Waiting for 10:30PM

Friday, October 31, 2008

Never have I felt so anxious in my entire life just by looking at the clock. In a few hours or so, the official PinoyWrimo Chat and Word Wars will commence, and I'm going to pieces just by thinking about the pressure of chasing after the word count thingamajig. I really don't have any plans of winning tonight's person-with-the-most-number-of-word-counts award. I just want to give this novel a steady jump start, that's what.

Hmm..so what do I have here? I got my notes: character sketches, chapter outlines, quotable quotes and a chick lit book I've been recently reading (the story sucks, btw). I was supposed to buy an energy drink to keep me from falling asleep, but to my excitement in buying chips & sweets at the grocery a while ago, I forgot to include those drinks. So here I am with a tall glass of water to keep me awake (I just hope I stay that way).

A few of my close friends will be joining the chat tonight (I hope they won't forget!), so it's going to be a good experience for me. God, I'm just about ready to pee in my pants now, but I do hope I make good on my word count tonight! *crosses fingers*

T-minus 4 days

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Ugh. I've got only 4 days left before the dreaded D-Day and I have a couple of dilemmas:

• Supporting character names and background
• Chapter outlines
  

I've been trying to squeeze in these little brainstorming activities in between work, and so far I was only able to come up with sketches for the female main character (FMC), 3 supporting characters and one of the male main characters (MMC). I know it's not enough to keep the story afloat until at least a quarter of the word count quota, and in case if no one hasn't noticed yet, yes I'm panicking!

I took a leave at work because I had to stay in the house to take care of my sick mom, and also to give myself some ample time to review for the teaching demo I have tomorrow (still got no topic to teach, gah! >_<). If you're thinking I've got a lot of time to make a mad rush before Saturday, hell no. But I'm giving it a shot.

I also downloaded a very useful noveling software, the Writer's Cafe. I'm still learning the ropes on how to navigate and make use of the different features, but it's already growing on me. Blame it on the fact that it's so compatible to the Asus eeePC. Good thing I had installed the software in Gavin (my baby eeePC) and I have a feeling it's going to be so useful around.

Anyway, I gotta end here for now. I still have a demo to think about, on top of flailing over my NaNo woes.

Toodles!

PinoyWrimo EB/Kick-off meeting

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Wow. It's really on its way. November is just looming beyond the horizon and I shudder to think what would become of me soon after.

I finally got to meet some of the PinoyWrimos who attended the Kick-off Meeting at the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf in Robinson's Galleria. Well, I was a tad bit late so when I got there, the guys and gals were already doing the very simple, yet useful task or helping each other out in providing insights for our novels. Too bad I didn't get to meet them all and acquaint on a personal level, since everyone was deep in thought with the activity (serious people are serious XD).

Blurry photos are burry >_<

It was a bit surprising on my end when I wrote the short synopsis for my story. It looked to me like I can use the short, albeit magulo synopsis, for something like the summary of the novel! Oh. Em. Gee. Never in my wildest dreams did I think to give a compliment to myself to write a sensible synopsis under time pressure. It still needs a bit of work, but the idea was there.

And speaking of ideas, I'm really excited to write my novel with all the useful ideas the guys contributed to make my story more believable (well, for me at least XD). There were a few thoughts that were so interesting to include in the novel. For once, I feel as if this novel is really going to materialize! Wooot!

I wasn't able to hang out after the activity because I had this mondo huge headache, not to mention the fact that I had to attend another EB, our online game guild's anniversary, over at TriNoma.

But then again, I'm really grateful to all the PinoyWrimos and to Tina for organizing this super fun get-together! Here's to hoping I make it through the deadline, and to more interesting ideas!

Random ramblings

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Woooo! Yet another blog for me! Sometimes, I dunno if I'm just coming up with random ramblings instead of something useful. Well I do hope this latest addition to my growing number of blogs will serve its purpose, now that I've signed up yet again for the NaNoWriMo 2008.

I'm planning to get this blog going to talk about the experiences of writing a 50,000-word novel in 30 days. Quite a tall order, notwithstanding the daily word count quotas that I plan to work on so I won't be too overwhelmed with the screaming 50k cut.

What am I talking about? Blogging when you have this huge, ambitious deadline hanging over you like dull knives?

Sometimes, I dunno what's wrong with me to further incriminate myself to more work, stress and shit. I really don't know. I guess what matters most to me is reaching that damned 50k cut.

And I think this year's the time to win this thingamajig. Hopefully.