NaNo Madness - Week 4

~Week 4~ 
I Just finished my first NaNoWriMo ever with 3 days left to spare. 
Cannot believe it. 

 ~WordCount~
  50,055

~Favorite Quote~ 

"Why am I here?"

"You are the key to evolution Annabel."

NaNo Madness - Week 3

~Week 3~ 
I can't believe I forgot to make this post yesterday...Sigh. 
You've no idea how beautiful it was to see that damn word-count bar turn green. Seriously. I could feel my muscles relaxing, my breathing easing down, the insistent need to tap my fingers stop. But then my brain took that as permission to start thinking about other things. And not just any other things, but other stories! Can you believe that? I do not need to get sidetracked now, now matter how tempting those other stories are. So I've taken to writing down the ideas and putting them inside a little index card box. Only when I finish NaNo will I allow myself to wonder about them. 
 
Otherwise it was a great week though I failed one day, again writing only 400 words. But I had a doctors appointment that day, and I couldn't write the much even though I did take a notebook to write at the office. I also noticed some characters had disappeared from the story. Yes, disappeared as in I forgot to keep writing them in the story. WTH. I can't wait to start editing all those little errors I've been leaving behind. 
 
I hope all you NaNo-ers are doing great, and those of you who aren't don't give up! Even if you don't complete the 50k words, what's important is that you kept on trying until the last minute!

 ~WordCount Today~
  44,224 at 9:30 pm

~Favorite Quote~

The horn sound blasted across the arena. A second later an energy blast was sailing towards Hanna’s body. A second later bones exploded everywhere. Hannah was standing, shielded, behind three of her creations. One which was currently missing its skull. Holly hell! That was some fast summoning!

The angelic faced necromancer smiled at me again, and though her smile held no malice, it still made my skin crawl. I’d lost my opportunity at taking her out first, now I’d have to somehow deal with her unbeatable minions. So unfair how she could have minions do her dirty work, yet I had to work my ass off trying to defeat her and her minions.

NaNo Madness - Week 2

~Week 2~ 
Second week of NaNo has ended and I gotta say it's been interesting. Some days I was able to go above the word goal (which is 1,667), other days I could only write that exact amount. There was one day where I  felt like I'd just downed two pannadol cold and flu. My head felt so stuffy I wasn't even able to concentrate, and I only wrote 400 words. Ick! But even after all the bumps in the road I'm doing great on the total word count, and I'm plowing through that middle part of the story. I think I'll finish with that this week, and week 4 will be all about the ending. Tomorrow is November 15, and that means were already at the half-way point. I'm so excited! I hope that those of you participating are doing well too!

 ~WordCount Today~
  30,430 at 5:00 pm

~Favorite Quote~ 

I realized my eyes had been glued to his upper body this whole time, apparently my brain had needed a thorough scan of the landscapes presented there to decide if they were real or not. Ungluing my eyeballs from his torso, I looked into his eyes. Which didn’t help at all my already burning cheeks.

“What are you doing here?” I whispered, more because my voiced had gotten stuck somewhere along my throat.

“You left and…” He seemed nervous then, and he ran a hand through his tousled hair. “I didn’t get to dance with you.”

NaNo Madness - Day 7

~Day 7~ 
It's been a looooooooong week of NaNo-ing and I feel strangely fulfilled. It feels good to be writing again. Not just thinking about a story, but actually bringing it to life. Getting to know my characters and the ways they interact with each other, and how some have turned out to be completely different from the way I imagined them. 

Decided to finish up for the day even though its early. I want to take tonight to draft up some important scenes, to see if I can get a clear direction to where I want the story to go. Also, from now on I'll do a weekly instead of a daily report ^__^'

In other news, yesterday I had the so-didn't-see-it-coming surprise of winning second place in the Huge Swag Giveaway that Jennifer L. Armentrout was hosting. Hooray me! And hooray you my faithful followers because this means Amy's Christmas Giveaway is a go!

 ~WordCount Today~
  17,572 at 5:30 pm

~Favorite Quote~ 

     I kept walking, but my heart rate picked up. Blood was ice in my veins, and I was trying hard to breathe. I didn’t want to look back, afraid of what I might see. Images of Resident Evil crawlers came rushing through my mind.

I whimpered.

NaNo Madness - Day 6

~Day 6~ 
I'm glad to report that the switch that clicked in my brain stayed on, and I was able to fulfill the 2k goal of today, and then the extra 1k I owed from yesterday. I think right now is not about running out of stuff to write, but writing in the right direction. I've reached the middle after all, which can get a bit messy :)

 ~WordCount Today~
  15,522 at 10:00 pm

~Favorite Quote~ 

      I’d done it again.

I’d drained someone.

I’d killed.

NaNo Madness - Day 5

~Day 5~ 
Woot! Last night I kicked some major NaNoWriMo ass. I was typing the s&@#! out of my story and I've never been happier!
Today I have to cut it short because I'm going out with some friends. Need to inhale some fresh air after being cooped up this week. I didn't reach the word goal, I only wrote 1,082 words. But since I've been writing more than 2k per day, I think I'm good for now. Also, during last night's madness something apparently clicked in my brain. Some unknown or forgotten switch was flipped and now the prose is pouring out of me. I am no longer disgusted at the quality of what I'm writing. lol.

 ~WordCount Today~
  12,229 at 5:00 pm

~Favorite Quote~ 

I gasped as another thought crashed through me. What if the faeries found out about Liam? I gripped the edge of the window, sure I would fall if I continued thinking about this and what it all meant.

I couldn’t draw a breath right, and then out of the corner of my eye I saw a figure. I jerked back and smacked my head on the stone wall. It hurt, but my muddled head cleared up with the sharp burst of pain.

I looked up to see Caleb frowning at me.

“What?” I asked, rubbing the back of my head. A small bump was already forming. Annoyed at being interrupted in my dive into darkness, and at making me hurt myself. I gave him my best decapitating glare. “You want this seat now too?”

NaNo Madness - Day 4

~Day 4~ 
Woke up early to work on my entry for the pre-YA Tournament of Heroines contest. You can check by super fabulous banner and icons here. ^__^ After that, I went on to tackle NaNo. The damn word count didn't want to increase today. I swear I kept writing and writing and when I checked I hadn't reach the 1k mark. Only wrote about 1.8k words today. Not sure if I'll write more tonight. I'm reaching the scary "Middle" part of the story, and my outline never reached that far. So by Sunday it'll be time to start winging it. XD

 ~WordCount Today~
  10,443 at 7:00 pm

~Favorite Quote~ 

“Annabel this is BFF Oliver,” Vinn said pointing to the fairy boy who had taken Jayson’s seat. “BFF, meet roommate Annabel.”

“Nice to meet you,” I said. Oliver smiled and waved at me.

“Your timing couldn’t have been more perfect,” I told Vinn, taking a bite out of my now cold turkey sandwich. “Jayson was spouting nonsense about wanting to talk about us. As if there was an us to talk about.”

Vinn laughed. “That’s Jayson for you.”

NaNo Madness - Day 3

~Day 3~ 
I woke up this morning feeling sick, and it only got worse as the day progressed. It was 3pm and I hadn't even opened Scrivener or thought about NaNo at all. But before my slacker and procrastinating self could completely take over by rationalizing that sickness equaled a free day, I mentally whipped myself and glued my behind to the desk chair. I put on my iPod full blast, and the first song after hitting shuffle was Sick Sick Sick by Queens of the Stoneage. 
-___-' Seriously...
I wrote about 800 words and then got distracted. Because you know my blog still had the Halloween background and header and Halloween was over so I HAD to change it immediately. It took me a while to do that, because stupid McCaffee wanted an update. It renders my computer completely useless when it does this. Then I remembered today is Tuesday, and you know what that means right? Vampire Diaries!! and Secret Circle. Again, I HAVE to watch it. 
 So after the crappy sick morning, crappier afternoon of technological hating, and planned procrastinating because of TV shows, I still managed to pull through in the last two hours and I completed my 2k word goal! 
*raises pensword* 
Hear that NaNo?! I will not be defeated!

 ~WordCount Today~
  8,470 at 8:00 pm

~Favorite Quote~ 

      “What’s wrong?” she asked.

“Penrose,” I groaned.

“Juliette?”

I rolled around so I could look at her. She was still sitting in the same pose, but her eyes were now open.

“No,” I said. “Her brother.”

At this her eyes widened and her rosy lips formed a perfect ‘o’ of surprise, then she laughed. “Hah! Wait until Juliette finds out.”

“She already knows.”

“Oh boy,” she said standing up and stretching. “That’s alright. After Juliette you can’t dig yourself any deeper.”

“I stole a werewolf’s reading spot in the library,” I said. “Dark hair, yellow eyes, brooding. Do you know him?”

Vinn dissolved in a fit of laughter, until I threw my pillow at her. “I was wrong,” she said, drying tears from her eyes. “That’s Mr. hot and untouchable, Caleb Reese. He’s trouble of a different kind, but still trouble.”

“What do you mean?”

“Well, you can fall for Jayson. He won’t turn down a girl if his life depended on it. You can have your fun, but expect to be replaced within the week,” she explained. “If you fall for Caleb, then be ready for some long hours of pinning  and heartbreak. He doesn’t go out with anyone.”

“Oh,” I said, strangely disappointed in knowing that fact.

NaNo Madness - Day 2

~Day 2~ 
Started a bit late today and things began slow. As in not at all. I was stressing out over a couple of Grad School things, so I took a break to read Destined by P.C. and Kristin Cast. Because, you know, I couldn't resist it! Had some great laughs with Zoey and the Nerd Herd and then came back to NaNo. Things ran smoothly then and in no time I had the goal for the day, but I kept writing anyway. I had a couple of scenes that I really wanted to do. Of course I'm not happy how they came out, but hey, it's NaNo right? It's not about perfection!! *shoots perfectionist side* It's about writing. 
I ended up with 3k words again today! ^__^ Yay me!

 ~WordCount Today~
  6,469 at 8:30pm

~Favorite Quote~ 

Then I smacked right into someone for the second time that day. This time it was a slim girl that looked like a gothic porcelain doll. She had vampire pale skin, and hair so white it made her skin seem to have color. The black lips, and the heavy black eyeshadow could have made her look trashy, but on her face it look sharp. Right now, though, her face was set in grimace.

My dark purple shirt wouldn’t stain from the juice spilled during our collision, but her white jeans would.

“You should watch were you’re going witch.”

“Sorry. I didn’t watch where I was going. I can probably find a spell to clean those,” I offered, hoping that my magic would cooperate and that I wouldn’t end up incinerating the jeans.

“As if I would let a witch touch my things,” she snapped.

The way people said witch here was really starting to irritate me.

NaNo Madness - Day 1

~Day 1~ 
Ok, so somehow I knew this would happen but I was hoping it wouldn't. I woke up super late, inhaled a quick brunch, and opened Scrivener full screen mode. Then I walked away cringing in fear of the blank page! LOL I had to mentally slap myself a couple of times before I was able to sit down and write. The iPod on shuffle helped a lot. 
Still it took me quite a while before I reached the 1k mark. I don't know if 1) I'm not describing enough, or 2) I'm terribly slow at writing. Maybe it just means I haven't flexed those writing muscles in a while. Hopefully a week from today I'll be writing 4-5k words in no time at all.

 ~Words Today~
3,320 at 7:30pm 

~Favorite Quote~ 

Jayson knocked three times. Not waiting for a reply, he opened the door and motioned us to go inside. Mom thanked him and went in first. I made for the door, trying to ignore Jayson who had moved closer.

“Thanks,” I mumbled as I tried to push pass him.

“My pleasure,” he said softly.

A breeze tickled my neck and then he was gone. The cocky little—

Mom called.

Happy Halloween + NaNoMadness - Day Before

 ~Happy Halloween!~

Deviantart ~Geegeet

Hahaha sorry, couldn't resist the cuteness!
Happy Halloween everyone! 
I'm spending the night eating Pumpking Pie (which I made yesterday) and stuffing myself full of red velvet cupcakes (which I'm baking now!). Hope you all have a wonderful and spooky night! 

For those starting NaNo, I'll be here at 12 sharp to start tackling that 50k goal. I'll leave you here with a Synopsis of my story. Bring it on NaNo! *cackles maniacally*

~Supernatural Academy~

Synopsis...

My name is Annabel Frances Ray, and I’m a witch. I have the rare ability to borrow power from other supernatural beings. Pretty cool, huh? I thought so too until I killed my best friend by accidentally sucking his supernatural essence. Apparently power is not all I can "borrow". I blacked out into a weeklong sleep, and when I woke up he had faded. You see faeries don’t die, they fade. 

There was only one path for me after that, MYTH Academy, the Magical Youth Training Home, where supernaturals of all races go to study and better their powers. But MYTH seems to have bigger problems than an essence sucking witch. Inexplicable deaths and disappearances have everyone on high alert. When I accidentally drain a fellow classmate, and she disappears I get blamed. Something strange is going on at the Academy, and it’ll be up to me to discover just what that is if I hope clear my name. I just have to make sure to stay away and not touch anyone else. If only it was that easy.

So what do you guys think?

NaNoWriMo Madness

~♥~

Oh man…What have I gotten myself into!?

I've no idea. This is my first year participating. I've been wanting to do this for a couple of years now, but never had the guts to commit to it, but his year I'm ready to take on the beast that is NaNo! 

I've been reading blogs around looking for advice on to how to prepare for this. Yeah, I like plans, I like lists, I like to be prepared. Winging it is just not my style. So a week ago I started writing some Character Profiles, getting to know them and working on their backgrounds. I went so far as to look for pictures on the web that resembled them. After that I started working on the Plot, fleshing it out and stuff. I kinda went crazy at that point. I would add one point, then erase it, then change it back again, only to discard it later. I did go over it with a friend to see if things at least made sense. Haha. Lastly, I started doing an detailed outline of "the Beginning". I tried doing that for the evil "Middle" but, as always, got stuck. Grr. So I'll just have to trust that as I go along writing "the Middle" will resolve itself. And by then I'll know the ending. 


It's been a lot of work. I wish I had started doing all this a month ago! >.< 
I've never written something so long, much less written that much per day. But I've got my coffee, my chocolates, my iPod and iHome are ready with new playlists, and I've got a blog to whine and complain when NaNo chews me up and spits me out. LOL.The Writing Buddies option is now open, so if anyone is doing NaNo and wants to add my I'm Sylirama