Let's Play 'Writer's Life' - Part 1 - HIP-HOP ZOMBIES!

Yes, Hip-Hop Zombies - just one of the many things that have appeared in my notebook over the course of the past few days. They are apparently good at graffiti.

I think having this set up in parts, at least for a little while, will keep me a little more organised. It also gives you guys some idea about a part of the rambling the post will likely contain.


This time, I actually don't have much to say about Hip-Hop Zombies but the title is going to stay because it got your attention. Those titles will change based on what's going on, too, so you'll have a better idea.

It's Barnaby Brooks Jr.'s birthday tomorrow so in honor of that I'm making the pink cupcakes first. (Yeah. I'm totally celebrating a fictional character's birthday. Why not?)

I'm actually playing around mentally with the whole 'write like you talk' thing. I mean, I read through 'The Name of the Star' and it just seems... natural. I need to get there, I think. Stop worrying about sounding like a writer and just write. Of course that's way easier said than done.

This was really just a quick introduction post-thing before my life completely explodes. There's NaNoWriMo, the craft festival, people coming for the holidays... It's gonna be fun. And I'll be here to spazz and complain all the way through.

So I have about 5k left to do today and then I can go do what ever I want to for a while. This will probably involve watching Tiger and Bunny.

Now, I'm going to go back to work where I can hopefully stop hearing zombie hip-hop music in my head. It's... catchy. 0.o Makes me want to dance.

Lousy minor annoyances - My life sucks!

Good morning guys, it's Saturday October 29th which means I'm freaking out!

My notebook is a plot bunny trap. I mean I have so many notes on things now - and on like everything under the sun from vampires to mutants to robots. I love my notebook. But my brain is a scary place. 0.o

*sigh*

I'm not sure what the point of that was. I do know that it's really distracting me from writing on anything that counts toward a word count this month. That's a problem.

I think writing is probably my safest thing right now. Crochet gives me first degree burns on my fingers and the pens make me take skin off my hands.

So right now I'm recovering and skimming through tumblr for craft ideas (like I need any more). I've also been thinking about why we create things in the first place. I mean, sure it's fun and maybe we can even make some money at it but is there something more to it? Maybe we create things to get away from something that we know isn't quite right. Not to say that this is a bad thing at all.

I just want to feel better, I guess is what it all comes down to. And really depression can kill you of it's real depression and it's bad enough. There's not much worse than biting it from something preventable.

Before this gets too serious, I think my nickname should be 'Bunny'. Think about it - I project-hop like whoa, I keep wanting to put my hair in twin-tails (i.e. looking like long ears, like a rabbit's) and I'm even a vegetarian.

But, again, off-topic. I'm going to go and see if I can't get to at least 20k today. (OMGrell, why did I think I could handle all of this in the last few days? ;_; ) Even that is better than where I'm at right now.

So now, at almost two in the morning, I'm going to go write for a while.

See ya~!

I just realised I write really long blog posts.

And I'm unapologetic about that fact.

Also, I'm really getting sentimental. Like insanely, sitting-here-crying sentimental over Harry Potter. More than that, I'm remembering when I used to read. Well, that's not quite right... I'm remembering when I used to not be afraid to jump into a new world. I want to get that magic back again...

I want the series I've just been playing with until now to recapture it. I want it to be something that, from the very beginning, dug its claws into your heart and mind and did not let go. And that is what I will strive for in every work I put my name on, from here on out. It will be nothing but my best... because anything less is not me.

So that's where my mind is at this un-Godly (for me) hour. It's like 8 in the morning and I'm considering just staying up today and working on my GothNo project considering I'm... rather behind.

And because of all of that, I fear I may have to spend the inaugural month of GothNoWriYe lurking on the boards as I edit in my writer's cage - which I'm thinking of making an actual thing once I get moved across the country...again.

Have I been working these past few days? Yes. Have I been working as hard as I should have been? No. And that is the problem. I have not been writing, I've been watching 'Tiger and Bunny', a show which I completely adore. (Barnaby Brooks Jr. is just... Wow. *fangirl*)

I have no discipline.

But I'm hoping to fix that. I really am. I'm sort of in a mood to do something awesome and I'm really hoping it lasts.

The lighter cupcakes are done at least. I can't see my desk because there's about 60 of them sitting there now. They're cute though - they're all fat and happy and yellow, white, blue and pink. But I'm actually really glad I can take a break from it for a day or so. I need to get back into the Gothic/Sci-Fi world I had for GothNo this year. It's a pretty awesome place.

I have a 6-page Word document filled with notes and titles and snatches of scenes. Why? Because I made the mistake of reading the 'Adopt A Title' thread on the NaNoWriMo forums. That place is a plot bunny breeding ground and I now have enough ideas to last for... a while, let's just put it that way.

I get the feeling I could be really dangerous if I'd just stop getting distracted by everything. I mean, I want to do something grand. I really do. I just have to jump in.

I'm thinking I might read back through this blog and see if I made any sense in any of these posts. That's probably a bad idea, isn't it? *goes to do it anyway*

Yeah... I lol'd and noticed a few typos. And lol'd at the typos, so we're all good. But I actually made myself laugh... that's so weird. 0.o

I'm gonna get back to what I should have been working on all month now. See ya~!

I...

am officially 19 years old.

Awesome.

And right now I'm listening to this which is so nice, I can't even... I miss rain. I <3 this site.

So what happened? Well, mum and I went to the Gulfarium in town so I got to see the dolphins. I love dolphins - they're so rubbery. Oh, and a bird walked on my arm. It was a cockatoo - one of those big white birds with the yellow feathers on its head. His name was Chester. He walked up and down my arm, turned his head WAY sideways and said hello a couple of times. Cute~

We just killed some time at the mall after that (I got a cherry Icee and a big ol' pretzel). And I got Maureen Johnson's 'The Name of The Star' and I spazzed a little. Oh, and this:

With this inside:

If you can't tell, I'm totally the first story in there. (I know it's alphabetical - I don't care.) It has some minor formatting problems and I'm not sure it's really my best work but I still love it beyond reason, so I think we're good ^^

My crafts are stressing me out. I've been wearing a bandage so much when I crochet that even five cupcakes (just the frosting) and I'm taking skin off my fingers. Ick. But I will press on. Because I have to get these freaking things done before the festival.

I've also been killing time with a sledgehammer on tumblr. Which is not good considering I have plot bunnies to take care of. And my editorial fox is pacing his cage, waiting for December. (It's okay, Vulpes. I'll take you out of there soon, honey.)

Yes, I totally did just type-talk to a figment of my deranged imagination. Moving on...

I hate to say this here, where everything's kind of random and informal but I think I'm slowly figuring myself out. And that, my friends, is a wonderful feeling. What I haven't figured out yet is what to do with my site. I mean, I kind of like it as-is but I'm wondering if breaking things up by genre might be easier. Of course then what about cross-genre or things I can't catagorise? I don't know. I'll figure it out eventually. There's also this blog right here. I'm wondering about the theme. (I'll probably keep it - I'm just wondering about it.)

This is going to be a long post, I think.

I made a new friend. (Well, kind of. She's an internet writer friend.) But we met at GothNo and we've been talking over at deviantArt. So that's awesome. I like friends like that.

Speaking of GothNo... I love it. And I'm having trouble deciding what my proof copy for NaNo should be - my GothNo project or my actual NaNo project. Both are just so awesome (and I'm really using that word a lot, aren't I?) that I can't really pick. GothNo is so dark though... Oh well. It's a ways away still anyway.

My tattoo is healing and it itches like crazy. So yeah. I'm typing mainly so I don't scratch.

Before this rambles into a wall, I think I'm going to go and try to work a little more. I need to catch up my word count, catch up my crafts and try to plan a little for NaNo.

Bye for now, guys and girls~

I write like...

I write like
Cory Doctorow

I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!

Apparently.

Score.

No, that's pretty cool actually. I hadn't heard of him before but he seems cool. Of course that depends on what you're analysing too. I mean my GothNo Novel got me James Joyce, both SciFiWriMo and a completed short story (the one in Milestone) got me him, the NaNo outline got me Chuck Palahniuk, the first chapter of my first book got me William Gibson and a romance novella got me Gertrude Stein.

Still cool.

Also, I have a new tattoo and that's making it a little hard to type seeing as it's on the back of my hand. But it's still awesome. A lot of things are awesome if you know how to look at them.

The artist offered up a free werewolf tattoo. Now that I'm home and thinking about it... I really want a werewolf. I know it would hurt but it was so cool-looking and it fit my style and free (when its something you actually want) is always good.

But if I obsess then the next time I go down there, the offer will be off the table and then I'll be sad. And that's not a good place to be either. Annoying but I'm actually kind of kicking myself over it. I'm not even sure why, I just really want the werewolf.

Huh.

Okay, I need to read and then go to sleep so my hand can heal and hopefully not stick to the sheets. I'm gonna try to jump back on GothNo a little more tomorrow (if I can type). Bye~

Apparently,

My camera doesn't record audio. That sucks. Because I can't vlog. Well, I can, you just won't be able to see/hear me, depending on what I do. Which is fine for a while but what if I want to show off? It also records in a file type that I can't edit in WMM so no edits, no intro... it's just really disappointing.

Oh, well. I'll figure out something. I always do. Maybe I can record the audio track with Audacity? *thinking out loud*

BUT. Upside. I did manage to get a few pictures for you guys. Like this one of the whole GothNo cake (minus the bottom tier because it's not done yet)...

And this one of the topper...

And this one of the Skull Groom, Ichabod, and his orange-banded top hat ^^

Isn't it cool? I think it's cool.

But then again, I'm prone to thinking odd things are cool. Like to me bug-eyed zombie dogs are cool (and really cute).

What else? That was really all I coherently had for this one. Just wanted to show off the cake, really. Oh and I keep getting compliments on my little excerpts on the GothNo site and I'm like *looks around* Really? I don't suck? Have you ever heard the old robot saying 'Does not compute'?

But apparently people like me. And that's pretty awesome. I like things that are awesome.

If you haven't noticed the top bar on this blog (the one that says 'on my site', 'on LiveJournal', 'on the forums' and 'on tumblr') please to be noticing it now. Those are links. They go awesome places. There will eventually be an 'on YouTube' thing if I can get the camera situation worked out.

obeyalice has been updated with the NaNo project title under 'Works in Progress'. Notice that it's a series. Yes, I really do plan this far ahead. I don't mean to; it just happens.

I've gotten a lot more social since I started writing more, you know? It's weird. I'm... chatty about things. I've never been chatty before. I've never wanted to vlog or make things before. Now there are all these ideas in my head. I kind of love it ^.^

So, yeah. I'm going to go and think over a few things for NaNo and that party we're planning over at Arrow of Eloquence (which I'll spazz about here later, don't you worry).

I still have stuff to make for the festival (which I wanted to record for at least a few minutes. ACK). But that needs to get done. The GothNo community is really good at keeping me afloat, though and I'm really grateful for them. *mental hugs*

And I need to wrap this up so,

Bai-bai, DEATH~

(^^^^ If you get this reference, I <3 you. Just sayin')

I've failed you...

Not with SeptNo. I totally 'ownificated' SetpNo (by typing out around 14 thousand words in a single day, but let's not get into that).

I said I'd be back before the end of the month. And I totally failed at that. BUT. I have something funny for you all this time. (And actually funny not just 'Jezzy's stressed and sleep-deprived' funny.)

"Mom? CAPTCHA's being gross."

I had to screencap it because seriously? XD

So that made me feel better. That and the fact that I was called 'prolific' to-day. That also made me realise that I could split my work up into the following genres: LGBT, Romance, Gothic, Horror, Sci-Fi, Parody and Children, Nonfiction and Historical. I would have a mini-library. That's a pretty good range, I'd think.

Oh, and I get to do the GothNo pep talk emails as a guest this year. Is it weird that I feel like I've 'made it', in some small sense of the phrase?

I'm killing time on YouTube, yes, but I'm crocheting while I'm watching pointless things and listening while I'm watching pointful things. And no 'pointful' is totally not a word, in case you were wondering.

I figured out I can get up, write for a while, read for a while, take a break to eat, read for a while, work on an outline (this time for NaNoWriMo), then crochet for a while before bed. Probably would have worked better if I'd actually stuck to it but the basics were there to-day, so that's something.

I've also taken to hyphenating 'today'. Not sure why. Might have something to do with GothNo.

So, I need to get back to work on... something. Anything, really. Now... I must eat all these explosives. Wait, what? No. I must organise things and go back to work. See? This is what happens when I just ramble on, yammering about pointless things in a way-too-long blog post. Yamble? I 'yamble' about things a lot.

But I'm going to stop for now and let you get back to your life, which I'm sure is much more interesting than mine. Bye~ *flails back to Word document*