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I was going to go, but I found something out last night that upset me (forcing me to back out of the word war as well) and decided to turn in early. Even so, I woke up at 11am today (that's 11 hours of sleep!) and have been sleepy all day. Thus, no write-in and no actual output.

Dear Me, wake up and write?

*yawn*

I think it's actually more distracting than encouraging...

Mom was bitching a little, then nephew came and said he needed a pair of white pants--right on the following day. At 9:30 in the evening. Had to dig through my cosplay chest to look for white pants and they didn't even fit him. The usual disconnect-reconnect routine (I can't resist). Kept looking at my cellphone. Hello, second word war.

Finished with 1675 and was not really happy about it (got 1670 in the first). But, wonder of wonders, I made it to third place! Jeez.>_>

Anyway--

My NaNo 2008 (No Title Yet) Characters

Celestia - the princess of Veriah. A prophecy was made upon her birth that she would be the key to the fall of the kingdom and her father sent her away to the far kingdom of Lorentia to appease the members of the royal court.
 
Sefhyr - the Apostate. His father and brothers and half-brothers all betrayed the kingdom in one form or another. Seeking to reclaim his family's honor, Sefhyr was given 9 tasks to do so. The seventh task entails going to Lorentia and returning to Veriah with the Princess Celestia.

Jaylee - Jay. In the kingdom of Veriah, magic only appears within the royal court. Once in a few decades however, a powerful mystic is born among the commoners. Believing this to be bad luck, such children are killed as soon as they are discovered. Irene's family ran away from the kingdom to keep her alive, but was then caught by bandits. Sefhyr saved her from them and renamed her "Jaylee". She has always been by his side since then, treated as a tool and weapon but never once finding the need to complain.

Lawrencio - a knight from Veriah carrying the same task as Sefhyr, to come for and return with the Princess Celestia.  

Kyriel - Lawrencio's childhood friend and an apprentice castle healer in Lorentia.

Joined the Word War today. I didn't win, of course, but it certainly helped my word count. Definitely joining future ones that I can.

- synch with Tina's time before the start of the war. Set alarm on cellphone  for end time so I don't have to keep checking back into chat...
-...which I really might as well close because every time I get dc'd and try to go back, it eats writing time. And this happens A LOT.
-Need to find an alternative to cellphoene alarm. I tend to check the time and end up checking messages too...and especially bad ones are distracting (and disheartening)
-JUST KEEP WRITING!

Help! I'm suddenly stuck 'cause I realized I don't know how to insert boy love into this thing!!

*is shot*

So, yeah, my novel's (finally) been started. I need to write at least 2k everyday in order to win (I think). Started yesterday and I'm at 3127 words now, with 4k as my target for the day. Novel details when I get stuck again or have a pretty good word count.

Writing on...

*hums* Will I end up posting here everyday? I should have signed this LJ up for NaBloPoMo or something!

So far, NaNo Rebelling is NOT working. We should be at 5001 words today (uh, right?) and I can't even start because I haven't finished my first YS prompt and am too embarrassed to ask for a second one (I had two prompts last year and barely finished the first!). Even if I count the number of words I've written for my first prompt in November, it'll only add up to around four, five hundred. Augh!

Second reason this ain't gonna work: I'm currently writing a RANDOM SCENE THAT THE FIC CAN DO WITHOUT in my first prompt. Hello the Idon'tcarewecancutthoseoffandeditafternovember NaNo-spirit? I can't have it for these fics--they'll be gifted. 'Course I can fall back to my beta...but I don't want to give them too much work.DX

So--shall I start on my novel already? I've already drafted out the character profiles even. The last time I went against THE COIN though, I had to pay 60php for late book return and got very sick (decided to stay at the mall instead of dropping the book to sch**l and going home to rest)...

Hmm...

I thought of becoming a NaNo Rebel this year-- instead of writing a novel, I'll give my heart and soul to
yuletide_smutand write prompt after prompt and hope to reach 50,000 words by the end of the month. It'll be like hitting two birds with one stone and it's not really against the rules...I think. But it sort of beats the point of NaNoWriMo but then again, that's the point of being a rebel, isn't it? Hmm...

...Well, toss coin says I should do it, and I did it twice--best of five each. But first, I have to finish my current prompt. I started it before November so I shouldn't include it in my word count I don't think, but I better hurry up....

I wonder if I'll be the first ever rebel among PinoyWrimos? I hope I don't become an outcast because of this. *swallows thickly*

And of course I still don't have a working plot. Everyone is writing and here I am still stalling. Was at the first PinoyWrimo night chat for 2008 last night and stayed up well past 4am, but still nothing. I'm sorely tempted to go with the Deus Noir plot--a live manga project we had a couple of years ago. It's irking me I can't remember some of the characters' names though (including my own!!) and it's not really meant to be written as a novel, different POVs and visuals/eyecandy instead of text/speech and such. But, quantity over quality, right? Hmm...

Still, it's going to be a bitch writing something I don't know how to write, even if I do have a plot premise for it.DX

Coupled with a crappy sch**l-centered lifestyle, I'm stuck in my novel and having a hard time continuing it. RO!twin told me it was okay to write future parts first, something our seminar speaker last Saturday, Sir Dean Alfar backed up during his lecture. I originally didn't want to, because I'm one of those writers who don't have sequenced plots yet and I might end up not being able to lead the plot into any future part I might write, but then I realized last night that there are parts which will not change no matter what I do in the main plot-- the memories in the Sonnetteer of Memory. I also realized these were easier to write--probably because they're set in Asiyah or, as we commonly know it, Earth?^^;;

Gah. I've written too much and have wasted far too much time here. With no further ado, I give you what memories I have written so far.=)

Cross-posted to Spill Your Plot @ NaNoWriMo forums:

No Title as of yet. I don't even know what genre I should place it in.x_X I came up with the topic on Nov. 1 (totally random, after extensively discussing three other plot bunnies) with a friend, and some bits of the 'plot' (lack thereof...) yesterday:

"What if I just go crazy and write something random without a planned plot, like angels and a war in heaven and stuff?" (my famous last words...)

A person houses only one of three things: an angel, a demon, or a human spirit. Human spirits either go to hell or the lower levels of heaven when the host body dies. Their path depends solely on the works they did in life, because a human spirit is created only when a human is born.

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