Saturday, November 27, 2010

Non-writing post: the immediate aftermath

So, after all that, I got a NaNoWriMo winner's t-shirt, and gave my data a transplant to a shiny new MacBook Pro chassis.  Now, I can finally play these games that I installed a few months back!

Hello, GLaDOS.  I've missed you.

PrEpArE tO dIe ^_^

EDIT: There is a pair of buttons dedicated to adjusting the keyboard illumination brightness what is this madness

Friday, November 26, 2010

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

NaNoWriMo '10, Day Twenty-Three: 40181/38334

Keeping good pace.  Good pace.  Good.

Monday, November 22, 2010

NaNoWriMo '10, Day Twenty-Two: 38504/36667

I'm kind of avoiding stuff that needs to happen.  Huh

Sunday, November 21, 2010

NaNoWriMo '10, Day Twenty-One: 36817/35000

So, I guess this was an okay day.

I like how, by the end of this, most of my posts will be NaNoWriMo progress posts.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Thursday, November 18, 2010

NaNoWriMo '10, Day Eighteen: 30055/30000

I think maybe I should take the time to work out all the dangling plot threads.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

NaNoWriMo '10, Day Sixteen: 27,503/26,667

Whee!

I have an exam tomorrow!  Fuck!

Whee!

Monday, November 15, 2010

NaNoWriMo '10, Day Fifteen: 25476/25000: I LIVE

HA!  In your face, sleep deprivation!

Saturday, November 13, 2010

NaNoWriMo '10, Day Thirteen: 23,174/21,667: fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

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Friday, November 12, 2010

NaNoWriMo '10, Day Twelve: 23062/20000

HA!  That is what you get, writers' block!

No pdf for the rest of the month, probably, due to... stuff.  And things.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

NaNoWriMo '10, Day Eleven: 20102/18334 (an inconvenient truth)

So, it turns out I'm at my best when I have someone to ignore.

Fuck, what's the point of even posting today's pdf.  It's almost yesterday's, just another paragraph.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

NaNoWriMo '10, Day Ten: 20043/16667

Sometimes.  Sometimes you just have to write really fast.  And really stop caring.

Somehow, I always find a way to care less.

iapetus's last hurrah

It looks like finishing NaNoWriMo will be the last thing I do with this laptop.  After almost three years of service, parts are starting to give way.

Of course, my plan is to transplant it right into a shiny new unibody macbook with upgraded RAM, so pretty much everything I care about will be the same except the MAC address, which I don't really care about much.  In any case, here's to the next two weeks and change.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

NaNoWriMo '10, Day Nine: 18093/15000

Well, I suppose some of this was inevitable.  Also, I am totally panicking, schedule-wise.

/f/

Monday, November 8, 2010

NaNoWriMo '10, Day Eight: 16047/13334

Every day I look back on what I've written, I feel like those words, in particular, mark the moment at which this enterprise utterly jumped the shark.

Fractal Fonzie madness.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

NaNoWriMo '10, Day Seven: 14021

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH

link

Saturday, November 6, 2010

NaNoWriMo '10, Day Six: 12262

I think what's really strange is, I still haven't revealed some of my planned information (like Agent Z's middle name), yet I keep on making things up that happen to tie into the established plot and give me motivation to fill in scenes that always had to be there.

My fight scenes still utterly suck, though.  I blame the fact that I keep on sticking Utahraptors everywhere.

Latest draft.

Friday, November 5, 2010

NaNoWriMo '10, Day Five: 10176

I am a day ahead.  Woot woot.  Maybe I can use that extra time to figure out what the hell is supposed to be going on, because I am way in the dark.  Get confused, right here.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

NaNoWriMo '10, Day Four: 8123

Those who do random arithmetic to numbers they find online will notice that I'm increasing my wordcount each day.  Anyway, here is draft.

Looking at that, I just realized that I'm probably going to end up with a really low pagecount.  I guess that's what happens when a bunch of the words are in really tiny font?

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

NaNoWriMo '10, Day Three: 6075

I like how I just started using random concepts by this point.  And I introduced six characters that I hadn't planned on as of three days ago.  Or, indeed, yesterday.

Have a look at... THE INSANITY.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

NaNoWriMo '10, Day Two

Amazingly, I still haven't shoved in all the scenes I want to have.  It's nice that I'm getting a consistent 2000+ words a day thus far.  Anyway, feel free to goggle at this train wreck in progress, even if you can't see all the scene boundaries because they, um... don't show up.  4035 words thus far.

Monday, November 1, 2010

NaNoWriMo '10, Day One

I'm off to a good start.  Couple things to note: it probably takes extreme masochism to enjoy this if you're not me; there are spaces I can see that you can't, because TeX renders them out; and this is only going to get more pretentiously ridiculous, as I wallow in my own self-absorption.  Hyar is link.  It turns out Google Sites will overwrite attachments with the same name, and not use a confirmation dialog or anything.  UI principles, woohoo!  (For the record, I was expecting a "do you really want to do this?" prompt, ideally with an option to change the name.)

For the record: 2014 words.