stuff. Or she will be soon... or something...

I did something last night too. I wasn't done my Utopia reading, I hadn't started on any of the four essays assigned to me now. I hadn't studied for the philosophy test I have this week, and there's no way I'd actually dopne my Canadian Society reading.

But I pulled out the "Edit-Me!" binder. That's what it is. It sits there, on my bedroom floor, and looks at me with it's pathetic little eyes (Or it would if it had eyes) and pleads with me to take some time to address it.

I had edited a whopping... five pages. But recall before that I'd done more, but it was on the wrong manuscript. Last night, I did another five and a half pages. Not a huge amount, but it did more than double where I had been. And these ten or so pages are 1.5 spaced -- starting chapter 3 they'll be double spaced (...issues with printing) so seeing as I'm now on chapter two, I really only have to get through one more little chapter, then pages will happen faster. And I'm still referring to the contest entry. After these first chapters that too will be n/a.

So I did stuff. And (Lo and behold) I enjoyed doing it. I knew I would, but like Suse, I always have too much to do, and I'd have to move stuff, and I don't have enough time right now to devote to it, and I'd rather sleep. Yadda yadda yadda.

Well last night I did it, and I thought it was so gosh darn fun (it really was... it sounds sarcastic I know, but it was fun) that I hope to do it again tonight.

My daddy asked thus i shall answer

The other night I was online and my daddy asked me an interesting question.

"Are you playing a game again?" He queeried.

"Yup" I relpied

"Why aren't you writing?" It's one thing to ask yourself but for someone to just kind of be all "why aren't you writing?" Is completely different. "It's just that I'd always see you writing and not so much any more." He brings up an interesting point. There are many layers as to why he never sees me writing anymore but yeah ^^; huh, I haven't been doing much of that lately.

It's quite sad, but at least I'm not going through the same drrrrryyyy streak I was after the last time I did the 3 day novel writing contest... that was tragic. I think it took me about a month and a half to start writign again. Well I've done like five pages... he he he. Ok not brilliant but it will have to suffice. It's better than last year, and I actually have an idea of what's going to happen, it just hasn't happened yet... maybe it will tonight if my parents aren't home soonish...

We'll see.

I'm just very busy, I'll think about writing and then I"m all "but that would involve moving crap" and then I don't do it... which isn't cool. It's this whole fatigue thing, which isn't cool... well I've started martial arts again, so one thing is rolling again, we can start at the next soon enough. I am excited about what's going to happen... perhaps I'm just afraid to start... hehehe ^^; it's not going to be pleasent and no matter how often I say it'll be fun and interesting to write, I still feel for Laleena... poor Laleena. I mean think about it - does anyone out there actually think that I'm not affected by what happens to my characters? Of course I am, it's tough shit that they deal with... and I put them through it. These are people that I've known completely since I was in grade eight (and a bit before that...) I know them as they know me... I mean I talk about them as if they were real person "Oh god so and so would not like that." Just the other day I was telling lauren that her and deirdre would probably get along pretty well if lauren was a squirrel.

I just feel like I'm taking on this whole thing at a posatively haulting pace, that and Fredericton... well he's a character who was pretty flat, terribly predictable - not any more, trying to give a character multiple dimensions is hard, not that he's not painted perfectly for me in my mind, but that he's just going to be a bit more difficult and I really want to do this character justice, he is intergal to this plot... he's going to be around for quite some time.

:D The Torhenbah show up in this book :D I miss Kriê she rocks my socks.

Well I think that that's enough for one blog...

Surrey Writers

Went to the Surrey Writer's con today, not as a member but as someone in line for their "bookfair" I got to see Diana gabldone and terry brooks and jack Whyte... as well as a couple of other big names. I also saw the girl who wrote dating is deadly. She was at the seatle con very nice, my daddy bought her book for me and I got it signed.

Over all I got the hunger for another con... it looked like so much fun (AND THEY WERE SELLING THE 2006 WRITER'S GUIDES AND SUCH OF ALL THE DIFFERENT VARIETIES! I WANTED THEM)

So I thought I'd say that, I got to see the big names today - it was like kicking an invisible wall and screaming internally "I wanna be one!"

I will be one...

I have I really have

I wrote since last I posted, a bit of a fraser part after a bi t more laleena. I have plans, dark and sinister plans really. I feel so bad for my characters this book around. Let's face it they never catch a break. Not even in the end...

I am going to write today, I even "scheduled" it. Suddenly my life went "Whoop" and now I've got stuff to do. Something will get done today, if not I'm going to feel terribly depressed.

Brilliance

Both my writing (I'm not modest eh?) and the bellow post. I've been sharing, I mean it's just too good!

I wrote today, got laleena to the manore and did a bit of a recap, but put it all together. I rather like it, two and just over a half pages today (i got really busy and wasn't able to do much more). there'll be more for tomorrow.

Ah it's priceless...

I was laughing so hard reading this... oh god I'm an English nerd. This is in the on-line exerpt for Ken Rand's new book The Editor is IN which I read about in his e-mail news letter. It reached him via an e-mail. Here it is... hehehe.

Rules for Editing:
1. Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
5. Avoid cliché's like the plague. (They're old hat.)
6. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.
7. Be more or less specific.
8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary.
9. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
10. No sentence fragments.
11. Contractions aren't necessary and shouldn't be used.
12. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
13. Do not be redundant, do not use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.
14. One should never generalize.
15. Comparisons are as bad as clichés.
16. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
17. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
18. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
19. The passive voice is to be ignored.
20. Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical words however should be enclosed in commas.
21. Never use a big word when a diminutive one would suffice.
22. Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
23. Understatement is always the absolute best way to put forth earth-shaking ideas.
24. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
25. If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times. Resist hyperbole; not one writer in a million can use it correctly.
26. Puns are for children, not groan readers.
27. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
28. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
29. Who needs rhetorical questions?
30. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
31. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.