NaNoWriMo 2015: I Didn't Think I Would Make It...

Hey, uh... wow, I just decided not to post a damn thing at all? Not even on my 29th birthday, which was three days ago. Wow, me. Way to go.

Well, I ran into a HUGE road bump about Week 2 of writing my novel. I was feeling really off, like I was coming down with something. I know that I ended my tenure with the banking call center, but there was something else. Yep, it was mold allergies. I was knocked flat off my feet for a while. I lost my drive for a long while.

Around the first week of my new job, between any moment I could, I started to write more scenes. My hand cramped so bad after those intense sessions. I wrote about an average of a thousand words per notebook session.

After that, I got a fire lit under me when my mother told me that she knew that I could come from behind and finish in time. Driven by that, plus that feeling of "I can't fail this, I got so far", I decided to go full steam ahead.

So yeah, I finally pulled a comeback that would make LL Cool J want to write a song about it. But none of my mom telling me to knock a man out.

So here's to finishing what I started and here's to a revision/continuation* for that project!

*the novel is not finished, but I chose to stop at 50K+ so I can put it aside and finish some other projects, while I have this fire going.

NaNoWriMo 2015: Off to a Rousing Start

Well, NaNoWriMo kicked off yesterday and I was gone from the starting line like a bullet from a gun. I managed to write over 3K of words to begin my new tale just on my first day. Today I managed just as much and I actually want to write more! So I may get some more words in before the day is fully done. I know once I get into my final week at Chase that it's gonna be a little bit challenging (I may just go for the default amount of 1,667 words a session on my working days). 

Otherwise, things are going very well. And if I play my cards right, later this week I should finally have an Xbox One. Dunno if working on NaNoWriMo at the same time that Rise of the Tomb Raider and Fallout 4 come out, but that's a risk I have to take. 

Until then, peace out, beautiful people.

Well, guess freakin' what?

I changed my mind AGAIN about the NaNoWriMo project. Instead of finishing Dolls and City, I'm going back to the original story, but with a twist...

It's no longer a Silent Hill fan fiction. During the dead time between calls at work, I managed to turn it into an original story. And I like it a million times better.

Tom the Cat: representing my writing emotes since... now

I had a feeling this would happen again. Dammit, it's 2012 again. Well, almost, but whatever.

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BTW, the soundtrack to the fan fiction applies to this one. For those with a goldfish memory like myself, here it is again:

(edited on 12-30-15 due to fluctuations in the playlist as I worked on the project)

1. "It’s Gonna Be Easy Now" by Dan Seals
2. "The Last One to Know" by Reba McEntire
3. "Holding On for Life" by Broken Bells
4. "Silhouette" by PHASES
5. "Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine" by The White Stripes
6. "Worlds in Collision" by Jerry Harrison
7. "Leave A Trace" by CHVRCHES
8. "Half Life" by Twin Shadow
9. "The Waiting" by Akira Yamaoka (from the Silent Hill 3 Soundtrack)
10. "Compass" by Zola Jesus
11. "Helelyos" by SEXWITCH
12. "Poison Tree" by Beth Orton
13. "Carrion Flowers" by Chelsea Wolfe
14. "Lord Knows" by Dum Dum Girls
15. "Surround Sound" by Empire for the Sun
16. "Immortals" by Marnie Stern
17. "I’m A Ruin" by Marina & the Diamonds
18. "Mt. Washington" by Local Natives (damn you, Life Is Strange!)
19. "Salvation" by Editors
20. "I Will Follow" by U2 (damn you, Rock Band 4!)
21. "Bella Donna" by Stevie Nicks

(I love it when current songs sneak their way into a project's soundtrack)

San Francisco Bound!

Hello, this is the obligatory scheduled message from yours truly notifying y'all that I'm currently out of town for a week. Take this time to catch up on the archives here or for your other favorite blogs.

Until then, I'll be back!

Roll that "exit stage right" music, Mr. Prophet!



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Wait... I do have a stupid sense of humor:

New York City, Here I Come!

This is the obligatory post letting all the peeps know that I will be absent for most of the week. I will be in the Big Apple, seeing the sights and going to a big concert (the main highlight). No posts until I return, so take the time to catch up! Until next time...

Play us off, Fleetwood Mac!

We interrupt your regularly scheduled program for this breaking news...

Here is the current status with Invisible:

102870 / 120000 words. 86% done!

Y'all... it's gonna happen. This f***ing thing will get finished this year.

On the eve of GRE...

I have made a terrible mistake in my studies. I barely touched on the Math, thinking I could do decent and not worry too much. But apparently, it does matter. So yeah, scrambling on the 11th hour to brush up on Math concepts I didn't even study in high school (statistics, what's that?!).

Don't do this, fellow potential MFA students! Learn from this!

Well, if anything, I'll do well on the Verbal section. But don't fret on my behalf. I can afford to take the GRE one more time before the deadline to the MFA program I want to apply for. This, of course, assuming I bomb it so hard (the first time) it's beyond hilarity.

So here we go. The final full day. No Verbal stuff. Just Math.

Nothing. But. Math.