I know I'm in my own world... it's okay, they know me here

First things first...

45,339 / 100,000 (45.3%)

Whee! Only 4,661 words until I can buy myself another book about writing! (I have a lot of fun reading them, even though I write without referencing them. I feel motivated afterwards and like I might have learned something, and I love to discuss writing, so this is almost as good as that!) And also, of course I then lend them to blondeyetti, so it's like a cycle of goodness ^-^

(If anyone ever feels like discussing writing, by the way, OHMIGOD PICK ME, PICK ME! because I really, really enjoy it. My project, your project, writing in general...)

Bulletpoints, because I haven't used them in a while!

Anyway, real life stuff! We've been given LOADS of work this week, and I was going to go to the anime club's fangirl sleepover on Saturday, but I don't think I can justify the time to myself TT-TT I really have loads I have to get done, which is sad. (The sleepover is from, like, two o'clock on Saturday afternoon, so it really would eat up too much time, unfortunately.) I have loads of Self-Directed Learning due.

Today I downloaded some free novel-planning software off the net, and I have to say that I really like it. I'm not going to use it to actually write my novel, but it's useful to look at structure and things - like tracking where each character is, where scenes are, whether there's enough tension all the way through or if there are low patches, that sort of thing. I plugged in everything I've done so far, anyway, and I'm half in love with it. If anyone's interested, you can find it here, it's called ywriter.

I'm getting all wound up more easily at the moment, which I think is probably because of a few different things - more work, plus going to talk to the phD student about Mum stirred that up, and one of my friends' Dad died. (I'd say who it was, but she hasn't said that I could, so.) Plus the Postal Strike is still on here, with no end in sight, and I'm getting PISSED OFF. I ordered my copy of the new Temeraire book from the States so that I could read it as soon as possible, goddammit!

But basically all my issues are closer to the surface at the moment, so for instance I'm finding it hard to convince myself (again) that the reason I've not met anyone yet, like, ever, is not because there is something fundamentally wrong with me, it's just a case of timing. Sometimes I'm just very aware of being twenty years old and never had a boyfriend, you know? I want somebody to be close to, who will say nice things to me even though he'll tease me like hell too, etc etc. And so on and so forth.

I need ten more fics that I love enough to rec on my del.icio.us, because then I will have exactly 1000 fics linked on there, in loads of different fandoms. Can anybody rec me anything to read? Please?

Okay, that's it for now :D

Check-up time!

39,121 / 100,000 (39.1%)

Whee!

I've got a sore throat TT-TT

And I'm stuck on The Night Tower again.

Bother.

I haven't had any chance to write since last Friday, because of travelling and today I was really busy, so tomorrow I need to sit down and do some, for sure. But talking to blondeyetti always really helps, because she gives me her honest impressions. So she got to prompt me for the 25k reward thing, and she's kinda chosen something that's more ficlet than smut, but it's actually making me think... I have a good idea for it. So yay :)

23,457 / 100,000 (23.5%)

I think its going alright. I wrote 200 words today, just now, because we were out all day today - I had no time to write. I really needed to make sure I did some, for my own peace of mind. But yeah, this seems to be a sticky patch. I think I need to go somewhere quiet when I have a good few hours and just let rip.

We're going to the coast tomorrow, to see what it's like, and I'm tempted to stay at home and write instead, but I have a feeling I'll miss out on a lot if I do. Damn it. I really just need a quiet day, when I can sit up in the little sun room attached to my room (awesome) and write. I need not to be going places. I need people to be quiet and leave me alone. Which seems to be hard to find at the moment.

It's not really their fault, of course, but I'm thinking about asking them to give me time... because even though I know Dad'll probably take me trying to make rules badly, because he's been really touchy lately, I feel like I need to.

Also, you are all rubbish, go back a couple of days and answer my poll at least!

Today we're driving off to the (hopefully) sunny south of France for two weeks. TECHNICALLY we're going to have wireless internet at the place we're going to. Realistically I just don't know how good it's going to be until I get there. So be prepared not to hear from me for a couple of weeks, though you probably will :)

My aim for the two weeks: write a load more of The Night Tower and get back into the swing of writing for the summer. My current wordcount, so I have something to compare it to when I get back:

18,381 / 100,000 (18.4%)

(Damn I love this wordcount widget, it makes me happy to see it ^-^)

Also, look at the spiffy new icon I made for The Night Tower-related posts! I love making specific icons, I'm such a geek XD (I will admit though, most of the image was already there when I made this... I just did a lot of colouring work on it. And the text is mine. But it still looks AWESOME. I'm modest too, you know.)

BTW - if anyone wants me to make them icons, of anything, I'm always up for it. Actor related, pairing related, your own writing related, just let me know. I love doing graphics work, I just need more ideas of what to do.

(Come to think of it, I posted a load more wallpapers in my scrapbook today. Remind me to link them here.)

This entry has a lot of things in it but is not very long. Perhaps that sums up my whole livejournal, actually... I feel like I say a lot but don't write very much. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Ooh, also, Susan (blondeyetti) made me fanart! Click on the thumbnail to see!