Lyrics And Updates!

Yikes!

Alright, kudos to me for posting again with less than 3 months in between. Yay. But still, a lot has happened since I last wrote. Hmm...let see. Shall we go with bullet points? What, too short?

Firstly, I would like to draw your attention to the top line of links. Yes that one up there. Yes...up a little further. A little further...okay, come back down you missed it. No, not that far! (Let us take a moment to honour the brave souls who dare ask me for driving directions! :D )

YES! You got it. I've added a new Poetry page to the site. :3

I don't like to call myself a poet, because unlike some who can scratch up a poem very easily, I can only do it when the mood is right. That mood often comes very seldom. If I force it I feel like it sounds...well...quite forced. Haha. Funny. I made a joke. Laugh. I command you. -.-

But anyway, please feel free to wander in and have a look about! ;)

On another note I've done a general maintenance on the site. By maintenance I mean I've gone through most of the links and just made sure they all work, deleted any that don't. :)

If you guys do spy a link that's broken, please contact me by e-mail (nanakafka@aim.com) or comment on any of the posts on the main page! Thank you! :)

And one more thing:

I won NaNoWriMo! :D

That's right! The Monkey of the Cave has crossed the threshold of 50,000 words once more and is now dragging herself to the end of her plot! :D

A huge thanks to all the staff at NaNoWriMo for keeping the awesome event there and doing everything you guys do each year! And to my Number 1 rival in the competition Jay! It was thanks to our wild word wars that I was able to push a win out so quickly.

Yesterday I literally wrote 11,604 words.

Yeah...it was quite a lot to do. -.-

Monkey Dance Time!

*does a little monkey jig*

Maybe It's Time...

...To get out of the slump.

Man, I thought employed life was supposed to improve your writing production, not reduce it. But hey, guess I read the wrong manual on my way to the interview. It's really been a long time since I blogged. A really long time. And it's also about time I got up and out of it.

Yes, when I get home from work it's so much easier to slump down with a good video game and think four things: Can Not Be Bothered. At first this was my preference. I was tired. I'm not used to standing for 8 hours on end, and the mere thought of thinking once I got home was too exhausting. But it's surprising what it takes away from you, the not writing at all that is. Life becomes...sort of empty, and less colourful. I didn't really notice it until I was reminded of the

thought of exciting adventures in fantasy worlds and sitting for hours in the same spot at a café typing away at your laptop. :D With a good cup of tea and...

Okay, straying off the subject a little. You get what I mean though. :)

Alright, I wanted to thank everyone who has voted on the poll in the top right-hand corner of the page. Looking at it I see photos/pictures for the blog as well as writing techniques are on the wishlist. I will definitely work on getting some more photos up here. Mind you they might be random photos I've shot sometime whilst half-asleep. I'll have to ask you to excuse that.

I'll also add a writing techniques related post as well, now that I'm at the computer. I'll post it separately though.

But E.F.'s edits are moving. At last they are moving! And boy am I happy. :D

And it's good to be back in business. Or blogging...whichever fits better.

Writing Contests Update

Alrighty.

Just a quick word to say the Writing Contests list has been updated. I added four more events: Crazy Club Writing Year, National Blog Posting Month, February Novel Writing Month and Science Fiction Writing Month.

I'm taking part in all of them, although it's unsure if the sci-fi one will be active again this year. But it's all the way in October, so that isn't something to worry over yet.

Right now I've got a whole bunch of events/challenges piled up right onto of each other. The FebNoWriMo as well as NaBloPoMo are starting the day after tomorrow, so you'll be hearing a lot more often from me. :)

Also, another, smaller challenge is starting on the 4th. That would be the Waitangi Weekend challenge hosted on the Kiwi Writers website. The whole purpose is to write 4,000 words in 3 days. It's a pretty easy and fun challenge. Last year I found out about it a day after it had started and just whipped out my yWriter and started typing. It was a story I'd hardly even thought about before, I had so much fun. :)

Wooh! It's late. And lots to get done tomorrow, so I'll be signing off. Need to save some ideas for blogging later anyways. Hopefully that way fewer posts next month will be random. ^_^