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November 27th, 2009

Day 27: almost there.
POSTED AT 12:59 PM

I have five thousand more words to go. 4,483 to be exact, but might as well pad it a bit, as the nanowrimo.org verifier varies by a few hundred words. (Heard it's mainly due to recognitions of dashes and em-dashes, but who cares?). I mean, who on earth stops a novel at EXACTLY 50k words anyway? Haha.

It's the Haj break today... so I have all afternoon (and all night) to write so... I AM SO GOING TO FINISH THIS TONIGHT!

Editing will come probably next month, though I'm a little more keen to continue editing the Aloof / Would You Just Listen story (been working on amalgamating both and streamlining them, since it's somewhere about the same timeline).

If all goes well, book review of Ten Silver Coins: The Drylings of Acchora by Andrew Kooman should be done tomorrow. (Assuming that I finish the nano novel tonight.)

I have too many plans, really. Just too many. But. Happy.

Euphoria.

Nothing beats a healthy wordcount. =)

Now for lunch, then some sprinting. Word sprinting, that is.

Reading: Prince, hahaha!
Listening to: clickety click of happy fingers

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November 23rd, 2009

lunch: things that make me laugh
POSTED AT 01:22 PM

natanna

Noted on the toilet door:

DO NOT SQUAT!

It will be dangerous to squat.
It will be embarrassing when people come to rescue you.

Bomba people will be called.

(cartoon of man with a foot stuck in the toilet bowl being carried out by the fire dept)

Well, that's not verbatim, but... maybe I'll take a pic the next time.

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November 22nd, 2009

Day 22!
POSTED AT 04:48 PM

natanna

I think I try to cram too many things into one Sunday. Or maybe I am too last minute a person.

So far, nanowrimo + vox prac + body jam + vox class = quick run through, maybe 200 words and being late.

So it's four-ish in the afternoon and I think I need to get some wordcount down before dinner. 2012 maybe after that.

I spend a lot of money when the elephant comes home

Meh.

Goals for the day: at least another 2k words, then maybe the book review.

We'll see how it goes.

It's funny how my blog turns into something like a journal when I'm doing nanowrimo. Have too many words to spew out in the novel to think of anything funny and interesting to say.

Maybe I'll post an excerpt. Hm, yes.

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“Ah Girl!” he called as he entered the apartment (With the L appropriately not pronounced, in the typical Chinese-school way – something like… 'ah girrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr' ).

There was no response.

“Oi Ah Gir ah! Are you awake or not?” he called again.

There was a grumbling from the smaller room, and Princess came out. “What you want now?”

“Can make me Milo ah? I need a drink before I sleep.”

“Make by yourself lah. Big baby.”

“Aiya, do it for your kor la. Simple thing like that also…”

“Fine, fine, fine. Bum la you.”

“Ha, and then what was that thing about buying a Ming vase from that that Ting ting something shop? Too rich is it?”

“Haiya cheap only la. Less than hundred.”

“Imitation is it?”

“Dunno la.”

“Then why you buy?”

“Pretty what.”

Prince shook his head at this. “Girls!” he exclaimed. Taking his steaming hot Milo from his sister’s hands, he went into his room and shut the door.

Princess grumbled at his closed door for a while, then switched off the lights and went back to bed, complaining about pampered little boys who refused to grow up.

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(Ok, that was rather random, but I liked that bit )

(8 more days, 15k to go. Time to buck up.)

(My writing's normal curve ends at about 30k. For some reason. I'll be a short novelist, I think. But some classic novels are quite short at any rate. Argh. Okay. Time to write.)

(I wish twitter weren't so distracting.)

(Bye now. Really. Yes. Bye.)

*post*

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November 19th, 2009

in lieu of a post, a chat.
POSTED AT 12:09 AM

natanna

I say: the continuing saga of anna vs cockroach

t says: and it seems the cockroach always wins

I say: there was a huge one in the hotel bathroom
I say: NO I KILLED IT!!!!
I say: SMASHED FLAT!!!

t says: haha
t says: is it stuck on the floor

I say: haha
I say: no no it's in the dust bin
I say: which i'm so paranoid i still occasionally check to make sure it hasn't disappeared
I say: lol

t says: right
t says: lol
t says: if there is one
t says: there might be more

I say: i knowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
I say:
I say: do u think i should ask the hotel staff to spray the room now.??
I say: but then afterwards can't sleep cos of the smell
I say: hai.
I say: i hate this

t says: hmm
t says: no point asking for a change room also
t says: lol u just have to get over ur fears

I say: haha
I say: the problem with this fear is that it's irrational
I say: so it's hard to try to talk myself out of it

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