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Tiger and Bunny

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OMG.
If you haven't watched Tiger and Bunny on Hulu yet, do so.
Now.



That is all.
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I'm wide awake in the middle of the night because that's my norm. I'm a night owl. I'm alone in my house in the middle of the night, and nothing's going on. I'm walking out of the kitchen after getting a soda, heading around the corner to the little area where I have my computer desk, intent on getting back on the internet for a while. So I'm walking and I notice my black cat suddenly ran across a big white box that stands tall on the floor in my living room.

It's dark in there so she's just a shadow in the night, darting from the right to the left in the dim light bathing the box from the kitchen doorway, and I can hear her walking on the box from the other room. I stop and glare, because I don't want my cat messing with this box. I keep thinking she's gonna break something because there's glass there, very fragile stuff. It's a really big white box too, half as tall as I am. It used to have a cabinet in it or something. It's got the moderately expensive glass cover to the stove's vent on it, because we're renovating the kitchen right now. It's kinda hard to keep it where the cat won't mess it up. I haven't been having problems with the cats climbing on stuff lately, though.

I call out to my cat, telling her to get off the box. She does what cats do and she keeps moving off to the left, really fast like she knows she's in trouble or it's some game, and runs so I can't see her past the edge of the wall that leads into the living room. I hear her jump off the box, to walk on the glass coffee table next to it.

I yell at her again, just a fraction of a second later, to say off the damn box and get off the table, too. At first, due to past experience with cats running on the box, I think she's playing with the other cat, the calico, but I see the calico asleep on a chair nearby. My yelling woke her, I can see her in my peripheral vision, shaking her head when waking up.

I then hear a creepy-assed mewl come from behind me. I turn and there the black cat is, right there, right behind me, just standing in the back of the kitchen next to her food dishes, with water dripping from her whiskers. She's looking at me like I've done something wrong, ears all perked up, tail twitching. She's clearly been in the kitchen, drinking.

Not on the other side of the house in the living room on the white box.
In the kitchen, behind me, and I was facing the direction of the white box the whole time.
I would have seen her move back around the corner.
I would have heard her move. She didn't move.
I would have noticed if she had ran past me to get behind me like that.
I only have 2 cats, the black and the calico.
I used to have another cat, a black one that ran all over the house, climbing on the boxes and tables, constantly. That other black cat died a while back.

What the fvck did I just see?
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More from this awesome guy at terrible minds:
terribleminds.com/ramble/2012/…

I just love how he adds in the comedy. This is more than just nanowrimo stuff, this is motivational as it applies to any project you're working on.

On personal things: I deleted 20k, only to add 400 words. I'm not doing the nanowrimo format of only 50k as I'm going more long-term goal here, over a longer period of time, and for a series of a minimum of 4 chronological books. I just started a new writing project for the prequel of the original book 1 when November began, in the spirit of things.  It's become my new book one, and my original novel is now part 2. I really like how this has developed.

Getting to the point in these scenes is so much better, sometimes, now that I know what needs to be cut out. I've been actively diving through the bull to find something useable. I think the story has vastly improved for it. I've even added a new functioning magic system for my mage characters, more in depth than the one I started with. I love creating those.

I do my writing up to my word count for the day and continue writing as long as I want after it's met. When I reach a chapter or scene end I troubleshot even if I think I don't need to and go back to spend the rest of the writing session integrating that into the previously completed portions of the story, but only if the initial word count is met. I work on edits for the newest addition during this time. After that I tend to free write on future scenes or other books in the same universe if I feel the need to get an idea out, with no word count limit to that.

The next day it's the start of the new word count, and once that's been met I can work on editing that in the same way. Why? Because it keeps it a smooth transition from beginning to end.

People usually say editing will kill the story because you'll lose your continuous building of word count and backtrack too often. My way of doing it actually adds about half as much to the word count when editing as when writing it, even with all the cuts. It's just how it works for me.

Everyone needs to find their own rhythm, and what works for them. Some people whom are good at editing tend to do it naturally as they write. Going back to fix a few minor glitches after meeting the word count lets me clear my head of the previous events to move on to the next scene.

It's like baking the cake (writing), then icing it (editing).
You can't ice it until it's baked.
You can't edit until it's written.
It's almost like a reward for a goal, strangely enough. I can always slice it up, add more toppings, gobble it up or toss it at a later date, respectively. If it's covered in mold, I'll see it as I go to add the icing. Then I know to make another batch or store it for later.

...Now I want cake. Hm.
I do have Thanksgiving pie. This will do.
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othersidhe.tumblr.com/post/358…

My tumblr post.
OMG what have I done?
I'm sitting here mesmerized by the actively climbing note number.

It does kind of piss me off that people have removed the text I had posted under the image in favor of reblogging the image alone. That's just rude, and not kind to the shop I was trying to link people to. They're selling Christmas post cards which donates the profits to a pet charity. Guess next time I do something like that I'll include it as part of the picture.

I make no money off the image linked above, it is not being sold, and it was made for humorous parody.
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I see a lot of people doing the nanowrimo, which is awesome. I wonder how many will keep it up after the month is out. I know I'm still writing on it but the new one I started this month seems to be tying in well with the one I had begun previously. Interesting how two dissimilar things suddenly became one. I think my brain just wants to get it out as fast as it can, so I can move on to other things.

Things to remember during Nanowrimo, and yeah, many have said similar things before, but it's all relevant:

If you don't write it it won't get written.

Eyestrain is not worth the pain, take breaks often. Use them as moments where you can envision the scenes and dialogue in your head, then go back with a fresh perspective.

If you get stuck, move past that spot and write part that happens later. If you didn't need a scene there might be a reason for that.

You have a goal, your characters have goals, so why not write that your characters have achieved it/failed to achieve it? Sometimes making that happen/not happen makes their steady progress toward the end that much easier.

Don't edit. That's for later. Nanowrimo is not NaEditingMo. Wait until the month is over. If you absolutely must edit, do so with intent to increase your wordcount. (I kick myself over this sometimes, but yet again, I sit down to smooth one chapter over into another and meet my word count accidentally. Hm. I'm weird like that but at least I admit it.)

Don't be afraid to throw it away. Or at least hit save, move it to another folder, and hold on to it for later perusal. What is bad for the story now might be good later when you change things in a later scene. IF it's not useable, at least you tried.

Starting over is not admitting defeat, it's just moving on with more purpose and experience.

Coffee is your friend.

Google is your friend.

Wikipedia is also your friend.

All of those friends have benefits. Use them wisely.

All of your friends will lie to you. Take it in stride.

Tumblr, twitter, facebook, and other things like that are not very friendly. They will waste your time. Don't talk to them, heck, don't look at them, not even in your peripheral vision, when you're in your writer-mode. zombie brain takes over when you do. Be forewarned.

If someone else is doing it too, that's fine. Do your own version, your own view, your own words. Your take is different from mine, and just as worthwhile.

If you're not having fun when writing it then who else will have fun reading it? Fun is mandatory, citizen. People read for fun, most often. If you don't enjoy it, don't do it. If you're in it to make money, well I say, good luck with that.

Don't give up, give in. Give in to what YOU want. Write what you want to, not what others say you should.

BTW: I find this guy highly amusing at times-
terribleminds.com/ramble/2011/…
terribleminds.com/ramble/2011/…
terribleminds.com/ramble/2011/…
And this is just too funny not to share.
terribleminds.com/ramble/holy-…
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