First Day of Script Frenzy!

Evaluation: Productive and Successful
After getting almost no work done on the script in school or after-school (but before the show i was teching), i managed to pull through write some 500 words of title, dramatis personae, etc., and then another 800 some for the 1st scene. I have to try and make the scenes a little bit longer if i want to reach 20k with 19 scenes, but i think i already knew this was one of the shorter ones. So anyways, i finish today with tomorrow's word goal already completed. Which is made even better by the fact that i'm doing a write-in tomorrow, so I should be able to get even further ahead. It would be amazing if i were actually able to finish this before the school year ended (a.k.a. before the 21st or so). But we shall see, we shall see. I might end adding back in scenes that i had cut. But who knows, i shall see how it goes (that rhyming was way too fun and coincidental). Anyways, good night, i need sleep, and i was only posting to tell you how well the first day of my insanity went. Bona nit! (as the Catalonians say it)
-Seshat's Child

Final Decision on Script Frenzy + My 'mad intense' Dreams

Okay, so after looking around the Script Frenzy site and my calendar for june (and notes on that other play), i decided to try it. I mean, why not? I'll be a part of history, taking part in the first ever Script Frenzy. and besides, I'm already signed up at this point, so there's no chance of me dropping out now. So last week during our extremely disorganized Writing Club meeting, i organized the scene order for the play. I plan on completing a more complete outline this week (around doing tons of schoolwork, recovering from 5 performances in a row, and starting work on assistant directing the short play i wrote).
In other news, I had some 'mad intense' (as i like to call them) dreams this last week. I started a sci-fi story based off of one, and have a complete outline for another that i'll probably hold off on starting until summer, since i have a clear enough idea of it formed. I have so much stuff i want to do this summer, there is no way i am going to get through all of it. But that's another story. For now, i'm just letting you know that i am doing script frenzy, and i have some amazing dream-inspired stories started/planned. Hope to update you soon!
-Seshat's Child

Script Frenzy?

So I was loking around the fancy Script Frenzy website this morning (stupid, stupid, me!), and I started to think 'well, it's only 20k, you can probably do that. it's a lot short than NaNo, and in script format, 20k of dialogue will be a breeze!' So i haven't actually signed up yet (thank the goddess..Seshat of course!) but I have allowed myself to start thinking about it. It would be interesting to try and pull off, because I do have finals and everything then, along with Blink Festival at school and such, but I think it might be good for me to push myself and see if I can really write a full-length play. It would be fun to try. Terrifying probably, but fun. I think I'll acquire a few people's advice, and then maybe sign up. I have only about 2 and half weeks to plan stuff out for it, but I do have an old idea for a play that I started working outlining with an exboyfriend last summer, so maybe I should pull that out again and see what I think of it. I'l try and keep you updated. Happy May everyone! I hope your May Days were wonderfully spring-like!
-Seshat's Child

Playwrighting Contest and April Fools Results

Okay, so first things first, neither Ms. Crewdson nor I won the playwrighting contest. Very good overall I think, as that avoided all awkward confrontations very well. But moving on(i'd already resigned myself to the results, so i wasn't too upset), yesterday was the last day of April Fools. I made a total count of just over 7,000 words for the month, which is better than i'd been afraid it would turn out, but still not quite at my goal for the month. But at least i tried, and I'm on a good roll with two stories so far (well, one short story, one introduction/background story for something longer), and so those should keep me writing for, well, probably through May at least. I don't think i'm going to do Script Frenzy in june, just because i have plenty of other stuff to do, and i don't want to complicate my schedule more than it already is.
That's really it for my update, so i'll leave you all alone now and go back to memorizing the Shakespeare prologue i have to know for English class on Thursday. Hope your spring is going as crazy fun as mine,
-Seshat's Child

April Fools!

Okay, so I officially decided to participate in the April Fools writing challenge/thingy this year. I set myself a goal of 10,000 words, so that it's do-able, but I still have the chance of boosting it if I'm running a good ways ahead. So far (as of tonight) I have 1,016 on a short story titled 'Morpheus Rising'. It's in a bit of a funky style- very stream-of-consciousness, in fact it sort of reminds me of Langston Hughes' 'Not Without Laughter', mixed with the Penelope chapter of James Joyce's 'Ulysses'. Ah well, that's what I get from paying too much attention in English class. Anyways, we shall see how it turns out. I also outlined my re-write of the play "Boo!" today, but did not have a chance to actually start typing the literal dialogue out. Because of the way I outlined it, however, it should be fairly easy to write once I get the time. Anyways, I really should be getting to sleep now.
TOODLES!
-Mimi

First Read-Through Completed

Okay, well, as of last night I have officially completed my first read-through of my first actual novel. Okay, it doesn't feel as amazing as I thought it would, but it's still fun. Now I have to go through, add chapters, fix continuity problems (including certain character's hair colors...), rephrase sentences that made no sense. And then once I think it's somewhat presentable, I'll probably let some more friends read it. And maybe my sister. And then after I fix some of their notes, then maybe I'll pass it on to people like Mr. Montague (my guidance counselor), or my mum's friend Cindy (who offered to help me in the editing process). But first I need to make all of the initial changes and corrections.

In other news, I signed up for April Fools today, and gave myself the fairly easy goal of 10,000, which will definitely include any essays I do for English class, along with probably some Ascension editing counts, and maybe the start of Ascension's sequel, or the Romeo & Juliet take-off I've been planning. We shall see, my dears, we shall see. And hopefully, now that I'm writing again (to some extent), I will be updating this more frequently.
Hopefully.
Toodles! -Mimi

Newsflash!

Okay, so JanNoWriMo didn't quite work out how i planned....but namely because about halfway through the month, I FINISHED MY WRIMO NOVEL!!! So yes, that means i have officially finished a complete novel now. Of course, it requires lots of editing, and i'm only partway through reading it for the first changes. I already know i'm adding at least two chapters and majorly changing some parts. But it's finished! Finito! Finisce!! Yeah, you can tell i'm excited. Still. A month later practically. Anyways. Other writing news....I reworked my play to make it a bit longer and in the proper format, and sent that in to a contest held by the BPS. Funny thing is, when they sent out the email being like "thank you for your submissions, results will be posted April1st" i (being the competitive creep that i am), decided to count the email addresses to estimate the number of entrees (because people could submit more than one play). So i'm counting, and counting (there were 40, btw), and guess whose email i should come across? CREWDSON'S! So apparently we both submitted plays to the same contest. Now i just have to hope that either neither or both of us win. Because if just she wins, i'll feel pissy, and if just i win, she'll probably hate me. So really, i should try to be optimistic, and hope that we both win. Ideally. Because then i could get a nice Sony Vaio Laptop for myself. *sigh* Ah well, like i said, i shall remain hopeful and idealistic until the results are posted. But i think they'll hate mine.

JanNoWriMo

Okay, so part of my signing up for NaNoWriYe '07, I decided to check out their new 'WriMos Club', where basically you do a whole bunch of WriMos over the course of the year. Since I was already planning on doing that I was able to look at their list and start figuring out which I am going to do. I decided to start the year off with a kick doing JanNoWriMo, and then take February and March off for more relaxed writing and probably some editing(since I really need to finish off my WriMo novel so I can start working on all the loose ends that I know need fixing). I'll probably then do April Fools, and take May and June off to focus on school stuff. And that's pretty much all I have figured out so far. Obviously I'll be doing NaNoWriMo in the fall, and possibly NaNoFiMo again, but between June and November I think I'll just have to see how things are going on my various projects.

So anyways, this post was supposed to be about JanNoWriMo. I had an idea in the shower the other day, but I haven't finished fleshing it out yet. I'm hoping to do some of that tonight, and then I might do something like write the first page at midnight before going to sleep. It's hard to believe that another year is coming to an end and i'm once again a year older (for those of you who don't know, New Year's Eve is my birthday). But it is, and once again I've gone a whole year without finishing a single piece. Let's hope 2007 is a bit more productive!

2nd post (because I'm lame and can't think of a title)

Okay, so I admit, I still haven't really done any writing. But I wanted to be good and update this anyways. I'm starting to get a sinking feeling that I won't actually make NaNoFiMo, but if I get through this month with a finished novel, I could care less whether or not I make 30k. So yeah, I've officially signed up for NaNoWriYe '07, and I'm planning on being in the 100-200k club. I'm also considering whether or not I should write a sequel to my WriMo '06 novel (which I'm supposed to be finishing this month). But who knows, I shall see how the book ends, and how the year goes. This is all I'm going to write for now, because I still have a crapload of homework to do, but it makes me happy that I posted again!

First Post!!

Okay, so, this is the first post on my new writing blog, seshat's child!! Seshat, for those of you who do not know, was the ancient Egyptian goddess of writing. Anyways, this blog will be used to track my writing progress and all that fun crap. I recently finished (and won!) my second NaNoWriMo, a.k.a. National Novel Writing Month(November). I've also decided to participate in NaNoFiMo, National Novel Finishing Month, for December, so that i can finish the amazing thing i started in November. I also have a few other stories that are sort of works-in-progress, and i'll probably be going back to those in January when NaNoWriYe (Nat'l Novel Writ'g Year) starts. Uhm, let's see, what else can i say...i recently founded my school's first Writing Club, and we've had two successful meetings so far, but we need to do some more advertising so we can have more people. So what i'm going to do now is go back to doing my history homework, so that i can get some sleep and actually accomplish some writing this week. A presto!