Another Check-In and New Goals for This Week

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I'm late again...but I have been a little more productive than the last post.

As far as my journaling goes, I have managed to crank out a few pages yesterday. I know, I really need to keep this up. It feels good to let some emotions out on a blank page...clear the air and clear the mind. I'm using it as therapy. One day I'll be brave enough to write it down in this blog, but for now I'll secret it away in my journal.

A few sparks of my imagination went into my notebook and I worked on my nano novel...finished my outline and now working on more  characters and worldbuilding.

I read over a few pieces I had saved on my laptop a year or so ago.  I was shocked when I read it over. "Did I write this?" I guess it's good when I can still amaze myself.

When I wrote this prolouge, it was for the novel I'm preparing for NaNoWriMo.  But then I changed my mind and pushed it aside.  Anyway, I found this facebook app, "I Write Like". You put in a few paragraphs of a piece you wrote, it analyzes it and tells you which author you most write like.  Arthur C. Clake, Chuck Palahniuk and Harry Harrison came up for some of the pieces I entered including this one.

I wanted to share this piece with you:

"I live in a world I no longer recognize. People here are not themselves. There are too many fingers being pointed, too many scapegoats.  It has gone past just the country being divided. The world is now divided by those who would enslave us and those who would free us. Unfortuanately the world government is on the opposite side. I fear we will not survive the war that is coming....that is inevitable.  

My life is nothing but repetition and self-torture. A 1984 of my own making. Work is the prison in which we all live in. Bills to pay and a roof over our heads are what we work toward daily, weekly, monthly, yearly.  When will it all end? Do we wish it to end?  

I once thought that I could make it on my own. Tha t conformity could be beaten.  But now I see that without conformity we are nothing. What shall we do? How do we live with ourselves with what we have left our children? 

As I sit and write this, sides are being taken and armies are being dispatched to locations all over the world. Infiltrators will soon receive the signal to begin their slaughter on the innocent and hopeless.  Those who do survive will be given over to the armies of the world as they tear our minds apart with their technology. In order to control us...our minds..they must destroy what is already there.  Pity...I was beginning to like my mind.  

A militia has been growing for a number of years....secretly.  But I fear we don't quite have enough manpower nor firepower to destroy the army that is coming.  I cannot help but wonder what will become of us.  What will our heritage be?  Will the future generations look upon us in disdain and disgust for being traiterous to our own kind or will they celebrate us as the heroes we are trying to be?  There is only one way to find out and I intend to do what I have promised.  I will try to save what world we have left.  For freedom and our forefathers.  They did not die in vain and neither will we.

This letter and contents within this chest will serve as a historical account of what the world once was.  We the people were endowed by a loving and judging Creator to be the heirs of this world.  In the image of God we were created and therefore we have the right over this planet.  
Those who are not made in God's image let them die a horrible death for they do not deserve the beauty that was so lovingly created.  Nor will they ever understand the sole purpose of their own creation before they fell from heaven.  

If anyone should find this, let them be blessed by the words they read and let them understand fully who they are and what their purpose is.  Let the machines ring throughout the planet and let the creation of God be saved from what we have allowed to manifest herein.  

Let the remnant be gathered from the four corners of the earth and let their song be heard far into the heavens......."

My New Goals...

• I want to go back to writing prompts and get something written every morning no matter how small or how large the word count.  At least 2000 words. I know on a good day I can go beyond that number...way beyond.

• I also want to share more about The Faithful Four since its been a big part of my life for the past few years.  I am working on bio pieces for each of my dogs who are characters in my graphic novel script. I'm also going to include a pic of each one so you can get an idea of each one's personality.  I love my dogs.  I'm thinking maybe one per week would be more doable.

• Still going to finish my NaNo prep but thinking about including another novel I was working on just to get it a little more organized so I can work on it after NaNo. My problem is that I start on one idea, get bored and then start on another.  I can work on two novels at the same time but then something else comes along or work begins to take over my life.  So I end up dusting everything off later on and needing to refresh my memory on what I wrote and where I intended to go with the idea in the first place.  I'm not very organized to begin with.  I have piles on my desk as I type this...I so need to declutter somemore... The scary part is that I used to be organized when I was single and then I married a clutter bug and he rubbed off on me. 

• That's my next goal....to declutter around my writing space and organize my files...especially my writing files and projects that I have piled up around me.  Need filing cabinets and book shelves.  I find it disturbing that I don't have enough space to tuck away my books.  I keep thinking of giving most of them away to Friends of the Library here in town for their book sales.  Some of these books I ordered years ago but never read...they don't interest me anymore.  Not into romances right now...more scifi and fantasy!

Neat Things I Found Online

While fooling around lastnight online I found an app on Google Chrome, Pillarbox. It allows me to write anything offline...it's simple, no distractions.  Just a dark screen to write my words on and includes a place to put your desired word count and it keeps track for you.  To save my work I just copy and paste into Wordpad.

I also found a website to save my novels on as I write them. Scriptito. It's an online writing community which has tools for writing your novel, planning it, etc. and when your done you can share it with others on the site. It has so much I actually signed up for an account.  I write on my laptop, desktop and my Droid Bionic and between the three I don't have the same writing programs on them.  So I find it nice to have my work saved online so I can access it easier.

That's it for now....

ROW80 Update...A Day Late...

I've had a busy start to this week...I start my new job Monday so I have had a lot of documents to print out and read over and unfortunately my printer isn't working the way it's supposed to. It prints too slow...frustrating. I'm looking forward to this job. I'll be doing court research and since it's a work- from-home opportunity and I won't be driving too far to the courthouse, it will give me more time to do some writing.  

I'm also de-fleaing my house and dogs so my stress level has been reaching it's limit. I feel like that's all I've been doing lately. It seems everything I'm using hasn't worked so I ordered BioSpot online since I can't get it around here and in a few days I can nip this and get my yard sprayed. So that problem will be gone. I've been apologizing to my dogs right and left...I figure they will go easy on me when the canine empire takes over the world.

I did get a good start on myNaNo novel.  I started working on my characters a little more but I'm struggling with the outline.  I think I'm getting overwhelmed by trying to outline the entire novel. So I'm going to finish it tonight by being simple and go back to it during this month and add to it.  I've tried in the past with this story line to write it out but have failed because I have never done the prep. I'm using October NaNo Prep Challenge on Writing.Com to help me. I'm a little behind but I'm still working on it.

I've been visiting a few blogs, commented on one. I'm really impressed with everyone's goals and posts. My short story is still in the finishing process but have ideas for more.  I'm always writing these ideas down in my notebook.  In fact, found some old notebooks and can't wait to get some of those older ideas typed up as short stories. 

That's my update for now! Have to get back to work! 

ROW80 Newbie

 My goal is simple: I need to keep writing... I have a few projects I want to keep working on.

1. Prep for nanowrimo - have one novel in mind for that this month.
2. Row80 checkins twice a week
3. Have a short story I want to finish (have 300 words written so far) May keep it as a flash.
4. Keep journaling (I do 3 pages per day to clear my mind before starting my day)

And spend more time with my husband while working part time. Whew!

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The Blank Page

I'm sitting here at my desk in my living room, waiting for my husband to get home from work and trying to think of something to say for my first post. Its about 9:30 pm...dogs are out back...and I have a craving for chocolate and coffee. Makes for a sleepless night but then again I don't get much sleep anyway.

Writing is my life. I'm not happy until I'm typing ideas on my laptop or writing on a blank page in my journal. I need to write!

So I have decided to put this blog to good use as a place to post my writing goals and to share some pieces with you. Also share snippets of my life...or as the dogs may think snippets of what my life should be...with them...ruling the world as part of the great canine empire!  Its difficult living in their shadow...

One of my wip's is titled, "The Faithful Four...Attack of the Ninja Kitties" and was an attempt at a graphic novel script. But it didn't go as well as I would have liked. Misty wanted to bark orders all the time (seeing that she is old...older, I allowed it), Chloe and Riley just wanted to be in the den...sleeping with my husband, and our newest puppy, Pipper, well she has a personality that is bigger than her (being a pit mix that doesn't surprise me), and Zoe my Rott, well we always remember the Zoe...my baby. She was the reason I started to write this script in the first place. She always thought of herself as the alpha...the general. So I played up on it. What a dog! 

The idea for it came from Cats & Dogs. Also from the neighborhood cats I would see while Matt and I walked around town.  I would see one walking through the drainage ditches along the side streets and as he would walk through the drain, he would emerge from the other side and scout his surroundings. That gave me the idea that he was doing intel.  So The Faithful Four emerged...and Matt helped make these dogs larger than life. 

I love to read fantasy, sci fi, horror. My writing revolves around fantasy or a mix of genres and also love an occasional fanfic. My goal, now that I have more time to write, is to take all of my pieces and put them together for publication. Working on 2 ideas for novels and have a flash fic in progress also. I want to develop the habit again and do something with it.

Oh, the dogs are barking orders at me again. Guess I should bring them in.