Ugh. Goddammit, my parents can be frustrating.

In the middle of September, I decided that I wasn't going to go home for Thanksgiving. Why? Because it means I have to spend an entire day driving, just to stay in my parent's house for two or three days doing nothing (we don't even have a decent Thankgiving dinner! The last time they promised me one, they bought a ham and some side dishes from HEB!) and then have to spend another full day driving home. Alternatively, staying in Denton gives me five whole days to work on my novel and relax, go see a movie, make fudge and, on Friday, go to a Thanksgiving potluck with the anime club, where turkey has been promised, if not guarnteed.

But of course, when I told my parents about this in early October, they had already made plans built around me coming home for Thanksgiving. They both guilted me about making the decision for myself, and dangled tickets for a show at the community theater in front of me. So, after much hemming and hawing and resenting that they made plans without, you know, ASKING me first, I finally decided to drive up Wendesday after my classes finished.

Now I get an e-mail from my brother saying that a) they're now planning on me NOT being there, and b) they're not even going to be home on Wendesday. NRGH. >.<

So now I don't know what to do. It's so annoying. On one hand, I'm getting what I wanted, but on the other they're bound to make me feel even guiltier about it come Christmas time; and on a completely seperate hand, THEY'RE STILL MAKING MY HOLIDAY PLANS WITHOUT EVEN ASKING ME! I mean, god dammit, I'm 20 years old and living half a (very large) state away! Why are they still treating me like the kid who went away for summer camp?!

Word Count: 31,1680
Page Count: 111
Plot Progress: Begining Chapter Thirteen. Also begining the part where I've only got it vaugely plotted. Yea~. Also, the MMCa's father is much more of a bastard than I thought he would be when I first thought him up.

In other news... Today at the anime club (Mu Epsilon Kappa alpha chapter) we had an 'edible adorable microbe' contest, where we (the club members) prepared food based on the adorable little microbes of our semester series, Moyashimon. Having the general desire to create candy for no particular reason, I concocted a batch of white chocolate fudge, which I dyed green and cut to look like "Decay Bacteria."

I never really get very far in these contests. My America costume didn't really make a splash in the Halloween cosplay contest, and last year my homemade chocolate was kind of a flop. So I figured this would just be fun, and maybe people at club would enjoy it.

And then I won.

Yes. ^_^

It was actually pretty entertaining. Nobody had any utensils to cut the stuff with (they always have plastic ones so I assumed they would be there, but I was wrong...) so the officers used the toothpicks off another entry to sample it. At first they thought that it was just another cake covered in frosting, and they were like, "Wow, it's green all the way through, that's kind of cool."

Then they put it into their mouths and their expressions were priceless. You know those expressions the kids get when they walk into the big candy feild with the chocolate river in Willy Wonka's factory? It was that kind of look. But they still had no idea what it was. They just knew it was good.

Somehow, I find the entire situation hilarious. XD And I won some cute Moyashimon cellphone charms from Japan!

Word Count: 28,336
Page Count: 100 (whoot!)
Plot Progress: I'm about half-way through Chapter 12. Where did this new scene come from? It's interesting either way.

Starting to think the book's going to max out somewhere between 70,000-80,000 words...

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( Cut for Length )

Speaking of NaNo, I still have 1,600 words to write now that I'm FINALLY done with my essay. I'll go grab some dinner and get right on that. :3

Word Count: 25,060
Page Count: 89
Plot Progress: Begun Chapter Eleven, major conflict dead ahead.

Holy crap.

Last night was insane.

So I decided to do this offical NaNoWriMo "Night of Writing Dangerously" thing, right? It's a big national event that most of the American regions participate in. The plan was fairly simple: from 6 pm until approximately 6 am the next day, a number of writers from our area would stay in our desinated little spot (a church in Arlington, for those who care) sharing sweets and caffine and writing. My goal was to write up to 25,000 words by the end of the night.

I left at 4 so I could wander my way down to that part of the metoplex on time. I did so, arriving at the church at exactly 5:50.

When I pulled out my laptop, I discovered that my power cable was bust.

So I had to drive to a RadioShack to buy a new one. That took me an hour.

Showed back up at the write-in to meet up with a girl I haven't seen since a one-hour freshman class that was absolutely useless. We both recognized each other, but it took us five minutes to remember why.

The rest of the night went as expected, with lots of cookies and caffine and writing wars. At around 1:30 I managed to get up to my 25,000 and, given that I was starting to have trouble seeing the screen, I decided it was time to head home. I figured that I would be back by about 2:15 or so.

At 2:00, my tire burst.

Yeah.

Nice thing about Texas though is that no self-respecting cowboy is gonna leave a lady stranded in an IHOP parking lot with a broken car. After I'd been fighting with it for fifteen minutes, this fellow in a pick-up truck pulled over and got it changed for me. I wound up getting in at about 3 am, whereupon I promptly tumbled into bed with my cat and slept like the dead.

Anyway, now I've made the weekend word count! Which means that I have today set asside to finish this essay for my literature critique class. Oh joy.

I think I'm gonna go take another nap.

My cat kept me up all last night, so I was lazy and only wrote 600 words today. But it's okay. Tomorrow I'm going to the local "Night of Writing Dangerously" all night write-in down in Arlington. My goal is to write 4,500 words there and get up to 25,000 words by Sunday morning, at the very least!

Which means I'm going to sleep all morning tomorrow. Because damn, I need it. >_>

GS's Daily NaNo Update
Word Count: 20,050
Page Count: 73
Plot Progess: Started chapter nine and trucking right along with no huge problems in sight. Though I'm starting to suspect that this book may turn out being more than 50,000 words...

GS's Daily NaNo Report
Word Count: 18,550
Page Count: 66
Plot Progress: Still in Chapter Seven but yea baptism scene climaxes tomorrow!

GS's Daily NaNo Report
Word Count: 16,678
Page Count: 60
Plot Progress: Chapter Six complete! About to begin Chapter Seven, heading straight for that scene I've been looking forward to. Yea!

GS's Daily NaNo Update

Word Count: 15,009
Page Count: 53
Plot Progress: Chapter Six complete! Finally heading into that scene I've been looking forward to, yea. ^_^

Just enjoying some procrastination.

01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?

pervyficgirl gave me Batman, Digimon and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles


( Answering the Questions Under the Cut... )

GS's Daily NaNo Update
Word Count: 14,000
Page Count: 49
Plot Progess: Just gotta finish this scene and I'll wrap up chapter six! Which means that Act 1 will finally be complete, which means that I can get into the real meat of the story, especially the scene I'm really looking forward to. Slow and steady wins the race and I'm just chugging along. ^_^

Whoot! One full week down and I'm still right on track!



GS's Nano Update
Word Count: 11,792
Page Count: 41
Plot Progress: Now plodding along through Chapter Five. Still haven't been able to introduce MMCB as the action from the last chapter kinda spilled over into this one. His introduction's going to be a good one though, full of action, and I can't wait to introduce his quirky Lesbian Best Friend.

On another note, after a rather embaressing kitchen expriment, I am now the proud owner of a large mess of green white-chocolate fudge that will be delicious on Nickoldeon-themed sundaes, but is utterly incapable of looking like an adorable microbe as per my original intent. Back to the drawing board.

GS's Nano Update
Word Count: 10001 (...What? I like my numbers round and/or vaguely semetrical)
Page Count: 33
Plot Progress: Still plodding through Chapter Four, I think I'm going to wrap it up soon. Maybe get in one more scene with the current male MC, the female MC and the Female Primary Modivation/Plot Point B before letting the plot wander off to introduce the other male MC, henseforth known as MMCB.

I'm getting a lot of set-up and foreshadowing for this one string of scenes that I'm really looking foward to writing, but it's still a few chapters away yet...

GS's Nano Update
Word Count: 8,784
Page Count: 29
Plot Progress: Partially through Chapter Four, I think. Getting everything set up for what they call the "First Act Turning Point"

You know, I never really realized how much time I spend writing every day...

GS's Daily NaNo Update
Word Count: 6,674
Plot Status: Still in Chapter Three, but I'm really enjoying the atmosphere in this chapter. Should be able to wrap it up tomorrow.

A lot of people are rushing ahead and getting up into their double-digits already...but you know, I kinda like the slow and steady pace. I can't lie and say that I'm not compeditive, but this isn't really about compeition for me, it's about getting this book done the best I can. And I think I'm doing that, so I'm going to enjoy it.

Other things to do tonight: Combine the first 5 episodes of Hetalia into an explicable 25-minute peice for club tomorrow night. Time to boot up the ol' Movie Make I haven't touched in a year!

NaNoWriMo Day Three Report
Word Count: 5060  (so on the ball it's not even funny)
Plot Progress: Two and a half chapters complete, about to introduce the villian's plot.
Other News: Damn but I love this concept. I can't wait to have a completed manuscript to edit to perfection.

Part of me wants to say that I don't know what I was so freaked about when I started this mess, but I should probably hold off on jinxing myself with that until the week is over at least...

NaNoWriMo Day Two Report:
Word Count: 3,347 (on-schedule)
Page Count: 13
Plot Progress: One and a half chapters complete. Two main characters introduced. Exactly one sentence away from introducing the primary antagonist. Yea!

In other news, I never realize how absolutely delicious Imperial brand brown sugar is until I got stuck with this really low-quality stuff for the last two months. I'm never buying anything less ever again.

I decided to take November off from hard-core fic-writing to focus on a NaNoWriMo. Please pray for me. I think I can get it done. >_> Any other spare writing time will be devoted to The Sea Cook, seeing as it's the most pressing ongoing concern. Other than that, I figure I might as well try to make daily updates like the book suggests. Might keep me modivated, ne?


NaNoProgress Report: Day One
Words Written: 1,712
Plot Progress: Almost finished Chapter One

...yay?

I’m trying to be calm about this.

I’m trying to be collected. Understanding. In control. I’ve got paperwork to file, e-mails to send and, to top it all off, reading to do for class tomorrow. But all I can think is, how dare they?

How fucking dare they?!

Remember the ISO? The socialist jerks I mentioned in my last post as actually doing something useful in their protest scheme for once? I take it back. I take back every single even half-way positive thing I’ve ever said about those asshats.

They’ve somehow gotten it into their tiny heads that my club – the UNT Gamers, a group of nerds who compromise almost my entire social life, who meet on Wednesday nights to play board games, card games and D&D – are tearing down some of the 50 million posters they’ve wallpapered the campus with. They decided this a month ago, because a few of our posters (of which we have distributed maybe 40 total throughout campus) covered some of theirs up. Back then, they sent one guy to come yell at us. We wrote him off as a nuisance and went on with our lives.

Now, apparently, a bunch of people are sick of seeing their shit and are pulling the damn things down. They think it’s us. So a dozen of them stormed into our meeting tonight and began throwing a fit, demanding apologies, cussing us out, yelling and threatening us. We asked them, politely, to leave. They refused and just started yelling louder, so we finally got the Rec Sports people to kick them out.

I’ve put up with a lot of shit from these bastards, but this? This is the last fucking straw. I am not playing around anymore.

First thing tomorrow morning, I’m filing a harassment complaint with the university. And if any member of their organization sets foot in our meetings again, I am calling the fucking police.