Yes, I think it is true. I just might try and participate in NaNoWriMo. Wow. I astound myself with this declaration. Think I forgot about writing each night? Kinda. Ok, yeah, I did. I forgot the night after I made that damn declaration, and then I worked, and then I carved pumpkins, and then bam my week was gone and I'm behind on homework again. What is my life coming to?? I seem to suck at time management. Anyways, I just decided now, like two minutes ago, that I want to participate this November. Might even get my sister to do it. She would like the idea. It is because of this site, http://murderati.typepad.com/murderati/, and their post on Halloween. By the way, Happy Halloween everyone! I'm not doing much of everything. Sometimes I hate holidays. On the other hand, I had a heyday eating lunch today, the lunchroom was all freshly decorated and we had costumes. Happy times. :) Let me just repeat that, :)! ! I love festive spirits! They make the holidays for me. That, and family.
Anyways, no new updates, and if I'm doing NaNoWriMo, probably not for a while. But I have a dream in my hands, it needs to be achieved!!
Talk to you all later. Let me know if anyone else is doing NaNoWriMo, and we can compare numbers!!!
BK
Friday, October 31, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
At Last, An Update
I did it again, I deleted a whole damn post. F***-it! I had a whole damn long post, ending on a happy note with some cool links, and it got screwed up again. Does anybody know how to freaking recover autosavevd drafts? Anyone at all? Cause I'm pissing myself off here SO much.
On the entire note of this post: started late and ended late, but wrote 902 words.
I'm going to bed to have some happy dreams to make up for a shit ending. G'night.
BK
On the entire note of this post: started late and ended late, but wrote 902 words.
I'm going to bed to have some happy dreams to make up for a shit ending. G'night.
BK
Monday, October 27, 2008
Quick Contest Post
Quick, a post! Anyone like coffee? They are giving away free coffee for the month of October here, http://www.getthebean.com/, just go to their blog. They are organic! I love organic stuff! It's all about the gourmet, organic coffee for those of you who drink coffee. I happen to get three extra entries for blogging this, too. Enjoy everyone!
BK
BK
It's like New Years
I have a goal, it is to write. Tadah! I am going to try, at the end of the day, to write for an hour. That's it. If I am done with my homework and stuff by midnight, I will write until one, if I can stay up. I happen to like my sleep, so not sure how well this will work. For that matter, if I am up past one doing homework, it's a no-go. Again, I need sleep. I don't function too well without it. So you can probably surmise from this that I haven't gotten anything new written. I guess I need to restate that college can be challenging. And work - holidays increase the work load. Ah well.
Farewell and Adieu, non-commenters.
BK
Farewell and Adieu, non-commenters.
BK
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Widget
Check out me kewl widget. It's for a contest. Please, please, please let me win! It would be so nice to save that money and buy more off the list of need-to-buy-books. :)
BK
BK
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Lack of Update and a bit of a Question
This is a post on the lack of updates. Turns out, family coming back into town takes up a lot of time, your sister in band takes up some time, and homework the rest. So, no new writing, which is rather disappointing for me. I want to make writing daily a habit, because making it a habit improves it. And by god, writing looks to be the only way to support the lifestyle I want. I was rather empowered by Ann Aguirre's blog here, http://www.annaguirre.com/blog/. I suggest you all go and read it!
In other news, French movies seem to be damn depressing. They like that shock-depressive moment that just destroys your mood. Why? Why must you ruin my mood? It seems like most of the French videos I have recently watched do this! I just watched one of a man with a seriously shitty life, that barely seemed to improve at the end, and that only by your interpretation and hope - so what, if you are French you are pessimistic and don't see his life improving? I just don't understand how this became so popular?? I've read in a variety of places that people, aka Americans, go to movies to escape. Great Depression or little recessions? Movie attendance increases. Because people use films to escape from the negative aspects of their lives. For me, that doesn't mean I want to go watch someone else's life that happens to be worse than mine - I want to watch something happen, or something that incites the adrenaline through fear or action. I don't want to go in depressed and leave depressed!! Do French people not attend movies to escape? Do they attend to put their lives in a better perspective? What? Why? Explain!
That is all.
Thank you.
BK
P.S. Hopefully, this weekend I can update. I'm trying a new method of homework that will hopefully help - audio files of shit I'm suppossed to be reading. This is then compounded by my ipod dieing, completely and utterly. Guess that dip in the bathtub did it in afterall...
In other news, French movies seem to be damn depressing. They like that shock-depressive moment that just destroys your mood. Why? Why must you ruin my mood? It seems like most of the French videos I have recently watched do this! I just watched one of a man with a seriously shitty life, that barely seemed to improve at the end, and that only by your interpretation and hope - so what, if you are French you are pessimistic and don't see his life improving? I just don't understand how this became so popular?? I've read in a variety of places that people, aka Americans, go to movies to escape. Great Depression or little recessions? Movie attendance increases. Because people use films to escape from the negative aspects of their lives. For me, that doesn't mean I want to go watch someone else's life that happens to be worse than mine - I want to watch something happen, or something that incites the adrenaline through fear or action. I don't want to go in depressed and leave depressed!! Do French people not attend movies to escape? Do they attend to put their lives in a better perspective? What? Why? Explain!
That is all.
Thank you.
BK
P.S. Hopefully, this weekend I can update. I'm trying a new method of homework that will hopefully help - audio files of shit I'm suppossed to be reading. This is then compounded by my ipod dieing, completely and utterly. Guess that dip in the bathtub did it in afterall...
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Argh! Repeat Randomness and Contests
Ok, so I write this damn blog post, really long, full of contest entries that got me double entries, and I go to post that damn post button, when low and behold blogger decides it not work! It deleted all my words! And I was stupid enough not to save!!! Argh! I hate when this happens. Now, I have to try and rewrite all that I have already forgotten, trying to remember whose blogs I posted to to win books and so on... Also, I forgot the randomness that I wanted to share! It was really good randomness!
For those of you who don't want to read all this, no new updates yet on writing. I'm hoping that I can finish the short in another session, maybe two. Right now it looks like I'm averaging one session a week. Pitiful. Some writer I'll ever turn out to be. Anyways, I'm hoping to get back on track with school and then write. I've even kind of suspended all reading outside school. :( Really depressing, that. Reading is my vice, my baby, my relief. And I don't even have the urge to read. I'm been restraining myself from going to the bookstore and getting all the new stuff that came out at the start of this month, because buying future distractions is not a smart way to go.
In other news, my fish is not dead. I swear to god I thought it was dead, head buried in the rock-thingies. I thought that all fishies died and turned upside down, but hey, there certainly isn't a fish god saying they can't get stuck in the rocks and die just to make things more interesting. Anyways, I thought Fantasia died, and I experienced major pangs of failure at the fact that I can't keep a fish alive. :( My plant is still kinda green. Kinda. Does it sound like I suck at life? This is like the halfway mark for me of moving out, and the damn fish dies. I just about had heart palpatations when it decided to unbury its head and swim around looking at me. There are two marks to successfully moving out of your parents house and living on your own. Contrary to popular belief, they are not laundry and learning to fend for yourself in the kitchen; rather, it is about buying a plant and keeping it alive (synonymous with a fish), and holiday decorations. When you can liven up your apartment or dorm or whatever with these basic necessities, then you know you are on your way to becoming a self-sufficient adult. I already have two totes of holiday junk, and a live plant and fish. Maybe, as the next step, I should buy a froggie companion for my beta. Do betas kill anything else in the tank? Mr/Ms. Fish-Fish doesn't look too violent...
Anyways, to the contest posts. I found like twenty different contests over the net the other day, and applied for everything! So, here they are. Most are still open, so all three people reading this can go apply for free books too! And for all of those contests that want my email, you can find it in my profile. :)
Book One: I Like You, by Amy Sedaris, is a book about entertainment - hosting parties, recipes, all that good stuff. The book is supposed to be great and unique. So I, of course, applied. The link is here, from fabulous Booking Mama, http://bookingmama.blogspot.com/2008/10/review-i-like-you-giveaway.html. Contest ends Friday!!
Book Two: The Space Between Before and After, by Jean Reynolds Page, looks to be an interesting read, involving a rather new concept of putting songs to the book - a bountrack, as coined by the author. Link is here, http://bookingmama.blogspot.com/2008/10/jean-reynolds-page-introduces.html, and the contest ends Sunday the 26th. Hustle on over! The more reviews she gets the more books she gives away!
Book Three: Sarah's Key, by Tatiant de Rosnay, is a book about WWII with the main girl being just ten years old in France. An interesting time period as always, this book looks interesting, and is receiving quite a bit of praise. The link, http://bookingmama.blogspot.com/2008/10/another-sarahs-key-giveaway.html, and the contest ends the 31st.
Book Four: The Lost Diary of Don Juan, by Douglas Carlton Abrams, is yet another historical fiction about the less liked aspects of men personified. :D Yeah. One copy of this book, the contest ends the 24th here, http://bookingmama.blogspot.com/. You have to scroll down a bit to get to it, but it's a free book, a little work is worth it!
Book Five - actually a group of books, is a possibility to win (I think) a box of books for Halloween! Ten books! You have to enter by noon Friday, tomorrow Friday, though. I'm hoping with a small deadline I'll have better chances. :) Here's the link, though, since I must to get extra entries: http://deweymonster.com/?p=976#comments.
Book Six: is not even a book, but a makeup kit. :D I love free stuff and thus apply for anything. This lucky giveaway is of mineral basics, which is supposed to be great stuff. Head on over here, http://nursemommy07.blogspot.com/2008/10/mineral-basics-review-and-contest.html, to check it out. Ends today, so be quick! (Sorry the blog got so late, blogger was being a pain in the ass. :( ...)
Book Seven: Yet again not another book, but a cute craft kit. :) I love crafts. head on over here for some little pompom backpack dudes, http://shelleypb.blogspot.com/. Scroll down a bit to find it, ends the 27th.
Alright, I think that was everything. If I forgot one and said I blogged about, I'm so sorry! Let me know and I'll do what I can to make it up to you!
I've got absolutely nothing else to say at this point. I have two tests tomorrow with pretty much no studying done as of yet. Good week.
Tchao!
BK
For those of you who don't want to read all this, no new updates yet on writing. I'm hoping that I can finish the short in another session, maybe two. Right now it looks like I'm averaging one session a week. Pitiful. Some writer I'll ever turn out to be. Anyways, I'm hoping to get back on track with school and then write. I've even kind of suspended all reading outside school. :( Really depressing, that. Reading is my vice, my baby, my relief. And I don't even have the urge to read. I'm been restraining myself from going to the bookstore and getting all the new stuff that came out at the start of this month, because buying future distractions is not a smart way to go.
In other news, my fish is not dead. I swear to god I thought it was dead, head buried in the rock-thingies. I thought that all fishies died and turned upside down, but hey, there certainly isn't a fish god saying they can't get stuck in the rocks and die just to make things more interesting. Anyways, I thought Fantasia died, and I experienced major pangs of failure at the fact that I can't keep a fish alive. :( My plant is still kinda green. Kinda. Does it sound like I suck at life? This is like the halfway mark for me of moving out, and the damn fish dies. I just about had heart palpatations when it decided to unbury its head and swim around looking at me. There are two marks to successfully moving out of your parents house and living on your own. Contrary to popular belief, they are not laundry and learning to fend for yourself in the kitchen; rather, it is about buying a plant and keeping it alive (synonymous with a fish), and holiday decorations. When you can liven up your apartment or dorm or whatever with these basic necessities, then you know you are on your way to becoming a self-sufficient adult. I already have two totes of holiday junk, and a live plant and fish. Maybe, as the next step, I should buy a froggie companion for my beta. Do betas kill anything else in the tank? Mr/Ms. Fish-Fish doesn't look too violent...
Anyways, to the contest posts. I found like twenty different contests over the net the other day, and applied for everything! So, here they are. Most are still open, so all three people reading this can go apply for free books too! And for all of those contests that want my email, you can find it in my profile. :)
Book One: I Like You, by Amy Sedaris, is a book about entertainment - hosting parties, recipes, all that good stuff. The book is supposed to be great and unique. So I, of course, applied. The link is here, from fabulous Booking Mama, http://bookingmama.blogspot.com/2008/10/review-i-like-you-giveaway.html. Contest ends Friday!!
Book Two: The Space Between Before and After, by Jean Reynolds Page, looks to be an interesting read, involving a rather new concept of putting songs to the book - a bountrack, as coined by the author. Link is here, http://bookingmama.blogspot.com/2008/10/jean-reynolds-page-introduces.html, and the contest ends Sunday the 26th. Hustle on over! The more reviews she gets the more books she gives away!
Book Three: Sarah's Key, by Tatiant de Rosnay, is a book about WWII with the main girl being just ten years old in France. An interesting time period as always, this book looks interesting, and is receiving quite a bit of praise. The link, http://bookingmama.blogspot.com/2008/10/another-sarahs-key-giveaway.html, and the contest ends the 31st.
Book Four: The Lost Diary of Don Juan, by Douglas Carlton Abrams, is yet another historical fiction about the less liked aspects of men personified. :D Yeah. One copy of this book, the contest ends the 24th here, http://bookingmama.blogspot.com/. You have to scroll down a bit to get to it, but it's a free book, a little work is worth it!
Book Five - actually a group of books, is a possibility to win (I think) a box of books for Halloween! Ten books! You have to enter by noon Friday, tomorrow Friday, though. I'm hoping with a small deadline I'll have better chances. :) Here's the link, though, since I must to get extra entries: http://deweymonster.com/?p=976#comments.
Book Six: is not even a book, but a makeup kit. :D I love free stuff and thus apply for anything. This lucky giveaway is of mineral basics, which is supposed to be great stuff. Head on over here, http://nursemommy07.blogspot.com/2008/10/mineral-basics-review-and-contest.html, to check it out. Ends today, so be quick! (Sorry the blog got so late, blogger was being a pain in the ass. :( ...)
Book Seven: Yet again not another book, but a cute craft kit. :) I love crafts. head on over here for some little pompom backpack dudes, http://shelleypb.blogspot.com/. Scroll down a bit to find it, ends the 27th.
Alright, I think that was everything. If I forgot one and said I blogged about, I'm so sorry! Let me know and I'll do what I can to make it up to you!
I've got absolutely nothing else to say at this point. I have two tests tomorrow with pretty much no studying done as of yet. Good week.
Tchao!
BK
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Small Update
So I have about half of a one shot written. I've had this little idea floating around in there for a while, and finally got some of it to print. Hopefully, another session and it will be done. Who knows, maybe tomorrow. Nothing new on Ultimatum, though. That's it for now.
Over and out,
BK
Over and out,
BK
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Promotional
Again, nothing new. These past two weeks were hellacious in school. The crunch is kind of over. I have a test this Thursday and a test next Friday, and the usual amount of stuff due and then catch up. But, BUT, I should be able to sit and write something this coming Friday or weekend. Good stuff.
The rest of this post is about trying to win another free book, since I am a free book junkie. It sounds like a cute story about an elephant. So, I'm trying to win it. Here is the link. http://bookingmama.blogspot.com/2008/10/guest-post-diane-hammond-giveaway.html. Go to it, read it, apply for it!
Over and out!
BK
The rest of this post is about trying to win another free book, since I am a free book junkie. It sounds like a cute story about an elephant. So, I'm trying to win it. Here is the link. http://bookingmama.blogspot.com/2008/10/guest-post-diane-hammond-giveaway.html. Go to it, read it, apply for it!
Over and out!
BK
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