I'm baaaack!

I did it! I won! I rocked my world. *Prances about in gleeful weirdness*

FIVE RANDOM FACTS!

1.) It was hard, NaNo. But I actually enjoyed it! The novel itself is a bit rubbish.... *cough* Actually, it's pretty good, it just needs a lot of editing and tightening up. 

2.) Spoilers!Spoilers!Spoilers!Spoilers!Spoilers!Spoilers!Spoilers!Spoilers!

     I went and watched Red Dawn with my sisters and a couple of friends. It was awesome until the end. Like.... it was really awesome. 

     And then about ten minutes before the end, a certain character died. 

And then I was like....

It. Was. The. Worst. Ending. EVER. It really turned me off the whole movie. Sniffle.

2.) Ahem. It is twelve days until The Hobbit comes out. 

3.) It's the first day of Advent! 

4.) I am planning on posting a Christmas song every time I post. Here's your first. You're welcome. 

5.) This LOLcat expresses my feeling on the season..... rather perfectly. 

And now I am done. 

God bless!

  

Thanksgiving!!

Hallo everyone!

Yes, yes, I know I have not posted in a while. NaNo has been getting in the way of everything. I have also had a case of blogger's block, and I am sorry. That is all the apology you are going to get. =)

So, Happy Thanksgiving! Anyone else having a hard time believing it's late November?


In keeping with the spirit of the holiday:

Five Random Things I'm Thankful For:

1.) I know it's cliche, but I'm so thankful for my family! Big Italian families are the best. Fun, silly, loud... (like... loud. EVERYONE SHOUTS AT THE DINNER TABLE TO MAKE SURE THEIR STORY IS HEARD! AND TO ENSURE THAT THEIR STORY IS UNDERSTOOD FULLY, WE USE EXCESSIVE AMOUNTS OF HAND MOTIONS!!)

2.) My frikken awesome friends who don't mind that I am probably the weirdest person they've met.

3.) My doggies.

4.) 'Nuff said

5.) But most of all, I need to thank God, for blessing with so much awesomeness and allowing me to be born and raised in a Catholic home.

And now, I'm going to go enjoy the rest of the holiday and spend time with my family.

God bless!

Stories in the Mind linkup

So, Pure Grace, over at Stories in the Mind is hosting a linkup for writers. :)

And in the spirit of NaNo, I decided "why not?"

While I am not as dedicated a writer as some other people I follow, I do enjoy writing and I think the linkup is cool.

This week's prompt is: Memories.

Here I go! Eeek! I get so nervous posting my work for people to read.

Word Count: 183

     Thoughts swirled in my head, round and round. I remembered my life before everything changed. I thought how it had been so beautiful and warm not even five years ago, before the Great Fever wiped out over half the community, and those I’d loved had fallen to its vicious grip. I thought about having to leave the cozy cottage Father had built for he and Mum when they were first married. I thought of the dirt falling on my brother’s coffin and my mother’s cloak of mourning being whipped back and forth in the wind. I thought of how, instead of being welcomed into my Uncle and Aunt’s home, we’d been taken in because it was their duty as relatives to care for us in times of hardship. I wondered how Mum’s sister had turned into such an old biddy when Mum had grown to be…. Mum.

      I closed my eyes wearily, the burning feeling of unshed tears making them hot and red. My hand lay listlessly against the rough wood of the wall. I wondered if I was cursed to be unhappy.

There! I did it!


Join the Once Upon a Time... linkup:

~Post a selection from your current WIP no larger than 500 words to your blog.

~If there is a prompt, make sure your section fits the requirements.

~Add the Once Upon a Time... linkup button:

 

~Connect your link using the linkup button on Wednesdays (they will always be held on Wednesdays)!

~And voila, you are done! Don't forget to visit the other blogs and drop a line.

And go check out Stories in the Mind, it's a really fun blog and so much fun to read. 

To Dream the Impossible Dream.....

Alright, so maybe the title is a bit melodramatic, but I feel like that at the moment. 

My word-count for NaNo at the moment is now 5521! 

This is a very big deal for me, because I am the girl who had a hard time writing that much in a month. 

As I said before, my stories tend to write themselves, and it's a good thing too, because I now have a plot (assassination attempts, magic, maybe a little romance....) And that is a considerable weight off my mind. Hee! 

Treskie pauses for a moment.... I don't know why I've taken to using 'hee!' instead of 'Hehehe!' I guess  'hee!' is more fitting for me. Hmmmm. 

I have also figured out what the countryside looks like for my novel: Welcome to Benenweild. 

Most of the novel happens here:

And there is a very good possibility that this will happen.... rather frequently. 

Ahem. 

As it is, HAPPY NOVEMBER to everyone! You know what that means, right? It's one month until December, which is about two months (give or take a week or two) until Christmas. And I'm not going to lie, I am really  excited about Christmas. 

Hopefully I won't let my blog slide too much during NaNo. :) I'm still going to try to draw a little, because I'm better at drawing that I am at writing. 

Now, I proceed to make you listen to Bryn Terfel singing "Impossible Dream."

God bless!

Eeek!

So, when my sister first signed up for NaNoWriMo a few years back, I was ho-hum about the whole idea. I was awed that she had the gumption to go for it.... I mean, 50,000 words is a lot. But um... yeah. There was no way whatsoever that I would consider doing it. I had a life.

By the time 2011 rolled around, I had gotten to the point where I enjoyed writing. It was fun. I therefore considered Nano.

Briefly.

Suffice it to say that when the deadline to sign up came along I'd decided "Noooooope. I have a life, remember? I don't even have a story to write for it!"

Ahem.

The beginning of October brought on loads of my bloggy friends/acquaintances talking about nanowrimo--why they were doing it/why they were not. And I was like, "Maybe I should try for it this year."

I vacillated wildly for a while doing things like:

I will!

I can't.

Should I?

What if I can't make it to 50,000 words??????

I will!

I don't know.................

Amy  solved the problem for me by coming over a few days ago and signing me up for me.

*SCREAMS*

So here I am. Freaking out. Don't mind me, it's just a malfunction of the nervous system. Happens all the time.

Luckily this time I have a basic outline and some potentially good characters which I think I can turn into better, substantially less flat characters.

Meet Monica:

minus the modern hair and plus some fantasy peasant clothes. 

And Sir Dominic:

Same as Monica. Plus a sword and a very epic cloak.

I'm still not sure where I'm going with the story. Luckily most of my work tends to write itself. I'm one of those people who usually just writes down an idea and then revises about a billion times. :)

As it is, I am nervous.

I am psyched!

I am apprehensive.

I think this will be the kick I needed to buckle down and actually get some work done!

I am biting the inside of my mouth in agitation.

I'm excited!

November, dear. I am coming. Watch out.