The hand of the clock falls slowly from the hour of midnight, through the growing hours of the pre-dawn morning and toward daybreak, but the sun never rises. The clock hangs on a string, from a nail that...rust spreads hazily over the flesh of her narrow chin and down her throat. "She is a mother, oh god, she is a mother!" "Jada, calm down..." "Where is her child! What happened to her child?!"

Drei Dinge: 1. Ich liebe Hugh Lauries Gesicht, und was er damit macht. 2. Heute morgen gab's Schneeregen. (o_o) Es regnet seit drei Tagen, und ich hab keine wasserfesten Schuhe, ergo hab ich seit drei Tagen nasse Füße. Toll, was? 3. NANO BEGINNT ÜBERMORGEN, UND MEIN PLOT IST NICHT FERTIG!

God. The closer it gets to November 1, the more nervous I get.  I've [u]never[/u] completed a Nano, ever.  I try every year, but get totally [u]stumped[/u] in, like, the second week.  I want to finish...probably written more in my 30 years of life than most people write in their entire lifetimes. But when it comes to me finishing [u]one[/u] novel.  One full, honest-to-God novel... I get cold fee

Happy Birthday to the delicious and brilliant bookishwench ! ~ *continues freaking out* Okay, I'm better now. I just need to get my outline done before we start on Saturday. I'm trying a whole...that today, but... I think I better watch Alias instead. I really need to get back to work before I explode. Oh, I almost forgot -- it seems that my "f" key is starting to die too! *explodes

Okay, I've been trying really hard to keep track of everyone who is doing nano this year and make sure I have you all friended, but I have a feeling I've missed some of you. So if you notice that I have not added you to my buddy list, please let me know and I will remedy the problem asap!

DONE - story outlines (could be flushed out more, but all in all they're looking pretty good) - character sketches - word count calendar - nano profile page - list of desirable writing locales - work vacation...23: 114,000 words Day 24: 117,000 words Day 25: 120,000 words Day 26: 123,000 words Day 27: 126,000 words Day 28: 129,000 words *Day 29: 139,000 words *Day 30: Last Day! Goal: 150,000 words

Saturday, I'm going to Barnes & Noble to get my WriMo on. Demented and sad, but social. I have a power strip in my laptop bag and my NaNoWriMo "Author" tee shirt hanging up ready to wear. I have a new...innocent can had very little time to come to terms with its identity. I have every faith that I'll finish this year. I've already turned off my inner editor. Now if the first would hurry up and get here

Dear Johnny, I haven't really done a lot with you yet, and for that I apologize. I usually find myself developing secondary characters before the main ones, and I suppose that's because I generally have...thing you're going to do, nor can I give you much more thought than your courting of Eleanor. I'm working on developing her right now, so she's plastered all over my brain. You're next, though. x

So, being the bright eyes that I'm not, I decided to DL the latest version of Open Office in Japanese rather than English. There was a post over on NaNo's forums saying that OO'll give you an accurate...counts similar to MS Word's counter, I, of course, would be in heaven. However, the probability of that being the case... *le sigh* ) I need to get out of denial so I can actually do some stuff. >.

In case anyone missed it, LJ said they'll donate $1 per LJ user who crosses the finish line this year (up to a max of $1000) to go towards the Young Writers Program. Sign-up is in this post over in ...NaNo username or ID#. Those people who are taking part in NaNo might want to take a look and consider signing up. ^_^ (There's just over one week left until the start of insanity that is NaNo. :P