December 31st : I've moved!

Yeah, I got thinking after my last post and I decided to make a fresh start with the blog so I've moved it to Wordpress!

If you would like to continue following my semi-rambling posts about my writing then please feel free to go here: http://plotbunniesforsale.wordpress.com/

I look forward to still seeing you around.

:)

December 31st : Time To Do It All Again!

So I've got about 6 1/2 hours until midnight, January 1st 2011 and the official start of WriYe 2011. I'm actually looking forward to this year's WriYe, possibly more than I had been this time last year. I have a friend who I'm going to be writing alongside for the entire year so we'll have each other to keep in check and make sure neither of us falls behind.

I've got a few novels that I'm going to be working on this year, some of them similar to the ones that I was doing/planning on doing for 2010. The two biggest novels that I want to get completed in 2011 are my 2010 NaNo The Daisy and my favourite novel that I've ever written California Bound. If I get those finished this year I'll be immensely happy.

I signed up on the WriYe website a few days ago and I've already set my goal for 2011 as 600k again. I'm signed up for the Sprint Week for the 2nd to the 8th of January with a goal of around 27k for that so it'll be fun to see if I can actually stay on target this year.

While I'm speaking of targets I'm going to officially say this here and now. I am going to do my best to write an update on here every single day and not skip months at a time like I did this year. I'll keep track of my progress better as well...maybe.

Anyway, I'll be posting on here again closer to midnight no doubt so I'll wish you all a Happy New Year then.

:)

December 25th : Merry Christmas!

Christmas is almost over! Mine was rather....dull. I got some good presents but the overall day was pretty naff. My dad and brother both have a really bad bout of the flu and have been in their beds the entire day (my dad made it down for our dinner but was sick afterwards, my brother hasn't left his room all day.) My mum and I went to visit my Gran in the hospital, she's doing better than the last time I saw her, which is good but I'm not a fan of hospitals and I had to sit for two hours listening to her going on about me getting married next year (Which isn't happening. I'm only 20 for a start and I don't even have a boyfriend at the moment either.) Like I said, overall it was a pretty lousy Christmas.

On to the good part of the day, the presents. I got a few really nice surprises in my gifts this year. I got:
-JLS's CD
-Bon Jovi's Greatest Hits
-Inception on DVD
-Les Miserable on DVD
-Kinect for the Xbox
-Dance Central for the Kinect
-One of those fleecey blankets with the sleeves :P
-Tickets to Hairspray at the Edinburgh Playhouse for Boxing Day!

I was really excited about the Hairspray tickets, I wasn't expecting them at all and they're really good tickets too! Row D, four rows from the front :D I seriously can't wait. I'm going with my mum so it'll be awesome. As I had expected though, I haven't gotten any writing done today and now I know for a fact that I won't get any done tomorrow.

It's beginning to look like this novel is never going to get finished but I should hopefully have a shiny new front cover for it by the end of tomorrow so hopefully that'll give me a burst of inspiration and energy that'll help me to get back into my flow of writing again. I've been waiting on this cover for a while but my name is finally at the top of the list and I'm excited to see what the artist comes up with for my book.

Anyway, Merry Christmas again.
:)

December 24th : Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas Eve everyone! I hope you all have a great Christmas this year :)

I've been working slowly but surely on my novel (now at 57k) and I'm confident that I'll have it finished by the end of the first week of January, or there abouts. I've been finding it difficult to get the motivation and ideas for the novel to progress but I'm getting there. Hopefully, it won't be too long before it's finished. I probably won't work on it much tonight (Christmas Eve Watchnight Service to go to in a few hours) or tomorrow (It will be Christmas after all) but hopefully on Boxing Day I'll get another chapter written at least. If I can average a chapter a day from Boxing Day forwards then I should have it completed by the 9th January. I'm hoping to get it finished sooner than that but it's looking unlikely.

Anyway, I wish you all a Merry Christmas and look forward to seeing you more in the New Year :D

December 17th : Writing, Editing, Formating...

I seriously have no motivation to write my NaNo other than when I'm at work. I'll sit with my document open in front of me while at home and...nothing, no words come to mind to help me move on with the story. At work, I'll be serving a customer and go 'Oh, that's how that bit progresses, I must write it down now.' Three/four hours later and I have anywhere from 300-800 words written on small post it notes.

I've been editing what I have gotten written so far and formatting it once it's been done. Although I know that I'll probably be re-writing most (if not all) of my scenes, it helps me to at least keep my focus on this novel rather than trailing off and moving onto something else.

I really want to get this novel finished by the end of the year, I hope that it won't drag on forever otherwise I'll probably lose all my interest in it and I don't want that to happen. Anyway, I think my novel is sitting somewhere around the 55k mark at the moment, still got a lot to write though.

:)

December 7th: New Goal.

I've discovered that every time I make a goal I never achieve it. So my new goal is to have no goals :D

I did a little writing towards the story today. While I was at work I used some post it notes to write on and managed to get around 750 words written. I'm pleased that I'm still writing this story even though NaNo is over, I may not be going at quite the same fast pace as I had been but at least I'm still writing.

Here's hoping I can actually finish this novel before the end of the year.

:)

Dec 6th: It's Snowing Again!

I know that last year I was complaining about the snow and how heavy it was but this year we've had even more snow that's even heavier and staying for longer and I'm way too excited about that. Want to know why my attitude towards snow has changed? Work. The more it snows, the more chance I have of being off work and being able to write all day!

It's been snowing heavily here all morning and apparently the roads are terrible (my mum had to take my brother into work at 7 this morning and it was bad then, I'm trying to imagine how bad they'll be now after a whole morning of snow.) I'm just waiting for the phone call from my boss to let me know not to go in.

On the writing front, I've been rather productive today. I'm still working on my NaNo novel from last month (which I'm still trying to think of a title for) but I've written 514 words so far this morning and I plan on writing a heck of a lot more today, especially if I do get the day off work. I didn't write the 5k yesterday because I got distracted by a number of things but I'm going to try my best to get it done today.

Here's hoping anyway.
:)

December 5th : I Will Finish This Novel!

Yesterday I was going to write a massive amount for my 2010 NaNo to try and get it finished a little quicker but I discovered that I'd misplaced the notes I'd made which detailed the rest of the plot. Not wanting to wing the rest of the book I was frantically trying to find the notes. I must've searched every corner of my room, as well as several other rooms, before I gave up. I wrote a few hundred words yesterday and then called it a night. Only when I sat down at my computer to watch a film on it I found that my notes had been sitting in the pile of papers that were on my desk right in front of me the entire time >.>

Anyway, now that I've got my notes again I'm determined to get at least 5,000 words written today. I've done about 350 words just now, but that was only 5 minutes of writing so I've still got a bit to go yet. I really want to get this novel finished by the end of next week so I have enough time to edit and polish it before I put it up for sale on Createspace.

I really want to publish my novels but I don't want to go through the whole query process with agents and publishers so self publishing through Createspace seems like a good idea for me. Here's hoping I can at least get a few sales out of it :)

December 3rd : It's The End Of The Year Already?

I can't believe that it's already December. I rediscovered this blog again last night while chatting with a friend about WriYe and I've decided that even though I didn't quite make it this year, I'm going to do my best to complete it next year.

NaNoWriMo was awesome, I decided to stick to my original plan from my very first post on this blog and do a rewrite of my 2007 NaNo for this year. It went really well and it's almost completely different from the 2007 version of it. The characters are the same, the towns are the same (with a few more thrown in) and the overall plot is the same, the journey is completely different though. I managed 50,191 during November but the story is only 1/3 of the way through. Still got lots more to write which I'm hoping to do this month.

Speaking of totals, I checked the last post that I made a total on and the last known total I had for this year was 74,072 but a few posts after that I'd written more so I'll need to dig out my documents and add up all the wordcounts to get the exact amount. Think I'll do that now...

Total Wordcount Before NaNo: 87,237
Total Wordcount With NaNo: 137,464

I'm actually quite proud of that total, even though it falls drastically short of my 600k goal. With the rest of my NaNo still to write in December I think I can push that total over the 150k at least. I'm already looking forward to next years WriYe, I started a few stories that I really want to work on next year and finish.

Anyway, for anyone still following my ramblings here, thanks for supporting me throughout this year so far. I hope to have your continued support for the coming year.

:)

Day ??? : Why Am I Still Counting Days?

I seriously have no idea why I'm still counting how many days it's been this year for my post titles. I'm clearly not going to hit my target this year. That being said, I enjoyed the experience while it lasted and I'm not giving up entirely. NaNoWriMo is just around the corner and I'm super excited and ready to start writing like a maniac again. Roll on November 1st!

So, as some of you may have guessed, I've been really busy over the last couple of months. Not a lot has changed for me, I'm still working in the cash and carry although hopefully not for much longer. I have this possible new job opportunity glinting on the horizon and I hope that it comes to fruition. It'll majorly suck if it doesn't.

But anyway, back to this blog. I know that I seem to give up far too easily when it comes to my writing and I do agree with you that I do. So, I'm going to make an effort to write more in the run up to NaNoWriMo and during NaNoWriMo and then possibly in December too...depending on how worn out I am by the end of November. Here's hoping I can at least break the 150,000 word barrier by the end of the year. I have no idea what my current total is and at the moment I don't have the energy to try and figure it out.

I'm going to head off to bed now so I can sleep and hopefully when I wake up tomorrow I'll have a brand new plot bunny waiting for me to chase.

Day 209 : Alright, Got The Ball Rolling.

So I actually got some writing done today. I wrote around 4k today so I'm pretty pleased with that. It's not as much as I should have done over the past couple of days. Short post tonight guys but I'm tired and have work in the morning so that's all I've got.

Day 203: I'm Tired...

It's 11:30am and I'm really really tired. I actually woke up this morning around 7:30 but tried my hardest to get back to sleep since I'd stayed up a little later than usual last night. Didn't go so well and I ended up having a series of naps instead. Ah well, c'est la vie as the saying goes. Time to get writing. I've got just under an hour before I have to get ready and catch my bus for work. I think I can possibly knock out 1,000 words in that time...if I stop typing here.

Day 202 : Massive Wordcount

I got a grand total of 700 something words written tonight. I'm tired, my eyes are sore and watering. I need a break from the writing and probably a heck of a lot of sleep. I've got crappy work tomorrow but not until 2pm (although I have to get a bus into work at just the back of 1pm otherwise I'd be late). So, depending on what time I actually wake up, I might get some writing done before I go to work and then I can definitely do a little writing when I get home after work (although that'll probably end up being around 8 or 8.30pm...ish. I finish at 7.30pm but I have to wait on my dad finishing all his little tasks before I can actually go home. It sucks.)

I'm looking forward to tomorrow though, the dvd's that I ordered last Friday should be arriving. I was expecting them today but they didn't come...obviously. I think I'll make myself hold off on watching them until I've written at least 2,000 words. That should be a good motivational boost.

Day 202 : Wordcount Update

So, I finally got around to transferring all my files from the old laptop to the new and I've tallied up all the words that I've typed since the beginning of the year. My current total for the year is 74,072. I'm pretty pleased with that total considering I haven't written anything at all for about 5 of the 7 months that we've had so far. Quickly trying to calculate what I should be at right now...

Actual Total: 74,072
Target Total: 335,007

Um...oops? I think I need to rethink the 600K end of year goal. Then again NaNoWriMo is coming up and I may just surprise myself with it. There's still 5 months left in this year and if I was to write 5K everyday from now on then I should be back on track by...September 6th 2010.

I'll probably end up forgetting about it again but hopefully not. Hopefully.

Day ??? : Did You Miss Me?

Holy crap, I'm back! :D

So, it's been what? Almost three months since I was last on here? Let me catch you up a bit because I've had a lot going on lately.

Ok, let's see...where to start...I no longer volunteer at the Red Cross anymore. I now work in a cash and carry alongside my older brother and my dad. It's hard work and my back, feet and arms are constantly hurting because of it but it's a fulltime job I've been doing for almost 9 weeks now and I get paid £200 every friday! It's a great place to work, not for the actual work itself but for the people that work there. Let's see, what else...I've actually done a fair bit of drawing in the past few months. I've finished that Robert Pattinson drawing for my friend and I did another smaller drawing for myself as well as having two half started/finished drawings that I still need to work on. My laptop died on me...literally. The power cable wouldn't charge the laptop so it's been sitting dormant for a month and a half with all of my novels and fan fictions on it. It's...been...torture! BUT yesterday I got tired of waiting any longer and I went out and bought myself a brand spanking new laptop that's all spiffy and whatnot. I need to transfer my hard drive from the old laptop to my new one but I've at least got Microsoft Word so I've been writing something, which incidentally is the first time I've written anything in a while although I have actually written some stuff during my complete absense from this blog.

So, enough ranting and chattering. I'll update with totals later hopefully. I'm away to bug my dad about fixing my hard drives.

Day 133: More Ideas!

So lately I've been bombarded with ideas for stories by my brain and I'm trying my hardest to jot them all down before I forget them forever and so I now have about 6 ideas written down that I don't want to start until I've finished some of the stories that I've got already. As it is, I've been writing some personal stories lately, fan fictions and things of the like that will never see the light of day...ever! They are THAT cringeworthy, still I wanted to write them to get the ideas out of my brain forever. You know how that is.

Anyway, I wrote a fair amount yesterday, falling short of my 5,000 words by around 800. My current total is:

69,811

I'm aiming to write enough words to make it to at least 75,623 words, which was my original goal for today. If I go over...great! If I'm under again then I'll seriously need to do something drastic to catch up. I'll check back in at the end of the day and see where I end up.

Day 131: Alright! Writing!

I actually managed to sit and do a good few solid hours of writing this evening. I'm incredibly proud of myself. I don't know what my exact total for the day was but I do know that my overall total is now:

65,623

If I keep up a pace of writing 5,000 words everyday then I should be back on target by the 26th June. So...watch this space.

Day 131 - I Can Still Make It...Maybe

I've totally been neglecting this blog, and my writing for that matter, lately and I'm feeling really bad about it but in the last couple of weeks I've had a sudden surge of story ideas (mostly fan fics) and I've been doing my best to get them all started. So, I've just taken the time to see where my wordcount is at with these new stories involved and my current wordcount total is:

59,381

So that just puts me at 190,619 words behind my target wordcount. It's bad, I admit, but it could be a heck of a lot worse since I really haven't been writing much at all. Anyway, just thought I'd pop in and let you know that I was still alive, still writing and still determined to reach my goal!

Later :)

Day 101: Did I Miss A Few Days?

Oh man, it seems like forever since I was last on here. That's entirely my own fault and before you ask I've done absolutely no writing during my absence so it'll be fun to see how far behind I am now.

Let me catch you up on what I've been doing. I'm still working at the Red Cross but I've got an application form for the British Home Stores, I'm going to apply there to hopefully finally get that paid job I've been wanting so badly. I was clearing out my room a few weeks back and found LOADS of half started stories that I'm looking forward to getting stuck into for the remainder of the year. Let's see, what else? Oh yes! California Bound : The Movie....is officially on hiatus. I've been so stressed out lately with work and illness and everything else that's been going on that I've had literally no time whatsoever to work on it so it's taking a back burner for now. I've got a list of things to do that's as long as my arm, all of it art related (a couple of portrait drawings to do for friends and a band logo and poster for another friend) I need to recapture that motivation that I had during that first week back in Januray.

Now, to the totals. Let's see what the damage is...

Last known total: 44,447 words

It's now April so I should have: 168,337 by the end of today...ouch. That makes a difference of 123,890 words. Hmm, I have no idea how I'm going to catch that up but somehow I will. Time to start writing I guess.

Day 36: Hour 3

Hour 3 - 3.00pm to 4.00pm - 2,034

Total: 6,135

I'm really bad at sticking to things. I managed to get 3 solid hours of writing done so at least I managed that and I got over 6k.

Overall Total For February: 8,198
Overall Total For Year: 44,447

Getting closer to my January goal XD. By my calculations I should be at 58,933 so I'm still 14,486 words behind but another few days like this and I should catch up in no time.

Day 36: Hours 1 and 2.

So, I've been writing for the first couple of hours and here's my stats so far.

Hour 1 - 11.30am to 12.30am - 2,069
Hour 2 - 1.00pm to 2.00pm - 2,032

Total so far: 4,101

I'm on target so far so I'm happy with that. The half hour breaks in between are useful for chilling out my brain a bit so I don't over do it. I don't think I could do 9 hours of straight writing but with the breaks in between I'm managing nicely.

Day 36: Finishing Today!

I'm going to attempt something a little crazy today. I'm going to try and finish the girls side of Love, Life and Friends today, which means writing about 20,000 words. I think I can get it done, or at least get close. I'm planning on doing 9 hours of writing today. I usually write about 2,000 words in an hour so I can squeeze in 18k and with the extra words that I write in every hour session I'm hoping that'll add up to the extra 2,000.

So, my first hour session will be from 11:30am to 12:30am, i've got 20 minutes to prepare my plot line and then I can start my first session as soon as it's half past.

Wish me luck! I'm gonna need it.

Day 35: Sick But Writing

I got little to no sleep last night since I've been feeling ill since about 3am. I've been writing for the last hour or so, working on Love, Life and Friends. I'm starting to think that if I work on it solid today I could possibly get it nearly finished if not finished today. The current wordcount for the entire story is 13,086, which is pretty short but as I've said before I don't think this story is going to reach the 50k. At the most I think it'll reach 30k. I'm just looking forward to it being finished, I've had this story in the works for about 2 or 3 years now so I don't care how long it's going to be when it's done, I just want to get it done.

As soon as I finish Love, Life and Friends I'm going to continue working on California Bound. I'm also going to start whatever story I said I was going to do during February in my first post. I'll have to look back to see which story that was exactly but hopefully I'll get a lot of it done during this month.

I'm going to be spending the rest of today doing nothing but watching films and writing. I've set myself a target of at least 10k for today, which is acheivable at the moment but depending on how I feel later in the day and how much inspiration I get for the story I might not make it.

Day 33: Writing Again.

I am officially writing again. I went back over all my totals from January again and my total is actually 33,981 not whatever I put yesterday. I have 16 stories that I wrote during January (well 13 stories, 2 short stories and 1 script). I'm back working on Love, Life and Friends at the moment. I've worked out that with my target of 66,019 I need to write around 2,450 words everyday. My wordcount for the day is currently 4,414 so I think I'm doing well. If I keep going at this rate I'm hoping that I can get Love, Life and Friends finished by the end of this week. I start work at the British Red Cross tomorrow at 10am and I think I'm working through til 5pm but I'm not 100% sure on my working hours yet. I won't be doing much writing during Mondays to Thursdays now since those are the days that I'll be working but Friday to Sunday I'll be able to write like a maniac again.

So, my goal for this week is basically to get Love, Life and Friends finished. I haven't been on the WriYe website for a while and I'm not sure whether they'll have culled me or not...I keep meaning to go on it but I never get around to it. I think I'm just gonna let them cull me, having to keep checking the site was sort of getting on my nerves so it'll be easier for me to just update on my progress here. I'll still keep my target of 600,000 words for the year and then maybe next year I'll keep posting on the WriYe website and stick to it. I'm hoping that Love, Life and Friends will come in near the 50k mark, it's at 10k just now. I don't think there's going to be enough story in the first draft for more than 50k, at least it doesn't look like it at the moment. Once I get that story done I'm going to go back to working on California Bound to get that story finished. California Bound is sitting on around 9k words at the moment but I've been figuring out the storyline for it a bit more so I know roughly where everything is going.

I'm hoping that by the end of February I'll have completed Love, Life and Friends and California Bound and have my next novel started. Not sure which story I want to write next, my list from the start of the year has been completely thrown out of the window. I'm thinking I might try rewriting my NaNo 07, ever since I got the proof copy from Createspace I've been reading through it and seeing a lot of mistakes that I want to fix. So, Love, Life and Friends, California Bound and Destiny Approaches. That's my February sorted.

Day 32: February!

Would you look at that! It's February! January flew by. I'll admit I didn't do much writing during the end of it but I did get some done so let me just get the old calculator out and see how much I wrote during January...

January Total - 36,249 words.

So, I was 13,751 words short of my monthly 50K total. To make up for that my goal for February is 63,751 to make sure that I stay on track.

I think I'll continue working on Love, Life and Friends and California Bound in February and I'm also counting what I type for California Bound's script in my wordcount. I hope that I'll get all three completely finished during this month and hopefully I'll get a good start on whatever story I had planned for February, I'll have to check to remember what it was.

I'm thinking I might struggle with the wordcount goal a bit now that I've got a job...well, almost got a job. I've got an interview with the British Red Cross today at 11am but I was there Wed, Thur and Fri last week to fill in forms and stuff like that so I think the interview is just a formality at this point. So, that's a good thing. Next step is getting a job that actually pays me since the Red Cross job is voluntary. If you're wondering why I'm going for a voluntary job instead of a paying job it's because I have no experience working in retail shops so I'm going for experience and also because I haven't had a job in almost 3 years.

And while I'm here, California Bound : The Movie is coming along nicely. I've been working on the first part of the animation, the first scene is completely storyboarded and I've begun working on the backgrounds for scene two (one is complete and coloured). I was using Flash to piece it all together for timing purposes but it decided to break on me yesterday and I can't fix it so I've switched to ToonBoom for the moment and I have no idea how to use it so this is causing a problem in my animating department. In the voice acting department, I've had 6 people sign up to audition for roles, 1 being a friend, 2 being Lizzy's friends and 3 from the NaNoWriMo forums. I've emailed all of them (except my friend, we talk over msn) but I haven't had anyone get back to me yet about it. I'm thinking this could be for two reasons. 1. The fact that I mentioned the script wasn't finished, they might not like that I'm working in chunks rather than a straight A to B. 2. They didn't like the concept and have decided not to go ahead with the voice audition afterall. Neither bother me and if that is their decision then that's fine but I would appreciate it if they got back to me, even if it was to request a longer script...I have written a little more now than when I first emailed them. I really want this project to work so I'm working really hard on it but it'll collapse under me if I can't get a good team of actors behind me.

So, fingers crossed that they'll all get back to me soon and also that I can keep up with work, writing and animating.

Day 24: Rubber Chicken.

I had an amazing weekend! It was so much fun, I haven't laughed so hard in ages. The main thing that I'll remember from the weekend was the rubber chicken. During one of the main sessions of the conference there was a drama performance. They had a rubber chicken which they used to say they were making chicken for a meal but then when they couldn't find the doll that was supposed to be the baby they used the chicken as the baby instead. The chicken made an appearance with the mime afterwards, he was a little upset that the chicken got a bigger applause than he did, and it also made an appearance when the storyteller mentioned the word chicken in his story (someone in the wings launched the chicken across the stage and the storyteller couldn't stop laughing.)

But anyway, that was the weekend. I took my proof copy of my 2007 NaNo novel with me to read over and edit and I took an A4 notepad and a printed version of California Bound so I could edit what I've got and also start working on a script...none of that happened. My weekend was literally busy from the moment I woke up to the moment I went to bed, I didn't have a moments spare time. So, I got no work done over the weekend whatsoever. I'm going to be working on scripts and things over the next few days, I've had a few people saying they'd like to voice someone and I'm eager to get scripts out to them so I can see how they sound.

I'm going for a job tomorrow! Big thing for me considering I haven't ever had a job....ever! It's not a paid job, I don't have any experience for things like that yet. I'm going to see if I can get a voluntary job in a British Red Cross shop in the high street near me, I'd love to do my bit for a charity and Red Cross seems like a good one. I'm pretty sure they're helping out in Haiti at the moment. I really hope they take me on, as much as I like having all day every day to do whatever I want whenever I want I've gotten some pretty bad habits from it so getting a job of any kind will help me in a huge way I think.

Anyway, that's enough from me. If anyone has any information on voice actors then please feel free to email me at:
no_brains@hotmail.co.uk

Day 20: Oops, I Missed A Few Days.

Wow, I haven't posted anything here in almost a week! I have a reason for that, really. I've been busy...just not with writing. I haven't written anything in a while. I've been working on some animations. Small practice animations to help me get better at 2D animations before I tackle doing California Bound : The Movie. I want to get back to writing but I just don't seem to have the energy for it at the moment. I probably won't get any writing done this week, I'll probably attempt to get some done next week but I've been so tired lately that it probably won't happen. All my energy, when I'm awake, focuses on my animations.

I have no idea where all my enthusiasm from the start of the year went but it's definitely gone now. I'm going to try and get it back this weekend. I'm going away to a conference in Eastbourne this weekend, leaving VERY early Friday morning (which will kill me) and coming back Sunday afternoon. I can't take my laptop with me so I'll have no access to internet or my word docs but hopefully being away from them for three days will give me some renewed energy for when I get back to them and I'll start writing again...hopefully.

So, on the writing front it's pretty much the same as last time I posted. On every other front...well, let's see. The art lesson with Hannah went very well. For being seven years old she did a really good drawing of Snow White (Sure it wasn't up to Disney standard but it was really good for her first attempt.) For her next lesson, which will be next Saturday I think, we're going to draw Snow White again and then Ariel, her favourite Disney Princess.

The animations are going well, I've got the drawing thing down, I think. I did a short animation of a boy rolling his eyes and opening his mouth like he was speaking. It was 21 drawings, which is about 1 second of animation unless it's slowed down slightly. I need to work on the movement of the head and get better facial expressions. Considering I want to start animating California Bound, I'm going to take a scene from it and try to animate that. I've got basic sketches down for Cody and Pippa, so I know what they look like or at least how they should look. Since I'm not all that great at really drawing in my own style, I'm trying to recreate a Disney style with this animation and so I've based my characters on two Disney characters: Cody is based on Jim Hawkins from Treasure Planet and Pippa is based on Ariel from The Little Mermaid. I've written down a 45 step plan that will lead from the early stages of this scene animation right through to completion, I'm currently on Step 2. As you can probably tell by how much I talk about it, I am quite passionate about animation. It used to be 3D animation (which is what I studied in college) but it's now definitely 2D, I've fallen in love with it.

So, to sum up this post in a paragraph. I'm going to start writing again on Monday, I'm going to start animating the scene for California Bound over the weekend during my free time, I'll post a link to it once it's uploaded on YouTube so you can tell me what you think. I'm putting out an open request for voice actors! I need a male and a female because as a Scottish girl trying to be an American girl and guy it really doesn't work. So if you could help me out or know someone who could PLEASE let me know so I can send you a rough script so you can record your voice and send the voice clip back to me, I would love you guys FOREVER! and you would get to be in a movie once I start the proper thing...if you wanted to go for the whole movie and not just the small scene clip. I'm rambling but the begging needed to be done. Who knows, my little animated movie could become the next big YouTube hit and your voice would be in it :P I suppose while I'm at it I could add that I'll need 3 more guy voices for the other main characters in the film...just throwing that out there.

Anyway, enough talking from me. I'm never skipping six days again, even if I have nothing to really report on I'll think of something to put in here. So, if you and/or your friends would like to be my ultimate best friends by recording your voices for my movie please leave a comment to let me know and I will love you all forever because you would seriously be helping me out ALOT, especially considering I don't really know enough guys to help out with the voices. I really am begging with this, I need the voices to be done before the animation starts because I need to know the timing of the voices so I can animate the people. Am I begging too much now? I'm getting annoying aren't I? I'll stop now.



Please?

Day 14: Busy, Busy.

I've got a busy day ahead of me. I'm going to be starting a Robert Pattinson drawing for a friend, finishing off the chapter I was writing in California Bound, sketching out my characters for the animation I plan on doing and coming up with voices for all 5 of the main characters...with only my voice...

I've already started the storyboard and have about 1min 30secs of the movie planned out already, now I just need to find the time to animate it all. Hopefully I can get started on that venture tomorrow after some more planning today. I'm actually really exciting about this animation because if I can pull it off I think it'll turn out to be awesome.

Day 13: Day Off

Not much to write today, I'm feeling really tired at the moment even though I had a pretty good sleep last night. Going to do some drawing today instead of writing, got a lot of stuff to go through and I still need to prepare an art lesson for later.

I wrote a couple hundred words yesterday but it wasn't much. I'll get back to writing tomorrow probably. For the moment I'm drawing Robert Pattinson for a friend and then I'm preparing a lesson about how to draw Snow White for another friend and then I'm going to attempt to turn myself into a Disney Character just for the fun of it.

Think I might actually do that list in reverse actually, not really in the mood to draw realistically.

Day 12: California Bound : The Movie!

What? There's going to be a movie? I know that's what you were thinking and yes there will be...just not a Hollywood style movie with big star actors or anything like that. Before dropping out of college I was in a 3D Animation class and I still like to dabble in animation, although these days it's mostly 2D. So, I've decided to make California Bound into an animated movie for my friends and family to enjoy if they so wish. It's something to fill my days, test my animation skills and it'll also challenge me to make a full movie animation (Longest animation i've ever made was 3 minutes long). I'm looking forward to making it, I'm already starting to work on the Storyboards for the first little bit. Tomorrow I'm going to start the animating part of the process and hopefully I'll have a few minutes of animation done by the end of tomorrow.

But to have a full movie, I need a full novel. I'm about to finish the second of the twelve points of the plot thing and I'll have just over 10k when I'm done. I was going to go back to Love, Life and Friends but I think I'm going to stick with California Bound for the moment. I'm trying to find a piece of music to open the film with while I sketch out the scenes, haven't found the perfect song yet but I do have a song that I can use if I don't find the perfect one. I think the animation is going to take me all year to complete, it's not an easy process and it takes a heck of a lot of planning and then I have to find music, sound effects, voices, etc. I found out yesterday that it takes the team of writers/animators/actors that work on The Simpsons 9 months to make 1 episode. So a huge team take 9 months to do 30 minutes...I'm one person going for a movie length in a year...talk about crazy!

The year's looking better already :P

Day 11: Lovely, Lovely Words

I'm back to writing! Yay! I thought that writer's block was going to last forever but I wrote 2,366 words this morning. I still feel lousy but at least it's not causing me to stop writing anymore. I'm aiming to get California Bound over 10k today and then I'll go back to Love, Life and Friends I think. I'm getting to the really good part in both stories although I've estimated that California Bound will finish with around 75k words and Love, Life and Friends might not even reach the 50k.

I've found a 12 step plot planner type thing in one of the writing guide books that I've got that I used to work out the middle section of California Bound, I'm currently on the second section out of the twelve and almost at 10k. When I go back to Love, Life and Friends I'm going to use the same 12 step plot planner to get a better grip on its plot so I can figure out where in the story I actually am.

Day 10: Prologue

I was reading through a few of the Writing Books I've got lying around today and I realised that I'm not particularly fond of the way California Bound starts. I think it needs a Prologue and then the rest needs an edit before I can continue on with it. I'm pretty sure this is why I've been unable to continue with the story, my subconscious has been trying to tell me that it needs a Prologue.

So, I'm going to work on the Prologue for the rest of the evening and then I'll edit it tomorrow and then hopefully I'll be able to get things back on track.

Day 10: Sick Again.

I feel like crap today, spent all of it in bed so far (it's 5pm) and I've only come downstairs to watch What Do Kids Know? and Just Dance on the TV before going back to bed again. No writing today, I don't really have the energy to type a lot today.

Day 9: So Very Tired

It's 3pm...I don't think I got any sleep last night whatsoever. I kept tossing and turning in my bed, I don't remember actually sleeping (but then no one ever does really) but I know that the time gaps from me checking the clock all the time weren't that big so if I did sleep it wasn't for long. Which is why I'm still in my bed. I can't be bothered to get up at all and I have to try and muster up the energy to go out to a party tonight! Urgh. It starts at 7pm and I'm going down with my mum at half 6 so I've got about 3 hours to get out of bed and get ready for it.

On the writing front...I've got nothing to say because I have done nothing. Bad, I know. I downloaded some pretty fonts the other day and I've used them in my chapter headings now instead of just having the same font throughout. I also added a title page so now when I read over what I've written in the full reading format option thingy it feels like I'm reading a proper book. Granted, it made the story look a little nicer but it didn't help my inspiration flow. I haven't written a single word in two days (except for the hastily written ideas that I scribbled down but I don't count that as words).

Maybe if the party doesn't end too late I'll be able to come home and write 1,000 words at least. Maybe.

Day 8: What Have I Written?

So, considering my two novels that I'm actually working on this month make up such a small amount of my overall total I thought I would list exactly what I've written so far this month.



Love, Life and Friends - The Girls = 4,075

Love, Life and Friends - The Guys = 3,179 (L,L+F Total = 7,254)

California Bound = 5,887

For The Love Of My Daughter = 1,650 (Short Story)

Moving = 627 (Beginning of novel I might work on later in the year)

Cut = 876 (Short Story)

Dreams Come True...Right? = 333 (Beginning of novel I might work on later in the year)

The Office = 5,121 (Beginning of novel I will work on later in the year)

Love Is Blind = 809 (Beginning of novel I will work on later in the year)

Lucky Stars = 2,537 (Beginning of novel I will work on later in the year)

If Only... = 1,301 (Beginning of novel I will work on later in the year)

Lands Of Sildoon = 1,547 (Beginning of novel I will work on later in the year)

Expect The Unexpected = 967 (Beginning of novel I will work on later in the year)

Once Upon A Time = 587 (Beginning of novel I will work on later in the year)



Adding all those numbers up gives me my current total of 30,169 words. I'm really impressed with myself despite having about 3 non writing days so far. I'm only going for a low target of 3,000 words today since I have a lot of other stuff to do that's going to keep me busy for most of the day but I think I'll manage to get at least 3k. I want to try and get California Bound up to 10,000 words today if I can and then tomorrow I'll go back to working on Love, Life and Friends.

I still need to do more research for California Bound since I still don't know what route they take to travel across the country and that's probably the most important part of the story. I'll probably do that on Sunday when I have more time to just sit and write/research. Today and tomorrow are absolutely jam packed for me. I'm also wanting to get back to Love, Life and Friends because my inspiration is running a little low for California Bound. There's something about Jason's character that just zaps any energy I have for the story. Curse you Jason *shakes fist* That being said, Cody and Pippa give me tons of inspiration and Karl...well...we all love Karl.

On the Love, Life and Friends front, since I'm talking about everything in this post. I'm at a pretty big point in the story plot wise but I'm not really sure how to proceed with it. I'm going to give it some thought throughout the rest of the day and hopefully, come tomorrow, I'll have it all planned out and everything will be fine. I love all the characters in this story, none of them give me as much trouble as Jason does so I don't tend to hover over the keyboard as much with this. The only problem I have is losing motivation far too quickly. I think I've already hit the wall for this story and all I need to do is push through it and everything will be fine again.

And while I'm here I might as well add that my research wall for My American Adventure has gotten bigger over the past few days. It's starting to dominate my wall and is looking full of information. I've decided to mostly ditch the last idea I had for the plot for this and I'll come up with a newer, better idea closer to the time. I'm hoping that with all the information that I have for this story it'll flow smoothly and I won't have any problems with it. I'm looking forward to meeting my characters for it, I'm sure they'll be an eccentric bunch. I haven't done any planning character wise for this, other than figuring out that there will be a girl and two guys and a family of people.

Well, I don't think I've done a post this long since my very first one way back in December! I'm going to stop rambling on now and actually do some writing. I came up with a few good scenes for California Bound last night while I was sleeping and managed to wake myself long enough to write them down so I need to get to the point where I can add those scenes in. I'm hoping that the little bit about Jason that's in one of the parts I wrote down will help to open his character up to me a little bit more and I won't get stuck everytime I have to write about him.

Anyway, no more talking! Sorry about the super long post, I guess I had more to say than I thought. I'll go back to writing now and leave you alone for a while.

Day 8: California Bound!

No, I'm not taking a trip to America (I wish!) I have finally come up with a title for my previously untitled novel! Hurrah! It's not perfect and it will definitely change as I write it or when I finish but it works for the moment and it means I can finally stop saying 'my untitled novel'! Whoo!

Can you tell I'm excited about this tiny piece of information?

Day 8: The Day After The Day Off.

I decided to have a rest yesterday and spent the day watching movies and playing Just Dance on the wii with my mum. It was good fun but I'm totally shattered now. I kind of missed writing about my characters lives in my untitled story (yes, it's still untitled). I'm going to write for an hour or so before going to sleep to give myself a little boost going into tomorrow.

I've got a busy day ahead. I've got to plan the art lesson, prepare a sunday school lesson, write some more of my story and help prepare a hall for a get together on Saturday. Not sure when I'm going to find time to relax in amongst all of that but I'm sure I'll manage.

I've decided that I'm going to write my untitled story until it's at 15k and then I'll switch back to Love, Life and Friends and write that story until it's at 15k and then switch back to my untitled story. I'll keep switching them out every 15k so I can keep the inspiration flowing and not get too bored with either story.

I'm not going to bother putting goals in these anymore, I never stick to them. If I have no set goals then whatever I write will be on target :D

Day 7: End Of Edit.

I just finished editing the first 15 pages of my untitled story and its wordcount is now 5,887. During the edit I managed to add an amazingly high total of 82 words to my wordcount. Ah well, I'm just glad that I've slightly improved the story.

Now to sleep as it is once again 3am...

Day 7: Edit!

We're a week into the year! Well, near enough anyway. Let's reflect on how badly I've done lately :P

My original goal was to write 1,613 words every day with the overall target of having 50,000 words by the end of the month. After the first day I decided that I wanted to write 5,000 words every day which would give me an overall target of 155,000 by the end of the month. I'm currently sitting somewhere between the two.

I started the month off with the plan to write at least 50,000 words for my WiP Love, Life and Friends and so far I have written around 7,000 for it. I have currently abandoned that novel in favour of my untitled novel at the moment which is sitting at 5,802 words.

I decided two hours ago that I wanted to edit the untitled novel before continuing with it after recieving a few comments about it. So, I'm currently editing page 8 of 15 and will be adding all the changes before continuing.

So, currently, my new goals stand as this:

Target Wordcount Per Day: 3,000
Target Final Wordcount: 105,000
Novel(s) For January: Love, Life and Friends (50k) Untitled (55k)

The amounts in brackets are the minimums that I want for the stories, I'm hoping that they'll be much longer than that, especially the untitled one.

Anyway, that's all I have to update on at the moment. I'm going to finish editing all the pages and putting in the changes before I go to bed, which at this rate will be around 3AM again. Tomorrow when I get up I'll be ready to jump straight into continuing to write my untitled novel.

(Have I stressed enough that that novel is untitled? I really can't think of one for it and it's annoying me!)

Day 6: Man, I Suck!

I don't know what it is but over the past couple of days I just haven't been able to stick to my targets at all. I can't tell you how much I wrote in the last 5 hours since I don't even have my document open at the moment. I think I wrote solidly from 5 to 6 and then stopped, watched the third Lord of the Rings movie for a bit and then went downstairs. So, no marathon after all.

Still got a good hour and a half of writing time left today and I'm going to use it! If I'm lucky I might reach 5k for today at least. I'm hoping I will.

Gotta get writing!

Day 6: Writing Marathon

It's almost 5pm here so I'm going to type this quickly so I can get it all down before then.

I'm going to have a writing marathon to try and boost my wordcount up to where I'd like it to be. So form 5pm to 10pm I'm going to be pretty much writing non-stop. I average around 1,500 words per hour so using my very limited math skills I think I should get around 7,500 words...I think. I've already written 1,998 words today so if I managed the 7,500 then it'll bring my total up to just under 9,500. I think I'll push myself for a 10k day today and see where it gets me.

I'll update about my progress sometime after 10pm tonight.

Day 6: Critiques?

I'm so tired right now, someone remind me not to stay awake writing past midnight. It's currently 3AM and I've spent the last hour or so writing another 1,385 words on my new story. It's now a grand total of 4,089 words and that's only the first hour and a half of story. I really do like this one and I would love to get some feedback on it. Obviously it's not very far on. I was just wondering two things.

1. Would anybody be interested in reading my story to give me some feedback on it?

and

2. If you are interested, would you rather read it when it was finished or would you be okay with getting small chunks of it whenever I finish a reasonable amount of writing?

I'm just wondering, if you could comment on this post with answers I'd be really grateful :)

Day 6: Targets Will Be Met!

Yes, I will make my targets today! It will happen, I have nothing else to distract me today so I should be able to get the wordcounts I want. I'm going to do some writing before I go to sleep, it's just after 12AM so I'm thinking maybe staying up til 1:30AM writing and get a little boost for the day.

So, I'm going to write as much as I can of my new idea, currently untitled, and then I'll move on to working on Love, Life and Friends again. So, with that in mind, I need new targets.

Target Wordcount: 8,000
Target Total: 35,000

I know that the two targets don't make sense in terms of what my current wordcount is but I'm planning to go above and beyond the 8,000 but I definitely want to reach 35,000 today. I've got a lot of typing to do so I'd better get to it.

Day 5: Total Tonight

I'm giving it a break tonight. I like my new story and I like writing it but I'm giving it a break tonight. I've ended tonight with just 2,705 words but I'm still happy with that. I'll have a proper go at writing tomorrow. Definitely getting my 4k.

So, my total now is...I don't know XD Whatever it was yesterday plus 2,705. I don't have my usual notebooks beside me at the moment so I have no idea what my numbers are.

Day 5: Novel 13

I know I said I wasn't going to say anything about the new idea that I came up with but I ended up starting it instead of continuing Love, Life and Friends so I guess I can let you guys know a little about what it.

It's currently untitled and I haven't really thought out a proper summary for it yet but here's the gist of it. Four friends are living in North Chatham, MA leading normal, mundane lives. They recieve wedding invites to their other friend's wedding in Santa Cruz, CA. Instead of flying there or travelling together, the four decide to make a bet. They race each other to the wedding. They begin the journey in North Chatham, with a banged up, used car each and just $5,000 to keep them going from North Chatham to Santa Cruz. They have just five days to make the journey but they soon discover that their journeys will be anything but easy.
I'm going for a comedic point of view with this. It's in the third person but tells each of the four characters individual journeys. I've only researched enough to write up to the point where they're about to head out. I've been writing for about two hours on and off and I've got 1,755 words that is just two of the characters getting up and heading to work! I really do love this idea and can't wait to see where this story goes.

Excerpt:
'As if some invisible buzzer had gone off they both dashed for the door. It was only a few steps away and as they both reached the door at the same time, they crashed into each other and the door. They both grabbed a hold of the handle as they slid down the door towards the floor. The handle followed them to the floor. Cody looked at his hand in disbelief for a few seconds before bursting into laughter. Pippa frowned at him and looked up at the door, where a hole now sat in place of the handle.'

It's full of typos and bad grammer but I'll fix that another day. At the moment, I'm just happy that it's turning out nicely. I think this is a novel I'll want to get critiques from.

Day 5: Drawing and Writing

I'm going to reach yesterday's goals today, definitely. Ideally I want to double yesterday's goal so that I'm back on target but if I manage to write the 4k and nothing else I'll be happy.

I've got to split my focus today. I'm going to be tutoring a friend's little girl soon to help her with her drawing and I need to start working on the first lesson that I'll give her. So I've come up with a plan. I rediscovered my dad's Lord of the Rings DVD's this morning and I'm going to watch them all in a big marathon today. So, while watching the first film I'm going to be working on the art lesson, while watching the second film I'll be writing and while watching the third film I'll be researching for my future planned novels. As long as I don't get too distracted by the films I should get plenty of work done.

And speaking of future planned novels, I came up with a new idea a few days ago that I really want to work on so I'm doing 2 novels this month. Although I still need to research the new novel a bit (it's set in America). I'm keeping this one a secret until it's underway though, that way if I don't start it I can use it next year instead.

So, the plan for today is pretty much this, writing wise:

Target Wordcount: 4,000
Target Total Wordcount: 29,000

Ideal Target Wordcount: 8,000
Ideal Total Worcount: 33,000

We'll see how it goes.

Day 4: Oh Dear

So, I was just going to write all day today again and instead of doing that I went out shopping. So, my wordcount is 0 and it's 7pm. Sure there's another 5 hours in the day but I'm hanging out with my mum tonight so I won't have any time to do any writing today so my goals for today are going to roll on to tomorrow instead.

Ah well, no harm done really, I'm still way ahead of my target already.

Day 4: Surprise Morning.

So, my hamster was chewing at the plastic tube in her cage last night loudly enough that it kept me awake for a good few hours. Because of that I just woke up (12pm) and my mum just handed me an envelope that I got in the post. Turns out it's pre printed signed Hugh Laurie cards that I requested thanks to a site called movieeye.com. That site is great, if gives a bunch of addresses where you can write to a huge number of celebrities asking for autographs. Some will get you a genuine autograph, personalised for you and some will get you a pre printed autograph. I went for pre printed to start with, requested it on October 30th 2009 and got it on the 4th January 2010. I'm still happy though, might go for the real thing next time.

But back to writing! My wrist is still a little stiff this morning so I'm not going to be able to write much today and I wasn't planning on doing a lot of writing anyway. I'm putting together some things to start up my new art tutoring business. I need to do something to get some extra money and art's my thing so it fits until I can get a proper job. So, my goals for today are:

Target Wordcount for Day: 4,000
Target Worcount: 29,000

Day 3: My Wrist Hurts

I guess this is what I get for writing for the entire day. My left wrist is really sore at the moment so I'm giving the writing a rest for the day. It's only 10:22pm but I've written more than enough today to keep me happy.

I joined a community on LiveJournal today called Runaway Tales which gives loads of prompts in the form of ice cream flavours. I'm going to be giving some of those a try when my focus on the main story comes grinding to a halt.

As it happens, today I worked on getting some of my Wip's started that I plan on working on during the other months of the year since my inspiration has gone a little dry for Love, Life and Friends at the moment. I managed to write a good amount for each which will give me nice boosts to start with on the right month.

My wordcount for Love, Life and Friends at the moment is 7,254. Speaking of wordcounts, here's what I've got so far:

Total Wordcount for Day: 12,223
Total Wordcount: 24,282

Day 3: Words Galore.

I don't know if it's because I'm working to a dealine like NaNoWriMo or if it's because this is something new for me but I seem to be on a roll as far as my wordcount is concerned. The story is coming along nicely too but I'm still impressed by how much I've been able to write in the past 3 days, I haven't even been able to write this much during NaNo before.

Target for Jan 3rd: 7,000
Target Total: 20,000

Total for Jan 3rd so far: 4,576
Total so far: 16,281

Still got loads of time left today, it's only 2:13pm after all, so I think I'll be able to make my quota if not go way over it. I think I'm going to set myself some new targets for today.

Target for Jan 3rd: 10,000
Target Total: 23,000

Yeah, that sounds more reasonable a challenge for me now. Back to writing!

Day 3: It's Still Too Early.

It's now 3am and I'm having trouble sleeping. Good news is I've written 2,356 words today already :D

Bad news is I'm now extremely tired and can't sleep.

I'm going to try and get some sleep now and then hopefully when I wake up I'll be able to write some more.

Targets for Jan 3rd:
Wordcount for day - 7,000
Wordcount total - 20,000

I think that's achievable, my current stats are:
Wordcount for day - 2,356
Wordcount total - 14,061

Hopefully, I'll sleep now.

Day 3: It's Too Early.

It's 12:30am, I'm tired and I want to go to sleep but I have a few things I want to say first.

1. It snowed again. Really heavy snow too. I thought we were getting rid of it, I was actually able to see the grass again, but no. Stupid snow ¬¬

2. I upped my wordcount to 4,805 before heading out the door at 7pm (I only got back at 11:40pm so I didn't have time to write anymore.) This makes my current wordcount total 11,705 which I'm proud of.

When I get up tomorrow I'm going to sit down and write and I'm not going to do anything until I've typed up my 3,000 daily word goal. By the end of today I'll have a total wordcount of at least 15,000 words...hopefully.

Anyway, goodnight all.

Day 2: Pushing On

Alright, I'm feeling slightly better and I've managed to write something too. I've lowered my daily target from 5,000 to 3,000 words because it seems more attainable for me. Having said that it's only 5:30pm and I'm sitting on 3,838 words just now, bringing my total wordcount up to 10,738 words. I'm going to keep writing for another hour I think and then I'll have to stop because I'm going out at 7pm. Not sure what time I'll be getting back but if it's not too late then I'll maybe write for another hour before heading to bed.

Target Wordcount for Day: 6,900 (same as yesterday's total wordcount)
Target Total Wordcount : 13,800

Don't know whether I'll reach those numbers but if I do that'll be amazing considering my original wordcount goal for each day was 1,613 for January. So with my current wordcount I'm actually about 4 days ahead of schedule :D

Day 2: Sick :(

I got very little sleep last night. I was awake til around 4am with really bad nausea, I think I ate too much yesterday. I did get some sleep but when I woke up I felt just as tired...I still feel just as tired actually. I've done absolutely no writing whatsoever today so far and since I'm still feeling a little sick I'm not sure whether I have the concentration to do any writing at all today. I'm supposed to be going out tonight and I'm not sure whether I'll be going to that either.

Today's a bad day already :(

Day 1: What A Day!

I've spent most of the day writing, taking a few breaks to spend time with my family and add information to my research wall. I need to write 1,667 words each day but was aiming for 5,000 and today I managed to write 6,900 words.

I'm hoping I can keep the momentum going and write the same amount tomorrow as well and keep my big wordcounts going for the rest of the year.

Total Wordcount: 6,900
Wordcount Today: 6,900
Last Sentence Written:
'Ryan continued to get annoyed.'

Day 1: Happy New Year

I stayed up until 3AM this morning writing purely because I couldn't sleep for the amount of fireworks going off in my area. They were pretty to look at though. :)

I kept writing up until ten to three and then gave up. I've now got a solid 4,681 words to kick off my year of writing. I'm not stopping at that either. My family will be sitting down for a lovely meal together (I'm such a fussy eater that instead of having the traditional chicken/turkey/beef/whatever I'm getting a cheeseburger :D) in about an hour or so and then I'll stick around and chat with my gran for a bit afterwords and then it'll be straight back up the stairs to park my butt in a chair, turn on House M.D Season 4 (I like a little background noise when writing) and start pounding the crap out of my keyboard so I can get as much of the beginning of the story out as I can today. My original plan was to have 3,000 words by the end of today, I've already passed that so my new target is 7,500.

Anyway, Happy New Year everyone. This is usually the time that people will give their New Year resolutions. I only have one: Get Fit. Seriously, I'm a healthy weight and I'm not fat or anything but I get out of breath climbing two flights of stairs because of the amount of junk food that I eat. I very rarely exercise so that's what my resolution is for the year, to exercise everyday and get in shape. :)

Off to eat my junk food New Year meal :P