.booknuttery
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.booknuttery (a spur of the moment name, you see.) is meant to revolve entirely, completely and wholeheartedly around books. Book collections, book links, bought books, sold books, good books, horrible, hellishly bad books. Its a veritable book nerd journal full of all the impossibly cheesy books one might ever want to, be forced to, or perhaps wisely shun -- to read.
Its not meant to be anything more then what it is -- what it is being a sort of catalog for all the books I have, am reading, am buying, am thinking about. Due to this rabid book obsession I figured I needed a diary, a log, a place in which to place all these things I'm reading -- the daily ramblings of some good (or terribly Not-Good) writer that I digest every single day.
And so that, my dears, is precisely what .booknuttery is for. (And please excuse the name.)
Further Updating: Currently, I'm using .booknuttery as a record of my possible success/shameful failure for NaNoWriMo.
Links of Some Interest, I Guess:
- NaNoWriMo
- Greyduck.net (a fellow wrimo.)
+more eventually.
.booknuttery Archive
You can also head over to these blatantly promoted sites, also by myself.:
Solardragon.org -- Internerd playground of Stuff.
Dragon Ink -- The regular ol' blog.
Loamsdown -- the Diary.
loamsdown's deadjournal -- writing and the like.
Literarity -- The group blog. (Oh so rarely updated, though.)
Gallery -- Scores upon scores of all my visual junk.
(Copyright 2002 S. yadda yadda yadda.)
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And this is what is known as an anti-climax.
50,000 words, hombre.
And now, I'm going to bed.
03:45 a.m. }} Saturday, November 30, 2002
A Novel Soundtrack.
I'm listening to lots of music while I'm writing this here novel. Highlighting a playlist, lighting a cranberry scented candle and donning my long, black & cozy jacket. I thought, for mere posterity's sake (since the whole novel excerpt thing has fallen waaaay behind) I'd post that playlist.
So here goes:
1) Samhain Night - Loreena McKennit
2) Love Song For A Vampire - Annie Lennox
3) At Least We Tried - Moby
4) One of These Mornings - Moby
5) Blinded - David Usher
6) Jesus Was My Girl - David Usher
7) Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Ella Fitzgerald
8) Isobella - Enya
9) Mystery Song - Holly McNarland
10) Rapture - Iio
11) My December - Linkin Park f. Kelli Alli
12) Don't Tell Me To Stop (Club Remix) - Madonna
13) Shit On the Radio - Nelly Furtado
14) You Know You're Right - Nirvana
15) Eventually - Pink
16) Lonely Girl - Pink
17) Get the Party Started (Sweet Dreams Remix) - Pink f. Redman
18) Dosed - Red Hot Chili Peppers
19) Jealous - Sinead O'Connor
20) Its a Good Life If You Don't Weaken - The Tragically Hip
21) Santa Baby - Calista Flockhart
22) Linger - The Cranberries
23) Can't Cry These Tears - Garbage
24) At Last - Etta James
25) Last Kiss Goodbye - Jeff Buckley
26) Cross Bones Style - Cat Power
27) El Tango de Roxanne - Moulin Rouge
28) Lodestar - Sarah Harmer
29) Mean To Me (Acoustic) - Tonic
30) Green Eyes - Coldplay
09:08 a.m. }} Wednesday, November 27, 2002
42,118
I realize that the updates are getting a wee bit sparse, but its reaching the end of the road here. -- at least in terms of the Wrimo thing. The novel is not even half finished yet. In fact, its getting to epic-in-need-of-good-editing proportions.
Chapter Ten, 68 pages.
It amazes me because in Grade Five/Six it took me nearly 7 months to write a very, very bad novel of 83 pages. -- I'm almost there now, so its kind of amazing.
02:38 a.m. }} Tuesday, November 26, 2002
33, 116.
And now, I'm heading to bed.
G'nite.
03:53 a.m. }} Wednesday, November 20, 2002
30,000 baby!
30, 449 to be exact. Chapter... Seven? Page 49.
I've lit some candles, restocked on snacks (a few pieces of cheese, I think I've picked up Alicia's eating habits.) and some juice. Its all very midnight daycare. My goal is to reach 32000 before heading downstairs, doing some laundry and watching a movie.
Insomnia, thou art the author's friend.
02:41 a.m. }} Wednesday, November 20, 2002
And, me, forgetting...
Here's a plot update -- (I know I've been pretty lax with the excerpts... but its complete crap and I'm terribly embarrassed.)
Ava Loams is the main character who's just coming into her power.
George is a ghost that was formerly part of a circle of people who randomly were drawn to each other. A few weeks ago one by one, they were all killed off mysteriously. As psychics they assumed they would be able to see the souls of each other, but there were no souls to be seen. George was killed but managed to escape -- Ava and Zahra believe it is imperative that Kel not reach him -- obviously, they think, there was something special about George's group and if they get a hold of George it might be catastrophic.
Zahra Nightshade: A medium for a great goddess, her price to pay for being too close to a deity was that she lost her speech, but gained telepathic skills. Now, the only time she talks aloud is when she is channelling Aysla, The Great Witch.
Aysla the Great Witch: A sorceress older than time and the one who originally brewed the potion that was meant to kill Kel -- but that was not ever finished because of Koloki, a selfish God, she is the goddess that Zahra channels. She also visits Ava, and in that process, kills her ... uh, "temporarily".
Kel: The Devourer of Souls, or the Soul Eater. He has been around since time began, and beyond that. He was subdued for a time before he was resurrected. He is now being controlled by an outside presence.
Thats about it so far. Cheesy, I suppose. Ah well. Hopefully the ol' editing process can fix up the plot a smidge too, maybe.
01:30 a.m. }} Tuesday, November 19, 2002
27,004
Just a wee word update, for all y'all.
Its still not going in quite the direction I thought it would.
...dah well.
01:29 a.m. }} Tuesday, November 19, 2002
The ol' literary ball and chain
I'm almost at 25,000. If I can get up to 30 tonight -- woohoo! ..
The thing is the plot, and the voice of the main character.
Someone once told me I was telling too much instead of showing. The dialogue feels wooden because its being told.
The only remedy I suppose is to attempt to show things in different ways, instead of throwing in "it looked likes" and "it had a's" ... I don't know. I'll figure it out I suppose.
Now, onward.
12:05 a.m. }} Tuesday, November 19, 2002
22837 words, beginning of ch. 5, page 37.
Well, its getting there. I was going to try and write more, but my bed has actually -- and I swear on this -- dragged its fat ass up the stairs and is physically removing me from this computer.
Honestly.
PLUS, its one very peeved mattress. I think I'd be most wise to listen.
Nitey-nite.
03:58 a.m. }} Sunday, November 17, 2002
I am an evil, rotten writer of filth.
Or if not filth, uhm, nothing.
I'm a writer of nothing, because nothing is what I've written. Nothing.
4 days of fabulous, guilty NOTHING.
But, it shall soon be remedied -- I'm at a whopping 21,035 -- it'll change tonight, no really. Along with my promise of doing the laundry and cleaning my room.
Even though its nearly 1 a.m. I'm sure I can be amazingly resourceful and finish it all by.. ... soon. Soon, it'll be done.
No, really.
12:51 a.m. }} Sunday, November 17, 2002
15,846 words, baby!
Things are going fairly well.
So far Ava has met up with three other characters:
A badly-named nemesis known as the 'Soul Eater' (I know, I know. Shuddup. I'm going to try and remedy this evidence of my sucky character-naming skill.)
Zahra Nightshade, a mute medium for a goddess.
Aysla, a powerful sorceress as old as time.
Uhm, yeah.. it is a little generic, but I'm attempting to jumpstart it with originality any time now. No, really.
12:41 a.m. }} Monday, November 11, 2002
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