Stricken Fancy

geh

2010-03-10T08:38:00.000-08:00

So. After barely writing for a week and a half and forgetting to put everything together into one file I finally got at least one of those things done. It's March 10th and I'm only just over 40k. It doesn't help that my enter key on this thing is STILL acting up and annoying me.

I should be well into 100-150k by now, if I was on track. After looking on forums and hearing people's talk of 'Don't give up! Believe me, when Nov rolls around your word count will skyrocket!' I guess I can keep trying...

I doesn't help that after reading several years of this one comic in a day I have the sudden urge to draw comics myself... Luckily I know enough about my drawing skills to know that's not going to happen, but the idea is a persistent one...

>.>;;

Weeeeeeell. I guess I'll go write then. Or at least try. Not like I can say I was updating to keep you in the know... >.>; I think anyone who reads this knows that I'm behind anyway.

And... Well, I'll try to think of more interesting topics in the future to ramble about. :p Likes smileys or tildes.

back!

2010-03-08T07:32:00.000-08:00

Well the retreat was everything a church retreat always is, and I'm super happy to be back~

What?

What was that?

Haha, no, that would be silly.

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So apparently I have inadvertently time-traveled. I mean, that's the only explanation for getting back from that retreat... Coming here to update my blog immediately (because I'm diligent like that) and seeing that it's been a week. I mean, that really is the only explanation.

Also, Blogger is being weird... It's not letting my 'enter' key to enter properly. How rude.

In other news I'm going to learn how to feed small animals. :D (No, I do not want to babysit.)

And... Yeah. Other than a fun and exciting Saturday this has really been a week of nothing~...

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...Because I was trapped in the TIME-STREAM.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled updates* for...

2010-02-26T11:03:00.000-08:00

So I've gotten about no writing done the last few days, I blame the 'I just finished stuff!!!' burnout. But I have this weekend to catch up right?

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT

Incorrect. I have to go this weekend on a mandatory retreat for my church. I am not a fan of mandatory things OR church, if you don't believe me just check on facebook. So I'll be gone from tonight until sunday, and of course laptops are on the not-actually-a-list-but-you-shouldn't-even-try-to-bring-this list. So blah. Apparently homework/novels ARE on the Do Not Bring list though. Rest assured I'm going to bring a book anyway.

And a notebook, in the hopes of getting at least some stuff down.

I was also delighted to realize that they don't have electronic gaming devices on the list. iPods/music stuff is on there but not gameboys. :DDD Well, anyway. I'll give a nice long post on sunday where I'll rant/rave/grumble about what all went on. Plus I've got to work on getting service hours within a month.... Any ideas?

Haha, no need to answer that. :D Apparently people do read these, but they don't comment. :p

Now I have to do some silly stuff (shower, 'pack', blah) and then leave. The worst/best part is that the first thing I thought of when I was going over what I needed to do was to try my darnedest to work out the times so I would miss too much on my FB apps. :3

* Jokes on you! We have no regularly scheduled updates! It's more of a 'Whoops, better do somethin' on that blag now~' schedule.

THE END

2010-02-24T00:27:00.000-08:00

I have FINISHED. 34,161 And DONE.

I will probably add a few tidbits tomorrow, two short scenes focusing on plotty stuff, but as far as I'm concerned they officially fall under 'epilogue' at this moment in time and don't count. BTW: For those just joining us that's not the word count of the work I'm doing, I honestly don't know what that is because I am a dinosaur and write in wordpad. Rawr. Anywho, that's my MilWordy WC, and yes it is pathetic. I like to think these are the dark times in my word count, and something I can laugh about when sitting comfortably over the finish line.

Anyway. FINSIHED. Sleep time now. Hopefully the craziness will go away in short order. I know my grammar is crap, but I don't caa~aare!

WOO!

WHY

2010-02-23T22:55:00.001-08:00

WHY DOES NEARBY LOOK SO WRONG?!

LATER: ...Would a bone actually be able to stop a sword? Oh well. Makes for some good readin'. P:

well that's good

2010-02-23T22:51:00.000-08:00

So the fantastic news is I broke 30k! Official (open office) count is... 31,529. So I'm not sure exactly how much that is in one day, but I do know that around this morning my WC was vaguely on the 27k range, so that's at least 4k. :D Sure it's about an hour past midnight now, but I haven't really been writing these last few hours so...

Yeah.

Still, not bad. And I am TOTALLY finished this stupid story tonight! I am actually in the bit climatic fight scene now, I just need to get it all done. Hopefully tomorrow me and Jessie can switch off laptops and I can read the prologue she did for our Collab (Coming soon to a blog near you! /shameless plug) and she can read over what she hasn't from this. :DDD Buuut... That means this need to happen...

Celia: GODDAMIT STOP WASTING TIME AND WRITE THIS STUPID SHIT SO YOU CAN GET SOME SLEEP AND STOP ACTING CRAZY.

Celia: I'm soorrryy.... T-T I just can't help it... The songs are so singable, and people are talking and stuff...

Celia: NO. SHUT UP. If you don't finish this now I am officially going to disown you. Unless you make me cookies to retaliate.

Celia: D;

Celia: WRITE DAMMIT.

*cough*

So you can see my dilemma. And writing on here, though I did promise I would, isn't helping.

And sorry about profanity. Not that you guys care, I'm sure, but I is sleep deprived. Not really. But I am experiencing that very special type of madness of writer's square* combined with being just a few K from an ending.

*Like writer's block, but less three dimensional.

I go write and stop being crazy all over your blag now. I mean my blag. asdfghjkl;'

whoops

2010-02-23T08:05:00.000-08:00

So, sorry (at least to myself) for not updating. This title is very appropriate in this case. I actually was thinking out what to put yesterday so I could get this up and then, y'know, write. Unfortunately sleep got in the way and I was out from six last night until eight this morning. In my defense I hadn't actually slept since waking up Sunday afternoon...

Anyway, I wasn't able to get any writing done at all this weekend/monday. I had friends over friday night and on saturday until immediately being taken to the writing group, and then spent lots of time hanging out with people there. And, as I said, I slept most of sunday and since we finally saw Avatar (very shiny, didn't especially like the plot... Wait, what plot? P:) I ended up being gone from 2-12 that evening.

So now my WC is dismal, no need to even post it, so I'll try my best to get lots done today and post up progress then. See you all later tonight...

and now for something completely the same

2010-02-19T11:21:00.000-08:00

So I didn't put up anything about my progress yesterday because, despite all my talk, I didn't actually get around to writing much of anything. This morning I woke up inexplicably early and then realized I was expected to go to work, buuuut... I'd been meaning to buckle down and write. Not to mention take a shower and do some research for D&D and work on actual school-work type stuff too.

So just now I sat down and wrote about 2.5k in an hour, which I feel pretty darn fantastic about, thank you very much. :D I hope to take a quick shower and get in tons more before I have to turn my attentions elsewhere, I really want to finish this! Anyway this brings my grand total of words up to 25,104... Not /too/ shabby but of course no where near where I wanted to be.

And this project... Just to record my happiness: I was talking to best friend Jessie on Wednesday about it and ending up emailing it to her later so she could just read what I've written. For those who don't know me that well I am EXTREMELY private about what I write. My own parents didn't believe that I wrote a lot until I managed to do and win NaNo in 08. So of course sending off an unfinished extremely self-indulgent fanfic to be read, even by such a close friend, was INCREDIBLY nerve-wracking. @_@ And the verdict was....

She liked it!!!! Aside from awful grammar, switching POVs, and royally screwing over my timeline/plot (not to mention this thing has been written in patches over about five years) she said the story and characters were good. :D And since I basically dumped the characters from the actual show quickly this is a nice compliment.

So anyway, there's my update for now. And behold random picture A that shows how I'm feeling about this...

EDIT: It's been like three minutes since I put this up, but yeah. My showers plans have been horribly interrupted... Somehow despite there only being two of us in the house somehow me and my sister both end up want to take a shower at the same time! I told you people she's out to get me. >.> Or at least annoy.

Anyway, so this means I'll try and get in another 1-2k before I shower, and certainly this chocolate will help me in my cause... See picture A. :D

EDIT of EDIT: Just another update, cause do I really need another post? :p WC is a clean 25,730. The shower and whatnot took a little more time than I thought, and I always forget we have D&D at 5 instead of 6 or 7-- effectively cutting my time by a lot since I had plans to do some D&D related stuff before then.

Will try and push 26k before I sleep, shouldn't be hard, and this is totally my last time I come on here today. :p

yay :-)

2010-02-16T22:03:00.000-08:00

So to update all none of you who read/care~

I did make my WC goal today, finally! Despite plenty of goofing another scene rewrite propelled my all the way to 20,337 (Yeah... Still pitiful compared to where I should be, but getting closer all the time!) and I'll probably get a little more before dinner. Ideally tomorrow will get be to 25k, but I'll settle for 23-24k. :P If I can stick to at least 3k+ a day I'll be good, and aiming for 5k+ all the while.

Soo, that's three scenes down! The plots going in a slightly unexpected direction, at least from the way I'd originally thought it out (Remember, this was back when I didn't actually have a plot, and my villain was very different...) but that's just fine by me.

Now, here's wishing for a 5k day tomorrow... :D

sorry

2010-02-16T09:33:00.000-08:00

I did NOT meet my goal of yesterday, of even come too close to it. I'm sad to say that my wordcount is now 17134. On the upside I now have a clean keyboard, something I have, believe it or not, been dying to do for ages. So today it's 20k of ritual suicide... :p Just kidding. Maybe.

Anyway, I will update everyone later~

PS: The other upside of yesterday was I finally feel like I've injected an actual villain/plot/thing into the story I'm working on. Not to mention I was FINALLY able to assimilate a scene that I wrote up three-four years ago, when I first started the project. I had about five scenes like that and so far have stuck two of them in, and have plans for a third. So this looks fantastic.

The other side, I dunno if it's an up or a down so I'm gonna go with left, is that in the dark recesses of my mind ideas for a sequel are brewing...

Of course that doesn't interest any of you since you don't know what I'm writing and even when it's polished till it glows I'm not sure I'll let anyone but myself read it. But it's kind of exciting nonetheless. :D

progress

2010-02-15T09:57:00.000-08:00

I haven't kept up with this, and even coming back now is for mostly selfish-like reasons... Specifically because I want someplace to keep track of MilWordy progress.

I'll warn you now, I've been doing AWFUL. I guess I needed more than just one month to cool down after November... But if I can pull myself to together I know I can still do it. To show you how badly I've done it's halfway through February and I'm at 14,307 words... From various projects too. Granted my two main ones are most of that, but it's still a pitiful number for this time.

I think I've hesitated posting or talking too much about it because of my mentality. If people know about it they'll know if I've failed, and as I learned my first NaNo sometimes knowing that people will know I failed to epically at something I decided to really do would be more annoying than I could bear.

And don't try to say stuff like 'Oh, it's okay, we wouldn't have held it against you...'

I would have, and I'm using you guys as a tool to get my stuff done. Once this goes up I'll try to keep better progress of MilWordy, even now I'm about to embark on (what I hope will be) a grand writing day. This is just to help my motivation, if nothing else potential shame works as a truly splendiferous fuel.

So, at the start of today 14,307. Here's hoping I can get it to a cool 20k!

travel

2010-01-26T08:54:00.000-08:00

So... I figure I'll just make another blog on this same account to share some exciting stuff. :D Since this would only be for travel obviously it would only be updated when I am traveling... So if you follow it you don't have to worry about getting spammed with new posts. :p

Since this one isn't a travel blog and just a random-things blog I figure I'll make this more purposeful one and stop rambling over here. Now I'll have a new place to ramble! Aren't you excited~?

And... For people who don't regularly talk to me online do not mind the tilde up there. I like my tilde, it's awesome. :D My smilies too, I guess~

Whatever, I'll can of worms that. :p Speaking of, why don't you all go look at Writing Excuses again? Cause it's awesome, that's why! Plus I'm pretty sure every single person seeing this is writing-oriented in the brain/has participated in NaNo...

Of course, this will change when I'm fabulously wealthy and fantastic, but for now it's just you people. ;*

Future readers take note: I'm pretty impressed you're reading through all the posts I have archived, the number must be pretty high since I started updating diligently every single day with purpose and creativity!

....Hee.

Oh, and since I totally got off topic there, just remember to go look at that thing and check out the new stuff. Future readers, this does not apply to you. After I've become an international phenomenon it's such a faux pas not to know what's happening with moi that you're already following all my blogs. Doodlebug~

P.S. (Wasn't that already a sorta P.S. up there...? Should we be on P.P.P.S. or something?) If you're wandering why that says doodlebug it's because that's what the online dictionary thing thought it said. So.

resolutions

2010-01-01T22:34:00.000-08:00

So I've neglected this lately, but with the new year on the horizon and my creative juices stirring I think I'd like to post my resolutions. They aren't perfect, but whatever.

1. Write 2750 words a day for MilWordy. Undoubtedly the biggest undertaking of the year, probably my entire life until now, but something I nonetheless am very excited about. For those who don't know and haven't guessed it's a challenge (Similer to NaNoWriMo, which I know everyone following this now knows about) to write a million words in a year and I'm attempting it through WriYe, a year-round NaNo-type thing where you set your own goal for a full calender year.

2. Don't neglect older works and editing! I would hate to lose all my previous work under a fresh coating of dust just because I started new projects, not to mention my own laziness.

3. Don't neglect the sites like this blog. I have accounts of various types scattered through the interwebs and it'd be nice if I did something with them instead of letting them rot. Like this blog, the DA account I ended up making, all that stuff.

4. I don't want this to seem like an afterthought, no matter how much of one it really is, but I also want to focus on school work. If nothing else I will use this as research and to blow people out of the water with my fantabulous brains. ;D I suppose Gold Award (Girl Scout equivalent of Eagle Scout) stuff needs doing too...

So there, four resolutions and something to finally use this four. I'll try not to forget about this when I go off on grand adventures during the year. :p

nano day 4

2009-11-04T09:33:00.000-08:00

So I'm behind, but not too much. (4700) Today I'm going to get this done! And it's not completely my fault, I had a surprise visit from my old best friend I never see anymore and she ended up spending the night on Monday. Then last night Amy (friend in school) came over cause she had no homework, so we watched the original Grinch, Pocahontas and a little of Aladdin-- which I had to finish afterwards.

I was going to say all this last night too... But I just didn't feel like writing after going straight until midnight. :p Gonna go make some rounds on the forums and get to 6667 today!

con / day 1

2009-11-01T20:15:00.000-08:00

So I've had a BUSY weekend. I went to the anime convention and had lots of fun, didn't go to many panels but I was dressed up as Utena (Revolutionary Girl Utena) and had a grand total of 24 people ask for pictures. :D

Anyway, I also had my friend staying over the whole weekend and we stayed up together Saturday night, after a full day at the con, to start at midnight for NaNo. Of course we immediately wrote our first lines and...stopped dead.

But it was fun. After many stops and lots of snacking later we went to sleep at just over 1700 words each, just four-five hours in. ^_^

Of course we woke up later for more con stuff, and I nearly fell asleep while sitting through church later. I'd planned to write more today but most likely will just sleep... At least I'm not behind so far!! :D

End Daily Total: 1818

2009-10-29T13:13:00.000-07:00

Hmm... Haven't posted much lately. I have been really busy getting ready for Halloween (really the con), but I'll talk all about that in a different post later. :p

Really I just wanted to post something... But I have no clue what. So I'll appeal to those brave souls willing to leave comments on subjects, whatever you want, and I'll pick some to talk about. :D It can really be ANYthing, so put whatever comes to mind.

EDIT: Forgot, but I wanted to post my banner for NaNo. :D

Innit awesome? :D Gonna try to get it uploaded for the NaNo site sometime soon~

boredom: An Epic of Cleaning Proportions

2009-10-22T00:42:00.000-07:00

This lovely night I was rather bored, despite being very yawn-y all day. Since tomorrow is one of the few days when I don't really have to get up in the morning I didn't give it much thought. After spending what some might call 'too much time on MLIA' I got properly motivated (or something) and starting picking up my room.

If only I had telekinesis...

So I had started before, picking up empty cans and some trash, but my room was kinda hot so I was taking a break. =.= I figured I could attempt to make this one of those new-fangled 'interesting blog posts' I've been hearing about. Apparently the point is to pretend someone will ever read this and try to come up with something that could actually entertain them.

All balderdash I say!

Oh! And I also sat down and messed with the clock pieces I got a while back. :D Didn't do much, but it gave my fingers a very metallic taste and small, and made me feel good.

So now I'll be getting back to that 'cleaning thing'. After a few more MLIAs...
"Today, in biology while learning about osmosis, I learned from my teacher that if you put gummy bears in water, they get bigger. Guess who now has an army of mutant gummy bears? MLIA"

This may actually be a good way to clean... Just went off and did some stuff-- didn't really feel like posting back until I'd really done something. So it's motivating in that way at least. Of course I'm back anyway, but that's another story.

So the good little Celia worked hard for the rest of the night and soon the room was so clean you could throw paint at the walls and it would bounce off. She went to sleep and slept for a long time with absolutely no interruptions. It was the best ever.

But for the lazy little Celia actually writing this... She's realized that she's actually kinda tired and her energy was depleted. Lazy little Celia will soon remove the calender from her bed and sleep, leaving the mess for another. Preferably tomorrow, or at least I can blame the not cleaning on my mom taking us out of town for dinner and relative visiting.

So. G'night. And stuff. >.>

nano is coming

2009-10-14T14:23:00.000-07:00

So with just over half a month left til NaNo (where this sad excuse for a blog will probably fill with daily reports of my progress :p) I've decided to really gear up on getting ready!! So I'm going to put a list of thing I need to do first, in no real order, to serve as a reminder for the next two weeks.

1. Clean up my room, can't be worrying about any old messes when I'm sitting down to make some new ones.

2. Make sure we stockpile Halloween candy and caffeine, already have plans to not sleep the first night so I know me and friends will be needing these.

3. Get costume ready for the con... That should be resolved as my tailer (AKA Mom :p) says she can do it in no time after tomorrow.

4. Get through first two days of Con, need to be well-rested despite that since NaNo starts midnight after the big Saturday there...

5. Finish looking through giant library book for inspiration and return it so that's out of the way. Focus on worldbuilding and plot points!!!

6. Get more studying done so I won't have to worry so much about that in November...

7. Fill out the calender we got for NaNo with WC goals and stuff in preparation.

8. Mentally prepare myself. Fully immerse myself in the forums and the spirit of it all. :D

I'll probably just go back and edit this as I finish things... Or just post another post, that never hurt anything. Gonna work on some of it now. ^-^

discrimination

2009-10-02T01:52:00.000-07:00

Despite the heavy sounding title and the fact that that's actually what I'm talking about, it's not what you think at all. So there.

Anywho, people go on and one about how we humans are so-- Y'know, I'm not even going to get into that. I just wanted to post that I think people are highly discriminatory against nature.

Not just in the way that probably first lept to your minds, in that any poor critter that isn't the cutest of the cute, and sometimes not even then, is viciously abused by mean ol' humanity. Nor do I mean to drag in the entire Save the Rainforests, thing either.

I was just planning to say that people basically will NOT just take their time to look everything over and quietly savor things unless the things to be savored make a big stink about it. Number one thing that prompted me to come to this conclusion? Storms.

How many people do you know who get silly smiles on their faces and say 'Oh I love the rain, I love the thunder, I love storms' and all that good stuff? I bet about 4/5s of my friends, RL or online, would say the same. But after observing one fine specimen of such a thing I have concluded that this is only because of the big fuss storms make.

They flash lights at you, and if you happen to be blind they have accompanying noises in the form of thunder and the sound of rain. For the deafmutes it's just like being suddenly assaulted with cold water, plus they can probably feel the shockwaves and all that good stuff.

How many people would say they're favorite nature-related thing to do is just go sit on a rock and watch the squirrels? (People who know me: I don't count in this situation. >.>)

Exactly. My non-point has been made. Or not. It's awfully la-rly and I just don't feel like putting that much coherency in here.

~ I would like to add I'm also completely astounded that after running the little spellchekcer it only highlighted la-rly, which is should know is a combination of late and early used by those with awful sleep schedules.

so

2009-09-29T13:42:00.000-07:00

Well here I am again, after completely forgetting about this. Sure, it's only been a few days... But if I hadn't happened to remember it would have been much longer and then where would we be? Nowhere! So in this alternate world my alternate self (who is currently bungee jumping off a ocean-side cliff) is leaving you all in the dark about her wonderful life.

But my own bungee jumping was rescheduled to never so I get to post this instead! Yay! :D

So in other news I've now pre-registered (finally) for Oni-Con 09 AND yesterday went ice skating with friends and got a fancy new hat. It's all lacy-looking, but not really, and I love it. ^-^ This brings my collection up to a grand total of 2, and it's amazing.

And this morning I also went a listened to the latest Writing Excuses, a bit late but whatever. It was interesting again, talking about repeating themes.

So I still don't know what exactly to put here, maybe later today if I think of something I'll do that. Ah! But I am reading Dune, and that's fun, and thinking about interesting stuff for NaNo which is VERY exciting. And I'm thinking I'll put up a link section or something (can I do that?) so I can put the URLs of all this stuff I'm talking about. :p

hello world

2009-09-25T22:26:00.000-07:00

Meet Celia, she's going to be sticking around for a while so you should all go dance with joy right about now.

So anyway, I am making this because, it could change whenever, and hopefully it won't be lost to the dark annals of the blogosphere. Hopefully.

Now, as for what's going to go here? Nooo idea. The current title is stolen from my brother because I felt like it, and it may as well stay there because I've got nothing in the way of a focus for this whole thing. But then it's the internet, I don't think it has much of a focus either.

So this is short, but that's okay. I don't mind, and my so-far-nonexistent readers won't either I'm thinking.

To sum it up (not really, cause I haven't said this yet) this will be about whatever I feel like, and those who know me will assure you that means weird stuff will be posted.