Friday Update 08/03/2012

It's been quite some time since my last update.  If I'm not saying anything I guess you can assume that I'm failing at reaching my goals.

I still haven't been writing in my journal and of course Camp NaNoWriMo went poorly for June, but I have hopes for August.  So, so many hopes for August.

In terms of things, quite a bit has happened.  Culina is finally out in the public eye!  Please leave your comments about the game on the lemmasoft forum thread!

My part of the prologue, which is now the first part entitled "The Spirit of Cooking" should be finished soon.  I started being involved in Infinite Girl which wound up taking up too much time already with almost no work being completed.  I'm already considering quitting the project because it's unpaid.  I enjoy the characters though so I'll likely write their story regardless.  If the project stays low key then I'll stay on.

Real life jobs are not going very well.

I decided as an added incentive for Camp NaNoWriMo this time, I'm also going to post the story on textnovel.com.  It's entitled Waking Dreams.  Please vote it up!

Camp NaNoWriMo Word Count:  8980
Culina:  The Spirit of Cooking Word Count:  1462

Last Time's Goals:

1. Finish the prologue of Culina I actually did this.  I'm trying to edit it now.
2. Write at least one major scene Culina post prologue  Outlined all of the social links.  Close enough.
3. Write silly love letters to friends to get into a romantic mood
4. Write some of the random gossip scenes for Culina.  I'm looking forward to this one!  Who knows what'll get used ^_~

And I got nothing else x.X

This Week's Goals:

1. Finish the editing of Culina
2. Start writing someone's social link in Culina
3. Work on my 30 Drabble Challenge
4. Work on my Camp NaNoWriMo story that I'm posting on textnovel.com
5. Work on my superhero story

Friday Update

Spending time with the family makes it ridiculously difficult to sit down and focus on writing either in my notebook or with my laptop.  I haven't written in my journal in weeks.

But!  It's understandable because my youngest sister graduated from high school yesterday and her graduation party is tomorrow.  We've been running around and family is here and my puppy is so badly behaved you wouldn't believe it.

I applied for a writing job with a larger company today.  We'll see how that goes [spoilers] it goes poorly.

Anyway!  I need to get to bed so I can get up early and work on the party and write more.  Let's just hop straight to the lists.

Camp NaNoWriMo Word Count:  5446

Last Week's Goals:

1. Write 3 scenes of the prologue for Culina  I rewrote two scenes, planned 2.5 scenes, and wrote 80% of one scene and 10% of another
2. Figure out Camp NaNoWriMo  Sort of completed.  I actually commented on the cabin thing.
3. Contact friends to see if they're interested in doing the projects we mentioned before graduation.  They said yes.  That's not really helpful.

This Week's Goals:

1. Finish the prologue of Culina
2. Write at least one major scene Culina post prologue
3. Write silly love letters to friends to get into a romantic mood
4. Write some of the random gossip scenes for Culina.  I'm looking forward to this one!  Who knows what'll get used ^_~

And that's that.  I don't really like the compose set-up for blogger so I'm thinking of switching to the HTML version for next week.  I'm not sure though.  I'm kind of used to the livejournal format that is HTML but automatically adds <p> tags to make it easier.  I'm not sure if I'm not lazy enough to write <p> for each paragraph.

Beginning of Summer and Other Things

Yes, I have been absolutely awful updating everything.  Honestly, I've been quite busy so in my free time I've been writing quite a bit of fanfiction.  There's no point lying about it.

However, I graduated just last Friday and with that I should theoretically have plenty of time to write Culina now.  That's my first priority.  I wound up not proofreading Heileen 3 due to time contraints, so I'm kind of sad about that, but it's not really unexpected.

I'm going to try to update this blog at least once a week and maintain a twitter for writing called RiceforBrunch. I'll at least be posting any fanfiction updates on that twitter since it shares a name with my personal writing/graphics livejournal, but any updates to this blog will be linked there as well.

In an attempt to actually get somewhere in my projects I'm going to make a list of three goals for each week and my next post will respond to the list I previously created and will also contain my next list.  I think that's fair and three goals should be reasonable enough for me to not want to die of work overload.

There is one thing that I would like to get some opinions of though and that's whether or not I should participate in Camp NaNoWriMo.  I already made an account and a Sponsorship Page, but whether or not I actually participate is still to be decided.  I still would love to write my originally planned NaNoWriMo from last November and it's at the perfect stage to be written.  Since my priority at this time is Culina, I would likely sign up for August with it and then just try to write as much of Culina as I can.  However, there's also the possibility of using Culina for a June novel.

I think I can do both actually so that'd be ideal, but I'm not sure what to categorize Culina as.  Alas, I'll just have to do my best.  Is there even some sort of splash page for Culina yet for me to use as a cover?  That'd be cool...

Goals for the week:

1. Write 3 scenes of the prologue for Culina
2. Figure out Camp NaNoWriMo
3. Contact friends to see if they're interested in doing the projects we mentioned before graduation

And finally, if anyone's interested in working with me, I really only recommend smaller projects or projects with strict deadlines.  I really need strict deadlines to get things done hence all of this fuss I'm imposing on myself