#257 - PWNED AGAIN, BITCHEZ!

50,246 / 50,000 (100.5%)

And another novel draft bites the dust! I'm surprised this time though - I actually managed to fit in a reasonably complete story arc in 50,000 words, as opposed to previous years where I'd build up the beginning and the middle and then sort of bullshit the end. Not that I didn't bullshit this year too - it's just that, were you to read this draft (which you won't because I'm not letting this baby out by itself until I've run it through Hades and back with the revision scalpel), you would have a pretty clear idea of the plot's rise and fall. Whereas in my previous NaNo projects, you'd have an idea of how things start and how things start to go to hell, but you'd have next to no clue about how things you get out of the hell they fell into. It would be like looking at an oil painting and admiring that rendering of the temple's column there and the expression of a person's face here...and then as you follow the visual line of direction, you come to what should have been one of the most significant parts of the paintings, left as a series of smudged charcoal marks and tentative daubs of color.

There's more I'd like to talk about, both about this particular NaNo project and about other random things, but I am deader than dead and must go lie in my coffin for a bit before I can start typing coherently again.

-Reileen
waiting for my thoughts to fade

#258 - Post-NaNoWriMo aimlessness.

This piano piece from the Final Fantasy: Advent Children movie soundtrack is my new "will-learn-this-piece-if-it-kills-me-and-then-some":

The music is unfortunately a bit faint comparative to the vocals (not that there's much of one in the clip), but I wanted to show this off in its original context. FF:AC is short on the plot, but it's long on the visual candy, which includes the "Physics? What physics?" fight scenes that I love to death.

I had the sheet music for it before and managed to somewhat learn a bit of it, but then I lost it and then got distracted with other stuff. I had to go search it on the intarwebz again and print it out, and now I am slaving away over this piece like my life depends on it. My wrists and fingers are not happy with me about this, because this song is not very kind to my tiny-ass girlyhands. It is, however, quite fun to play once you get the hang of it. Many people have played and recorded this song on YouTube, so me learning this isn't anything special, but it's a good challenge for me.

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Speaking of music, check out this Eurotrash song about Kylie Minogue:

I heard when I was at a family friend's place for Thanksgiving. You have to listen to the chorus, it's cracktastic:

Kylie, give me just a chance
Let's go out and dance
We can get into the groove
I can watch you move
Later you can sing to me
Like a shining star
But I rather do you
On the backseat of my car

Reportedly, Miss Minogue was Not Amused by this song. (Which apparently went on to hit #1 for several weeks all across Europe anyway.)

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One of the things I started working on a few days ago was a 1sentence themeset revolving around the friendship of Kira and Luke from my NaNoWriMo. For those of you who aren't familiar with this, what you do is you go to the community, and you pick out one of five sets of fifty "themes" to work with. Using those themes and your chosen character(s), you write one sentence involving both.

For example:

#01 – Ring

Luke clings to Kira all throughout watching a horror movie, but it's Kira who wakes up screaming in the middle of the night from a nightmare involving creepy, long-haired girls crawling through TV screens.

Harder than it looks, even when you consider all the fun ways you can push the "one sentence" rule to its limits by using compound sentence structures and abusing the semicolon. But it's good when you want to write something about some characters, but you don't necessarily feel like writing a novel or a short story or whatever. I've hit 13/50 so far, which isn't so bad. Despite being all writer'd out from NaNoWriMo, I think I'm going to work on them some more over the next few days.

-Reileen
I got reasons why I tease 'em