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*

What Do You Expect, It's NaNoWriMo!

It's NaNoWriMo time!

Well almost. What we are currently experiencing is the month of Plotters Galore, aka the non-pantser writers month of hell.

October is where it really all starts for us. This is where you start thinking about which story you'll want to take up and submit to merciless word torture, which soundtracks fit your story, which word processing program gives you the least trouble and which reference websites make you procrastinate the least. (Or if you do none of the above, at least this is the month when we as writers start hearing conversation about NaNoWriMo start picking up again.)

For the dedicated plotter (the Monkey included) we have the tiring task ahead of literally writing a novel twice. We will plot it the whole way through, then come November will put those scene sketches into actual words. Dialogue, narrative...that kind of stuff. We'll begin obsessively tapping the space bar and making hyphenated words into unhyphenated ones.

But October is our preparation month. Polish your pens, build your food reserves, buy lots of coffee from reduction sales. We are preparing for war.

So here comes the all important question –and if you have more than one potential choice for this in mind, it's a toughy– what story are you going to write?

'What story am I going to write?!' Since the end of the 2009 NaNo this question has haunted me like a bad dream. I have a lot of choices to choose from. So it's like that question all the grown-ups keep asking you while you're at school (which you keep hating as you can't answer it), 'what are you going to be when you grow older?'

There's no point in answering that question when it's asked, because by the time it matters, you'll most likely have changed your mind dozens of times by then. And yet I just can't help but start planning so far ahead. Even though I will change my mind right at the last second anyway. And I know it.

So here goes. I had 3 choices of stories for this year. I had decided right after last NaNoWriMo that this year I would write Arkanos Book Two. But then in July, I thought up an idea for a story about a city of angels and mermaids. Then I had another old story, a dark one I had intended for last year (till I changed my mind), that I had some new ideas for and looked promising. I was leaning toward the angels and mermaids.

Until two nights ago I had a dream. A really good one. About witches and people flying around. And teenage mutant ninja turtles. And I changed my mind. Again.

My story this year will be 'Elda'. I will add a synopsis onto the Novel Info page as soon as my plotting is far enough to actually have a synopsis. ^__^;;; But I can say this much even now that it is based around a powerful and evil sorceress (called Elda) who once ruled the world for a hundred years. Then all of a sudden she just vanished. But now she threatens to return to the world, and it's up to the hero to stop that from happening.

There are no teenage mutant ninja turtles.