Eat Prey: Love

Poptart was reading Eat, Pray, Love and didn't end up liking the overall cheesiness of it all and I joked that instead there should be a book called "Eat Prey: Love" and it would be a zombie romance. She then said I should write it and I laughed it off, but she reminded me of Nanowrimo. I still brushed it off, because the zombie romance things has been done. There was "Zombie Honeymoon" about the romance/wedding between a noninfected human and a zombie. Also there was another movie called "Fido" about a zombie servant and I remember some movie stills with him and the housewife dancing together. Granted, I've never seen either of these, but the idea is there.

BUT then earlier this week, after watching the Swedish vampire flick, it came to me. ZOMBIE-VAMPIRE ROMANCE. It's brilliant I tell you! If it hasn't been done. Or even if it HAS been done, it hasn't been done BY ME. Muahahahahaa. So, if I don't hate this idea by the end of October I'll totally do it! :D

Harribull

Yesterday I read my entire "novel" in one sitting for the first time. I exclaimed outloud at least five times in the first four pages "oh my god, this is horrible!" Oh the shame! The two main protagonists meet way too early. There are cringe-inducing descriptive passages. It is so clinical! The language is clunky! Where is the art?!

Thankfully after the fifth page it settled down. Not much, but at least I didn't feel like covering my face. Later on I actually wrote some good scenes, scenes I went eek! at, that disturbed me. I could've done with more dialogue, because it freshens the story a bit. I may add a few scenes, kill some prose, make more jokes, add more bickering and more mushiness. I found one typo, which ended up being quite interesting, very subliminal. I did my best to not touch it at all yesterday. Maybe let it settle in a bit before editing.

Lastly, I thought of switching the ending around but after I read it last night, I think it's just right.

WINNAR!

"Our word-counting robots have analyzed your November novel, and they've delivered their final, binding assessment: Winner."

!!!!

Random stats:
FINAL WORDCOUNT: 50,196
NANOBOT WORDCOUNT: 50,175

fake 50,000th word: END (prior to replacing a placeholder i forgot about)
real 50,000th word: DEAD
NaNo 50,000th word: DRIVEWAY

E's: 25,257
Q's: 119

Viddy this my droogs: mine certificate!!

It's not even 10pm yet! Oh man, i feel quite good, despite writing less than a thousand words for the past couple of days, and for not getting to reread my story once through in its entirety. I don't think I had much of a plot. Who cares! I wrote 50,000 blithering words! I only got called obssessed twice! Now for some celebratory tea.

Current album: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

"The church of manlove is such a holy place to be." I love you David Bowie!

Te Busque

Erg, 49,417 cuz I was out tonight and probably out tomorrow night and i want my bloody certificate! Barcelona match on now, gonna watch. Hope to write more later. Sad update again.

49,000something

I forgot to update last night. I am so close to 50K but quite embarassingly I don't have an ending yet. What gives? Also this character I introduced late, who i imagined as this sort of debonair (ok not really) guy ended up being this total slimeball (well not completely), and Chase decided to grow a beard and then Thomas drops this bombshell on me and that's my next scene but it still doesn't mean anything. Woe.

La Budgie Brava

Ow my frickin' fingers! Bubba bites like a piranha! That will teach me to trim my birds' talons claws nails when I am supposed to be typing for the rest of the night. Actually I lie, I don't learn a damn thing, I'll be trimming Tiny Girl's nails as soon as I log off.

Current Song: La Costa Brava by Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
Current ex-snack: Inca Kola and more Tostitos. My mouth, it BURNS.

Anyhoo! 47,033 bitches! The NY Times had an article about a cheap weekend in Seattle today so of course I snagged more research. Seattle gets cooler the more I read up on it. Ow my finger joints. i declare this update over.

Me, obsessed?

Ha! What does my sis know! There was a hit and run and a police search on my block about an hour ago but that is so not important because hello, I am writing! Duh!

Success is so close I CAN TASTE IT. OR MAYBE IT IS THE TOSTITOS!!! ^_^

I am now at 45,001 words but that is what Word tells me, I am scrambling the letters and going to put it into nanowrimo's wordcounter and hope it doesn't lessen what I've been going by so far. Okay I think it is actually crashing my Word doc. Whatever, I made a copy and then emailed it to myself as well.

The only problem I see now is coming up with a satisfying ending and somehow not rushing it because I *only* have 5,000 words to do it justice. I think the story is begging to be 60K plus, because I spent the first 40,000 words over the span of two months and the other 10K will be a few years? Hell no. WTF. I've been doing research too. And now my story is in the future, it is 2009!

Oh yeah I stepped outside to buy the aforementioned Tostitos. I am not completely mental! Off to play the delightfully creepy Alice in Wonderful videogame because nothing says relaxation like stabbing people.

Edit: Lookit, I took a screenshot of my novel! Look how little dialogue there is! Also note how the pink hi-lighted parts are sections I think are kinda dumb and should be worked on a bit more. Those are only the first 50 pages. Note how I have notepad open for random notes, research, timeline and wordcount; a folder of And One songs and that I was listening to Ricky Martin's Lola at the time.

ETA: I had to manually do word scrambling (which turned up the delightful facts that my novel had 22,496 Es and 144 Zs). Nanowrimo's countbots say I have 44,981 words. Those bastard robots robbed me of 20 words! Curse you, i say! (five times to equal 20)

Just Dropped In

To See What Condition My Condition Was In!

I have not stepped out of the house in three days. Yep, that's right folks. But I have something to show for it! I am at 41,699 words right now, one day ahead of schedule, and I know where I am going. Well pretty much except for the very very end. But I know most of the journey. I got rid of the subplot and added a mini-secret and fudged a few facts (like my story should really be taking place in 2009 but i am too lazy to do that because I got really caught up in figuring out my calendar system to work for the benefit of my story)

Anyway my eyes are buggin'. Ciao.