Missed another, excuse me while I go shoot myself in the foot.

So, very little happened yesterday. Had a headache the size of a small elephant, which considering the size of my brain cage....

Got basically nothing done in the way of research, but I did get around to answering my nano mail, just in time to discover that I had missed the first regional event by 5 measly hours.

Sigh.

Grrr.

*whapping head against wall*

Got the second and third DVDs, although return of the king is being difficult. Still (ignoring the fact that the only mention to Nimrodel or Amroth was in Lothlorien, and so the first movie) they might work as a mental pick me up when my brain inevitably breaks into tiny shards.

I'm SO excited. Also grumpy, but that’s my natural state. Still, days are getting shorter, and I should really get on it, but I'm still getting distracted like frivolously things such as history homework. And blogging, but that’s beside the point.

Quickie

This is a quick post because my brain is fried. Trying to figure out why certain egyptian rulers were so great, which would be more fun if they didn't all have names that sounded like varations of the same four. Anyways, bad school day, bad homework night, I'm pretty sure I'm not going tomorrow and nothing but moving a few bits of text around was done for nano.

I am so fricken stressed, and its october. I think it will pass on the weekend.

Anyways, read a book this afternoon called Dead until Dark (by Charlain Harris) and that was my big acomplishment for the day. Yahoo!

http://www.amazon.ca/Dead-Until-Dark-Charlaine-Harris/dp/0441008534/sr=8-1/qid=1161908931/ref=sr_1_1/702-4187766-4628819?ie=UTF8&s=books

Theres a link to the book, which was intresting, and I'm hoping to find another in the series because I got attached the main characters but it had way to many random and extranious things, and useless characters, as well as bits were the plot got remarkably thin. Anyways... thats all folks, go away.

I'm not sure if there are days missing, but here it is

I changed the template *does happy dance* although I did it a few days ago, and it wasn't note worthy then.

Reading nano emails, which are loading slowly as I write this, and writing back to people who have written to me. Weird, wonder how long that will last? I have this theory that it takes longer to drive people with text that with words, but we'll see.

Anyways, now new and shiny plot points (not like I posted the last ones, because they are way too disorganized. I have trouble not jumping to the next thing when I see that the first could be finished)

I just finished reading No Plot? No Problem! by Chris Baty. While it didn't change my writing life, it did have some things I might implement, and some things I definitely won't. Still, very entertaining to read. His writing style (which I had already gleaned from the posts on the nano site, and is 85% of the reason I paid actual money for a shiny new copy, which is now creased and slightly rained on, instead of borrowing it from the library) is very Pithy.

At the bus stop (in the cold, but don't get me started on the weather) I ended up splitting one of the cracking areas on my lip as I lost the battle against laughing out loud (doesn't that make you want a copy) and started snorking softly on the go train, causing slight pauses in the tedious and idiotic conversation next to me. I didn't look up to see if there were odd glances being thrown at me. Anyways,

got distracted, read more emails, but here are the links I was searching for.

http://www.amazon.ca/No-Plot-Problem-Low-Stress-High-Velocity/dp/0811845052/sr=8-1/qid=1161821510/ref=sr_1_1/702-4187766-4628819?ie=UTF8&s=books

http://store.nanowrimo.org/product.php?productid=2

Seriously though (and no, I'm not actually pushing the book, refer back to my comments on the CD) I bought my copy at chapters (who I frequent as often as I have free money), and their search program is inconsistent and irritating.

I've noticed that this blog has been really getting away from the point, but I'm not sure what my point originally was, so I'm going with it.

But right now, I'm seeing if bones is actually on, and surfing the nano forum, and typing this is just a little too distracting.

Everything looks shinier on monday; the hell fire makes the pokers glint

So I've been reading forums, and blog pages and doing searches; anything to avoid the sentence homework, and there were tips on how to get your readers up, which I'm going to attempt to employ, because I want feedback once this actually starts going (now doesn't really matter) and I'm too lost in a sea of blogs to get any. Seriously, my visitor count is at like 23, all of which were me, checking to see if my things had posted properly. And then hitting refresh to get the counter farther away from the sad little number of one.

Anyways...

http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42377 - about promoting your blog suggests a couple of things, including:

• play with settings (which I'm gonna try to do after this)
  
• polish your content (that would involve spell check wouldn't it?)
  
• quantity (which will go even further down in November)
  write well (um... )
  
• know your audience (so what do you do if you know no one but you will want to read it? I guess just resign yourself to that facts, oh well, keeps me amused)

Another thing it mentioned was to link to other blogs (which only works if someone actually lands here, but... I've done a couple of google (I love google) searches for blogs, just to get a better feel of the general community, and there kinda random, monopolized by the actual nano blog

http://blog.nanowrimo.org/

but I thought I'd post the rest of the ones I found (but didn't extensively check out)

http://elkit.blogs.com/darkandstormy/
http://copywriter.typepad.com/copywriter/2006/10/nanowrimo_quick_3.html
http://marytsao.blogspot.com/2006/10/nanowrimo-y-nablopomo-are-you-in-or.html
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Nanowrimobert
http://phylwrites.blogspot.com/
http://www.scottsforum.com/index.php/2006/08/18/nanowrimo_blog
http://www.josalmon.co.uk/2006/10/planning-for-nanowrimo/

They got all smushed together in my notepad so I'm not sure they're all right, but there they are. Another thing it said to do (although it warned that it would piss people off, but seriously, no ones here anyways, so if they come and go, there’s not really a huge downside) is put in generally searched keywords. (I can't even find it with keywords on google. There are so many blogs, on so many things)

Amroth. Nimrodel. Tolkien. Nanowrimo. November. Canada. Fiction. Writing. Blog. Diary. Contests. Project. Time. Cow.

I don't know how cow relates to my topic, but you can never go wrong with a good cow.

And on Sunday there was rest, or at least that's what I'm blaming it on

So, yesterday.... how an uncomfortable number of my posts start. Not much done on story, but I got my mother to sign up, and checked my nanomail and found that 4 people had sent me messages, and I now have buddies. Shock! Passing out shock!

Wonder how long it will be before they run to the hill in fear?

Not the point.

Anyways, since its 8:30 in the morning, I don't have much news for today, only really high hopes, so...

signing off in hopes of managing some homework dealing with run-on, fused and incomplete sentences. (the fun!)

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