Namesake of one of my favorite characters. It is Finnish for "magic winter". The rest of the song is also in Finnish.
I finally have things to talk about. Hence this loooong absence from updating.
Sorry for abandoning everyone, but without further ado, let us talk!
Life
My brother is coming home for an ENTIRE MONTH! I haven't seen him since, oh, March maybe? Or it might have been January. Either way, it's been forever, so I am very excited to get to hang out with him for an entire month ^^ I hope he's as excited as I am xD
Um, I've been feeling kind of sick and down. Life, I tell ya. But my brother's visit sure makes me happy.
Anime
Haven't watched any, really, since last I posted. But I did read Gantz for the second time. Only took me two days instead of three this time around. Thankfully I forgot some things that happened in the manga, so I was still surprised nicely at some points. I loved every second of it, though I didn't openly cry as much. But I think that's just because of the way I read it.
I love you, Gantz! ^^
Writing
I actually got 900+ words written about two days ago. I am very lost on these chapters and being sick is not helping me. I've been so down and easily distracted lately. But that is going to change >.< I am getting some details written out for the chapter progressions. This is where things get the most complicated as I tie up all the final chapters. 8 chapters does not seem like a lot, but that's 80,000 words, and I have to make them all count even MORESO now than ever.
I can't say if you should expect book updates soon or not, probably not. I have to bounce around a lot as I get the details done, which means chapters are being written but not finished. So just... stay tuned :3
RP
Midnight is BAAAACK!!!!!
SO FREAKING HAPPY RIGHT NOW!!!!!
AND EVEN FILIGREE POPPED IN TO SAY HI!!!!!
YAAAAYYY!!!!!!
And I'm sorry, but that's all for now. Hopefully I will get posts out more often (as well as book writing)
This was literally the only decent version blogger would let me put up that did NOT have Disney's Frozen in it anywhere...
Sup guys!
So, my mom was all like:
"You need to stop lying around and stuff since you feel better today. Go for a hike."
And I was like:
"No."
And she was like:
"Yes."
And I was like:
"Ugh."
And so later on I went for a hike and WHATDOYAKNOW! The one day I go hiking, some creep decides to follow me through the woods.
So I marched on ahead, dived into some brush for cover, waited for him to pass by, then hurried myself on home.
Freak.
Always carrying my switchknife. The ONE day I leave home without it, and it's the ONE day I might have been able to put it to use. UGH! So disappointed...
And so, I went hiking, worked out... ate some mac and cheese...
Binged some anime.
Okay, so I finally finished the live action Gantz movies which are Gantz and Gantz: Perfect Answer. It was really interesting...
Best part is that they took all the nudity out (except for like, the one bare butt, butt who cares). BUT THEY LEFT IN ALL THE GORE!!!
They kind of went in their own direction, mixing and matching certain plots and monsters to create the amazing plot that was the second movie. So THANKFULLY they did not go the anime route, which was the worst in my opinion, and they brought in enough elements of the manga that made it still feel like the source. But they totally did their own ending. I didn't mind. It was bloody, brilliant, and beautiful!
And mmmmmmm Katou.... sexy fine Katou/L. I need to learn his real name >.> But dang, he's a great actor AND good looking. I love him *w*
Moving on...
I also finished Fate/stay night, which had an ending that brought a tear to my eye - A tear mind you... It was good but not... good enough?
So on with Fate/ stay night unlimited blade works (or just UBW) which is...
is....
THE SEXIEST ANIMATION I HAVE EVER SEEN! *drools all over the fight scenes*
I couldn't tell if I was gonna laugh, cry, or have a heart attack. Or all three. But HOOOLLLEEEE COW! It was flawless! Colorful! Beautiful! JAM PACKED! I have NEVER seen action like that before. Do I dare say it.... yes I do! Even Moribito falls to second place! (sorry Moribito, I still love you D:)
UBW is the second arc of the Fate/stay night story. It never falls flat. It never stops pleasing. It is the epitome of eye-frickin-candy. I have not been this pumped about animation since Fate/Zero. ERMAHGERD!
Ok, I will stop blubbering over how delicious it is. Just... go watch Fate/Zero and then watch UBW because it is SOOOOO worth it ^^
And for other anime gems, I do have Perfect Blue on my list for Binge Day (not a real day). So I'll probably come back blubbering about that too or something. I've heard it's a mindf*ck.
So, today was another boring day. I had horrible, horrible migraines and nausea that left me bedridden D: I got a little bit of rp done with Cel on Luna Child...
I also got to episode 23 of Fate/stay night, and why did I stop there? Well, kissasian.com just so happened to have the LIVE GANTZ MOVIES!!!
*internally screaming*
I have been having a never ending heart attack for the past half hour ermahgerd! I am so excited watching this like you have no idea!!!!
I shall post my thoughts after the fact. They seem to be taking a slightly different direction than the anime/manga, so I really have no idea how it's going to turn out.
Hrmmmgmmgmg...
Let It Go is waaaaay overused, so I picked THIS instead. Which is not as overused. Therefore not as bad.
Also, I'm sort of running out of decent winter themed songs that are not entirely Christmas carols, Skyrim soundtracks, or Lord of the Rings inspired stuff.
Oh the dilemma!
Good evening everyone and welcome to December 9th's post. I am your host, Niitari/Dreadknightmare/Firebender_Zeke, etc etc etc.
There is nothing really to report except that (once again) I am making a roleplay site, or at least working on one. It is a conglomerate of three rp site ideas. And when one does not have time to rp everything, my solution is always to combine what I can and make something more out of it.
So it is a truly unique rp smashing my rp "O Ancient Mount-Slumbering God!" with pieces of Fate/Zero and Gantz into one odd thing. Mages battle each other for world altering powers by summoning Heroic Spirits of legend, myth, history, and literature. But through these summonings come crawling villains and monsters, the unwanted, who co-exist on an invisible plane, yet are still able to manipulate reality. And who combats these but tossed aside Mage failures who use weapons infused with demigod spirits, and so do battle against these monsters to protect the world and perhaps find their own place in reality once more.
So there is that.
On another note, a new plot bunny has reared its tantalizing, adorable head, and I find myself musing over yet another intriguing plot that demands exploration. However, I have been working at developing the characters in my head, and sorting out some of the many details, and I will be returning to Write This Down very soon.
(like tomorrow)
Kind of goes hand in hand with Cardhras. I so do love this song. This was my favorite poem from the Hobbit, and I had it memorized several times over. So much excitement when I heard the bits from the movie, in anticipation for the entire song to be brought to glorious, musical life!
And then they only did a verse here and there and I was a sad. But then Johnny Medlar came out with this version, and I was SO HAPPY! And the verse about the dwarves fleeing their hall always makes me want to cry. It's just so sad D:
I am actually thinking of getting myself either another Sims 2 expansion pack for Christmas (been wanting one nigh on five years) or getting the Silmarillion and The Children of Hurin (even though I just got a ton of books this year for my library).
HRMMMMM THE DILLEMA!!!!
Maybe I can just ask friends for such things if they offer to buy me presents. Whatever I do not recieve, I can get myself. This is probably the one year I know what I want for Christmas that isn't something uber expensive (like that sexy fine Mongolian recurve bow mmmmmm)
But enough about ridiculous things like that. Pssh. Presents.
Dawny and Mania are back YAAAAY! Which means more rping :3 for now
Eventually I have to get hardcore back into writing, and they have school to return to D:
I also wanted to say that I know these posts are kind of disjointed ramblings, but if anything, enjoy the music. I have nothing much to really talk about these days. Sorry.
"Beneath the Ice" from the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Original Soundtrack
Tis a morning for nostalgia...
Color Me Softly: Tis alright, noble knight. Pray abide here a while and perchance divulge more informations to me as pertaining to your characters that I might deem what is worthy of Aisthesis. Mania: I graciously accept your pardoning of mine absence. Perchance we might conspire inhuman abilities to delegate to mine characters, which I do strive to sculpt to become most worthy of joining those in the most noble ranks of Aisthesis. The decision to alter our current diction and tongue into that of a more colloquial nature would be most understandable, as would the opposing action to continue with our esteemed speech for, Nay! dost our combined company dare let the mere thought of any such actions as would perchance pose as a challenge drift away from our most daunting mits. For we are made of greater things than such to let any missed opportunity as said prior occur! Narry a challenge that dares enter our midst shall go unsiezed nor accepted.
Color Me Softly: Your words are laden with truth, noble knight. Though I must admit I am quite astonished at the speech you have so beautifully dictated. Do tell, however have you come across such riveting vocabulary such as you posses? I find your choice of words quite becoming.
Mania: My most exalted Lady, oh how thou dost maketh mine cheeks turn flushed from their usual fair pallor by your praise! The nature of mine diction mayhaps can be sourced to a trio of past occurences, two of which still occur near daily: Nay, I revoke said number and replace such with the numeral of IV. The first of which being mine most eager fixation towards works of literature. Oh how mineself dost cherish bound tomes! Though of few are those of which that are inscribed with our current tongue, mayhaps less than what one can count with the fingers of one's hands hast I read. Of said manner I do mean, for I have read many a tomes! Some of said nature however are by that of the playright Shakespear, a most favorite scribe of mine. to the second cause of which: mine history with translating the deceased language of old spoken by the Romans. Our curriculum's selection of pieces that were to be translated, when done correctly and directly from the words' orignal meanings translateth to our current diction. Phrasing such of this often occers subconsciously after a long days work of study oh how mineself dost enjoy clever wordplay with mine close acquaintances! We wxchange words of such nature frequently and often spontaneously. fourthly and of last: several changing seasons ago mineself hast aquired a digital application designed for mobile cellular devices. The original location of which twould be on the internet in the domain of dictionary.com. Said application has a marvelous thesaurus function which minself dost frequently indulge in mulling over in mine spare time to feed mine hunger for a moat rich vocabulary. most rich. My deepest apologies for the length of mine second speech. When in such selection of tongue my words doth become most lengthy, even much more so than mine usual blathering self.
Color Me Softly: Bravo, noble knight, and might I indulge in a toast to you and your eloquent speech. Twas not boring at all. It has been far too long since my mind has been graced with such a delightful conversation. I have recently rekindled my desires for the English language in all its scrumptious glory of long forgotten words and speeches. Predominantly, the forefather of this rekindled love would be Les Miserables of Victor Hugo, a text of which I devotedly devour. I scour more such texts in all their long, driveling glory, for though they droll and rant, they offer such a rich language I become enraptured. Perchance my mother dearest also gave to me a delightful new dictionary of Shakespeare's words that I have dedicated myself to reading and studying all the way through. Though I do admit, I am not quite as proficient as you are, I do strive to learn and practice to achieve the ability as such you possess. Perhaps you could allow me the pleasure of picking your brain with talks such as these that I might learn from you the art of this fine craft called language.
Mania: Oh my exalted Lady! Do not put thyself below the tier of mine own verbal abilities! I shall allow no more thoughts of such become entangled in thous most fair head, for the nature of our individual vocabularies merely differs in its selection and content, not in quantity nor value! The tongue of yours which thou dost-dare I say- foolishly, declare to be lesser than mine own, is looked at from mine own eyes to be of greater worth than mine own tongue which thou dost put before thou's own. For long hast mineself looked upon thou's words with magnificent awe, for I have become ensnared by the nature of your vocabulary as you have by mine own. Therefore let us not merely look upon one another as any less than equals on the grounds of vocabulary worth. Let us divulge in mutual appreciation of the other's most choice utterings and seek to learn together!
Color Me Softly: Ah, dear one, our roles might surely now be reversed, for I see in us great potential and knowledge of the use of our vocabularies, but perhaps a title of lady and knight for myself and yourself respectively is not proper. You have all the grace and poise of a Shakespeare. The words that flow from your fingers to your keyboard and here upon my screen are whim and beauty and passion all mingled and tossed in the clouds and torrents of a world let free in art and the essence of youth. Your are a sprite, a wood elf, a nymph in your speech. Free to breathe the air and let the world hearken to the nature of your glorious prose. But I am the sailor off at sea. All storm and salt and battle. My words, though eloquent in their own way, are not fit for a stage nor a gleaming world of color and youth. I am harshness and stature, with none of your gentle poise. I may not stumble oft or fault, but I do not have your learned mind and your extensive talents. You play the words as an instrument, and I tend mind as I would sail a ship. On and on and battering a storm as I attempt to reinvent myself and find my muse of language once more. I believe, fine beauty, you may agree with me perhaps.
Mania: Many of such things you have said I doth most immediately agree with. That of which I do not believe in worth quite the sum of their stated manner, if you mayhaps shall follow my thoughts towards such, twould be directed towards the perception of mine words' nature.
Color Me Softly: I suppose I ought to pose the question: of what do you not believe in?
Mania: While I most graciously receive your elegantly stated words of praise exclaimed through a most wonderful series of naturally flowing comparisons, I must disagree with how such as thou hast stated is perceived to be the whole and honest nature of mine works. For while you describe them to be that of nature's romanticism and fantasy, they do not simply spring forth as such at first conception. Much altering of sentence order, word replacing, deletion and insertion occurs. Tis still a process I seek to advance my skill in to where I require less time to post mine works. The process of mine writing begins with the conception of raw forms, often colloquial, greater in brevity, and simplistic in concept. Often such is first created in mine own primal dialect of the deep south. I suppose the process could be compared to that of creating literal physical works of art, such as a painting. The first concept; intangible, invisible, unable to be captured in visible form until it is refined to such degree. Once what the artist desires to show the world enters the plane to which it is now capable of physical capturing, it may be presented in the raw on paper or canvas- a sketch. The general idea is laid out. To some of lesser experience, such simplicity is seen as satisfactory, but to those with more practiced minds and skilled hands can see the layers of possibility that may be laid upon it to create complex yet easily flowing work. Refined lines are placed atop the raw forms. Basic blockings of solid colors are applied to create a more defined statement, but it is still flat. The artist has yet to capture the space, value, and form of the concept yet. More layers are added, rhythm is heard, the texture of the words- soft, rough, malliable- is felt, the contrasts of structure through value is seen through illuminating and shadowing words. Although the artistic process is viewed by many to be something of beauty, to those with certain eyes- not that I call out your perception to be naive or false, simply incomplete, as I know and have observed firsthand how you are obtaining near mastery of the craft- the process is arduous and often hard to make ones self do at times. I simply omit the visibility of mine process to most. I would be lying if I said writing was simply something that came easy to me. It is the truth when I say that I am a naturally good writer, but it doesn't take much to be good. What I strive for is to be great, not among the ranks of the greatest, but my works' forethought and devoted craft visible. Oh how I end up leading my original point astray! I shall redirect thus back to mine first statement.
Mania: Goodness how my thoughts become scattered about at times, one of such being currently.
Color Me Softly: Ah my beauty, if only I had such a patience to form my own sentences so eloquently. For within the secret of your craft that you have divulged to me, I see where my struggle lies. For I am always set upon accomplishing the improbable within the moment or the hour and not within the foreseeable future. I had not the patience in my own art, that of pencil and paper and a brush dipped in watercolor, but as I came to find that patience, so blossomed my talent most readily and noticeably. Forthwith, I shall endeavor to find patience in the art of language craftsmanship and take all you have shared to heart. And as to your last proposed point, I agree wholly that it is quite easy to become lost in the muse of prose and forget oneself in this devious art of conversation. Now I do close our gaieties with a goodnight, as I must retire abed and entrust myself to sleep. For I have a duty tomorrow at six in the morn that must be met if I wish to not bear a burden of ponies emaciated by my carelessness in not feeding or tidying them, and I am in the need of currency and my tending of aforementioned equestrians provides my earnings. So now I bid you adieu and bonsoir.
Mania: Multis gratis, meus amicam. One difference I have noticed between our words is how you are able to capture broad conceptions in narrow space without losing their magnitude, while I amble about such in round about manners when they could be like your eloquent brevity. I wish you a bene nocturna meus amicam.
Color Me Softly: Bene nocturna.
Ermg.
And that was all written in those little tiny cboxes where you only had like 15 words at a time D:
This was all done around the time Aisthesis was first being made. Apparently I saved this conversation somewhere in its middle while Mania and I were going on and on. My goodness.
If my brain wasn't melted down, I could probably write like that again...
I'd like to say I worked hard at my novel. I'd like to.... but I won't.
Hey guys, how's it going?
Me? Aww shucks, you wanna know 'bout little ol' me? Whelp, I haven't written a word all day. And that is A-O-K. Because ever since November I've been on the verge of mental burnout. All I've been writing is drivel crap. And rather than throw the whole novel out the window (or, well, print all 194 pages and THEN throw it out the window) I decided to play it safe and take a little step back before I go comatose.
It doesn't help that this NEW novel idea popped up in my head and WON'T SHUSH UP! D: I already have a nice little list of projects to do *stares at the continual push back of WTD's end date*
*sob*
It WILL get done. I know that for certain, but it's all about these confounded, intricate details.
Details... details... details... But, tis a learning process. And my nit-picky inner editor keeps pointing it out to me at the worst times. I really shouldn't be going back over and over to correct things and add things, but as the book gains in complexity, it needs to happen, and then my wordcount suffers further. I'm almost thinking of ending the wordcount tracker and just focus on the details stuff for now while I do these last few chapters.
But who knows. We shall see.
No new chapters will be coming out this week (unless I get a sudden burst of creativity) but by next week we should have something.
Ok, yes, it's weird, but I like the video for SOMERISING (youtube being a pill... no original music video... do look it up though), and also, Robot Unicorn Attack 2 imprinted this song on my soul. The song IS pretty. In my opinion.
Plz stahp judging meh.
Okay, so, today I helped JazzPony at her crafting booth and no monies were made. It was a sad.
I was supposed to write words, but nothing happened. I am fearing some severe mental burnout. Thanks, NaNo.
So I am going carefully through with my writing, mostly just taking notes and plot progression things. I will write actual words when my brain stops being a poob.
Chapter 9 was updated on wattpad to accommodate the new scenes. It brought Chapter 9's wordcount from 9800+ to 20,000+
Ugh.
Friggin long chapters throwing off my wordcount.
I jumped around between Chapters 12 and 14, mostly rewriting stuff. I feel like Chapter 12 is going to be fun if I could just BRAIN for five minutes together >.<
I had some cool talks with JazzPony's brother about Skyrim. D: How I miss thee...
That reminds me: as far as rp stuff goes, YES, I will be updating Aisthesis and Skyrim. Thank you all for being patient. This past week has just been the WORST, especially for my real life goings-ons.
Life is never what we want it to be. I just gotta keep rolling with the sucker punches to my damaged heart. Wheeee~
And since life is being a poob, I have been very stressed, struggling with severe anxiety and depression, blahblahblah. So things will hopefully be picking up soon.
I apologize greatly for these discombobulated posts. I really need to stop writing things on the verge of midnight. At least I finally got to sleep last night for the first time in weeks. Yay for squishy, soft, warm beds at my friend's house ^^
Night everyone. Stay tuned for more wacky updates (and wintery-themed-ish music)!
So, The Cry of Shiganshina is going to be pushed back to... probably January. I apologize to any and all who are actually interested/concerned/bamboozled/etc.
Write This Down chapter 9 is going to be updated soon.
Then hopefully Chapter 12 will be finished. Yay!
I also hope to make Japantown in Fallowdell sometime tomorrow or Sunday. So stay tuned for that too.
Sorry for the brevity of this post. It is very late, and I have 3000 words to write. And it's only 11pm.
Today we have Caradhras, one of my favorite songs by Two Steps From Hell. This song was the inspiration for Taikatalvi Caradhras Tockspringe (Norcross).
Caradhras was one of the Misty Mountains in the Lord of the Rings, and was in fact the mountain wherein the mining dwarves went too deep and awakened the Balrog. It was called the cruelest of all mountains.
Winter. Mountains. I'm good.
Was going to do Winterspell, one of my favs, but this one holds a lot more meaning for me.
Which actually leads to an interesting story. I found Caradhras by first listening to Constantine by Audiomachine (ermg that VOICE) and then this song was suggested me. And so Taikatalvi was born from both of those songs, as well as War of Change by Thousand Foot Krutch...
Okay, so there are a lot of songs that went into his creation.
Isn't it interesting how some characters are born from songs? Some of which have no words, just... music and sound? I think it's cool. It's the language of the soul after all.
Enough about songs.
I HATE HATE HATE HATE HAAAAAATE rewriting stuff. It screws up my wordcount like NO TOMORROW!!! I have to write 3501 words per day to finish on time (according to wordkeeper). But because I am meshing Chapters 9 and (12?) I have to rewrite whole paragraphs to switch from Meruse' POV to Keenah's. UGH!!!!
Some things I can recycle, but especially inner thoughts and character specific observations I cannot. It is very aggravating. My solution is to highlight the parts needed changing, color them blue. Then I take one part and check its wordcount (eg: paragraph 1 is 508 words that need rewriting). So I rewrite that much WITH extra. So I aim for maybe 530 words by the end. That way I at LEAST add to it bit by bit.
This also means I get some set backs with my wordcount and I will HAVE to work overtime. Maybe this weekend. I'm sleeping over at a friend's house Friday night so that means no mandated bed time. Let's just cross our fingers I don't spend those extra hours binge watching anime.
What might be this month's blog title theme? Songs to do with WINTER!
This one is ironic because, yah know, Winter Is Coming.
You won't believe how badly I wanted to put that one up here, but blogger nad youtube are both being butts so... till next time...
Hey everyone! How is it going! NaNo ended with no clapping, cake, or confetti. Mostly cause it was done at 11pm and I just went "meh" and crawled into bed. Because for all intents and purposes, NaNo is NOT over for me.
I had to add 40k to my count and extend my end date to December 24th. >.>
Why? Well, because SOMECHAPTERS had to be over 10k words. Looking at you, you spotlight stealers... *cough* Ravenka *cough* Lohk *cough*
So today, I am going to be combining the events of Keenah's chapter with Meruse's chapter, which will make Meruse's lovely chapter ender thinger the opening of his chapter in the form of a flashback. Because... stuff.
But will also lead to interesting things when Keenah's chapter ends with "WHY IS THE VILLAGE BEING BURNED DOWN???!!! MERUSE WHERE WERE U LAST NIGHT DID U DO THIS???!!!"
And Meruse being all:
"Yes."
And then they move on with life.
Because Meruse is secretly a pyro or something... idk... no spoilers here.
Though that technically WAS a spoiler, sort of, not really, idk. No one reads anything anyway. Cause yah know, it's on wattpad people...
Also, yah know, I really hate some things about wattpad. For one, everyone treats books like a damn popularity contest. Winning these "Watty awards" means absolutely nothing. It does not mean your book is good, it means that it is popular. And considering the dumb sheeple masses out there, all you need to get a popular book are the following things:
1. A Mary=Sue that is totally relatable but has like, idk, 1 flaw maybe. But everyone thinks its cute.
2. Easily categorized things (ie: clans, groups, cliques, etc where everyone is organized by race, powers, etc. And everyone has cookie cutter personalities based on their category. Except the MC. They totally need to be everything at once because that is super unique)
3. Significant other needs to be the HOTTEST person around. They need to like, totally push the MC away at first, but then fate will just be its wacky self and throw them together. And then significant other totes needs to fawn over MC's flaw because really it's not a flaw it's cuuuUUuuute.
4. They need to be kissing and/or banging by the end. Totes best ending if they have like a bunch of kids and everyone is paired off and have kids too and like, name them all cool and unique names like Storm and Deathdementiaravenway.
And voila! You have the most popular book ever.
See, now was that so hard?
**notice how "quality plot, characters, writing, etc" is not included in the above four points.
JUST A NOTE:
This is not to say that ALL winners of things like Wattys or ALL stories that get #1 on the lists are bad. I have seen great books get to the top on both counts.
Just that I have seen MOST OF THE TIME bad stuff getting to the top of those contests/lists.
And a LOT of good stuff gets lost under the fan-craze of Twi-hards and their numerously flavored kin.
3:40 edit
Hey, check it! A new layout!!!!
And also: another reason to hate wattpad (and its appalling lack of moderating these wild young hooligans)
So, for today's line up of "Similar Stories to Write This Down" we haaaaave:
Is It Hate, Or Love? Season three part two
This author has never heard of the chapter feature. EVERY single chapter is posted as a new story.
It is literally a reality show, slice-of-life, soap opera. LITERALLY. Nothing at all related to fantasy, and in short, not at ALL related to WTD.
Kudou no Seimei Ryokuwo
A story about two brothers reuniting. One is a famous singer. The MC is trying to...
..... to....
Okay, don't kill me. It's been a while since I read it (in full, mind you), and I've been very distracted.
It was written by an rp buddy of mine. I've been helping critique it. It's a nice slice-of-life.
It's got brothers... That's the ONLY similarity to that one and WTD.
The Hybrid
The synopsis is literally "I'm a monster inside... is that what you want? Can you love a monsterr?"
Um... Twilight much?
Yes, a sappy, cliche "romance" *cough* about a girl and a werewolf/vampire/idk.
Um... my book has a married couple...?
A King's Mistress
Hmm.... historical fiction??
About a bunch of Kings who have these mistresses that are seers and this is some story about one of them.
Uh........
It's got a King in it. Just like mine! *thumbs up*
Oh, oh, yah, and the King in my book has THREE mistresses! HAH! WHAT SAY U NOW???
But you wouldn't know that cause the chapter hasn't been posted...
Either you read my mind or this is just a really lame suggestion. I'll go with latter...
That wraps up today's "Similar Stories to Write This Down". Tune in next time for another list of stories that have literally NOTHING to do with WTD yet somehow get suggested.
8:09
Oh, I could NOT resist! Here's another!
For our second line up of "Similar Stories to Write This Down", we have these four lucky duckies!
The Fates
About the fates. From Greek story. And they're in modern day doing teenage things.
So "fantasy". Much perf. Abso-nothing-lutley to do with WTD.
Home
A seven paragraph or so short about a guy who goes home and dies.
The End
Pretty much every chapter of Write This Down in a nutshell.
Congratulations "Home" you get a virtual cookie.
NOT
But you came kinda-sorta-close-ish
Holistic Medicine
Literally a short article promoting the benefits of holistic medicine.
Um...
There's a doctor amputating legs in this one chapter...
Waiting for the Beast
Oh...
Well you're just a big bag o' sacrilege, aren't chu?
It's about the anti-Christ, THE ANTI-CHRIST, being a bubbly teen girl with a hot angel bodyguard and they do all these supernatural things together.
Cause that's totally how it works. Yup. Uh-huh.
Oh, what? Sorry, I was actually using this thing called sarcasm.
AND YOU SO DON'T GET A COOKIE EITHER!
In fact, you get negative cookies.
- - - - - infinity cookies
(or just - cause five - equals one -)
**u been maths'd
That's all for today folks! Tune in next time for more "Stories Similar to Write This Down"
“Corporal Ramstiel reporting for duty. But who cares.”
- Write This Down -
But who cares! NaNoWriMo is OVER!
I won at 94,054 words. This brings my book to a total of 164,346 words. Only 40-50k to go!!!!
Then the book will be over! And I will be...
So sad ;;-;;
*hugs all the babus*
But not yet! Time for happy! Because awesome stuff is still happening! And the book aint over yet! And WRITIIIIIIING!!!!!
It came like a nightmare, and it ended like a dream.
- Write This Down -
Oh, this has been hard.
I just can't relate to a guy getting his legs amputated in a time without anesthesia. Or with.
I hope I do it justice.
ONE DAY MORE! Then NaNo is over.
But not my book.
Still hoping to end December 12th but probably won't. Considering that I have 8 chapters left to do in 13 days.
I want to die! And he meant it with every fiber he had left in his being.
-Write This Down-
Not much to say really. Sorry.
Again, I have been jumping between chapters 12, 13, and 14. I am still undecided on their order. Chapters 12 and 14 are going the best. 13, I am still confused about its plot.
I have a new book, in its entirety, forming in my mind. Two main characters, a third side-character, potentially three other minors. A plot. Key objects. The whole nine and three quarters yards. It's a very bizarre genre/setting mashup. But I think Dawny and Star will approve cause they like Aztec names, and def one of the main characters is named Quetzalcoatl. But that is all I'm giving away :p
It's hard, because I need to work on Orpheus Rising, the Missile List, a possible third novel, and of course, my AoT fanfic.
Ugh.
But here comes Project number 5 and I'm all "meh. I need to work on my current novel. Stop plot bunnies, stop!"
I am definitely going to take THOROUGH notes though as the story forms. Since the others are kind of floating and not formed completely (except the fanfic) then I probably could use a fully flushed novel to write next.
I made my wordcount. All it took was jumping between three chapters. Ugh.
So there is a NEW Falgarith. Say whaaaat? That makes a total of three Falgariths in Write This Down. The Falgarith that goes around with Elai, the dead guy, and now the Archer. Whoot!
I LOVE Falgariths.
Archer is actually developing into the Falgarith I originally imagined for this book. Ah well.
It's odd writing him though, cause as far as I have written, he has more expressions and feelings than typical Falgariths. He chalks it up to having spent so much time with humans that it's rubbing off on him.
Okay, anyway... um... no chapters to be released to wattpad yet cause the going is slow.
But soooon. Soon, there will be more to read.
Not that anyone has really read Chapter 11 yet.
Meruse ripped his sword out of Edic’s chest, ignoring the harsh laughter that followed him around the room. He dragged the three girls from their pathetic hiding places under the bed, and he cut their throats. Still, Edic laughed. Laughed and laughed until Meruse grabbed him by the hair and sawed his still laughing head off his neck.
-Write This Down-
This was me most of today when it came to writing. Just... nothing was happening!!! But I managed to hit my word count.
SOMEHOW
NaNo Lament 2
So, Meruse is now a badass. Yay.
Reminder to self: add FLCL to "need to watch" list of anime.
Yah.
I need to get crack-a-lackin on that anime watching thing. Yah. Definitley.
EDIT
mah first gif ever
All I did was overlap two pre-existing gifs. ONE day I will legit make gifs. Then I too can be special.
“If there is anything left of Abdel to take after this,” Ravenka muttered, “that would be a surprise indeed.”
- Write This Down -
NANO LAMENT 1
that moment when your brain won't stop
Y'all be blessed with a more rewarding blog title today.
I finished Chapter 11 at 28,000+ words.
Officially the longest chapter. I need to make a "longest chapter" award.
Sorry Chapter with Lohk, yousa in second place now.
And Chapter 12 is going to be a toss up between a new POV character named Godlumthakathi, our favorite pretty boy Arsemi, or the ever reluctant hero Meruse who is such a tag along that he almost demands a chapter just to make him useful.
Named two characters Godlumthakathi in the same month. SCORE!
And this is another "uninspired quotes from Write This Down"
But besides these uber sucky blog titles, I have decent news. My uninspiration has actually decreased, and I managed to get a lot of Chapter 11 rewritten with better quality, fixed the transitions, put in the missing battle scenes, etc, etc, etc. It should be finished tomorrow. Yay!
And then I get to face the interesting yet totally frightening concept of writing COMPLETELY new material without any plot or outline whatsoever. D:
Wow, and I thought I was a total pantser. Now I'm actually a little nervous about pantsing. Probably because this book is too intricate to just pants along with. Ahhhh!
So much to be fixed during revision D:
Also, Chapter 11 is now the longest chapter yet. Unfinished, it stands currently at: 26,382.
I expect at the most it will be at about 27,100 words. I only have the ending scene to finish, which really should not gross 1000 words. But it might.
Chapter 12 is going to be returning to the now combined Kah/Keenah/Meruse/Falgarith/Elai arc D: 5 important peeps in one spot, ermg. It will be from Meruse's POV, by the way.
And for any of you wanting some epic words of inspiration tonight, here they are:
Do all of you really want… to win that badly? You all want the Grail that desperately? You’d crush the only wish I hold in my heart… Do none of you feel any shame at all? I won’t forgive you! I won’t forgive any of you for this! All of you monsters who’d disregard a knight’s honor for personal gain… Let my blood taint your dreams! Let the Grail be cursed. Let the wish it grants bring disaster! And when you fall into the pits of hell… Remember the rage of Diarmuid!
- Diarmuid - Fate/Zero -
Who is scarily close to my character on Aisthesis, Gwaine Scrivener. Seriously. For the first few times I saw Lancer especially, I thought, "WTF? It's Gwaine! You both have Arhturian European names, you both are knights/knightley with the whole honor/valor system, you love a lady out of your league, you guys talk and act the same, and you both hang out with the blonde chick."
It's kind of weird, but on aisthesis, my character Gwaine is like a... slightly more awkward Diarmuid. And when I made him, I used a pciture of Cuchlann (Lancer from Fate/stay night), and later upgraded to a picture of Diarmuid. I had NO IDEA who either person was back then (I just liked the pics) and lo and behold, when I finally get around to watching the anime, Gwaine is pretty much a replica of Diarmuid (albiet a little more flustered when he's around Anat because he loves her), but nevertheless, pretty much a replica.
Obviosuly there are the occasional differences, but it's just TOO many similarities. Like wow.
OMGGGG!
Okay, so, I finished Fate/Zero. That is a good. I am now going to work on Fate/stay night.
Sigh.
But that's not important. What is important is that I am facing MASSIVE MENTAL BURNOUT!!! This REALLY SUCKS!
I am very uninspired, but I think that was mostly because of just this chapter in particular. I will be starting chapter 12 now, and it will be completely unplanned fresh and new stuff, so hopefully that will help.
Otherwise I am in a LOT of trouble.
Burnout like this usually happens when you try to cram tons of wordcount into a few days.
What I might wind up doing to preserve the length of the book and the measure of my sanity is cut out a few chapters. But I WILL let the story direct me on that note. I don't want to cut things that might be important. If I HAVE to, then I WILL extend my deadline (the current deadline is Dec. 12) I'm not going to sacrifice the quality of the book for quantity of words.
I am trying to give my brain more breaks with little rewards like watching anime and things. Hopefully the weather will get better so that I can go on more hikes. Those are better for my brain anyway.
Seriously, I was literally dragging my feet with writing today. I barely managed to crank out 1664 words today. And that's three less than the NaNo daily, and I can't even bother to write three more. I really am that meh.
So rather than force myself, I'm going to give in to my brain and stop for the night before I kill my desire to write this thing entirely.
And I will give myself a break and watch some anime...
He did not believe in the afterlife, but how he wished he did now.
-Write This Down-
So, I had a convo with a person (name withheld) in a chatango box, and they were saying SAO was the BEST anime of all time and they HATED Attack On Titan. So I wrote the following.
ATTACK ON TITAN VERSUS SWORD ART ONLINE
I think it's one of the greatest because of the incredibly complex characters, the complete lack of sexism, and the complete lack of fanservice. it's refreshing to see an anime that relies solely on plot and characters to drive it and not the overt sexualization of incompetent women who are clueless without their boyfriends or the ridiculous and overused trope of tons of women fawning over one guy for literally no reason all in the name of the creator's wish fulfillment fantasy. I like how it brings interesting concepts and makes u question things, such as the question of "does humankind need the presence of monsters in order to survive?" as well as the age old but seldom explored device of "man is man's worst enemy". I like how the characters struggle to survive DESPITE the overwhelming odds, and despite being small and weak and fragile compared to the titans, they still persevere and adapt new ways to survive and fight, even against these supposedly immortal nigh invincible creations. It takes the time to present the point that all humans are important and no one's lives are meaningless or should be thrown away carelessly like they are disposable, a very interesting point presented in anime/manga such as Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood and Gantz (though brotherhood dealt with it best while I believe Gantz did worse, the manga by the way, talk about a f*ed up ending)
But I digress. Those are just some of the reasons why I love Attack on Titan and believe it is one of the best anime of all time.
Granted, every show has its flaws, and while they do use the still shots in there and sometimes the objects look pasted on the scenery, it's hardly as bad as, say, Berserk. And the plot may be a little slow, but at least they decided to just slow it down a little while they waited for the other volumes of manga to come out, rather than resort to shoving filler and other stuff in.
Oh, SAO. a very interesting premise with a great pilot that fell very flat in later episodes. The main character is far too OP to be appealing. The main female starts off badass, but then turns into a whiny female who can't do anything without her boyfriend. All the other females can't do anything without kirito. The suggested wincest. The tentacle porn rape.
And so many other things.
SAO rides on a hype wave too big for itself and its overinflated head is kind of insulting to other gems of anime that get lost to obscurity because of the fan-fad.
While the majority of buildings were plain and made of stone, theirs was paneled on the outside with wood, and it was topped with a roof made of yellow, rounded tiles.
- Write This Down -
Wrote 4529 words today! WHOOOO!
According to wordkeeper, I have 69,827 left of my book to write. But I have a feeling it's going to be a little more than that, considering several of the chapters in this thing. Especially the ones involving battles.
But Chapter 11 is in full swing, and we are JUST at the brink of the war scene. So much EXCITEMENT! No spoilers, but it is going to be a VERY SAD battle. I feel so bad, omg o.o
No I'm not! I take offense, Porthos >.>
Aaaaand I have officially passed 50k for this month! Whooo! NaNo is half over, and I am half done with mah book.
Sort of.
So, Chapter 11!!!!!! I am an excited person. Chapter 10 is on wattpad for those who follow me.
Chapter 11 features a cynical guard, a non-cliche garden, and lots of stairs. Staaaaaaaairs. Whoo!
There's obviously more than that. Haha! For those who read Chapter 10, you probably know what to expect coming up soon. This is just the quiet before the storm.
P.S. it's not a real storm \ ( 0 o 0 ) /
LATER EDIT:
Dawny started me down the memory lane. She randomly commented on me forgetting all yalls when I go get more rp buddies. And I was all like "Nooooo. I remember my rp friends."
Lightkit: the very first person I rped with.
Lionkit: the first person I rped 'romance' with. As in, our characters had crushes on each other.
Ashi: one of the very first people I rped humans with (other than my brother)
Sakura: very first human romance. Her character Sakura and my character Niitari
Sarah: owner of the super powered circus site. First got into complex love plots and things there.
Shadow/Force: Also on the circus site, but he followed me to my very first zombie rp.
Angel: Was on the zombie rp with us.
Samantha: this was her or her character, but she rped with Angel and I in this one plot
Storm: was on the circus site. She had a character who controlled weather.
Alex: he was on the circus site and rped a character of the same name
Crystal: rped with me on the very first Wheredreamsarereality. Her character Crystal killed my character, the first time one of my characters died, my villain Taaro. They fought and Crystal shapeshifted into a bear and ate him. And from his death, Serith was created.
Mystique: "my love mystique". Was on an old demigod site. She and my character Arkadi did so much together.
Maddy: we met on Mercury Boarding School. Maddy was always doing the horrible rps with me. All the blood and gore. I miss Maddy a lot ;-;
Sen/Sin: these two were... odd... but very creative
Concorde: ERMG! SWEET CONCORDE! We had one AMAZING mindf**k of an rp. I cannot remember what happened to Concorde or if they changed their name and I totally am friends with them but can't remember or what. But Concorde was also on Mercury Boarding School. It was funny, cause in the OC, my name was Bring Me A Shrubbery, and theirs was Concorde, and yes, the Monty Python references were rampant.
Kiba: I also rped with Kiba on Mercury Boarding School.
Kovu: Kovu or Karu? I regret to say I forget. But he rped with Kiba and I on MBS when it first started dying. (it was then revamped, thrived, then was deleted)
Sam: A pain in my butt, but a very dedicated rper :p . Was a hardcore Hellsing fan.
Elza; yall met her. I met her on the same demigod site where I met Sam and Mystique.
Mania: Same thing, I think. We've known each other for a while O.O
Shady: I forget where I met her, but we've known each other a long time too. About as long as Mania and I know each other. We've had lots of adventures and awesome characters (Shady and Dreadknightmare, Train and Anarawd, etc)
Beachstar, Poppy, Crystal, Datinsaneperson: all from Eternity Waters
IN SHORT:
I will not forget you guys. Even if I'm in my thirties looking for a new batch of rp buds, I will always remember you. Maybe not names and faces, but I will remember characters and stories and so much more.
Seriously, people like Ashi are from 9 years ago, and I still remember that o.o
“Do you?” Uslo asked, and he laughed. It was that laugh again that Rue knew to be his sorrow.
- Write This Down -
I haven't been consistent with blogging, but my writing is going well.
I went a liiiiiittle over my goal for the day. Yay!
I hope to rp some tomorrow. Maybe. If I'm lucky.
My goal, really and truly, is to go ahead enough over my goal that it demands only 2500 from me every day. That would be really nice :3
I miss watching anime. Ugh. Please end Nano. And novel. I want to be released >.<
But as much as it frustrates me, I LOVE it! Cranking out the count is rough, but the story...... I love it ^^ I can't believe I'm enjoying it this much. ^^
Chapter 9 is DONE and is up on wattpad for those of you who follow me and read stuff (aka, no one...)
But it is DONE. And I am going to work on Chapter 10! And noooobody gonna stop me!
This whole thing with people being busy for college depresses me. I miss my rp buddies. I probably should go make more, but I just love Dawny and Mania and Star and Cel and Liam and Lighty and Fili and Kiba and Kshi and Sergal and all the other people that would take a while for me to list. I miss you all so much, and I hate not being able to chat and rp with you like we used to. ;-;
But Keenah had spoken her mind, and not even the Falgarith’s blood stare could dissuade her. Much.
- Write This Down -
So I have been falling a little bit behind every day...
It's not something to be proud of.
But tomorrow I should finish Chapter 9 and get to some action. Action is always easier to write than the rest (for me at least).
This just means I have another chapter to be heavily edited during the revision month o.o
In other news... naughty little me has been watching anime. Specifically Fate/Zero. I probably mentioned that I finished Yu-Gi-Oh at one point. Well, now I'm moving on.
I have lots of trouble writing multiple characters. These Fate/Zero people do it flawlessly.
But I think that's because they are bouncing back and forth between the same number of people as plot, action, etc allows them, whereas I am trapped in one person's head for one chapter, and I only have one chapter to make or break that character.
Ah, dilemmas.
He had no sense of self left to pursue his own freedom.
- Write This Down -
I got 2574 words done today. Yaaaaaayyyyy.....
So, nothing much to say.
Chapter 9 should be finishing soon ish maaaaaaybe. Depends on if I decide to have anything uber exciting happen. I suppose having everyone banding together is interesting in its own way, but nearly as interesting as Chapter 10 is going to be.
I realized today that I have lots of work to do come revision time. With how everything is developing and changing around, a lot of the earlier chapters need to be tweaked to accommodate. Details, details. A lot of details need to be made better known. Such as having Kah unaware of the stuff going on in Chapter 2 is grossly inaccurate of his character in Chapter 9. I also hope to flush out a better way of distinguishing him. His character seems flat to me. It's probably my imagination, but I don't know.
You know what I love about switching POVs? Seeing my characters through different eyes.
We see the Falgarith through four sets (so far) and Kah through two (his own and Keenah's). In that respect, I suppose anyone with a POV chapter at least sees themselves. But it's just... the contrast is so intriguing. Here in Chapter 2, Kah sees himself as a well off person, busy and sleepless, who goes about trying to balance his work with his desire to be back with his master again. But from Keenah, well, she sees this as a weakness because he denied himself his own freedoms.
That's just a little bit. I can't say too much as I'm tired and heading for bed. But I just think it's interesting. A lot of people actually suggest writing about your main character from other people's POVs as practice and stuff, and I now see the validity of such. Though maybe I'm tearing down Kah toooooo much. He is a strong person despite being flawed. I need to point that out too before I totally destroy him through Keenah's eyes xD
On another side note, I put up a little blurb on wattpad concerning a future fanfic called "The Cry of Shiganshina". Yah, a fanfic. Shocking, isn't it? I don't like writing fanfics, but this one came to me about a month ago, and it won't rest. So after NaNo and Write This Down are over, I'll be working on TCOS. :3
Also on my list are "Orpheus Rising" and "The Missile List". I have another book rolling around in my mind, but we shall see about that. I think TCOS, OR, and TML take precedence.
That's all for now. Night night, minions.
P.S.
Covers for The Cry of Shiganshina.... because I can...
So, uh, I hit my wordcount today. Yaaaaay. Let's hope I keep it up. I'm getting more in tune with Keenah and things are getting easier to write. Which is also a good. I am halfway done with Chapter 9 (unless it turns into a bloated monstrosity like Chapter 8 was)
MY NOVEL IS IN TOTAL AT EXACTLY 103,457 WORDS, MAKING IT THE LONGEST NOVEL I'VE EVER WRITTEN!!!!!!!
And it's not even halfway done yet o.o
Kshi is now my bud on NaNo WHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Aaaand, hmm, what else? Well, I uh... joined this rp and finally named a character Godlumthakathi. It's an African name that means "he who holds back the wizard". I love that name...
And I also finished watching Yu-Gi-Oh! the original series. Now to eagerly await as LittleKuriboh makes the abridged version..... *still waiting*
I plan to watch Fate/Zero when I have the time and finish it. It is SOOOOOO good omGGGOGGGG! Yall should watch it if you haven't already. I want to make an rp based off of it SO bad hory shiiiieeeet.
And maybe I just will xD
A small, controllable one that is. Can't take all the glory away from my (slow and slightly inactive) Aisthesis and my (very much empty) Skyrim.
Eh, who am I kidding? Everyone's too busy anyway xD
I also realized that by hiding the Siberia boards on Aisthesis, I eliminated a very VERY important rp concerning myself and Cel.
I was just so busy, omg D: I feel terrible about not writing anything, but there was nothing I could do about it. Tomorrow I will definitely be working on Chapter 9. To start, I will need to get more notes taken and probably do some one shot things or something cause I am NOT feeling the character right now. So I will need to spend some time working on her before I really sit down and crank stuff out.
For those of you following the book on wattpad, this chapter is from Keenah's POV and actually does NOT have fighting in it (from what I planned so far). At the very least, there's no blood and gore. The past three chapters had stuff like that with Chapter 8 being VERY blood and gore heavy, so it's a little change of pace now.
But the cool thing is that I will be uniting some arcs together, specifically, Kah, Meruse, Keenah, Falgarith, and Elai are all going to meet up together. That's a lot, wow, but at least they will all get some more screen time from here on out.
He could not escape it. Could not destroy it. Hope was a lie.
- Write This Down -
stuff happened
EDIT
Came back to actually SAY something...
So, some of Chapter 9 and 10 was written today. I also extended my end date on WordKeeper to Dec 12 so that I can take some of the pressure off of me. I have to actually do a lot of research and note taking for these chapters, and keeping up with that AND writing 5000 words a day was mentally exhausting. I was already experiencing mental burnout. So by Liam's suggestion, I extended the end date to Dec. 12th. This does not effect NaNo at all. I'll still be ending over 50k on schedule.
"I’m with those guys,” she said, jerking a thumb at two hefty lads guffawing amongst themselves. “They got me covered.”
They didn’t.
- Write This Down -
So, I managed to FINALLY finish (albeit rushed) Chapter 8 as well as a rewrite of the ending for Chapter 7. I posted both to wattpad.
Now for Chapter 9, wherein we step into the rather rough and ragged boots of Keenah as she sets to meet Kah and his Falgarith master up North in Icefall, which if y'all remember, was around the same spot where Garnet was in Chapter 3.
It's been a while since I did the Kah-Meruse/Keenah arc, so it's nigh time we got back to it.
“Kill anything that shines too bright!” Lohk shouted. “Extinguish this false light from the world! Return the darkness to itself! Ride!”
- Write This Down -
19:03 PM
I finally did it!
So, on the third day of NaNo, I had no brain power whatsoever. Determined to meet a word count of some kind, I typed out plot. That was it. It was the saddest thing ever. It looked something like this.
It was big and scary. He stabbed it. It screamed and lurched back, then swiped at him. He decapitated it. "Curses," he cursed, because he totally missed the thing's jab at his side and now it was hurting like crazy. It was bleeding too. But not much. Just a little. It still sucked. He was not happy about it.
Eew.
So I have been spending the past two days rewriting aaaaaaaallllll of that stuff. Ya know, making it longer and pretty and actually worthwhile.
I FINALLY finished. It was long and arduous and exhausting and I'm never doing that again. Ugh.
Oh wait, December is revision month shiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeet.
In other news, this is the longest fracking chapter ever. Holy crap. It is just about halfway done and guess how long it is? Guess.
You props did/n't guess it. It's exactly (as of this moment in time) 13,700 words.
That's 200 words longer than Chapter 7, and Chapter 7 is a completed chapter (give or take the very last scene which needs some tweaking up to actually sound better).
*ugh*
I still have about 3669 words left to write tonight, so I must now go.
I HAVE been diligently writing every day and meeting my word count, but I have been too busy to actually get blog posts written up for it. So here is ONE.
xD
Okay, a real short blurb on anime.
I finished Knights of Sidonia, then watched Walker Romanze, a shameless harem anime that really makes fun out of every bit of it. And it had a very good ending to boot. It's about an ex-Knight who works as a stablehand in a Jousting School, and all the Knights (the harem) are fighting over him to be their strategist for the tournament in the summer. It's cute, it's fun, it's funny, and of course, lots of fan service. I just love how it embraces itself. A lot of harems out there try to almost hide the harem, as if they can pull the wool over our eyes and be all "it's not reeeaaaaally a harem...." Baka. That's sort of how Knights of Sidonia felt to be honest. Like, there was action and stuff, but it didn't feel like anyone was REALLY in danger, the characters were kinda flat, and EVERY female (just about) wanted to get in the main guy's pants. *sigh*
I digress.
Walkure Romanze just embraced its own genre and had an absolute ball. You can really feel it too. It was great for a short, weekend binge ^^
And theeeeen there was Gokukoku no Brynhildr (aka Brynholdr in Darkness). It's kind of a mix of Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Code: Breaker. I don't want to say anymore because anything else would feel like a spoiler. But WOW. It is bloody, gory, sad, depressing, but good. Aaaaand it's kinda harem-ish. There's a harem there, but that isn't the focus. The romance and fan service bits are actually kept to the parts where there is no major action or anything, so it actually works. It's not like "ooo, cool fight scene fighting and stuff PANTY SHOT". It's actually kept to its own scenes where you won't be distracted by it randomly.
So yah. It was good. Oh, and the opening sequence is v cool. O.O Go check it out ^^
The ending was very... unfulfilling though. But definitely give it a watch despite.
After that, it's kind of a toss up. I started Fate/Zero which is HELLA AWESOME HORY SHIIIEEEETTTT!!!!
But then I kinda stopped, forget why, and I started watching Yu Gi Oh. No, not the children's card game. That's Duel Monsters. I mean the very first Yu Gi Oh where Kaiba has green hair.
And on that note, I leave you with these memes I made. Enjoy ^^ Maybe next time i'll talk about my actual book, but no chance of that tonight.
This isn't a meme, but worth showing.
I intend to make more. There's just too much material here xD
I finish the day with 3379 words. That's about 800 below my target goal for the day, but I started far too late. My word count per day is now at 4071. My NaNo total is now 13,575.
So, I started Knights of Sidonia today and have seen five episodes so far. In the words of some youtuber or other, it's Attack on Titan... in space.
Sort of.
So, the similarities would be that it's the last scraps of humankind just trying to survive while they fend off impossible enemies. They don't know the origin of the enemies, and their own history has been diluted over the past hundred years. But that's pretty much where the similarities end. The characters are vastly different. I mean, Nagate is no Eren.
I'm really enjoying it despite the different animation style. It is a very good storyline, and even just five episodes in, I'm pretty hooked. I can't wait to see what else is in store.
Been a busy week really.
Got evicted Tuesday, quit my job and packed everything Wednesday, then went to WI at 3am Thursday. Gotta go back this weekend to get my stuff and my cat.
It's been very stressful.
But I am happy to be back in the beautiful and amazing Wisconsin. Even if it is so gosh dang cold as butt all the time. Eesh. I missed the woods and the lake and my amazing friends ^^
Speaking of, just on, eh, Friday, my friend TheJazzPony and I did a photo shoot in the woods: formal dresses and varied props.
The JazzPony
Me
So yah. Fun.
As expected, I have had a horrible time keeping caught up at working on Write This Down. I shudder to look at my Daily Word Count to reach the goal on time...
6476
Okay, not THAT bad.
I also binge watched the rest of Kemono no Soja Erin. It is an EXTREMELY AMAZING anime! Holy cow. Go watch it! Yes, it is extremely slow, but it is so good, and I loved it. Except, well, that ending could have been done a liiiitle differently cause they didn't answer a question or two in the end. But my ship set sail, and that's all that really matters.
It's about Erin who works as a beastinarian to save the life of a creature called a Beast-Lord (Ouju). Unfortunately, by raising it in a non-traditional way, as in by the codes laid down by humans, she develops a relationship with the beast that some rather greedy people would just love to take advantage of.
It has heart warming and depressing moments with plenty of sadness, problems, comedy, and adventure to balance everything out. And I just love the drawing style. There's something so nostalgic about it. Don't be fooled though. While kids could definitely watch it, it's not a kids show. It has some heavier political plots to it that they probably would not understand.
I am back in the groove of working on Write This Down. I have given myself a goal: if I can finish 75% of the novel at the very least, then I will reward myself by starting a new book for this year's NaNo.
I found a WONDERFUL word count tracker for books. These things are bae. It is a lot like the one used for NaNo, but you can track the progress of multiple projects at once and all sorts of other things. So if you like to write, go check it out! CLICK HERE!
So far I have written 2000 words today! WHOOT! I have set the word tracker of my book to get me aaaaalll the way to the end of the novel. If I write 5k a day, I can finish it by October 31st. The whole book, not just 75%. That would be super cool. It would be my first ever completed novel. I am going to try this best as I can.
Familiars Workshop is coming together all right. I am rather torn about the Avatars though. Will people get bored if all they are collecting are different faces generated by the exact same avatar maker? I am looking into bringing other avatar makers in to see if that will help add some diversity.
Speaking of avatar makers and rinmaru, I have not updated Whence Midnight Comes. I am a naughty poob. Oh well. The plot is very messy right now and I might need to remake the early chapters and things. Plus the limitations of scenery and stuff is really getting to me. *sigh* I shall try to salvage everything.... later...
SIMS IS DA BOMB . COM! I have officially sold my soul! I love it so much, I missed it too much. *sigh*
Maybe if I feel up to it I will share some of them here. Idk what people are interested in though. My blog is a lonely corner of the internet. Mostly cause I am a very uninteresting person who never updates xD
