jessybxx

1787 words for today. And still no writer's block in sight.
We'll see how much I'll get done during the next few days...
Packing's gonna be such a rush tomorrow. I elave at about 7 PM, but it still feels like I'll never get anything done until then.
ARGH.

22822 / 50000 words. 46% done!

Even though I never seem to be able to get myself to write before 8 PM, I somehow keep meeting my daily requirement.
I think I'm a writing alien or something XDD
Anyway, today, I managed to add 1950 words, which means...

19023 / 50000 words. 38% done!

And tomorrow, the 20k mark is gonna fall ^____^

So, the second week of NaNoWriMo 2008 has officially started. And I'm doing better than ever, having already written about a thousand words since midnight. I'm really starting to get into the story, and I still can't help but love it to little green and purple bits.
Y'know, before starting my NaNo project, I didn't think I could ever do decent original fiction or, in fact, any original fiction at all. I was afraid to be stuck to fan fiction forever.
Now, I certainly mean no disrespect to fan fiction. Hell, no! Some of my best friends are fanfic writers, and damn talented ones at that. Hell, I wish I could do with words what a lot of them can!
Still, I myself always wanted to be able to write original fiction in addition to fanfic stuff. But I kinda felt I needed the "real" people in order to be able to relate to the characters enough to make the story good.
Suddenly, I feel so much in touch with some of my main - original - characters it's almost silly. And writing scene after scene is at least as fun as watching a good movie.
I also keep getting hit with ideas upon ideas to keep the plot going, and some of the scenes I'm planning to do are so emotional and beautiful, they bring actual tears to my eyes. Wow, writing those will be weird ;)
Anyway. Woah. This is... SO awesome.
I think doing NaNo this year was one of the five best ideas I ever had in my life.

Er... yeah ^_^;;;
Ridiculously happy Jessy updating her wordcount to show off and then signing off for today XD

I... uh... will be participating in NaNoWriMo this year.
After the disaster that was Biffno 2008, I wasn't exactly motivated to even consider doing this.
Unfortunately, I was overrun by what may very well be the best idea I ever had. And instead of trying to type it up on my own, I decided to join the NaNo community for the 10th anniversary.
Go me!!!
BTW, my profile is here, I'd be happy if the other participants on my flist added me as a buddy *hint hint*
Waaahhhh, I'm all psyched now *giggles*
However, gotta do a lot of research before November 1st...

- So apparently, the 'Ray DVD will be released next spring. Well, better very late than never.

- Another try at the uni office tomorrow morning. yamasagi is driving me there. And although I have no need to worry, I still do. But that's just me. I just want this over with, hand in my documents and get my ID. Pretty please? *puppy eyes*

- My PC is slow, unstable and crash-prone. Vista has to go and I'm not trying it again before the first Service Pack gets released some time next year. yamasagi has one legal copy of Windows XP left. It's in German, which pains me to no end, but I guess I'll have to go with it because I really need a reliable computer when my classes start (the 15th).

- Also, because of said classes, there will be no NaNoWriMo for me this year. Maybe next, but I absolutely need to settle in and do well, so of course, that's absolute priority. However, Biffno next March? Count me in.

- Finally, a funny quote from tonight:

yamasagi (swearing): "Shit fucking"
jessybxx: "It's the other way around"
yamasagi: "Fuck shitting"
jessybxx: O_o

My little brother's got a small message board. It's mainly used by him and his friends. There, they plan their role playing sessions and related thigns.
But now, the guy actually started a series of small writing challenges. And right now, his friends seem to be tagging along.
That's my bro *proud*
^___^

So it seems like people liked "an" episode 01 despite teh ebil cliffhanger of doom ;)
Don't worry, I had already started working on episode 02 before doing the final editing on 01.
Which means it might take shape BEFORE I go to Dresden on Friday morning.
And this one will bring more light into the dark... on the one hand.
On the other hand, it'll be the REAL test for the whole series since apart from introducing some more characters (those you only heard talking until now), it also reveals the basic background.
And that's what people will either like cuz of its dorky weirdness or just plain hate.
But I don't really care right now and I'm not backing off either. I learned that I can do this and I will.
Well, I guess that's it for now.
Thanks for the reviews, BTW. You guys rock ^_^

Talked to mum about the name thingy. She said I'm not named after anyone and that she always knew that if she'd ever have a daughter, she'd name her Manuela. D'Oh XD And had I been a boy, I'd prolly have gotten some Scandinavian, kinda Metal-sounding name like Sven O_o

Okay, on with some observations about my writing (and suddenly, I don't even feel like adding "pseudo" or "wannabe" or something like that any more):

Well, I guess I'll just go and burn my German stuff. It reads like an instruction manual with dialogues compared to the first, rough version of "ayatsuri ningyou in English - chapter one". OMFG.
Somehow, I never managed to go into the minds of the characters back then. It felt like a referee observing some frickin' soccer match, fer cryin' out loud >:O But when writing in English, that thing just happens on its own and I doubt I could even do anything if I had to leave it out.
I guess that's a good sign ;)

And then, I was scared about the fact that my vocabulary might not be enough. But I seem to know a lot more words than I had thought, and for the though cases (when I'm missing a synonym or simply have no idea what some particularly difficult technical thing is called) there's still my big fat friend called dictionary (and the good, old German detour XD).
Not to mention the fact that German is an awkward language to write fiction in and that English keeps amazing me in that respect. All the cool stuff you can make out of it is just breathtaking!! And I might add "A big slap in the face to everyone who has the opportunity to learn it and doesn't give a flyin' fuck >:O"

So that's two more big, fat concerns out of the way. And I still think that this is indeed working and that I can really do this :D
(... and one thing is for certain: If my stuff still turns out to suck, at least it's somewhat grammatically correct and lacks spelling errors XD)

I'm bad at making up names for aliens and their planets. Really bad.
That's why I grabbed some old notes and combined the ones I like best. They're still pretty stupid, but what's in a name aynway? XD
But that's not what I wanted to say.
At one point, I made up a shitload of (human) characters. Never used any of them, like 99% of times, but anyway.
Guess I was on a sort of multi cultural trip back then cuz I made them come from allll sorts of different countries.I guess this is point #3750674 on my list of "things that make ayatsuri ningyou seem more like an anime than anything else", ehe XD
As I usually write up whole biographies for my characters, complete with birthdates and such, they all had cities of birth, too.
When I noticed I had an Italian girl as well, I checked her city just out of curiosity.
And guess what? It was neither Rome nor Venice nor Pisa. It. Was. Torino.
That really made me giggle cuz silicondreams keeps wondering why everyone knows her city. Well, it seems like even six or seven years ago, the first Italian city that came to my mind was yours, dear ;)

Oh well. That's enough spamming for today. C ya tomorrow ^___^

... I might be able to do this.
I might have the first few lines of the first chapter. They just somehow exploded out of my head into a text file.
Tho I'll need to make a library of notes before I can go any further. But hey, it's a start.

... and foobar again had the right song ready ;)