Oh Man! I Love This Story!!

I managed to knock my summerwrite story down to 44 pages. I'e just finished printing it and I need to go through and put page numbers in. I forgot to but them on before printing, so I'll just write them on. I skimmed itas I went through and fixed all the indents. And oh man! Why did I stop writing this. All the characters are likeable. They're all different and have stories. There's a plot and sub plots. There's character growth and change and introspection. There's a setting and the word usage is good. They speak more formally, but it's very consistent. I even remember the twist I was planning. I stopped writing just after introducing a character that's been living in the same manor, but has never been actually met because he doesn't leave his room. He walks in and goes. "I need to talk to you." And my character is like, "who are you?" And he goes, "I'm Quinn, and I need to talk to you." And I'm like, "damn girl, you did good." So i probably stopped because I have no idea why Quinn needs to talk to Jasper. I still know how I want it to end, but there is a lot of build up that needs to happen, not only with my main characters, but also with all the people in the country thing they life in. 'Cuz there's gotta be some kind of social uprising for the twist to work right.

Oh man. I've totally used that phrase three times now in this post and title. It's still applicable. I'm going to read some (most likely all) of this story (I have no willpower, so stopping myself probably won't happen). Before I do I'll start a load of laundry because I leave for Vermont tomorrow and I need clean clothes to pack for the trip. I'm going to visit all my college friends that I miss very much and I'm super excited.

New LJ Community That Excites Me

I've just found a new LJ writing community. There are many, but this one is new and small and it's making me really excited to write. Here's the link: http://community.livejournal.com/crack_that_muse/.

Thinking about writing, I have no idea where my summerwrite story is. I'm gonna go find it. I wrote a bunch on it, maybe I'll see if there's more to add to that, or I'll post bits of it here.

EDIT: I've found it. It was saved on Buzzword (http://buzzword.acrobat.com/). It's 86 pages long double-spaced and I stopped writing just when it was getting really good. I'm going to shrink down the spacing so that it's shorter and print it so that I can read through what I have find out where to go from where I am.

101 Goals for 1001 Days: My Goal List

I am doing 101 Goals in 1001 Days. The goals is to complete 101 goals in the space of 1001 days. To learn more visit Day Zero or 101 Goals in 1,001 Days.

I will be starting to achieve these goals on October 4, 2008, and will have them finished by July 2, 2011.

Writing
01. Participate in all three NaNoWriMos during the time period.
02. Win/complete all three of the NaNoWriMos during the time period.
03. "Blot" something/someone out of existence (in real life or in writing).
04. Edit 2007 NaNovel.
05. Edit 2008, 2009 and 2010 NaNovels. (0/3)
06. Have at least one NaNovel printed and bound (with cover art by me).
07. Participate in the summerwrites during the time period.
08. Write 15000 words in one day.
09. Participate in a writing challenge other than NaNoWriMo and summerwrite.
10. Write a song.

Reading
01. Read Janet Evanovich's Stephenie Plum series.
02. Read a book (or more than one, if possible) by Kaleb Nation.
03. Read at least one book by Jane Austen.
04. Read "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte.
05. Read a Stephen King novel ("The Stand"?).
06. Read "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown.
07. Read more of Orson Scott Card's books.
08. Read The Bible.
09. Read 100 books (books already specified on this list can count or it can be a separate count). (0/100)
10. Read 200, non-Lit Mag, poems. (0/200)
11. Reread the Lord of the Rings books. (0/3)
12. Read "1984".
13. Finish reading the Deathnote books.
14. Finish reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
15. Read Dante's Inferno.
16. Borrow at least 20 books from a library for "fun" reading. (0/20)
17. Reread Catherine Coulter's FBI Thriller series.
18. Read a book by Catherine Coulter not in her FBI Thriller series.
19. Always carry a book in purse.
20. Write a review of every book read for this list. Post reviews here.

Buying
01. Buy a semi-formal dress for dances (and shoes to match, if necessary).
02. Buy a good camera (do this after the photography class).
03. Buy something from http://www.etsy.com/
04. Buy some plants and keep them alive for at least one month.
05. Buy another bookshelf/a bigger bookshelf.
06. Buy a pair of shoes only because they are cute.
07. Buy (or acquire) The Sims 3.

Real Life
01. Graduate from Champlain College.
02. Vacation on Isle Au Haut.
03. Go on a date.
04. Have first alcoholic drink with parents.
05. Submit a piece of writing to Willard and Maple.
06. Get help from a teacher outside of class in order to better understand something.
07. Put more effort into Music Makers (Be energetic and excited to sing, not exhausted).
08. Run around in the rain and jump in puddles.
09. Sing in the shower. completed 10/4/2008, post here.
10. Use a bus ride to get some reading or writing done.
11. Read something at a PoJazz event (on stage to the audience, not a book in the back corner of the room to myself). completed 12/11/08, post here.
12. Go to a concert.
13. Go to an orchestra concert.
14. Take a college level creative writing class.
15. Take a photography class.
16. Have laundry/top level of parking garage parties.
17. Get my driver's liscense.
18. Try to get at least 6 hours of sleep a night.
19. Wake up everyday.
20. Get a friend to do NaNoWriMo (one that isn't already planning to).
21. Get a friend to do the 101 Goals in 1001 Days challenge.
22. Continue being awesome.
23. Keep room/living space clean.
24. Stay sober until 21.
25. Learn to drive standard comfortably.
26. Get my passport.
27. Complete the Couch-to-5k running plan (thanks to http://devons101in1001.blogspot.com/2008/07/my-list.html for this goal).
28. Watch this YouTube vid with sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvit4QgHRBo-completed 10/4/08, post here.
29. Get nails painted by someone else (manicure?)
30. Go on an insane roadtrip with Jenny.
31. Register to vote. - Completed in late October, post here.
32. Participate in Post Crossing (Thanks to http://www.lunky.net/101.html for this goal).
33. Donate blood.
34. Donate 1,000,000 grains of rice at FreeRice.org. (0/1,000,000)
35. Do all the homework/reading that has been assigned for this week (10/5/2008-10/11/2008) during the weekend so that I can start the school week with no work to be completed (This means lit mag packet as well).
36. Learn to make 10 new meals. (0/10)
37. Add more pictures to my wall. Take pictures of my wall and post them here.
38. Take pictures of Spinner, Champlain Campus and my apartment and room. Post them here.
39. Keep caught up in classes. Aim for Dean's List.
40. Continue to use a planner to keep self organized.

Watching
01. Watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy in a day or a weekend.
02. See "Twilight" in theaters.
03. Watch the original Star Wars movies in a day or over a weekend.
04. Watch the movie version of one or more books that I read. Read the book first.
05. Rewatch all the episodes of Stargate SG-1 and the movies. (0/214 + 0/2)
06. Rewatch all the episodes of Stargate Atlantis. (0/100)
07. Watch the Stargate Atlantis movie (when it becomess available/if it becomes available in time).
08. Watch 100 movies. (0/100)
09. Write a review for every movie I watch. Post the review here.

Web/Computer Goals
01. Post a video on YouTube.
02. Update blog (this one) at least twice a month (if not once or more a week).
03. Make a website using Flash (outside of Digital Interactive Design).
04. Learn the difference between relative positioning and absolute positioning of divs. Make a website using both absolute and relatively positioned divs.
05. Become more confident with XML. Build a site using XML to prove confidence and competence.
06. Become more confident with PERL. Build a site using PERL to prove confindence and competence.
07. Participate in a graphics challenge.
08. Read through past web class books and underline/take notes.
09. Redesign Got Nothin' (this blog).
10. Play The Sims 3.
11. Play the same family/household in Sims 2 Apartment at least 4 separate times. (0/4)

Miscellaneous
01. Blog about the completion of each goal (and the work towards completion of each goal). Take pictures for goals that should have pictures taken for them.
02. Based on how successful I am with this list decide whether to do this again.
03. If I decided to do this again, write list for next 1001 days.
04. Have 101 goals by 1am Oct 4, 2008. completed 10/4/2008, post here.

Story Toolz Login Hints

I keep forgetting my username and login to storytoolz.com, so I'm putting the hints here. That way when I forget I can come look at the hints instead of guessing a bunch of times. UN: gmail. PW: sj. These are not the actually un and pw, just hints to help me out.

Treadmill Journaling

I may restart the treadmill journaling to keep myself on track with summerwrite.

Script Frenzy, Summerwrite, Stop the Neglect

I finished script frenzy with a 30 page script. The script is incomplete, there are spelling errors and there are large gaps where I never wrote anything, but Script Frenzy is over, and for that I am thankful. I hate my plot and characters and I hope to never open up that script ever again. Thank the Impala it's done.

On to my next crazy ridiculous writing challenge: summerwrite. Summerwrite is a writing chalenge, much like NaNoWriMo, the goal is to write 150,000 wourds during the summer months (May, June, July, August). Because the goal is 37,500 words a month instead of 50,000, like NaNo, the daily word count quota is smaller. I've added a progress bar under my profile info here on Got Nothin'. That'll change everytime I update my word count on the site the bar is from. I've been posting updates to my livejournal (because summewrite is run through a livejournal community). So far I have 3,454 words. I'm almost caught up to yesterday's quota. Despite being behind on quotas, I really like what I've written so far. I think it's really good.

Also, I'd like to stop neglecting my blog. I don't mean to do it. I'll try to write more in here throughout summerwrite; excerpts, word counts, etc.