Found this site via the NaNoWriMo website and wanted to share it. It's called the Nanolyser. To see what it does the following is a link to my stats from last year. It'll only be there for a couple more days though (until the NaNo site goes down on the 1st): Leviathan's Nanolyser Stats.
Also I am watching/listening to the following video on repeat while writing this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyN7F51g0Rs. I was so excited that they had NPH on Glee.
After my post last night about starting to prep for NaNoWriMo 2010 it was surprising to me to get an e-mail today from my regional ML. It reminded everyone in the region that come October 1st, the NaNoWriMo website will be shut down and come back all shiny and new, ready for this year's NaNo. In a little over a week the forums will start to fill with people getting pumped for this year's NaNoWriMo. And I will get even more excited!! And maybe I'll even get a plot or characters or something like that. I know it's not necessary for NaNoWriMo, but it could be fun to try that way for the first time since my first NaNo in 2007.
I'm starting my NaNoWriMo preparations early this year (earlier than a week before, like the past two years, though definitely not as early my first year when I had the whole novel planned out before the month began). I am preparing by reading tons and tons. I'm speeding my way through "The Dresden Files" series. I'm on the fourth book right now, Summer Knight, and I started reading them just last week.
I've also re-found this blog today, jimbutcher.livejournal.com/. It's the blog of Jim Butcher, the author of "The Dresden Files." It has a lot of really good information about writing and I like the way he writes (obviously, or I wouldn't be reading "the Dresden Files" and especially not as fast as I'm reading them) it's fun and easy to read. Just reading a couple of his posts has me really pumped to get a plot, characters and for it to be November.
Small off-topic edit: What was I thinking when I decided to try Compose mode instead of doing the HTML myself? Of yeah, it totally worked, but then I looked at the HTML that Blogger had written and almost cried. It was terrible. The problem is now fixed.
I would embed the video if YouTube would let me, but embedding has been turned off. This video is funny and they're very talented.
YouTube - Straight No Chaser - Tainted Love [Official Video]
Been doing a bit of fall cleaning around the blog. Haven't dropped by in a while and took the time tonight to play around with the new (or newish, it's been a while since I've posted) Blogger design tools. Went through and deleted all the comment spam that's been stacking up. There are really nice features for that now too. I got to look through all the comments ever posted and delete all the ones that were spammy and not related. Very fun. I also set it up so that I can blog from my phone and from my browser. So there may be an influx of posted videos and links in the coming days.
This is a test post from my phone to my blog. It's a cool concept and maybe I'll post more often this way.
For my first homework assignment this week I had to pick a favorite design from the ten I made last week and tweak it even further. I chose to work with number two. I made the word "Kingslayer" bigger, so that it is a bigger part piece.
