NaNoWriMo/NoBloPoMo 2009: Day 10 [10 Nov 2009|06:51pm] elle_blessing [ mood | discontent ] [ music | My Lover's Gone - Dido ] Tired tonight. Luckily have tomorrow off. Woo for state workers getting Veteran's Day off. And I know it's early, but to all those who serve our country, have served, have given their lives, and to those who are families to those who serve ... Thank you. I'll re-post a poem by My Army Man. He'll be deploying to Afghanistan on November 30th - to the battalion that's been experiencing a lot of casualties. *prays for him* "Come, Come And Tarry Here" Come, come and tarry here and set ye down a while set ye here and take a break but venture not a smile. Tell your tales and share your woe just keep it soft and speak it low, for we've all got friends gone off to war and damned we've watched them go. They all come back and home again in one way or that other, they wear our flag on their right shoulder or laying down and it draped over. So wait now and go not yet but tarry here still longer. But be ye sure or be ye damned, we'll go avenge our brothers. - Army Man NaNoWriMo is going well as far as word count. I'm long-winded. As far as direction and real content ... some of the things I've written have gotten me places I didn't expect, but I think at this point only a quarter of what's been written would ever get 'published' in any way (meaning in the archives, etc). It's encouraging to have written so much on one thing. I've been reading up a lot on writing novels/fiction. That's been discouraging. At the same time, though, it's good to see what I've been doing wrong. A lot of it is just plain mechanics. I think I've gotten lazy in some things. I need to show more than tell. I need to work on my dialogue. I need to really read up on perspectives. RPG writing is not the same as novel'ing. And plot ... I can do it. I recently did the 'Crazy, escaped psychopath dumps raging battle on family carnival to bring back her dead Dark Lord'. I mean, if I hadn't come up with the concept (and refined it with others), I would look at that and be like, "I'm not crazy or creative enough to come up with stuff like that!" ... but I am. I've learned how to cause conflict with my characters, and I don't mind torturing them a bit to get good stories, but I've yet to master the idea of beginning, middle, end. I need a driving force. Why are they doing what they're doing? Where are they going? Where do they want to go, deep down? And why can't I get another 'sociopath plots Hogsmeade tea party to resurrect evil homicidal leader'? It wasn't that hard the first time. Now that I'm trying though, of course nothing comes to mind. Am not feeling fantastic about my abilities right now, but it's been good finding out where I need work. I can't get better if I don't put myself out there and try. I might get 50,000 words of crap (which is the most likely case), but I'll have gotten 50,000 words on one thing and I'll have learned a lot of the things I should do, should stop doing and what needs study. 18980 / 50000 words. 38% done! read 1 cmt

Icon Problems [10 Nov 2009|05:43pm] everything_lj [wybourn] Username of journal: wybourn Layout Style: flexible squares Basic, Paid or Plus: basic Problem you are having: userpics aren't aligned in my own entries! but when i check my friend's list. everything looks a-ok from there. it's only when i look at my own. example a and b ( Read more... ) cmt

[10 Nov 2009|08:23pm] tinaling Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself. I'm starting to think this guy was a bit of a douchebag =\ cmt

[10 Nov 2009|07:11pm] rainpuddle13 OMFG *dies happy* read 12 cmt

problemss [10 Nov 2009|05:40pm] everything_lj [letusbeoriginal] Name of journal: letusbeoriginal Layout Style: Tranquility II - Plain Theme Basic, Paid or Plus: basic Problem you are having: trying to get my journal subtitle to show at the top. no idea how to do this! ( Read more... ) cmt

I've always liked the Arthurian Legend(s) due to the women D: [10 Nov 2009|11:22pm] eska_rina ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) cmt

[10 Nov 2009|02:06pm] everything_lj [phantom_shadows] Username of journal: phantom_shadows Layout Style: Minimalism Basic, Paid or Plus: Basic Problem you are having: I'm not sure how I messed this up. It's simple coding. But SOME HOW I botched it up really bad. The images aren't there, the coding isn't the problem I don't think, and just a whole ot of mess. The lay out I have right now is supposed to look like this. The coding is under an friends only post from the maker, so I might have to show you both. Because who knows, maybe I messed something up in there after all. ( Read more... ) read 6 cmt

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Oh Maaan! [10 Nov 2009|01:46pm] tinaling [ mood | bouncy ] It is beyond gorgeous right now! About 14 degrees, very little wind, not humid or anything. Lovely! :D I just wanna stroll around the city right now. Went out and bought "Up"- my first Blu-Ray! Ironically enough the Blu-Ray also comes with the the DVD... in case the picture is TOO amazing? Hah. Also picked up Machiavelli to see what all the fuss is about. Maybe HE can help my World Domination plans. I opened it to a random chapter on the way home, and the first sentence was, "The auxiliary army is also a worthless one". Doesn't mince words, does he? cmt

What Farm Animal Are You? [10 Nov 2009|02:23pm] blogthings http://feeds.blogthings.com/whatfarmanimalareyouquiz/ What Farm Animal Are You? - What animal would you be on the farm? read 14 cmt

Sigh! [10 Nov 2009|08:55am] tinaling And so begins what I can only assume is another week of overtime. This is me smiling! Any by smiling I mean frowning. And by frowning I mean giving my computer the finger. read 1 cmt

Another deep end I have officially jumped off of ... [09 Nov 2009|10:11pm] elle_blessing [ mood | tired ] It's official. I'm going to be banging the bad boy. It's probably going to be Draco/Ginny and I already have a vague idea for that, but I'm leaving the possibility open for a Draco/Pansy or Draco/Astoria pairing. My Astoria particularly doesn't like him, so putting her with him for 20,000 words is just pure evil on my part. That's what makes a story interesting though, right? If you don't want to write, you can still be involved as an artist, beta or cheerleader. Go check it out and join the fun!! read 5 cmt

[10 Nov 2009|01:01am] everything_lj [foreverhelpless] Sorry guys for the double post...I am interested in this type of layout http://mata090680.livejournal.com/ ...I've been looking on how to find this lj code or how to do it but no luck. Any ideas? read 1 cmt

*gives 2009 the bird* [09 Nov 2009|09:11pm] sarea_okelani [ mood | aggravated ] Fuck you, 2009. I've said it often enough, but really, this year was just one catastrophe after another. It's really only appropriate that I get rear ended before it's over. Otherwise, how could I claim that it's been the Worst Year Ever? There are still 2 months left in this horrible year, and I really dread what might happen in that time. So tonight I had just gotten onto the freeway, trying to merge, when a backup of traffic caused me to slow down, then stop. Why was it backed up going southbound at 5:45pm? Who the hell knows. Because it's 2009, that's why. I looked in my rearview mirror to see a car coming at high speed toward me. I have just enough time to think, "Shit, they are so going to hit me," and brace myself before it collides, hard, with my car. It was going so fast there was no way it could have stopped in time to avoid me. &*#$!#)*&$ Of course, traffic cleared up after that IMMEDIATELY, because the situation obviously only presented itself to screw me over. But the good thing about that is that I didn't then hit anyone else in front of me. We pulled over to the shoulder -- the other driver was a 19-year-old girl. I called the police to come file a traffic incident report, she told the state trooper who showed up that her ribs had been hurting, so she was touching them and closing her eyes and that's why she hit me. He was like, yeah that is no excuse for not paying attention, I'm going to issue her a citation for speeding. He was like, the coolest police officer type I've ever encountered. Not that they are typically mean or anything, but he was just really nice and sympathetic and actually put me out of my thundercloud bad mood. (Example: Me, handing him documents - "Are you going to write up a traffic report?" Him, smiling - "No, I'm going to get in my car and make some papier-mâché with all this." Later on he was like, "I hope I wasn't too sarcastic. I sensed that you would smile if I said that.") I already had an annual check up scheduled with my doctor for Thursday, but I'm going to try and move that up tomorrow if I can. I had a mild headache immediately after the accident, but that appears to be gone now ... however, the area between my shoulder blades now ache and I just want to make sure there's nothing seriously wrong that might be hidden. I've called my insurance company and hers, and from what I understand of rear endings (yes, I am an expert now, given that this is my third time in like 6 years) the other company is going to have to pay for it all -- I will have such a fit if they don't accept liability (my own insurance company has already, of course, claimed 0% liability on this one and will fight w/ the other company if they try to be difficult). Still, even if it all goes smoothly, what a pain in the ass. Like I really needed this. Like anyone needs this. It's so time consuming and lame. Now I have to rent a car (the trooper had me drive away from the scene, but when I drive it you can strongly smell burning rubber, so that is not good), wait for the adjuster to contact me, call Lexus to get a recommended body shop for my car, possibly have to deal with bullshit involving refusal to admit liability or make me pay for this or that, etc. UGH. The bitch of it was that I was on my way to pick S. up -- we were going to try out the P90X workout -- and he lives like 5 miles from me. One freeway exit. So when I was rear ended, I was halfway to my destination. Arrrghhh. Needless to say, we did not work out. We ended up going to Red Robin for dinner (having leftovers at home just seemed wrong after going through that), and two guys outside were like, "Wow, that sucks. Did it just happen? Wow, that REALLY sucks. Well, it's still a nice car." LOL. Well it's nice that even with my rear fender halfway hanging off, my car has a certain je ne sais quoi. *snort* read 21 cmt

[10 Nov 2009|12:20am] everything_lj [foreverhelpless] Hey guys, I just got a paid account and I am so confused on new features I can do. i want to get a cool layout, but i dont know how to make an actual code, so does anyone know where I can find good layouts? Also, How do picture change their userpic for each entry? Also what is the code to post images in lj posts/ side bars etc? read 5 cmt

NaNoWriMo/NoBloPoMo 2009: Day 9 [09 Nov 2009|05:45pm] elle_blessing [ mood | blah ] Have to go to another dinner with Mr. Elle's family tonight. Not bad for a Monday, though that's in light of me having Wednesday off, so it's more like a Thursday. (I work for the state and it's Veteran's Day on Thursday.) It's cold here and I'm cold at work all day, and we got our heating bill for last month and it looks like I'll be cold at home too. *sigh* Finally found who's in charge of my NaNoWriMo. 17205 / 50000 words. 34% done! read 2 cmt

Draco Big Bang [09 Nov 2009|07:14pm] ginny_n_draco [drcjsnider] For those who want to celebrate Draco's 30th Birthday in Style! cmt

[09 Nov 2009|04:05pm] violentwhispers [ mood | accomplished ] Thanks to Target.com and Lee's Team Member Discount, I just finished about 90% of my Christmas shopping with 45 days to spare! read 2 cmt

Yet another one of those poll posts. [10 Nov 2009|04:10am] attaccabottoni ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) cmt

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