Steady As She Goes

Sunday, November 1st, 2009
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So, NaNoWriMo started today, and I added myself to the NaNoBloMo blogroll, too. So that means one blog post and at minimum 1667 words every day, all month.

I know. I’m insane. But, hey. I’m not doing too bad. I’m at 2,105 words for the moment in my WriMo effort, most of which was written last night after midnight struck (and after confusing Sammy, she forgot I’m in Australia, apparently! XD ) To all the other WriMos looking at this, good luck and GET TOO IT! Like me, I’m probably going to add some more words soon.

But first, I didn’t explain what it is my NaNoWriMo novel is about, I don’t think.

It’s set around the same sort of idea as The Buried Moon was, that is, it is set in Arthurian Britain with an alternate universe type of Premise, and this time it is a, not an rpg and b, set mostly from the POV of the common folk and outsiders, though the more I write into it the more I realise there will be the occasional chapter from the traditionally main characters POV (such as Arthur or Morgana, Knights, etc). It starts three months before the Death of Uther Pendragon and the return of Arthur.It’s sort of a braided novel, like stories woven together into one hopefully cohesive piece and showing several aspects of the Camelot in the story and it’s people, royalty included.

Oh I also believe I promised someone this, it’s a little clip of me singing (badly) it’s an MP4,  I believe:

Memo – Singing

Kind of wish I could add this to my word count. Ha. Anyway, tomorrow loves! (also, this is post #70. Whoo!)

P.S. I may or may not have set Morgana on fire. In the first chapter. Oh Goddess, I’m mean to her! D:

01.11.2009 Characters, General, NaNoWriMo, Thoughts, Writing 1 Comment

But they can’t ever touch her, their disapearing Queen…

Sunday, June 21st, 2009
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I’ve been on what one might call a bit of an Arthurian kick lately. I’ve always had a thing for Arthurian Myth and it’s never, ever managed to disappear so… well it wasn’t the most surprising of “developments”. It was, I supposed, rekindled by my recent viewing of BBC’s Merlin. I haven’t seen the whole of the first season yet and it does tend to make me wince and occasionally yell at the tv screen because it’s oh so very different to the myths or the earlier stories I’m so familliar with. Even different to some of the more contemporary retelling’s I love.


On the other, less fussy hand? It make me smile, most of the time. It’s made me want to cry a little… but mostly because I’m attaching back stories and histories from the myths I’ve read.


Morgana gets me, in particular. Somehow it seems that as long as I’ve known the stories that Morgana (aka Morgan Le Faye, Morgaine) has been my favourite. She’s often portrayed badly, the witch, the sorceress, the bad egg or Arthur’s incestuous half sister.


That might be true… but I like the version of her that’s formed in my head over the years. She’s far from perfect, but she isn’t evil either… and she is deeply, madly in love with Arthur. Yet, never is there a time during which she and Arthur (who loves her back, in my hardly humble opinion) get to be together. Even though most people consider a union between them wrong, anyway. I suppose no one ever wanted to give them a chance.


And Morgana is never meant to be Queen.


It’s the nature of the myth, the tragedy that is Camelot… that for all it’s sunshine and love there is deceit and forbidden love and pain. Proof that even the best place on earth will never be perfect.


I wish, dearly, that the cost for this happiness didn’t leave one of my favourite characters high and dry.


I also wish that my version of her wasn’t sitting in my head with my muse and demanding that I write stories about her… because they keep coming up short of something I want to share… and that is what I want to do, eventually.


For now, though. I’m working on posting my poetry up… for all it’s imperfections it is mine, and I’m willing to show it, even if it’s only bones. Check it out, Projects > Poetry Corner

21.06.2009 Characters, General, Writing 4 Comments

Alphasmart, Baby

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
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I wrote a different post earlier about the alphasmart, because she arrived on Friday and I was utterly entranced by the fact that I finally had my hands on an AlphaSmart. Part of me keeps going “It’s not the model you wanted,” but still, even if she has a few years on her, has travelled from farther away than I have even gone and is a bit on the clacky side… I love her!

Other than last months Post-O-Rama because of NaPoBloMo I haven’t been writing all that much of late. I try but I am the internets bitch and Google Reader has enslaved me, etc, etc. This, however? I can write almost anywhere I want to. If I have a sudden idea for another story while I’m typing I can quickly switch to another file and start writing that and get it off my chest so that I can keep going on what I had been writing. It’s a Blessing in a Bad Taste of Plastic. :D

I do lament the lack of actual italics but I can write it in whats known as MarkDown, which is using simple symbols to mark places of formatting, such as _ around things I want italic, * around things I want bold and if I send the text to WriteMonkey I can export that as HTML because that program recognises the MarkDown for what it is supposed to be.

I’ll admit that other than few things I ended up deleting I have only really started on a HP AU Fanfic that may never see the light of day outside my computer… but writing is writing, right? ;) :read:

For those who have forgotten, my AS I was bidding for on Ebay (Did I talk about that on here?!) is an AlphaSmart 3000. The model is from the early 2000’s though which year I can’t quite remember. It’s also second hand from a school (don’t ask me which, I covered the sharpie in stickers) but there’s hardly a scratch on it. I’m trying a simple mod on the keyboard which won’t harm it but should make the effort of the keys less and thus make it better on my poor, much abused fingers. For now I’ve just been adapting to it, the keyboard is actually a rather decent size and the AS itself really isn’t that heavy at all though I intend on making it a bag or something so I don’t drop it, despite thee sturdiness of the machine. I mist confess every time I look at it and more often when I pick her up to use her I get all excited inside because I had to wait two and a half freaking years before I could even get my nimble little fingers onto an old model!

So. Who has name ideas for my baby girl?

Alphasmart, Fresh from the Box!

10.06.2009 Life, Photography, Writing 2 Comments

Meet Inara

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Inara

This is our new kitten, I’ve called her Inara after a character in Firefly, Inara Serra. We got her yesterday, Lily has of course named her too – something plain and unfitting such a pretty kitten, she’s called her “Missy”. Fortunatley, Inara answers to what I called her. Muhahahaha. :devil: :lmao:

Also, I did it. This is my 31st post in 31 days. Whoo! Now to our normal but slightly slower posting rate.

I love my cats.

31.05.2009 Family, General, Life, Photography No Comments

The problem with going out…

Friday, May 29th, 2009
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Is that I end up so exhausted all I want to do is go to bed, and I think I will. I did get buttons, though! My aunt gave me some of the ones from the house at Eugowra and some are genuine vintage which is nice. My new handbag is about half done… hmm, what else?

How about an interesting multipath Pagan Ritual?

I really should have the post finished tomorow, baring any more extreme busyness. Sorry!

29.05.2009 Crafting, General, Life, Pagan No Comments

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