i did it!!!

omg....i did it!!! i made it to 50,000 words on my novel for nanowrimo. actually, i went a little above. i made it to 50,068 words. does this mean that the novel is done being written? of course not. i still have a lot of writing left to do before my roughest of rough drafts is even close to being done. but it doesn't matter. i did it. i beat nanowrimo. i am a "winner". i have collected my "winner's goodies"
i'm actually rather proud of myself. when i began, i was all "oh. 50,000 words. how hard can it be?" actually, it is hard. there were days when i wanted to give up because my characters just wouldn't do what they told me to or when i was frantically typing in an attempt to write 250 words in a minute so that i could meet the deadline. but in the end, i made. i reached 50,000 words. and i am proud of myself.
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10,000

o.m.g.
i am so close to finishing nanowrimo. i have just over 10,000 words left...that is almost nothing... i remember when i had over 30,000 words left and i thought i'd never finish the thing. but now i think i will finish it. and as much as i love it, i'm kind of getting sick of my attempted novel. why can't my characters do what i want them to? it's not that hard. sometimes, i'm tempted just to give up and let kayla and del and aaron and all the rest just run rampant in my imagination. and then i realize that by doing that, i will have given up. and i don't want to give up on something this amazing...i'm going to finish this novel, even if it kills me.
and the lovely thing is that i have until next sunday to finish it. and i can easily write the remaining 10,000 words by next saturday. now i'm getting all anxious...
cheers!
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odyssey cast

fine...i'll cast the odyssey...by the way, when i refer to the actor who portrays edward cullen as "cedric diggory" it is because i refuse to call him a ridiculous and pointless nickname like "spunk ransom". actors should be called by their real names(ie. billie piper, kate winslet, george clooney etc.) or by their screen names. but not some ridiculous nickname.
on to the odyssey cast...
odysseus: this one was very hard. i ended up going for robert downey jr./rufus sewell. both of them can look really wheathered if they need to/have these incredibly deep eyes...
penelope: rachel weisz. amazing actress. looks just like what i pictured penelope to look like.
telemachus: another hard one...i'm in between harry lloyd who is amazing. and michael cera, who has the awkward teen thing down perfectly...if only thomas sangster was old enough...he'd be amazing
athena: kate blanchette. must you ask?
the suitors: i was thinking that russell brand/richard armitage could play the two main obnoxious suitors. russell could be alkinoos and richard could be the other one...
kirke: angelina jolie. another obvious one.
calypso: josie maran...
eurykleia: helen mirren. amazing actress. would be perfect
nausikaa: ellen page/olivia thirlby
i think that's all the main characters. if i left out someone hugely important, tell me. also, tell me what you think of this cast...i know it's not as good as the twilight cast, but i tried
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thanks....but no thanks

a lot of you have asked me to maybe give my dream cast for my novel. sadly, i won't be doing that for two big reasons.
1. if it ever gets published and made into a movie, it won't be for a few years, so all my ideas as to who should play who will be too old.
2. all the main characters are teenagers. i have no wish to see my characters being corrupted and portrayed by the likes of disney channel stars, who would most likely play them.
sorry...i guess i won't be making up a cast for it anytime soon.
however, if you want me to cast other books into movies, give me suggestions.
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just to clear something up

okay. so people have been asking me where my facebook has gone. here's the answer:
my parents wanted me to delete because they felt i wasn't using it appropriately. and you know what? they were totally right.
so. they had me disactivate. and actually, not having a facebook is very relaxing. i don't spend as much time online or as much time worrying about what's going on on facebook. it's helped me take a step back from technology and work on other things(nanowrimo).
but don't worry. i might get my facebook back eventually, but in the meantime, if you want to talk to me, either try to do so in person or email me.
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twilight cast

i was feeling bored this morning. so i watched the trailer for "twilight" and started feeling really depressed about the horrible casting decisions. so, i decided to make my own cast, if i had the power to make such important decisions.
so. here it is:
bella swan- kat dennings(she was nora in "nick and norah's infinite playlist". she looks exactly what i imagined bella to look like. and she's a great actress. double plus.)
edward cullen-this one was really hard. i wanted to have henry cavill be edward because he would be perfect. but he's too old...in which case, ed westwick("gossip girl") would be good. just as long as it isn't cedric diggory.
jacob black- steven strait(i know he's a bit old to be playing a younger jacob, but he'd be amazing as older jacob).
carlisle- jesse spencer(blonde, gorgeous, has already played a doctor before...)
esme-anne hathaway(when i first found out they were making a movie, i could only see esme being played by her)
alice- olivia thirlby(she might not look like alice, but they can use makeup and stuff. she was really good in "juno" and has the right attitude)
emmett- kellan lutz(i actually agreed with this casting decision)
rosalie- olivia wilde/megan fox(both have the right look, even if they aren't blonde. once again, wigs and makeup can be used)
jasper- trent ford(he has the right look. plus, stephenie meyer said that who she wanted to play jasper. that must count)
james-cillian murphy(does anyone remember him as the scarecrow in "batman begins"?)
victoria- another hard one...i have no idea who should play her.
laurent-john stamos/jason isaacs
charlie-bill campbell.
so. what do you guys think? any other movies i should attempt to mentally cast?
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fine...

people have been asking about the novel i'm writing for nanowrimo, so i will explain a bit about the plot and post a small excerpt of it.
basically, the novel is about this girl named Kayla who's a sophmore in high school and about her life and stuff...pretty stereotypical and stuff. nothing that exciting. basically, 3/4s of it is told through Kayla's perspective. and the other 1/4...well, basically, Kayla's best friend Delilah wants to be an author so the other 1/4 is excerpts of the novel Delilah's trying to write...so it's kinda like i'm writing 2 novels. okay. here's the excerpt:
My cell phone rings.
"Hello? Might I ask who's-"
"Kayla? Where are you? I've been waiting for you for almost twenty minutes." It's Andrew. And he sounds pissed. That's rare. The last time he sounded so mad was when we found out who McCain's running mate is.
"Sorry. I had a track thing."
"And you couldn't have told me about it?" Andrew asks.
"I found out about it during lunch."
"And you couldn't have told me about it?" Andrew repeats. I can't help but wincing. He does have a point.
"I'm sorry. Look, I didn't mean to forget."
"Okay. It's fine." Andrew doesn't so much sound pissed as upset. In some ways, that's even worse. I hate it when I make Andrew upset. He gets all quiet and doesn't really talk much. It's awful.
"Do you want me to still come over? I should be home by half an hour."
"Um…"
"Come on, Andrew. You can't honestly expect me to let you watch Burn Gorham all on your own. What kind of friend would I be if I did that?" I wait to hear Andrew's laugh. Nothing. Crap.
"I'll ask my mom. Maybe you could come over after dinner."

i hope you like it! tell me what you think
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halfway done...

just a quick note. i have officially reached 25000 words and am halfway done with nanowrimo...i can't believe it. the novel is going quite well and is about 55 pages, single spaced. i've been having so much fun writing it. but now i should probably go to sleep b/c it's quite late.
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the novel

so. here is the plan regarding my nanowrimo novel.
1. i'm going to finish it. or attempt to get to 50,000 words and to an ending.
2. i'm going to get rid of the truly awful bits.
3. i'm going to give it to a few close family members/friends to read it.
4. i'm going to post it.
so yeah. don't expect to get to read it until december 2008/january 2009. and if you do get to read it, it'll be a very very rough draft. just so everyone knows the plan.
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the infamous novel pt. 2

okay guys...i might put up the thing i'm writing for nanowrimo. the problem is, i'm not quite sure of the logosistics of how i should do that...should i just copy and paste it straight into here or not? if you guys have suggestions, i'd love that.
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the infamous novel...

some of you have expressed interest in getting to read the novel i'm writing for nanowrimo. i might put it up.
but as a warning: it is BAD. the point of it is just to write it and not care about how it sounds. so if it sucks, don't be too harsh in your criticism.
and i know that the dialouge sounds really fake most of the time. i haven't had much practice talking to guys, so i don't know how to write guys talking...and i know bits of it are pretty unrealistic/cheesy. just deal. it's not like i'm a published author.
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my new life goal

okay...it's offical...i'm going to create a tv show. b/c then i could make characters that everyone loved and make lots and lots of money. and i could control character's fates.
for example.
on house md: i'd have cameron totally have an affair with wilson and break chase's heart. and house and cuddy would have had a one night stand sometime during season 3. and maybe kutner and thirteen would have made out...
or on doctor who: i would have made the second to last episode of season 4 the finale of season 4, so season 5 could be just martha and rose and jack fighting over the doctor...but mickey and martha would have ended up together anyways...and there would be no doctor clones...
or on psych: juliet and shawn would have made out.
well. you get the idea. i want to control people's fates!!!
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