This was a triumph,

I'm making a note here: "Huge Success"
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction
WriMos and novels,
We write what we must because we can
For the good of all of us
Except the ones who are dead


But there's no sense crying over every mistake
You just keep on typing till you run out of cake
And the novel gets done
And you have a lot of fun
With the people who are still alive.


I'm not even tired.
I'm feeling so wound up right now
Even though this month quite nearly
Killed me.
My outline's in pieces
My novel is full of holes right now
But I just don't care because,
I'm just so happy for me!


Now my tired scribblings make a beautiful line
And I made my word goal, I just finished on time.
So, I'm glad I'm so stressed
And I have conlangs to test
On the people who are still alive


See you all next month
I'm not sure how much I'll be around
Maybe you'll find some new friends to talk to
I'll see you at NaNo
THAT WAS A JOKE
FAT CHANCE (I THINK)
Anyway this book is great
It's just so twisted and sad


Look at me, still singing when there's writing to do
Clicking around there sure makes me glad I'm not you
I have scenes and lines to run
There's still research to be done
With the people who are still alive


And believe me I am still alive
I'm doing WriMos and I'm still alive
I feel FANTASTIC and I'm still alive
While you're still typing I'll be still alive
And when you're dead I will be still alive
Still alive
Still alive

So yeah. If you didn't figure this out by now, I finished and I didn't die ^^ I'm also obsessed with Portal. Now, onward to the next one!

Anatomy of a May WriMo

Step 1: Feel excited about having a new project. Complete first chapter.

Step 2: Forget about project. Work on non-wrimo things. Be excited about up-ing your yearly word count. Almost remember project.

Step three: Wait until the 15th before you remember the project. Feel guilty and depressed. Realise just how far behind you are. Panic. Try to write but fail. Feel depressed.

Step 4: Go to the kitchen and realise you're hungry. Make a sandwich. Forget about project.

Step 5: Finish sandwich. Play with refrigerator magnets. Notice you have to pee. Go to bathroom.

Step 6: Go back to your room. Still don't remember project. Work on website.

Step 7: Almost remember project. Play with livejournal community. Think that you need stories for said community. Remember project.

Step 8: Panic. Figure up word count and panic more.

Step 9: Calm down. Start writing and feel better. Start working on other stories. Forget about project.

Step 10: Remember project and start writing again. Get closer to caught up. Get severe headache and start to shake.

Step 11: Spend the next day drooling and shaking uncontrollably. Wonder if you're dying.

Step 12: Feel better. Resolve to win even if it kills you. Be paranoid it will kill you. Write anyway.

Step 13: Stay up all night and completely screw your sleep schedule. Start thinking about vampires. See title in adoption thread on forum. Have 'OMGMUSTWRITE!!!' moment about it and write three pages of the outline before you remember you should be working on something else.

Step 14: Ignore project. Change livejournal community to something else. Realise you have a series and start to plan. Get more ideas. Change livejournal community again. Have idea for first short story. Write down title. Work on other outlines.

Step 15: Get headache. Work on website. Work on livejournal community. Remember you should still be blogging. Get up to pee about 14 times. Write sporadically.

Step 16: Be paranoid that people think you're a druggie/whore/vampire/vampire druggie/vampire whore. Realise a psychologist would have a field day with your latest series idea. Realise a psychologist would have a field day with anything you write. Be happy about that.

Step 17: Work on new idea instead of project. Insist on giving male vampires goth girl names like 'Amberlyn'. Decide that Amberlyn is one of your coolest characters. Suddenly want to grow your hair long and dye it blood red. Contemplate how to get the money to do this. Realise you could sell books. Remember project and panic.

Step 18: Write all day. Get mostly caught up and feel better. Get distracted and start playing with fonts.

Step 19: Decide that writing bite scenes is hard (though fun) and go back to project. Decide writing MtF transsexuals is fun. Mentally thank friend for giving you this story.

Step 20: Mentally curse friend for giving you this story. Get a headache again. Go work on website.

Step 21: Play on forums so you don't forget about project. Don't work on project because you're playing on forums.

Step 22: Listen to 'Super Psycho Love' on repeat. Imagine Daniel and Alexander from Amnesia: The Dark Descent singing it in a duet (since it was originally Daniel's) at the Twisted Records music awards show. Enjoy the image. Consider writing a story for it. Remember you're behind on your word count. Panic and listen to song to calm down.

Step 23: Work on project. Get distracted and work on short story. Write two sentences. Get distracted and go back to project. Complain to family about neck ache.


Step 24: Alternate between working and making a list. Get bored with both and watch Let's Plays on YouTube.

Step 25: Start Google-ing random things. Get bored and rename your desktop icons (Microsoft Word is now 'WriteFire'. WriteFire is better). Change your desktop background. Eat candy and try to do something productive.

Step 26: Feel important for no reason at all. Remember that you have no money and get depressed. Remember that you can write and get happy about it.

Step 27: Look at your WriMo list. Realise that this ordeal will either kill you or make you famous.

Step 28: Listen to your Mirro Player for an obscene amount of time. Realise that you haven't refilled your prescription. Weigh the cons and pros of stopping work to go refill said prescription.

Step 29: Beg friend to drive you to the pharmacy. Go to pharmacy, get prescription refilled, come back and panic because you should've been writing.

Step 30: Buckle down and win with a 'come-from-behind victory'

Wow

I really need to be writing. Like, on anything. (Too...many...creepy ideas /headexplodes)

I really don't want to lose this month because that would suck. However I may have to borrow Karen's Pickaxe of Despair for the rest of the month. Or at least the Cattle-Prod of Encouragement OTL

*goes to complain on the boards*

So

there's this contest for this writing club I'm in. The challenge is to scare one of the admins and according to them, they don't scare easily. I'm thinking of re-doing 'Wakeman's Field' for it but I'm not sure. It's kind of a triggering piece in a lot of ways but it might be my best option.

Not sure why I felt the need to write about this but here it is.

Also, for the remainder of my time doing WriMos, I've decided to subscribe to the philosophy of BIC-HOK-TAM. (Butt In Chair-Hands On Keyboard-Typing Away Madly)

I'm suddenly a little wound up so, Bye, bye, DEATH~ <3

Okay...

I'm already a little behind.

It's fine, though, since it's early yet but it's still kind of annoying. I'm trying to remember to just write like I talk but it's harder to do than you'd think...

Oh, and I think I'm going to do something simple, like a little weebly site for all this fan stuff. So, yeah. I think it'll go up on deviantArt first, then FF.net, then the website, probably about a day or so apart. </attentionwhore>

Megan seems to be doing okay, which is good to see. She's still waffling on the price list but she'll get it figured out. I think if she runs it like a bakery, she'll do pretty well.

I'd really love to pick another topic and keep rambling at you guys but I have to start or I'll never get done. To Word!