Day 1
POSTED AT 03:47 PM

natanna

3:46pm and I am on top of the goal at 1,688 words. 

I might rewrite though. It's not quite working out. 

nanowrimo update.
POSTED AT 11:56 AM

natanna

9,396 words for now. I am behind on the word count. Gah.

No time to blog right now.

Day 7: the PM update
POSTED AT 06:31 PM

natanna

My month widget doesn't seem to be working right. Hope they get it fixed.

Am finally back on top of the word count for today, yayness. Silly LNO yesterday set me back from the 1 day's lead I used to have. Write or Die really helps. 

Will (probably) skip supper after church tonight and do more writing in case tomorrow gets busy. Tomorrow looks something like this:

0900 breakfast and last minute practice for vocal classes
1105 body jam 
1315 vocal classes
1415 lunch
1500 get to work to answer those queries (i don't know how long this will take) 

Yeah, it doesn't look like much right NOW, but believe me, time really gets out of hand when you think that you have a lot of 'down time' in between (which I don't).

Right now, I should have dinner. Church is at 7.30.

And as an aside, my mouse really sucks. It doesn't click right anymore. Both the one at home and the one for work. Time to get new ones. 

Reading: Prince, hahaha!

Day 8: the PM post.
POSTED AT 11:21 PM

natanna

A very productive day, this. Am happy.

Gaze at my word count in awe, I wrote 4k words in 2 hours. Yay, me!

Now I'm hungry. 

Day 14
POSTED AT 11:22 AM

natanna

Okay, so good news and bad:

The word count is well above the daily target despite the 3 non-writing days this week.

This weekend is messy with stuff, and apparently I'm on duty. Hm.

I'm going to be in SP next week and may not have internet access. Ugh. 

The writing is slow today, mainly because I'm distracted and I don't really know where I want the story to go.

On the other hand, I now have fairies in my story!

I wanted to work on the script, but haven't. Should probably look at it now. 

Oh malasnya...

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I had a random conversations post brewing in my head, but I can't remember anymore.

AWAY :(
POSTED AT 01:07 AM

natanna

I will be away in Sungai Petani from Monday to Friday.

Pray for internet connection. (HAHA)

No nanowrimo updates today, 0 wordcount for the day. Boo

Am loving #amwritingparty peeps on twitter though. Lots of love and motivation  

But am enjoying Andrew Kooman's book -  Ten Silver Coins: The drylings of Acchora. 

If I'm bored enough in SP, besides enormous wordcount, you'll get a review. 

We'll see.

 

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

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*

 

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.