The Spete Blog

this is all Nah, I'm totally rocking this NaNoWriMoing In other news, I decided to do some ~nail art~ on myself. 10 nails.  3 nails are acceptable 1 of these nails is plain nailpolish it counts.   Word Count: 26,609 Feeling: Like I need to get off pinterest and go to bed

Well, Camp NaNoWriMo is winding down. Ummm.... I wish that I had some informational nonsense to share today, but I don't. It's been wretched hot here all week, and I've learned that there's a big difference between summering in Tucson where it's wretched hot all the time but everywhere has a/c, and summering in coastal Maine, where when it's wretched hot, not nearly enough places have a/c. It finally cooled down last night, and should hopefully stay bearable temperatures for at least next week. Back to writing! The story is going well! I've been prolific this weekend, and I hope that I stay with this story past NaNoWriMo, as there's a lot more of it to write. Si is about to join a secret society (I don't even know hahaha) and Bixby has been captured and is on her way to escaping! Good luck with that, everyone. I realized that I just set up Bixby's story to have a love triangle, but I hate love triangles, and Bixby doesn't have time ...

Still going at it! Camp NaNoWriMo is 17 days in, and I think it took me seventeen days to realize that the story I'm writing is not even close to being halfway over. It's reaching the initial climax, which will then be followed by the real rising action... If I'm going to stick with this novel it's going to probably end up being more than 50,000 words. Not a bad thing, of course... just... difficult, seeing as the best way for me to motivate myself to write is by doing NaNoWriMo. Oh well! Um, I'll be brief up here, since I have a really important topic to discuss below. Writing is still going well, Bixby is about to get married (or so she thinks!) and Si is currently backed into a corner by a bunch of thugs. It's only 8 annnnnnd I'm ready for bed. Alright, what I wanted to discuss were GIBBONS. Let's begin! 1) Gibbons are not monkeys, but apes! They are commonly referred to as lesser apes, from the family Hylobatidae! (We are part of the g...

So! Almost halfway there! Exciting, exciting. Um, I've been slacking with the writing. I have written every day, which was part of my goal, so I'm not too heartbroken over it. ummmmmmmmmmmm yup. Not much else to report there. This fellow looks just like my Frank! I could I could talk about my cat for a while, but I am honestly convinced that no one cares about my cat, so I won't :) So yeah, back to NaNoWriMo. The story is still depressing.... I realized that I set myself up for a depressing story. oh! Let's add some more zombies! Because that will make it happier?! Let's talk about what's going on here, because I don't get it. In other news, it's Friday. The ADHD that I didn't have as a child releases itself on Fridays. True fact. In other, other news, I used my college education today! A co-worker asked what an Ulnar Shaft was, and I was like, "oh, please, you know, the ulna." So I ...

... Yes. It is Day 6. For a second, I thought that maybe it was actually Day 7 and I was an idiot, but no, we're good. Might still be an idiot, though. Well, Camp NaNoWriMo is going, if nothing else! I was amazingly (but unsurprisingly) unproductive on the 4th, wrote about 900 words yesterday, and am still getting up to my word-count-goal for today. Happy Caturday. Here's a cat. The Fool and the Rock In other news, I took a hike today at a state park and then drove to Bangor and learned some things! 1) Mainers really like cairns.  2) Maine is freaking beautiful??? 3) Maine is basically the exact same as the northwoods of Minnesota and Wisconsin except with the ocean, mini-mountains, an obsession with lobster and even weirder accents. 4)  Ever since working retail for a year and a half, I've become increasingly more awkward when I talk to sales associates at stores. Not sure why. Hahahaha 5) Yup, that's about it. Anyway, while I was sitting on the ...

Day 3! So far, the novel is going surprisingly... well... This is probably because I started writing it on Sunday (shhh don't tell) and ended up about 3,000 words ahead of schedule. As a result, I'm not pulling words out of my teeth (not an actual expression), although I am trying to write the prescribed number of words one should write a day if one wishes to finish NaNoWriMo on time. So far, so good! Hit a bit of a block today-- my original plan was to have three main characters, each chapter devoted to a different POV (it's fine, ok?! It's fine for a 30,000 word novella, ok?!) but I am feeling uninspired to write the third character. I'm blaming it on the fact that unlike the two other characters, the people she loves don't die horrific deaths. She's kind of a grouch, this character, and I was planning on most of her story being her complaining about life, which, as it turns out, is really boring to write. I'll try writing about her. Maybe she...