Wheee, instead of writing today, I spent four hours painting! Pictures here!


But I've been making some progress. I guess. See, after that blow from my SIs, I decided to redo the whole thing, and I actually wrote a thousand words or so. In fact, after 500+ words, there was supposed to be some fight with some monster. The thing that irked me was the fact that there was action too early in the story, and I hated that.


Long story short, I'm back to Draft 1 Take Two again, instead of Draft 1 Take Three. :D


Another problem of mine, is that I find myself writing just to write, just to get over a scene, and not because of the fun of it. I don't like that. But I guess since I've decided to start right at the beginning, I should bear with it. And I shall!


Yeah. :)

5,404 / 100,000 (5.4%)

Hello. Haven't been updating my progress of Write De Mayo. Possibly because I've given up on my first goal, and deciding on a second one. I don't know if it goes against the rules for the one I joined, but what the heck. I haven't been writing much either. Other than random notes, and the interview stuff.


I've been reading up limyaael's rants as I've said, and I find what she's been ranting about very interesting. Have been reading all her rants from the year 2003 and most of them are breaking my mind and all, but its good. Awesome even. I've took notes, laughed over some of what I feel strongly about too, and cringed over those traps/tropes that I too, have fallen into. Thankfully, not many, and most of it were done when I was much, much younger. (I'd say there's a whole lot difference in maturity when you're 15 and when you're 17.) 


But yes, I'm making plans for my stories. I do have the basics for them, and I thought I'd expand on them later when I got to it while writing the novel. But right now, after reading her rants, I have a really strong desire to just go and plan out the separate societies in my fantasy world. It might take weeks, months even to do so, but I think the one of the biggest society in my world can be done within the month of May. 


Even my magickal history which I have done might be revamped. If only a little. I'll just go through all the notes I have on the world and perhaps tweak it here and there. I'm not too worried about my characters seeing how they're doing really well as of now. Just a tiny bit more detail on Daniel, Kassie, and Ryan. Then I'm done. 


Yep. I'm happy with what I've done for the other six though. I don't know if I should post what I did with the exercise up since it's kinda rough around the edges and I don't really want to go through them now. I was thinking of leaving it for a few days after my muse on the Dr'ealm dries off and then getting back into this. But if you want to read about them, do leave me a comment. :D 


And now I'm back to reading the rants.

Today is Day 5, for me at least. 


But before that I'm just gonna say that Day 3 was a complete bust. Only 100 words of a random scene. Which isn't even in Story 1. Day 4, was slightly more gratifying. I wrote at least 2000 words of conversations between my 14 characters which relates to their relationship with one another. This led to today's work, interviews with each of them regarding a certain question. In fact, I've already planned many more questions I always found myself thinking hard of what they would actually do, but haven't quite answered it yet. This is a grand opportunity to do so when I'm on the mood. 


This means that I'm not working on my Write De Mayo goal though, and that kinda sucks. I've only done NaNoWriMo once and won, but this time I don't quite feel the pressure to push myself to finish that 50000 words. Maybe because I'm tired of writing unplanned stuff and I want things to stick right this time. 


I don't know.

I do know that I want Baby1/Story1/Ashley to be right and right. 


Makes no sense whatsoever, but yeah. 


Will be posting up the interviews between the Trails of Destiny characters when I'm done with all 14 of them. Or was it 13? Gah. 


Having fun though. :D I think that matters. 

I like pressuring myself to do something. I usually get more things done that way. It's the mindset of humans really. We procrastinate until we have nearly no more time left, then we set our mind to it, and do it seriously. Of course, there are those who never procrastinate and are diligent workers, but blah, I'm not one of them, so pressure is a must for me.

Anyway, I've decided to join this programme/bet called Write De Mayo. To those to lazy to click the link, it's basically a month long writing challenge.

In this challenge you set your writing goal for the month of May and we help cheer you toward the finish line. You can take a page out of the NaNoWriMo book and chose 50,000 words as your goal, you can emulate NaNoEdMo and decide to revise your last NaNo novel, you can set a page count goal, submission goal or anything else you want. The sky is the limit. This is your challenge, pick one that won't be too easy to accomplish, but don't make it impossible either. The idea is to challenge yourself, not have a cakewalk or set yourself up for failure.

Yeah, so the goal that I've set is the usual NaNoWriMo challenge. 50 000 words in a month.

Though, I've hit a block right at the very start and right now I'm just tearing my hair out. Blah. It's horrible, really, since I can think of loads to write, but I just can't because of this stupid plot hole that I can't get past.

Worst still, the plot hole is the basic storyline for my series, and without overcoming this, I won't be able to do much at all.

Blah. Just ranting.