Life & NaNo
Nov. 30th, 2008 02:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarotgalYes, flist, there is life after NaNoWriMo! I've put practically everything on hold in order to finish NaNoWriMo this year (all those people with 100,000 words- WTF? You're amazing! LOL) but I finished and verified my word count at 50,519 this morning. The novel is only about half written and half the chapters need to be re-written because I figured out the POV finally. But otherwise it's in a pretty good state. And I think I'll enjoy working on it without having to worry about how many words I'm using in each sentence. I don't always need 10-20 words to say what could be said in 5 :-) But I've definitely fallen in love with my vampire and incubus characters and most of the secondary characters as well and I'm going to enjoy diving back into their world soon.
I went to see Twilight on opening night (Friday- not a midnight showing) with my Harry Potter group. It was... funny- though it wasn't supposed to be funny. A movie can either be a sappy teen romance OR it can be an arthouse film, but not both, and Twilight is an example of why. It was very faithful to the book, which is the best and worst thing I could say about it, since the book really isn't very good. I love the characters and their world, but the story/plot is all kinds of painful. And there were things like the running/carrying and the sparkling which are horrible but they had to show in the movie- and didn't do such a bad job of it. It could have been a LOT worse. And at least it didn't leave big things out or try to put in more that shouldn't be there. Basically, it was a great attempt at representing an awful book.
I'm going to Philly briefly next Saturday for the Harry Potter Yule Ball. Should be exciting. And Tuesday I get to put my Eeyore collection up in the library. Had a good Thanksgiving in that I stayed to myself and no major family arguements :-) Best I can hope for.
Today I'm going to play catch up with a bunch of things, including cleaning my bathroom. I think the shower is leaking and the wood is now moldy. NOT GOOD. Might have to re-caulk and tear out all the molding. Damnit.
Ah well. Must go turn off computer before we lose power. Have a good weekend!
I went to see Twilight on opening night (Friday- not a midnight showing) with my Harry Potter group. It was... funny- though it wasn't supposed to be funny. A movie can either be a sappy teen romance OR it can be an arthouse film, but not both, and Twilight is an example of why. It was very faithful to the book, which is the best and worst thing I could say about it, since the book really isn't very good. I love the characters and their world, but the story/plot is all kinds of painful. And there were things like the running/carrying and the sparkling which are horrible but they had to show in the movie- and didn't do such a bad job of it. It could have been a LOT worse. And at least it didn't leave big things out or try to put in more that shouldn't be there. Basically, it was a great attempt at representing an awful book.
I'm going to Philly briefly next Saturday for the Harry Potter Yule Ball. Should be exciting. And Tuesday I get to put my Eeyore collection up in the library. Had a good Thanksgiving in that I stayed to myself and no major family arguements :-) Best I can hope for.
Today I'm going to play catch up with a bunch of things, including cleaning my bathroom. I think the shower is leaking and the wood is now moldy. NOT GOOD. Might have to re-caulk and tear out all the molding. Damnit.
Ah well. Must go turn off computer before we lose power. Have a good weekend!
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Date: 2008-12-01 12:21 am (UTC)CONGRATS on finishing, also!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Date: 2008-12-01 12:25 am (UTC)Thank youuuuu! I can't believe it's over. *collapses* My final word count was 50042.
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Date: 2008-12-01 12:34 am (UTC)What's yours about?
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Date: 2008-12-01 12:42 am (UTC)A link to my NaNo page, because I suck at describing things I write! http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/428924