End of NaNoWriMo...

As I'm writing this, there's still five-ish hours left until the end of NaNoWriMo- which is a good thing, because I'm still a 1000 words off from completing my goal. It seems that NaNoWriMo has failed to make me a faster writer. Even so I think this whole month has definitely helped me out a bit.

The last two weeks- I really managed to keep up with the daily word count- so I'm proud of not succumbing to my usual procrastination habits.

Having to keep up with the word limit actually does wonders for making you think about description- everything from the smell, taste and look. I have no idea how many odd descriptions I ended up with in my NaNoWriMo writing. Of course most of the descriptions are silly and laughable but since my usual writing lacks proper description- I think this was a good step forward.

Actually there are a lot of laughable things I ended up with during this month.

First on the list would be names- all my character names are just...well, a bit too unique? Yeah, let's go with that. But I guess it's a bit acceptable in a semi-fantasy genre. Villain only got the letter "S" for a name because I honestly couldn't think of a name that wouldn't sound like a cliche evil name. I consider that a step up from a blank space, for now.

And then there's my main character- who for some reason seems to be on the receiving end of a lot of violence and injuries. I have no idea if it was just my mind-set during the month, but I have tons of scenes where my character is bleeding/stabbed/shot and on the verge of dying. Poor thing. Of course my villain does get beat up but not as much as my main character.

Finally there's the plot. Yeah that just took on a life on it's own. I had a plan but this past weekend I was suddenly inspired with the most absurd plot twist. It was so ridiculous that I instantly fell in love with the idea and decided to incorporate it in to the story. Which left me with no idea how to end the story- hence my lack of words at the moment.

What does this mean for AtO's ch11?
Err, nothing actually. I didn't even have time to look at chapter 11 since the start of November. NaNoWriMo really took up all my free brain space. But have no fear, I'll definitely look in to it tomorrow, see how much work it needs and put up a blog post about it soon. It'll be good to go back to something familiar- with nice normal names and appropriately named villains and Hedwig.

You know-odd thought here- I think my love of Hedwig must stem from my own pets. I have two budgies who're utterly fascinated by my laptop when I play budgie clips from Youtube.They're hilarious when they try to investigate my laptop.

That's all for now,
Polar.
P.S. I just realized that none of my NaNoWriMo characters have cool pets. Tch, what a time to get that realization.

P.P.S I really hope people don't spam AtO's review section with questions/demands of updates...should probably put something on my profile page there tomorrow.

P.P.P.S. X-mas is coming. Yay! Must listen to some more Trans-Siberian Orchestra. That might help me write. Now that I think of it, I do have an itch to write a BleachXNaruto one-shot. Must resist the urge until I finish with ch11.

NaNoWriMo update!

So it's been almost two weeks in to the NaNoWriMo and can I just say... woah! Intense and definitely painful for my fingers.

How have I been doing so far?

When I first started out, I kept in like with the daily wordcount- sometimes even writing a lot more. I suppose that made me a bit too overconfident and lax. Because I thought I could skip a day. Read a new manga as a sort of relaxation... yes, my resolve is that weak and my need to procrastinate is that great.

Needless to say I got a wee bit too interested in the manga, and ended up losing another day. So no writing in two days. My wordcount suffered.

And then my friends looked at me and said, "Weakling! Go Die!"

Ok, they didn't really say that (out loud, at least.). But they blatantly started mocking me with their impressive on schedule wordcounts. Which led me to do something rather Naruto-ish... I decided to write three days worth of words in one day- all to catch up.

And ...ouch! Are fingers even allowed to hurt like that? Maybe my fingers are just too weak? Weak un-writer-ly fingers... that suddenly seems to make a lot of sense. Why exactly does that make sense to me, right now?

I haven't even had the time to look through/edit AtO's chapter 11. But oddly enough I've had so many ideas for the story- it's hard to keep track of all of them.

But maybe all those new ideas were because of the recent chapters from the Naruto manga. Seriously, Kishimoto is making my brain hurt. I suppose that's a good thing, right? (Err if you do discuss anything from recent chapters here, mark it as a spoiler for other readers, just in case.)

Polar
P.S.- I have also realized I have no talent for coming up with names for characters. My main villain in the NaNoWriMo writing is a blank space.

P.P.S- Also the manga that distracted me from writing diligently was Eyeshield21...odd that I liked it considering it's about American Football but I guess procrastination made it interesting.

P.P.P.S- Err, I really apologize if this post seems a bit off/wonky- my brain does feel rather mush-like at the moment.