So You Know What I said A while Ago?

How if my finish by date got any later, I'd be 15? well today, it saya i'll be done on December 20th, which is.... you guessed it, my 15th birthday.
Great.

--PICKLE

Pickle's NaNo Playlist

Lights by Ellie Goulding, I came up with my book listening to this, so it's always nice

LOOOOOVE this song, it's stuck in my head, and thanks to the Dare Machine, a line from it's in Searching For Solace.

Lonely Lullaby is one of my absolute favorite Owl City songs. I love all of his really sad love songs, and pretty much all his music, actually. But this is my current fav.

So here you have it, what I listen to when I write. There's lots more, but these are the Big Three.

What do you write to?

--PICKLE

Things To Not Do In November #1

Start reading Sherlock Holmes.  It's far more interesting than writing.

--PICKLE
(what do you do when you should be writing?)

Noah Tells his Mom about Solace

He’d never been good with girls, so he did the one thing every teenaged boy does when he needs girl advice. He called his mom.

“Mena Anderson. May I help you?” She sounded tired. Noah wondered how his little siblings, Sam and Kacie were doing.

“Mom? It’s Noah.”

“Noah, why didn’t you call me sooner? I’ve been worried about you!” She sounded genuinely delighted to hear him.

“I’ve been busy, new job and everything… Listen, can you help me with something?”

“Oh, I see… What do you need kiddo?”

“Err… There’s this girl.” His mom chuckled. Noah blushed, and was really glad his mom didn’t have a video reception.

“No it’s not like that, it’s just that she’s different. She drives me crazy! But every time I see her…”

Nah’s mom sighed.

“Honey, we’ve all been there. Tell me about her.”

“She’s my age I think, but she’s small. She really skinny too, like she didn’t get enough food when she was younger, and she’s got blue hair to her waist.”

“Blue?”

“Yep. It’s got dark brown roots coming in though.”

“Hmmmmm…” She’d never much approved of hair dye.

“She’s mart, she’s opinionated. She knows what she wants and she knows how to get it.”

“What does she do there?”

There was no way Noah was going to tell her that Solace was a hazer. She distrusted hazing more than he did, and had only let him get the job because they needed money so badly.

He cleared his throat. “She programs a lot of hazes… their very realistic.”

“Very nice. I think she sounds wonderful. What’s her name?”

“Solace. Her name is Solace.”

His mother laughed.

“What?”

“Honey, do you know what Noah means?”

“No…”

“Comfort and consolation.”

--PICKLE

That Horrible Graph Feeling

First of all, yes I am up at 6:22. I didn't set back my iPod last night, and therefore, my "GO WRITE!" alarm went off at six...

So (as I do every morning) I made myself a cup of coffee, and updated my wordcount (I always forget to before I go to bed).
I look at my NaNo stats, and it says...

So i'm thinking, ok, ok, I just need to write more today, and I'll be all good. So I check how many words I need to get back on target.

excuse me for a second... *googling cat pictures*

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Are you kidding me? Are you freaking kidding me? I can't write 1,325 words in one day! I'm not a superhero. Or Potato! (who may or may not be a superhero... but that's another post. Or possibly my book for next year.)

Those graph can either be totally uplifting (You're gonna finish on November 11!) or completely depressing. (You're gonna finish in March. Grab your kleenex.) 

I mean come on: if my finish by approximation gets any later, I'll be fifteen. 

--PICKLE

When Potato Can't Think of What to Write...

She makes up ideas for more things to write. Sensible, write? (excuse the bad pun)

So now I have a list of 29 titles, and 7 of them have at least partial synopses. They range from serious to just plain bad chick lit, and I add to the list whenever I think of a plot idea or title. Some of them could be full novels, others don't have the steam to be anything but short stories.

Still, it's fun, and a way to procrastinate. See, I'm trying to get to 15k by Sunday, a NaNo-wide goal.  Right now I have 14,265, and a very strong will to procrastinate. I'm even thinking about doing schoolwork. On a weekend. Yeah, I really want to procrastinate writing those last 800 words.

The titles thing, is a really cool way to keep lists of possible story ideas, though. I like to look through it for ideas when I want to write something (not in November), and it's great for finding my plot for NaNo. Even if I don't end up using one of them, I use them as springboards.

What do you use as a way to keep track of random story ideas?

This is why i never finish anything.

i just wrote a paragraph, and i don't know if I like it or not. actually, i hate it, but if i cut it, that's 86 words that i will no longer have. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!


I will add it up, so tell me if it's good... WARNING: THIS PARAGRAPH
CONTAINS PROFANITY. IF YOU DO NOT LIKE WORDS THAT RYHME WITH WITCH OR QUIT, STOP READING NOW.

Solace was standing now. She had never said one word to Dr. Green before, on principle, but this time she had gone to far. 

“You bitch. My mother and two year old sister were gunned down when I was ten years old. I came home from school and saw them dead on the living room floor. Nobody gave a shit, just another couple dead civilians in the boonies. She never even knew out if my dad was still alive or not, and you just stand there...

it's not done...