Cue major headdesking over life, the universe, and everything.

Outline is nearly done. I need to do some tweaking in response to some minor characters (Mandy's been demoted, I'm still unsure of Seb's role, Andy's been promoted along with the costar, while Jack is stealing everything with his win and loveliness.)

Lotte and Tomas aren't happy.

But debating not doing this. >_<

A smarter woman would take advantage of this opportunity. Instead I shall glare at my programming and tests and try to fight character and narrative ideas.

You know, rather then plotting or doing more schoolwork. Or studying.

Alright so maybe this will become more of a regular blog, combined with NaNo. We'll just make this a headstart for now as accessing IJ and LJ is difficult and for that matter I like blogging, especially when I know no one is really reading it.

Which means I'm preaching to an empty audience, but I digress.

See, I spend enough time composing blog entries in my head - go on laugh, it's ridiculous - or journal entries. Occasionally, I sit down and write them, generally saving them to my hard drive. There's reasons for this - I don't publicize my real life, I'm not comfortable with sharing it, I'm too lazy to put it up. Various, lazy reasons.

Perhaps I should combine BlogNoWriMo and write a blog entry a day for a month as well. And see if I can actually share something worthwhile. It feels nice. I don't have to worry about people reading things they shouldn't and the likelihood of someone stumbling upon this on the 'random' page is slim. And frankly, the current people who have this link (numbered at two) are people who I'm fine with reading this. Or won't.

No offense.

I had a point before going down rambly lane...oh. John from VT gave me three books - the Christopher Moore one I chatted about on my LJ, a Chuck Palahnuik (sp?) book (Pygmy?), and this book by Clive Barker called The Thief of Always. I really enjoyed the latter and having read the Moore and knowing the contents of Pygmy I was extremely surpised by it. It was almost a children's story, along the lines of Labyrinth or Alice In Wonderland - though what I was reminded the most of was The Phantom Tollbooth. Beautifully written, with enough undertones to satisfy a more mature reader, and with a happy ending - which is nice.

What I didn't like was going on Wikipedia afterwards to learn that this guy - who yes, was a horror writer it said so - apparently was...really big? And I shouldn't have read those summaries -_- Really. I hate this time of year for doing things to me like that.

Regardless, my two cents is/was: do read this book if you haven't. It was a nice, fairly short read.

Now I guess I better catch up NaNo, eh?

No further decisions beyond really looking forward to it. I'm going to try and transfer outline to my computer (it's half written in a notebook) soon. Begin making a list of random characters - I'm recycling from all over - to tie in.

Generally more into it due to things happening elsewhere. Generally looking forward to it, in case I'm blocked again.

Might as well start this thing off. Tagging this under 'other' as it's more of a gameplan and not really notes.

My goal is 80,000 words this year as 50,000 is just too short and not going to cut it. Plus, I like pushing myself. And stress. While moving. And parties. But I finished six days early last year so 80,000 shouldn't be hard right...? I did 10,000 words on that last day last year.

Regardless, I'm still deciding on characters who to recycle and who not to, and still getting a feel for Tomas. I think I've got him figured out though which is exciting. I'm being more drawn - in my outline that is - to write scenes from his POV rather then Lotte's which is strange