Jumping Dragon, Fallen Stars

First Day of NaNo

2007-11-01T13:21:00.000-07:00

I hit my word count for the day! It makes me so happy. Last year I barely made it past the first day's word count in a month. I was so happy I even let my inner editor take care of all the spelling mistakes. That made her really happy. I can't wait to see if I hit 50k. Hopefully I do. So far I'm doing great. I deserve Halloween candy now :3

NaNoWriMo...again

2007-09-04T07:56:00.000-07:00

It's that time of year again. The time where all those writers begin plotting and sketching and drawing out setting. Last year..eheee...was horrid. I never reached the 50k mark..let alone the 3k mark. But this year! This year is MY year! I figured...fuck plot. I'll make my characters and like..give them a little mission thing to get me going..then..the rest is up to the chapter titles that people have given me. I'm writing from them! Someone gave me the title "Apple Stab." The death of many apples await. I already have a massive twist prepared in relation (Haha relation) to the villain. And no..main character not related to villain. That's too overdone. WAY overdone.

So..wish me luck. I'm gonna need it...lots of it.

2007-03-21T12:12:00.000-07:00

AT LAST! The next installment of Pirates of the Caribbean is soon to be released...so..I guess it shouldn't be "AT LAST" then...should it? Anyways.
I've seen the trailer and it rocked my monkey covered socks! Not often does the trailer itself get me as worked up as an actual movie! There's no way to humanly explain what it's like! I can only show you. I literally shit myself when I watched this trailer.

Pirates Trailer

Day 2

2006-11-02T13:51:00.000-08:00

day 2 of NaNoWriMo and I've only written 2001 words over the last 2 days. Not bad considering I started writing at like 8:30am on the 1st of the month. Why do teachers tend to give every big projects in November? Seriously. I have an hour long presentation for Psychology class and a 15 minute one for English class. I'm failing both. And I bombed a chemistry test (42%) Grrr...I hope I get through this month. If not...well...there's always next year ^^;

NaNoWriMo

2006-10-21T13:49:00.000-07:00

I have heard of this little novel writing thingy majig (I'm usine the technical terms here) a few years back, in grade eight I believe. It was at this little writing seminar/tutorial at the local library where the woman who was overseeing the whole thing told us about NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). It's where people from around the globe attempt to write a 50,000 word novel by the end of November (Starting on November 1st). I was in too big of a writer's block to take part that year and it just slipped from my mind into darkness. Until a week ago when I read someone's blog on this site. They reminded me of what the woman had said about it. So I figured I would give it a shot this year, ya know, since I'm not in as much of a writer's block. Wish me luck! I need it. I might only get about 100 words don'e..but at least I'll try.

Tooo many answers...

2006-10-08T10:48:00.000-07:00

"Why do we exist?" This question has plagued human beings for centuries. There are way too many answers that people have come up with. Some people even dedicate their whole lives to this one question. Some have just trown out a gumble of words just so they can get on with actually living. I have too many ideas about it. We exist to question, to take up space...we exist simply to exist. Someoen a few years ago in my grade 7 class said that the meaning of life is sex. There's no denying it. It's plausible. Sex gives you the most pleasure and replenishes the species. Uhg... it could be that the meaning is that we have to be confused about the meaning..damnit. I hate this topic. It's confusing. Although..it does make a good conversation when people are silent for a time.

What do you think?

Aspirations

2006-10-03T11:10:00.000-07:00

I want to be an animator. I've already contacted a school in Vancouver (Vancouver Film School) for information on their classical animation course. I must want it real bad if I'm willing to go away for a year to do the course....or even go away forever. Well...if I do become an animator, there are things that I have to give up. It is my dream and you have to let things go to accomplish your dreams. It pretty much sucks that I'll have to leave my friends, have to leave the comfort of home and venture into unknown territory, leave the safety of Newfoundland, my little island home. I want it. But...is what I want...really worth the things that I have to do to get it?
My brother usually makes this stupid joke about what he learned in his university physics course. He tells me almost every night, "Jessica, if you want to gain immortality...you have to kill a hundred babies." Of course we both just laugh it off....and then..I started to think about it. It some strange context..what he said was true (not in the way you're probably thinking). It's like this, if you want to be remembered, if you want to get what you truely desire, you have to do some things that might not agree with certain things in your life. In the way I'm thinking, "killing a hundred babies" could mean "leaving all the things that you worked so hard for in the first place" just to gain what you want. Now...there aren't people going around killing babies to gain immortality, but there are people that leave what they are accustom to to gain something they desire.
I'm not entirely sure if I want immortality enough to kill children. I really...really need help with this. I'm just contridicting myself when I think about the pros and cons of going away to get what I want. There's an equal amount of both. I'm horrible at decisions.