Posts Tagged ‘nanowrimo’

First up to the peeps of the U.S. of A, I want to wish all of you a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Second, to the peeps of the AMNOS tribe, let’s all greet the O a (belated) Happy 29th Birthday!

Third, Monday is the last day of NaNoWriMo! Though I already won the challenge, my story is not yet finished! I hoped to finish everything by that day so I can finally rest and move on.

Fourth, TFL approved my application for the Samurai High School Fanlisting! Once after my novel is done I am seriously gonna get down and dirty in building this site. I may make it in to a mini-informational site, so watch out! The more I’m seeing this series episode by episode, the more I feel like I’m getting PWNED. It’s not because of the SURF DUDE or the Senorito, but the overall storyline is really well worth watching. I love the characters— all of them— including the self-centered cop and the bitchy principal.

Fifth, the menu for our Thanksgiving Dinner would be the gobble-gobble bird, stuffing, mashed potatoes, daing na bangus, pancit, lumpia, sinigang, pinakbet, rice, and pumpkin pie and more various Filipino desserts for dessert. Now that’s what I call Filipino-fusion style Thanksgiving!

Sixth, the folks are here. Time for me to sign off.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! BE THANKFUL FOR WHAT YOU’VE GOT and not moan in sadness for what you don’t have.

• Current Location: Home
• Currently Drinking: Iced Mandarin Red Tea
• Mood: Thankful ^_^

It’s been a long while since I’ve written in here. What can I say. NaNoWriMo owns me.

This is just a quickie entry just to let you all know that hey— I’m still alive.

• As of today, I am close to 39,000 Word Count. I may even get up to 40,000 tonight too, but we’ll see how inspired or tired I am before it gets to midnight.
• The boxing match between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto was definitely the best match I’ve ever watched since I began watching PPV boxing with the PACMAN versus all other formidable fighters. Though it’s no longer news that the PACMAN has made history by receiving his 7th title and still retaining his pound-for-pound champion legacy, this was probably the first time that a Pacquiao match actually went all the way to the final round. The PACMAN still had his speed and his clever defenses, while Cotto had true heart. He requested to go all the way, even if his side wanted him to stop and end the fight. There were no trash talks between the two fighters or any one of their people against each other. Nothing but a good, solid, clean, and fair fight. No nonsense whatsover. Cotto was indeed a very worthy opponent and I also praise him along with the winner. Congratulations to the both of you.
• Gift cards for EVERYONE this Christmas!
  Because I am currently the poorest in my family. Blame this damn economy and my unemployment for practically more than half of this year. 2009 SUCKED big time. My one and only Christmas wish is for all my loved ones to give me money instead of tangible things like clothes or something.
• Unknown Plans for Thanksgiving
  Up to now we still don’t know who’s going to hold the Thanksgiving Dinner or not. Parents don’t wanna be hosts for Thanksgiving again. We should go out of town or something. Hmm…
• Working hard on sites!
  I’ll have to seriously work hard… work hard… and really clean up my portfolio site. I’ve been getting spam entries from my old contact form over there.
• Samurai High School PWNS!
  Due to my J-pop/idols hiatus, the only fall drama I’m able to watch during my spare time and get current with it is none other than Samurai High School. Really hilarious series. I need to laugh for the fall and winter season because laughs and smiles can make hearts warmer on a cold and frigid season. Even my homies at home recommend it.
• Choir Rehearsals for Christmas Midnight Mass Every Wednesday!
  Well, every Wednesday until the 23rd December. We even have to sing two Simbang Gabi masses too, one on the 16th and one on the 21st. That would be on a Wednesday and a Monday. Dangit, why did it have to be work days?

November is still young. Actually we’re in the middle of the month now. Our end of the fiscal year at work is on the 20th so we have to submit all of our expense reports and payment requests before the 20th. My department will be completely caught and close the fiscal year of 2009. Just you wait and see!

• Current Location: Home
• Currently Drinking: AriZona Pomegranate Green Tea
• Currently Eating: Pan de Bonette. Mabuhay ang Afritada! :D
• Currently Playing: MySims Agents (DS)
• Currently Reading: Tales from 1,001 Nights (translated from Arabic by Sir Richard Burton)
• Currently Watching: Dancing with the Stars
• Mood: Literary Inspired

Happy Halloween, everyone! As always, I’m not dressing up for the occasion since I’m only going to be staying home giving out candies to the young ones (or the “young once” ). On the other hand, I thought I’d celebrate a bit in going back on an Arashi fandom hiatus for a month to concentrate on NaNoWriMo. However, hopefully I’m not going back from Arashi fandom hiatus forever because I found someone who I became writing buddies with whom I can cling on to so I don’t lose my sanity on being an Arashi fan. Please do support us, DesTi and me, as we embark on our literary abandon goal of 50,000 words.

I’ve got the tentatively official title of this year’s NaNoWriMo novel: Midsummer by the Sea. It’s technically somewhat of a rewrite of The Photojournalist and the Red Ribbon, but this would be more of a teen love story with probably a touch of mystery thrown in to it. And like the previous one, this is also somewhat tying in to my ongoing fiction project, Freedom Sky Mysteries. I put it on hiatus for now to work on AMNOSnet, but it looks like I’ve been distracted too much with other things that I could not even keep myself in focus on one thing. Dang video games and J-dramas… gah.

Yesterday on the History Channel, I saw a documentary about exorcisms. I know most of the world today don’t believe in this ancient practice of driving away evil spirits from troubled humans, but I really do believe in them. Usually exorcisms are associated with the Roman Catholic Church, however there are other Christian sects (ie. Orthodox Church, Anglican Church/Church of England, Protestant, Lutheran, etc.) who also perform exorcisms as well. I also think there’s also forms of exorcism in other religions, such as Judaism, Islam, and probably Buddhism.

I also believe in ghosts and evil spirits, but not to the point where I think that every single “bad” person or every person has committed many mistakes are possessed by the devil or anything like that. Back then every single “uncommon” behavior among people was considered the work of the devil. Today, exorcism is being practiced sparingly as behavioral sciences such as psychiatry, psychology, etc. are more commonly used among people. Also today, when someone is behaving strangely and differently from the way they usually behave, concerned family members would go to a psychiatrist first or even a doctor. If medical attention and behavioral science, even at the highest level, are unsuccessful, then this may probably be the time to go for spiritual methods, such as exorcism, as the next option.

Don’t get me wrong. I have not seen the movie The Exorcist at all because I’m terrified of horror movies in general. I have not seen The Exorcism of Emily Rose or Requiem either. And no, it’s not because of my being a Catholic that I believe in demonic possessions (in fact nothing of that sort is ever discussed or brought about in my weekly church or occasional Bible discussions either). I watched news, documentaries, read books and articles, just my daily news and reading routine. I’ve also heard stories from people I’m close to as well, experiences with other people who had to go through.

Well, since this is a hodgepodge entry, I’ll cut this short. I don’t want to scare anyone or even make the skeptics become more skeptical and call me insane. I’m not enforcing my own beliefs on those who don’t believe, as long as they don’t do the same with me.

Sometime at the final week of October, My NaNoWriMo blog will be re-activated again. Hopefully I’d be able to create a new layout for it, but for now, we’ll stick to the old one instead since I don’t have any inspiration for it. That blog was the second time that I used Artisteer as the WP theme generator using its defaults since I was still familiarizing with it then.

Whew, I haven’t really blogged in here for the entire week! Well, been busy with work and among other things, plus I got myself warped in to my video gaming fandom as well. New DS games, Age of Empires III complete with the expansions, and my unhealthy obsession with Luna Online and Mabinogi. If you’re a total Celtic Mythology fan (in particular Welsh Mythology), give Mabinogi a try.

Unless I find some really good (and definitely worthy) writers and contributors who would not mind volunteer some time to write in AMNOSnet blog with the latest content or just contribute something they want to write about Arashi just so the site can have fresh content, I’ll have to put the site on a one-month hiatus due to my participation in NaNoWriMo.

And speaking of NaNoWriMo, I am not about to abandon FSM. Why? Because my upcoming novel for NaNoWriMo will be in relation to FSM. If you’re interested in reading my NaNoWriMo novel in progress, then feel free to contact me or read my NaNoWriMo progress blog.

Part II of my Fan-Subbed Works entries will have to be put on hold for now, but I’ll get to it eventually. I also noticed that I’ve gotten a little mellow with my entries as of late (rather more specifically, my rants and miscellaneous entries regarding Arashi/J-Idols “fangirling scene”), but it’s not because I’ve run out of ideas, but because I’ve become more focused on other things other than “fangirling.” I personally can’t survive “fangirling” on Arashi or some other J-idol I happen to currently like.

Okay, I’m calling it a day. More later. Ha!

• Mood: Sleepy

After checking out old files of the old Fort Kearny Mysterie Stories project which included a prologue story that won me the NaNoWriMo 2008 Challenge, I felt like the beginning of the first chapter was seriously lacking. I’ve been reading more books ever since then (most notably mystery novels) and noticed that the beginning should always be direct to the point. Introduce the main character and supporting characters right at the bat. Let the “case” begin gradually as the characters end up getting involved in a situation they did not expect to be involved with. And then go from there, important back stories included.

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• Current Location: Levi Strauss & Co. Headquarters, San Francisco
• Currently Eating: Chocolate Chip Cookie
• Currently Reading: The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
• Mood: Bored

For the first time in two years since I left my first job I finally got a four-day weekend. It’s a much-needed rest and spend more time with your family and friends for this period of giving thanks. I have a lot to thank for this year (with the exception of the failing economy… we all know that story) but because they are extremely dear to me (plus I’m too lazy anyway) I won’t mention them here.

Today (30th) is also the last day of November and the NaNoWriMo challenge event. I finally finished a story that I began right at this day. I was close to 100,000 word count at this point but I’m quite happy with my 84,000+ word count as displayed on my word count meter. I’m still pondering whether I should get published or not, but just for the heck of it I will eventually go through editing and revising. It may raise up my word count or even lower it down, but either way, there will be a few changes that would fit the entire story altogether.

Speaking of NaNoWriMo, we also got Script Frenzy. It’s by the same peeps who established NaNoWriMo and it’s pretty much similar to it too, except this was for scripts (screenplays). TV scripts, movie scripts, comic book scripts, animation scripts, stage plays, you get the idea. I have taken two screenplay/scriptwriting classes back in college before and I have to tell you that they are not easy to write (in comparison/contrast to writing novels). Luckily because of its difficulty level you get to write your draft with a co-writer, so two people can actually come up with really good plots and ideas together. NaNoWriMo is an individual challenge but nevertheless it’s still a fun event.

We’ll just see what happens. I’m not even sure how motivated I am to self-edit my first draft as of yet, so don’t expect a book coming out next week or anything.

• Mood: Happy!