Day 08 - Short term Goals this month and why

• Finish off my assessments - History & Geography as far as I know is worth like 20% of my school certificate, if I get 70% at least in the assessment (being unrealistic), I will be happy. So finishing them is my short term (plus doing them well) and achiving a good result in my school certificate is my long term. xD
• Surviving my last 3 actual weeks of term 3 - They are my last proper 3 weeks of school of year 10 before the crazy term 4. If I achieve on surviving, then I can survive term 4.
• Plan for NaNoWriMo - I have to win. I don't care.
• Raise money for 40hr Famine - Help kinds in 3rd World Countries. It makes me feel better about myself helping other kids.

No Chance what so ever

They made a statue of us
And it put it on a mountain top
Now tourists come and stare at us
Blow bubbles with their gum
Take photographs have fun, have fun
---- "Us" by Regina Spektor

Yes, my phycic ability of telling my NaNoWriMo future is that, I will not win. What so ever. Period. No matter what everyone says, I am not going to win. This is my worst NaNoWriMo, ever. Last time I had roughly 13k. Now at 4k and two days left with my play (my play starts Tuesday night and we are not ready, well, not quite anyway).

Well, I think I am going to put my NaNoWriMo novel in the "bin of maybe-but-not-quite-finishing-in-the-near-future". Has anyone done that before? Like went back to your NaNoWriMo a few years back then finished it? Or done their novel... again... in NaNoWriMo the very next year? Does anyone have any advice for NaNo-wannabies?

With the play that I've (I think) I talk in my past blogs, well we only got our costumes today. The sets aren't quite (as far as I see as an actress/actor) ready. People know either very little lines, 50% or at the least 75% of their lines. For me, I know 75% of my lines. T.T Yeah, I've been procrastinating too much, NaNoWriMo procrastination/worrying, or my work load. This is not going to be a "walk in Hogwarts grounds", is it?

Love
DoomAngelKitty

Welcome to my Life

Do you ever feel like breaking down?
Do you ever feel out of place?
Like somehow you just don't belong
And no one understands you
Do you ever wanna run away?
Do you lock yourself in your room?
With the radio on turned up so loud
That no one hears you screaming
-"Welcome to My Life" by Simple Plan

Welcome to my life of NaNoWriMo, worrying about bushfires and school. The bush fire season has already started and my state has the worst bushfires seen in 100 years. About roughly 80 or so bushfires, some in towns generally sort of close (life 5-10 towns away) from where I live. Mum was worried so she pretty much got the photos in boxes, so we can call a taxi (because she had her operation on her akeles attendant or however you spell it and we don't own a car) and get out of here. I don't want to loose my home of 14 years (we moved in my house when I was 9 months old) because there is loverly memories and 14 years of belongings. This is why I dislike Australia, really hot and have so many bushfires or flood, I lost count. T.T

NaNoWriMo 2009 is nearly over for Australia, 8 more days. I have 4,380 words, so my daily count is 5,702 words per day. Wow, this will be interesting for me to finish. Previously I had 13,000 words last year (it was my first year), now I'm tempted on finishing it. I'm currently doing Word Wars, next year hopefully I can mentor a new NaNo-er. Good job isn't it? Mentoring someone could affect in a small way. But still, you have a good feeling inside.

I still have to do:

1. My forgotten PDH homework.
2. NaNoWriMo - 5,702 words
3. Memorise my words for the play.
4. Japanese Study for a quiz tomorrow.
5. Still, Japanese study for assessment task on Friday.
6. Maths assessment.

6 things to do in 6 days. T.T -imatates cave people- "Me no likey". Haha, I got to say, I should pace myself and get some energy drink to keep me awake. I don't like those energy drinks like V or Red Bull, maybe when I do my HSC and start studying my pants off. I am not able to fully appreciate Tea or Coffee (after nearly two weeks in Japan, I am not a big fan of Green Tea).

Reading: New Moon (Stephanie Meyer), Loving Richard Feynman (Penny Tangey) and Heaven's net is Wide (Lian Hearn)
Watching: News
Word Count: 4,380
Daily "Left": 5,702
Overall "Left": 45,620

Love
DoomAngelKitty

Why the hell am I writing 7,000 words today and procrastinating?

This street continued to run ahead
It should have been written in a map
but I can't find the town
and as I turned around to look at that place
the scenery changed
This world is our last electro world
The ground is shivering and broken,
and the sun has fallen from the sky lightly into my hand
The truth, above all, has been recognized
I'll leave the world's plan behind in this letter
---"Electro World" by Perfume

I ask myself at 4:30 pm after I came home from school (on the magical school bus), why am I writing 7,000 words (somedays 8,000 words, 7,500 words and 9,500 words). At the end, roughly at 29th November, I'll writen 83,000 words plus my original 3,760 words. So overall, 86,760 words, 36,760 words over my finishing mark.

Procrastination isn't helping me much. Facebook, Blogger and on YouTube while I'm writing this, is not a good start to my 7,000 word writing. I should of done it in my Science class when we were watching a video about ecosystems and the food chain (even though it lasted 10 minutes). What are some good ways of me stop procrastinating today and write 7,000 words?

My Christmas Concert is soon approcahing so I was cutting down to songs that I can sing and sing it at the Concert. The list goes down to:

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sG_3IiSV_U ---> "Electro World" by Perfume
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggTiV5ETRQ4 ---> "Two for My Seconds" by Operator Please
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xPsZVTIygA ---> "Green Eyed World" by The Blips feat. Amiel
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRp6Wl_9lKo ---> "These Days are Dark" by Harry and the Potters
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wRkoGKQ8qQ ---> "Love Story" by Taylor Swift

So which one do you think I should sing? I only have four weeks from Thursday to learn this song. I asked one of my friends from Russia what she thinks, she has yet to reply to it though. I haven't even asked my school friends though. I should even.

Love
DoomAngelKitty

Procastination on NaNoWriMo isn't gopod for your NaNoWriMo Health

As I was thinking after my 25k or so words that I have to catch up to NaNoWriMo standards, I was thinking about "What is a good NaNoWriMo writer?" "How can a perfect NaNoWriMo writer can juggle reality with the 50k words set in a month?" "Does the writer even have a real life outside the 50k word boarder?" "Where does this perfect NaNoWriMo writer live?". I have thought and have come out of the conclusion, a few ridiculous answers.

1. The perfect writer doesn't have any social life in November.
Conclusion: The perfect NaNoWriMo writer, somewhere in the world, has a hybernation in the month of November, so he/she can write 50k in a month, WITH THEIR EYES CLOSED!

2. The perfect writer has two brains, one of the north hemisphere and one in the south.
Conclusion: The perfect NaNoWriMo writer could be like the English Empire, "The sun never sets in the English Empire". (Note to self: Disaproves that Australia is still apart of the English Empire, in a way)

3. The perfect writer is just typing "DoomAngelKitty is awesome" over and over again.
Conclusion: The writer could be cheating and writing rubbish (or perfectly good answer of "DoomAngelKitty is awesome") over and over again to make to the 50k word mark. Therefore, this writer is not perfect but a lying, cheating Son of a Banshee (see Wizard Swears).

4. The perfect writer has drank cofee/tea/Coke/V/Red Bull or some energy drink to write continuesly until she/he finished 50k words.
Conclusion: It's the scientific fact that your energy drink can motivate you.

5. The writer has no procastionation in their system.
Conclusion: Therefore the writer has no Facebook, Bebo, YouTube, Myspace in their systems.

5 good answers to my questions. Are you, the NaNo writer are any of these 5 answers? Or all five? I'm sure, I am never the 5 (unless it calls in desperate measures). I mean seriously, why would in 16 days, I have to cheat? I would admit deafeat gracefully and try again next year. No procastionation, no nothing.

LOVE
DoomAngelKitty

That time of the year

It's the time of the year, that people count down to the 1st November to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. NaNoWriMo starts in another 12 days (for all those people in line of the Australian time zone) while the rest roughly 13 days. Are we all prepared?

If you don't know what NaNoWriMo is, well, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month that takes place every November 1st-3oth each year. You just write for a month and eventually you write a 50,000 word novel. Some people write over the 50,000 bench mark and that's fine. The aim is to write a 50,000 word novel in a month.

Thinking of joining? Well go to NaNoWriMo and sign up. I've done last year but I never got to the 50,000 word bench mark. Well, thios is the year that I'm planing to get to 50,000 words.

Here is the sypnopsis of my novel this year's NaNoWriMo:

"Lola is an average girl, well to mere mortals of the planet earth anyway. She's the "Chosen One" (to those who believe in the prophecies) to fight one on one to the Queen of the magical world, Veneficus. So when Lola, the apprentice of becoming a witch goes to the town of Amor, she has to abandon her knowledge of all things she learned from her teachers to become a hero to everyone, including someone who she never thought of before."

If you are wondering how I came up with the world Veneficus and Amor. They are latin words of magic (Veneficus) and love (Amor). I thought that instead of doing a Young Adult book like what I did last year, I am doing a fantasy book involving magic (witches mostly).

Happy: School (tomorrow) = seeing my frineds
Sad: Holidays finishing and still missing Japan.
Reading: Rowan the Strange, Chinese Cinderella and the Mystery of the Song Dynasty Painting and A Year in Girl's Hell: Trashed
Listening: Boarder Security (TV)

LOVE,
DoomAngelKitty