LJ interests meme

by V.E. on October 5th, 2005

filed under ladyamedeus, nanowrimo, personal, quizzes/surveys

  1. bird watching:
    Ooooh… pretty birds. I have NO IDEA any of the types or names or anything, but oooooh so pretty. And, they can fly, which I WANT TO DO WITH ALL MY HEART.
  2. clubbing:
    Well, the obvious answer here is: I love dancing, DUH. And going out (to dance) with Katie rocks my socks.
  3. ebay:
    hehe. CHEAP STUFF. A word for the wise, though: never get into a bidding war. You’ll pay 10 times as much as you should for that “lock of Justin Timberlake’s hair”….. which you’ve never even seen.
  4. happily ever afters:
    Fairytale romances, while unrealistic, still make my girly heart flutter every now and then. THEN, I start wondering what happily ever after actually MEANS (for the character/s in any given story) and I start thinking evil fanficcy thoughts.
  5. knives:
    *stab stab* Sharp pointy things!
  6. neverland:
    An imaginary land where children never grow up and the good guys always win. AND, there are pirates! What more could a girl ask for?
  7. pirates of the caribbean:
    Um… if you don’t know me by now, you shouldn’t even be on my friends list.
  8. singing:
    Something I couldn’t live without. I’m shaky and miss tones while I’m learning a piece, but after I’ve got it down, I’m solid.
  9. the black pearl:
    PIRATES. Plus, it’s a pretty cool name for a ship, don’tcha think?
  10. writing exercises:
    Gotta get geared up for NaNoWriMo! *cracks knuckles and shakes out hands*

Enter your LJ user name, and 10 interests will be selected from your interest list.

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Novel writing madness

by V.E. on October 5th, 2005

filed under fyi, ladyamedeus, writing

http://hollylisle.com/fm/Workshops/plot-outline.html

http://www.steampunk.com/sfch/writing/ckilian/

http://www.angelfire.com/nc/tcrpress/plots1.html

http://www.stellacameron.com/contrib/plot.html

http://www.scribesworld.com/writersniche/articles/plottingindexcards.html

http://www.firstfiction.net/plot.html

http://www.wordmuseum.com/howtoarticles/_howto/0013old.htm

http://sff.net/paradise/plottricks.htm

http://www.sff.net/people/SASwann/text/plot.htm

http://www.fictionfactor.com/guests/indexplot.html

http://hollylisle.com/downloads.html#Mugging

http://www.suite101.com/course/print_lesson.cfm/16712/259/1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/getwriting/module27p

http://www.dvshop.ca/dvcafe/writing/writingbooks.htm

Fill out what you know; figure out the rest as you go about planning in October.

Novel Title:
Estimated length (your best rough guess, you can go by chapters, word count, pages, whatever):
Your writing experience:
Genre? New–or old favorite?:
Other genres of your novel:
Gonna publish?:
Cliches/archetypes you’re including (not necessarily a bad thing!):
Cliches/archetypes you’re avoiding:
Theme(s):
What we (the readers) will learn:

Main character(s):
Secondary characters:
Protagonist(s):
Antagonist(s):

Setting:
Rough geography:
Races/inhabitants:
Fantasy aspects:

Conflict:
Obstacles in the journey:
Expected resolution:

Summary of plot:

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OneWord: TWEED

by V.E. on October 5th, 2005

filed under favorite, ladyamedeus, writing

From OneWord
Word of the day was: TWEED

My favourite response: “tweed tweed tweed… shut up stupid bird”

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NaNoWriMo 2005

by V.E. on October 5th, 2005

filed under ladyamedeus, nanowrimo

Oh Lord, what have I gotten myself into?

I blame it all on you, Sprunkers, YOU EVIL WOMAN YOU.
Nah, I’m kidding… I love ya.
*looks around brightly*
Hah! I can do this! I KNOW I can!
*falls over and dies*

http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/

http://www.therisenrealm.com/character_traits.html

http://www.writersdigest.com/writingprompts.asp

http://www.writers-free-reference.com/

http://www.eclectics.com/articles/character.html

http://www.thescriptorium.net/toolbox.html

http://www.ladydisdain.net/recroom/wod/other/charques.html

http://www.critiquecircle.com/tools.asp

http://geocities.com/melydia/prompts.html

http://www.writingfix.com/dailypromptgenerator.htm

http://www.oneword.com/

http://www.seventhsanctum.com/

http://ebon.pyorre.net/

http://nine.frenchboys.net/

http://generatorblog.blogspot.com/

http://www.incompetech.com/named/

http://linksaplenty.blogspot.com/

http://www.behindthename.com/

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Missed chapter

by V.E. on October 5th, 2005

filed under fyi, ladyamedeus, school

You know what’s frustrating? When I actually TRY to go to a meeting, but then can’t figure out WHERE it’s being held! I’m sorry, ladies, I really DID try to show up to chapter, but I couldn’t find you! I checked the Armstrong, Grundy, and Huth Rooms, all of Stager, and all of Keiper. WHERE WAS CHAPTER BEING HELD?

Did I miss an important email or something?

PS: Could someone please tell Esther that I WILL pay my dues for National as soon as I HAVE the money in my hot little hands? Thank you. (Since I’m now technically on probation because I haven’t yet paid at least some of my dues, am I even ALLOWED to come to chapter?)

PPS: Quote one of my friends at dinner tonight — “Well, when they first built a car, everyone was like ‘WTF, we have horses; why would we use this complicated piece of junk?’”

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