Jan. 30, 2009 - Dreading and apprehensive about February
Oh this is great!
I just got on to post, and I realized that Fire Fox is all messed up on my computer. For some weird reason it won't let me type anything in for a new post. The text box is gone. This is very weird, and annoying, because now I have to use Safari (the Mac browser) and it is paragraph challenged. Whenever me or my sister use this, it turns all the text into one large block, but I'm hoping that's just because it's stuck on source. That would also explain the absence of the editing tools at the top.
Well, on with the post, anyway.
This is my second to last free day before February Madness starts. February Madness is a challenge that me, Mariella, Cherise, Molly, Anna and Heather have entered into. It is basically NaNoWriMo on a smaller scale; the goal is 30,000 words, instead of 50,000. But if that isn't a enough, I promised Heather that I would finish TCN in February, and she said that if I don't, Maddock won't speak to me anymore. Which would be horrible. I must finish this stupid story this month!
Why "stupid" you ask? Because I hate this book. It could probably be pretty cool if only the characters would make up their minds to follow my awesome plots! But, of course, they, liking to be difficult, and liking to revolt against me even when they have no cause to, flatly refuse to do as I say. I must say I find it rather ungrateful. "After all I have done. After all that I do" for them, they revolt for no good reason!
It's because of this that the plot has changed so much, and it's because it's changed so much that I hate it, I think. I'm tired of trying to figure out what my characters want, and I'm tired of re-writing, and writing, and re-writing for a year with my only accomplishment happening in November with a different story! I want this book finished, but I can't bare to write anymore of it! That's why, as much as I complain, I am glad for Heather's challenge. I know that no matter who beats me to the 30,000, TCN will be finished in February, and then I can forget about it for several months before I fix it up and edit it. *sighs at the thought* That will be nice!
So anyway, I am dreading writing TCN, and any prayers would be great! I have to finish this story once and for all! "Now we come to it, the great battle of our time." And it happens to be between an insane young authoress, and her d sooooo difficult characters.
~ Katie
Edit: Woo hoo! Safari made paragraphs! *is proud of her Safari browser's newest accomplishment.
Comments
Jan. 30, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by BreezyTulip
I hope all goes well with your book. I'm writing a book, too, with the One Year Adventure Novel program.
RYC: Yes, Beatrix was very talented! I admire her greatly. ;) She was very interested in science, and she and her brother would often draw and dissect small critters and plants. I definitely think she would be able to do more in science nowadays, and would have even pursued it back then if she saw that as her calling or a great gifting. But she was also so very fond of painting, children, and her own furry childhood friends, so I think she would have wrote any way.
I've read that the elderly man she based the appearance of Mr. McGreggor on was actually a close friend with whom she would often discuss the various types of fungi found in the hedgerows. What a funny pair they would be to listen to. :)
Blessings,
-Breezy
http://www.abowlofmossandpebbles.com/
Jan. 30, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by PoeticMaiden
Yay!! I can't believe that the 30k challenge starts in two days!!! *jumps up and down* I am sort of sad that I only have two (er, make that one) days of freedom left, because writing hasn't been going very good for me lately, but that's ok. Well, so I haven't been writing AT ALL during the past three days, but I actually don't mind. I need time to refill my mind, so that I actually have SOME hope of accomplishing anything during February.
So, basically, we'll be in the same boat, you and I. At this moment I think both of my novels are stupid, and I almost never want to see them again, but unfortunately I'm stuck with them for the entire next month. But we will get there together! *clinks glass*
~Cherise
(PS - I know that was a really rambling comment, but I'm leaving this comment from a friend's computer, and my brain isn't working too straight.)
Jan. 30, 2009 - <em>Untitled Comment</em>
Posted by MrsGamgee
*smiles sadly* I sooo badly wish I had done just what you said I should have done.....plainly--finish one of my novels.....*sobs sadly*
*wipes tears* anyway....I was posting to say that I loved all your quotes! Danielle's step mother, and Gandalf!!!!! *shakes head*
Although, I must say you didn't finish Danielle's step-mother's quote! It is this...*clears throat* "After all I done! After all I do! It's just never enough!"
So, anyway...OH! Do you have any really cool pictures of Missouri's awesome wooded areas and forests?????? I WOULD REALLY APRECIATE IF YOU DID....Well, that is...I want to make a template when I finish Feb's challenge!
I want it to be VERY Sherwood Forest-ish!
Thanks!!!!
Anna who is eternally greatful to you and Molly! *hugs*
Also!!!! I read the last paragraph from Anne of the Island....and IT SAYS AT 'DUSK' NOOOOT *gags at the word* 'Twilight!'
*glares at Katie for even THINKING it said Twilight!!!
p.s PLEASE GET MOLLY TO WATCH JUST ONE 24 EPISODE!!!!
PLEASE?????!!!!! *begs on bended knee*
p.s.s. I'll be praying for you!
Edited by MrsGamgee on Jan. 30, 2009 at 7:22 PM
Feb. 5, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Purpleclad
Katie, remember that Tolkien used like... 30 years (?) to finish LotR! You've barely written the first word of the idea in comparison to Tolkien :) Take your time. After not long your characters will learn to bend with your turns.
