It's been good, honestly.
Well, not exactly. My mom's been trying to make me spend less time on the computer, although she's not really succeeding yet. In fact, it's pretty much failing miserably.
Lately I've been tackling a million projects at once, including attempting to actually work on a multi-chapter story, along with finishing Vengeance Chapter Three, Reaped Chapter Two, and two other oneshots. And then NaNo...
Why I feel the need to blog about this, I do not know.
-Ave, briefly posting and then going off to tackle more things on her to-do list
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
The Little Snarky Voice in My Head Won't Shut Up
Is it really necessary to have a reason to be pissed at someone? Or can you just be really really annoyed at them for absolutely no reason at all, through no fault of theirs?
'Cause the little snarky voice in the back of my head, usually a helpful commrade, has made me start doubting things about people. And not wanting to talk to them. And ignore them, and overall just want to throttle them, which is why it is good that I can't meet them in real life.
My brain is a really screwed up place. Anyways...
I hate people. And family members. And those who won't just shut up. I'll deal properly with the freaking voice if everyone would just shut up. Especially those idiots who decide that they'll stay up until four am and then tell on me for doing the same.
Tonight's schedule: Edit oneshot. Finish drabble. Plan new story. Rant to Des. Start other oneshot. Don't procrastinate. Like that'll ever happen. *scorns*
-Ave, confused at her own mind and the convoluted issues it has
'Cause the little snarky voice in the back of my head, usually a helpful commrade, has made me start doubting things about people. And not wanting to talk to them. And ignore them, and overall just want to throttle them, which is why it is good that I can't meet them in real life.
My brain is a really screwed up place. Anyways...
I hate people. And family members. And those who won't just shut up. I'll deal properly with the freaking voice if everyone would just shut up. Especially those idiots who decide that they'll stay up until four am and then tell on me for doing the same.
Tonight's schedule: Edit oneshot. Finish drabble. Plan new story. Rant to Des. Start other oneshot. Don't procrastinate. Like that'll ever happen. *scorns*
-Ave, confused at her own mind and the convoluted issues it has
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
A Continuation, On a Very Opposite Note
Some very opposite things to consider, all put into a handy dandy list...
Firstly, I have taken to ranting to Des. Daily. This is actually quite enjoyable, and helpful. In fact, I think I spend more time ranting and talking to Des then I do speaking to about anyone else, although I like talking to her. Lots.
On another kinda related subject, I have not really talked to Thorn in quite a while. This makes me ponder about a large number of things. Among those is the fact that I think Vengeance needs to be revamped, and I have to talk to a lot of people concerning many things. Many of which I end up speaking about, once more, with Desmia.
Jumping to another topic, I finally started my Hunger Games fic, which is a series of drabbles. Two days later I began feeling that "I don't wanna write but I should update!" prodding sensation in the back of my head. However, considering every reviewer is someone I know, oh well. There aren't so many eager people waiting desperately for chapter two.
Also, another of my many half started oneshots is being tackled now, and hopefully I'll have that one out of my hair by the end of the week. Since it requires gigantic amounts of editing, however, I doubt this shall happen.
Another less started oneshot has been abandoned, probably until next week.
And then I have to do lots of things for my mother. Because I need my own computer. Or else I will fail NaNo. Hell, I'll probably fail NaNo anyways. Ooh, new thing to add to the list.
Plan for NaNo. This has to be started on soon. So I figure I get those two oneshots out of my way, delay Vengeance for a few weeks, and plan for NaNo after that. And shove in the drabble things for my HG fic whenever.
And, overall, get out of my writing slump. Because lately everything I write has been declining in quality. *sadness*
Finally, I think we have reached the end of the listing of the major things that should be on this list. *waves good night/morning, since it's twelve thirty-five*
-Ave, off to sleep. Hopefully. Or just talk to Des more.
Firstly, I have taken to ranting to Des. Daily. This is actually quite enjoyable, and helpful. In fact, I think I spend more time ranting and talking to Des then I do speaking to about anyone else, although I like talking to her. Lots.
On another kinda related subject, I have not really talked to Thorn in quite a while. This makes me ponder about a large number of things. Among those is the fact that I think Vengeance needs to be revamped, and I have to talk to a lot of people concerning many things. Many of which I end up speaking about, once more, with Desmia.
Jumping to another topic, I finally started my Hunger Games fic, which is a series of drabbles. Two days later I began feeling that "I don't wanna write but I should update!" prodding sensation in the back of my head. However, considering every reviewer is someone I know, oh well. There aren't so many eager people waiting desperately for chapter two.
Also, another of my many half started oneshots is being tackled now, and hopefully I'll have that one out of my hair by the end of the week. Since it requires gigantic amounts of editing, however, I doubt this shall happen.
Another less started oneshot has been abandoned, probably until next week.
And then I have to do lots of things for my mother. Because I need my own computer. Or else I will fail NaNo. Hell, I'll probably fail NaNo anyways. Ooh, new thing to add to the list.
Plan for NaNo. This has to be started on soon. So I figure I get those two oneshots out of my way, delay Vengeance for a few weeks, and plan for NaNo after that. And shove in the drabble things for my HG fic whenever.
And, overall, get out of my writing slump. Because lately everything I write has been declining in quality. *sadness*
Finally, I think we have reached the end of the listing of the major things that should be on this list. *waves good night/morning, since it's twelve thirty-five*
-Ave, off to sleep. Hopefully. Or just talk to Des more.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Too Much All at Once
The past three days have sucked, basically.
See, it started out that Friday was pretty damn good, too good. Des and I had a minor fight, really over nothing, and I feel dumb for even partaking in it now instead of asking her what was wrong. Then later that day I published my second story, for The Hunger Games, and of course I felt the new story euphoria that usually follows...
So then it was Saturday, the suckiest of all days. Basically, everyone was fighting over stupid things and now Theia is saying that she's leaving. How true this is...Well, I very much doubt that she's leaving for real, but...*shrugs*
And then yesterday more people got pissy over a comment someone made. *headdesks* And now, finally things seem to be going kinda sorta back to normal. *is flooded with relief*
At the same time I realized that I really need to think before I go off saying stupid things. And so I figured, what is going to make me STFU, automatically, no matter what? I gave Des permission to threaten to tell everyone my gigantical secret if ever I'm acting completely out of line, although she said she wouldn't tell anyways, so this may not work. Actually, it probably won't work at all.
Looking at this I figure my other, very different news would look strange compiled into the same post as this, so...
-Ave, off to write a second post, hopefully before midnight
See, it started out that Friday was pretty damn good, too good. Des and I had a minor fight, really over nothing, and I feel dumb for even partaking in it now instead of asking her what was wrong. Then later that day I published my second story, for The Hunger Games, and of course I felt the new story euphoria that usually follows...
So then it was Saturday, the suckiest of all days. Basically, everyone was fighting over stupid things and now Theia is saying that she's leaving. How true this is...Well, I very much doubt that she's leaving for real, but...*shrugs*
And then yesterday more people got pissy over a comment someone made. *headdesks* And now, finally things seem to be going kinda sorta back to normal. *is flooded with relief*
At the same time I realized that I really need to think before I go off saying stupid things. And so I figured, what is going to make me STFU, automatically, no matter what? I gave Des permission to threaten to tell everyone my gigantical secret if ever I'm acting completely out of line, although she said she wouldn't tell anyways, so this may not work. Actually, it probably won't work at all.
Looking at this I figure my other, very different news would look strange compiled into the same post as this, so...
-Ave, off to write a second post, hopefully before midnight
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
An Attempt at Having A Life
Today, at the urging of my own conscience and my mother who is sure I have no non-computerized life, I'm dragging my cousin and her bestie (who's awesome) to the movies with me. And then we'll eat far too much popcorn and Milk Duds and maybe go see three movies for the price of one. *shrugs* You never know. It's fun to cheat the system...All the people at that movie theater hate us.
Oh yeah, and then we'll go back to her house and laugh at reality television and overdose on sugar again. Which is why we only go to the movies every few weeks.
-Ave, attempting to have a life without her computer or DVR
Oh yeah, and then we'll go back to her house and laugh at reality television and overdose on sugar again. Which is why we only go to the movies every few weeks.
-Ave, attempting to have a life without her computer or DVR
Sunday, August 1, 2010
AUGUST! *runs into corner and hides*
I just realized the most horrible thing in the entire world.
Today is Sunday, August first.
AUGUST.
Now, in earlier years I never really minded the transition from July into August, because I never go back to school until September anyways. But there was so much writing I wanted to get done this summer, and now my time is cut in half to get it all done. And if I can't complete it in six hours a day, how will I get it done in that same amount of time, only with homework and actually seeing my friends, and having to give half that time to my sister?
Also horrible: Most of my fanfiction friends go back to school in August. Which sucks. Because then I'll be alone all day. But maybe being alone will actually force me to do something? We can hope. Because otherwise my poor plot bunnies will just sit here for another nine months or so.
So I'm off to try and make the most out of this last month of solitude before school (although the next grade should be a fun one and I'm at the same school, so all I need is to hope that I get some of my buddies in my lunch period...) by running off with the Big Blue Notebook of Writing Stuff and writing all day. Wish me luck.
-Ave, trying to finally begin tackling her to-do list
Today is Sunday, August first.
AUGUST.
Now, in earlier years I never really minded the transition from July into August, because I never go back to school until September anyways. But there was so much writing I wanted to get done this summer, and now my time is cut in half to get it all done. And if I can't complete it in six hours a day, how will I get it done in that same amount of time, only with homework and actually seeing my friends, and having to give half that time to my sister?
Also horrible: Most of my fanfiction friends go back to school in August. Which sucks. Because then I'll be alone all day. But maybe being alone will actually force me to do something? We can hope. Because otherwise my poor plot bunnies will just sit here for another nine months or so.
So I'm off to try and make the most out of this last month of solitude before school (although the next grade should be a fun one and I'm at the same school, so all I need is to hope that I get some of my buddies in my lunch period...) by running off with the Big Blue Notebook of Writing Stuff and writing all day. Wish me luck.
-Ave, trying to finally begin tackling her to-do list
My Computer is a Piece of Crap
A computer is a very, very important tool in me maintaining the small amount of sanity allotted to those of us who write. Often, it seems, we are also those haunted by more computer problems than most anyone else, probably because we basically live on our laptops.
And mine is...*prods computer* I'm not gonna lie. It's a gigantic piece of crap.
Granted, the thing is three years old this December. And ever since the very day it was gifted to me (also known as Christmas '07) it has not wanted to charge. A true testament to its crapiness: It has gone through at least fifteen, probably twenty, adapters in the past two and a half years. Not only is this the world's biggest waste of cash--think about it, $15 per cord, 15-20 cords, that's around $300-$400--but this stupid thing cost $1500 in the first place, although we only paid $1100 due to a variety of sales and the like going on around Christmas.
The point is, right now the stupid thing is busy throwing a hissy fit and not charging at all. And because it seems the no one in my house remembers the last time this happened, or the time before that, or the time before that, etc., even when the thing stops charging they persist to carry it around and not plug it in regardless. So then the battery drains. And we plug it back in eventually, and then they're all saying, "Why isn't it charging?"
Which brings me to another point: There's no way we got, say, 17 malfunctioning adapters in a row, it just doesn't happen. One of them would have been normal and actually worked. So it's obviously a problem with the computer itself. But of course, we'll have to waste $1100 on adapters before we just get a new one. We've also tried buying a new battery, which is somewhere around here, fully charged. Where? No one knows. None of them. So, it's been lost, and no one knows where it could possibly be, not even the slightest inkling.
Currently the battery has drained itself entirely and is not charging at all. So if it comes unplugged at all, the computer turns off straight away and everything you were doing disappears. This problem being yet another reason I need my own computer. That and NaNo...But that's a rant for a later day.
Let's pray I don't kill anything over this, shall we?
-Ave, thoroughly annoyed at her computer and her father for purchasing said computer
And mine is...*prods computer* I'm not gonna lie. It's a gigantic piece of crap.
Granted, the thing is three years old this December. And ever since the very day it was gifted to me (also known as Christmas '07) it has not wanted to charge. A true testament to its crapiness: It has gone through at least fifteen, probably twenty, adapters in the past two and a half years. Not only is this the world's biggest waste of cash--think about it, $15 per cord, 15-20 cords, that's around $300-$400--but this stupid thing cost $1500 in the first place, although we only paid $1100 due to a variety of sales and the like going on around Christmas.
The point is, right now the stupid thing is busy throwing a hissy fit and not charging at all. And because it seems the no one in my house remembers the last time this happened, or the time before that, or the time before that, etc., even when the thing stops charging they persist to carry it around and not plug it in regardless. So then the battery drains. And we plug it back in eventually, and then they're all saying, "Why isn't it charging?"
Which brings me to another point: There's no way we got, say, 17 malfunctioning adapters in a row, it just doesn't happen. One of them would have been normal and actually worked. So it's obviously a problem with the computer itself. But of course, we'll have to waste $1100 on adapters before we just get a new one. We've also tried buying a new battery, which is somewhere around here, fully charged. Where? No one knows. None of them. So, it's been lost, and no one knows where it could possibly be, not even the slightest inkling.
Currently the battery has drained itself entirely and is not charging at all. So if it comes unplugged at all, the computer turns off straight away and everything you were doing disappears. This problem being yet another reason I need my own computer. That and NaNo...But that's a rant for a later day.
Let's pray I don't kill anything over this, shall we?
-Ave, thoroughly annoyed at her computer and her father for purchasing said computer
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