It's coming to be that time of the year again, Nano is seven days away and I have no plot or plan for which ever story I might do. I have three mid-terms that month and three regular tests, two major papers due and that's not counting the two I'll be writing then that will be due the first week of December or a little thing known as my social life and yet, I think I'm going to do Nano again.

nanowrimo, for those of you who don't know, is when you attempt to write 50K [approximately the length of a novel] in the month of November.

I won last year, and I'm going to win again this year, although I think the key to my success last year was the fact that I had a very vague plan. If I do the second book in 'The Blood' series [really need a new title for that] the first book can be used as a plan of sorts. If we ignore the fact that the second book is going to start with her at military school, in a different province, with a different group of friends and a different problem. [First book was Skinwalkers, this book I'm thinking rogue witches with a slight carry over on the idea of fairies mentioned in the first book].

It should be fun, although I, in all my brilliance let a friend, read part of the first book only to have it pointed out to me that since she's part vampire her going to church doesn't make sense because she's inheritently evil and that she was too aggressive. Seeing as how the only reason I let her read it was because she thought Twilight [sparkly vampires anyone?] was amazing and Edward Cullen is the epitome of male perfection and she wanted to read my vamp novel. -flat stare- Right. Originally I made Ray go to church because my aunt was getting on my nerves about the state of my soul since I read so many 'devil-worship books' [Harry Potter, I'm looking at you] and I thought it would be amusing to make someone who certain 'Christians'** would consider an abomination be a devoted Christian. It's gone past that part, but it's fun because the one place where she feels semi-welcome [she's part of bible study and the knitting club all older ladies since the youth group isn't her thing] might shun her if they found out. Well, once they got over the fact that things that go bump in the night exist.

Went off topic there, lol, but yeah, last week of October is dedicated to figuring out a very rough outline since if I over outline I put myself in a corner, and catching up on all of my blogs and things. At first  I thought the worse part of my university going on strike was the money being wasted [two weeks and no sign of a partial refund] but it's actually the amount of pressure and the influx of midterms//assignments due that equal no breathing time.  

Hmm, what else is on my mind. Um, showing character neediness/loneliness in first person is hard when the character doesn't know/acknowledge her loneliness and describing outfits is even harder without it pulling you out of the story, so if anyone has any hints on how to deal with that I would love it.

**not a jab against, Christians, I just hate it when people tell you how to worship, and why you're going to hell for enjoying certain things. And this is on my mind because it's October, lol. 
 

It's finally finished. Took me forever I know, and the rewrite/edit is going to be HUGE but for now I'm quite pleased with myself. Since I no longer have a major project to work on, I think I'm going to fiddle around with EF, Bloodlust (now called Cyanide Kisses), It Was Only a Kiss, and Starcrossed a bit, see which one I feel teh most motivated for then just go with the flow.

5,238 / 7,500 (69.8%)

I'm hoping to have it posted before my birthday [June 3] or the Friday after it [June 8].

One more exam and I'm free for four months. 

Which means, my writing schedule has been freed up. 

Tentative Update Schedule
WDC 30 -- May 1 - 7
WDC 31 -- May 28
WDC 32 -- June 3-8
WDC 33 -- June ?
WDC 35 -- June ?
WDC 36 (?) -- June ?

And that's the end for WDC. 

From there I want to start re-writing Bloodlust, Everybody's Fool and leave WDC alone for awhile. 

I also want to go through and at least try and plot out a rough outline for the stories I have thrown together, so many ideas and yet I have only one story actually completed and that's not that great, lol. 

Main focus for the summer:

[] STARCROSSED - plot out each book
                                   - figure out where I'm going with it
                                   - Come up with titles [Somewhere in Time, No Time This TIme, Third-Time Lucky, Unchained]
[] Everybody's Fool [not that big of a priority, just something when I get stuck with my other things.
[] BLOODLUST - "main project" -- rewrite characters, rewrite setting, rewrite plot and all that fun stuff

I have my current WIP that is approximately 4-6 chapters to completion and yet I'm stuck at one of the scenes I'd actually been looking forward too earlier on in the writing process. Now that it's here it won't come out the way I want it too and I'm getting so frustrated.

On a good, or maybe not so good note, I have an idea for three different stories. Two of which will be series books and one that I'm doing with my sister. All of them have been floating around in my head for a while but two of them need more skill then I currently have but I can't wait to get to them. So, to compromise I'm probably going to plot out the series, start the first book for both of them, see how that goes and then with the one I'm working on with my sister outline like crazy. All we have for that story is the turning point and although we get all giddy and happy over it, we need to figure out the rest, least of all the characters.

Mad World
Gary Jules (cover of Tears for Fears)

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Mad world

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
And I feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Mad World
Illogical world
Mad World