*Ditto*

Yeah, while I'm not AS exhaustd and I can technically sleep in a bit tomorrow, I'm going to bed now, when I heven't written ANYTHING. Oh well, this means I'll be rearin' to go tomorrow. Night all!

Bleh

I'm. So. Sleep. Deprived. Need. To. Go. To. Bed. Now.
Besides, now my parents are getting angry, and aren't liking the whole book idea.
I did manage to write a whole 119 words. WOOT. Lol
I know. That sucks. But so does falling asleep in school, so I will write more over my 3.5 day weekend. Night!

BTW word count = 10,481.

Sleep

Okay, I'm going to bed. Now. So no post. Just letting y'all know I passed to 10K mark. I got in like 1, 742 words or something like that, bringing my total to 10, 362. night

But What About Evanescence?

But where does Evanescence come into play in this crazy life of yours, you may be asking me. We-ell,let me tell you, Amy Lee= ________. There is just no word to describe her. I was listening to them a bunch today, cuz I haven't listened to a whole CD of theirs in a while. And, I'm WICKED pumped for their concert IN A MONTH!!! Yeah, you heard me. I'm so excited. Its indoors, which I hear mean they will have AMAZING special effects. I think I just slightly wet myself. I heart her so much its incredible. And I havent even met the woman. Altough, she is married... :( :P
Anyways, today was a very successful say. I got in.....get this....1,898 words, bringing me to a total of 8,650 words!!! Take that and eat it, bi-atches!! JK
But seriously, I was very roud of myself. I actually outlined a bit of the general plot today. When I got home though, I had major writer's block. I couldn't think of what chapter to write next, but I wanted to go linearly. However, I couldn't think of many ways to make it, you know, more than 50 words, and even those 50 words were pretty boring. So I ignored writing again until 10:00, 10:30. But then once I got writing, I couldn't stop. It was SO FRICKIN COOL. Te only reason I'm stopping now is because a) I need sleep, and b) because I'm sure my dad's gonna come in here at any minute and MAKE me go to sleep.
While I had kinda a crappy day and expected to come up with a really awesome death tonight because of it (I was planning another death anyways), the chapter I wrote turned out to be a relatively quiet one. Anyways, I'm off to sleep. Maybe my dreams will inspire some better writing...

G'night

Paramore =My Life

If Paramore = my life, then WT = my mistress. OK, not really (JK Steph), but seriously, that's what I listened to today suring my writing session. I got in 1,702 words, bringing my grand total to 6,752. This is still a good 1,800 words away from where I'd like to be, but I'm hoping that as the days go by, writing will become a bit easier for me, and then I will be able to catch up. Hopefully.
I'm quite jealous of Heather, who is already 1/5 of the way there (congrats). Hopefully, I can go to one of those nifty writing sessions, and then maybe I'll be more motivated to work and will get more done.... Although, then again, I may just feel like a complete idiot: everyone else will be bangin out words, and I'll just be sitting there with drool dripping down my face as I stare into the blank pages of my notebook/ the blank screen of the laptop. Then again, maybe all those guys will be really nice and help me out. Not that I think they'll be mean, just that if I were them, I probably wouldn't help me, I'd be all "Screw you, I have my own novel to write". Yeah. Definitely.
Anyways, I'm going to go to bed now. The whole "homework right away" thing went well, but it's a work-in-progress. Speaking of hyphons, does anyone know if I NEED one in the phrase "_____-year-old"? Oh yeah. Focus. So, I'll actually do....homework tomorrow. Hopefully.

Ok, talk to y'all later.

I Hate Mondays

And it's only...well, technically it's Monday. But in terms of writing, it's Sunday. I hate having to ruin a grat weekend with meaningless homeowrk and the prospect of going to school the next day. They should make Mondays illegal. I mean, I'm gonna get zero sleep tonight. Fantastic, eh?
Plus, I'm WAY behind in my novel. Yeah, today was kind of a dud too. I had to do all of that homeowork that I "foolishly" didn't do yesterday. Bleh. Homework. Who needs it?
Well, I just skipped I don't even know how many chapters to another death scene. I had this one working in my noggin for a while, though, so I just had to get it out. He gets his innards ripped out, more or less. Pleasant, no? I titled it "Chapter X", since I have no idea where to put it, yet. I'm not quite sure how I'm even gonna fit it into my novel....hmm....
Hey, question for y'all (especially Heather, cuz she does this stuff, and Cary, cuz she can actually reply)- how many words do you think should be in an average chapter?
Anyways, I got 1, 475 words in, bringing my total to 5,050 words! Yay! I broke the 1/10 mark! A day too late, however.
Ah, well, maybe I'll actually do all my homework right when I get home tomorrow. .......Who am I kidding? I don't know, maybe I'll put off homework until after a writing session tomorrow. I really have to start these writing sessions earlier. There's always Thanksgiving vacation...
Oh, and you'll be surprised to know that I did about half my writing with, get this, NO MUSIC! :0

Until tomorrow!

Noel

Okay, so while today wasn't all that I had hoped and dreamed for, it was still good. First off, the storm was amazing, although I was dissapointed to not see any trees knocked over and to not have my power out for a little bit. I did go out in the middle of it though, to go grab some things at Target, and let me tell you, it was pretty windy and really wet out there.
However, I did zero homework (big surprise, huh?) and did not get the billions of words in my novel, as I had hoped. I did get over the daily 1,700, bringing my total up to 3, 575. So that was good. But I really gotta start busting out a lot more words if I wanna finish this. And really, I was planning on getting some homework done.
Alright, well, I'm off to bed. Thank God for that extra hour today. I love it when we "Fall Back" and hour. Possible more than life itself.
Heather, I can't help but notice I haven't heard from you since we started this thing. Did you fall off the face of the Earth and if so why didn't you show me the edge first? If I'm gonna kill myself with a novel, I'm bringing you down with me. :)
Cary, I was excited to see you are starting your own novel!!! Yay! And thanks for actually responding to my blog. It's nice to know I'm not completely wasting my time writing these, with no one reading them. If anyone else is reading, I wouldn't, you know, complain if you left me a message of support or an idea. *hint hint*

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Okay, so not really. But seriously, I got next to nothing done today. I only wrote 507 words (the actual wordcount of yesterday was 1,297), bringing me to grand total of 1,804. Don't get me wrong, this is still 1,803 more words than I expected, but I really was hoping to keep up with this beast. Oh well. I kinda fell asleep right when I got home from school, and got up just in time to go to the retreat. And my mom was all, "you need sleep. now." So I decided I should go to bed. However, tomorrow is supposed to be WICKED bad weather, and not only do I HEART bad weather, but that means I can be a dork and stay in my room novelling all day. Plus, maybe that will give me inspiration.
I noticed that I can't stand what I've already written. I tend to go back and change the really bad mistakes/ make sentenes better. Also, I'm not writing in order. Is that bad? I mean, I'm certainly not starting the begininning, then moving on to the end, and then back to the beginning, but I've been switching between the firs three chapters, adding more information or leaving a lot of blanks. The way I see it is that I can't write everything for the first three chapters if I don't know all the necessary information, such as names and places. So I'll go back later.
Well, tomorrow will be better. I'll have Paramore, Within Temptation, and of course Evanescence to keep me company, and I will hopefull write a lot better when I'm completely awake. Maybe. I really don't understand how authors do it. Also, I've finally come to the conclusion that this novel is basically going to own my life for the next month. Sleep? Homework? Grades? Pshhh. Yeah right.

Arghhh....

Allrighty, so I'm not off to the best start, but hey, I started. Which is more thant I thought I would be able to do. So, my grand total for the night was 1,188 words!!! Which is a lot, compared to what I'm used to, and in perspective with what time it is and because I REALLY WANT TO GO TO BED.

So I started three chapters. The first was is kinda short, but I'm done with it. It has fulfilled ots purpose. The other two are still works-in-progress; they're introducing some key characters. I expect a good page or so for both of them left. And already two characters are dead (well, only one, cuz the other died a long time ago). It was kinda fun. I felt bad for him. Here: you can read a mini-excerpt:
"The last glimpse he ever saw was the reflection of his murderer in one of the ice shards right before it tore through his cornea."

Yeah, might not make a ton of sense to you yet. But whatevs. And you might be all, "Matt, you creeper. Who thinks of that? That's so LAME." But you know what? I like it, it fits, and I'm sitll tired.

It took me about two hours so far. And you will be happy to know I started writing to my favorite reative song: "Imaginary" by Evanescence. And Heather, I'm gonna copy you in that I will be finishing my novel to that song as well.

Hanyways, I know this was kinda a boring blog. Tomorrow's will be better. Promise. I won't be as tired. Maybe I'll even put some humor into it, you know, a few witty lines. But thanks for reading it and for any support you give me. Any feedback is appreciated (you CAN comment on my posts) especially on any excerpts or with any ideas.

Talk to you guys later. Peace.

Tomorrow

Hey All (aka Heather)
So....tomorrow's the big day... I've never really been a good writer, so this is gonna be an especially hard challenge.....50,000 words in 30 days... If I push myself, I should be able to write that many. Whether or not they are coherent and/or go together, well, that's another story. But really, it's not going to be a good book. And the grammar is going to suck. A lot. It's probably going to be very childish, very "wow, Matt, you're a dork" and will have a VERY obvious ending, even though I'm hoping for it to be a mystery novel. Well, if anyone has any extra challenges or ideas (preferably ideas), lemme know. I could use all the help I can get. I'll try to blog everyday and keep you updated, share some thoughts and maybe post a few sample passages. But to know the rest, you will have to buy it...available in stores near you. Lol. Wish me luck!!!