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What A Magical Year
(Fri) Jan 6, 2012 @ 8:18 pm

Happy New Year, first off! Very belated, I know. I've been meaning to write but I got lazy and such to write about anything good.

So, what's new with you? Oh yeah? Huh, you don't say... Well, cool. Oh, me? Not a whole lot... my birthday is coming up and I made a wishlist!

So, on that note! My wishlist is so ridiculous. It has 100% magic-related things.... I want a storage box. I want deck protectors. I want a deck box [though more than one would be nice, too...]. I want some bulk lots with cards. And! I want some card dividers.

I already told my parents about the box, but I'm not sure where they'll find what I need cause I bet they'll get the wrong one [though it is on my amazon wishlist... just sayin']. I kind of don't want to confuse them by telling them all this because I do like being surprised. And if I go into details, the surprise will be 100% gone. But, just in case they do check, I made a shiny new wishlist on Amazon with all the stuff I want. One of each. I kind of wanted to put on some pretty deck protectors and boxes, but I get the feeling that I won't even buy those for myself [because an extra $3 for a deck box is just plain ridiculous and the same goes for the protectors].

But I'm all excited. I kind of wanted to buy it all myself. The total of all the stuff in the wishlist is... erm... probably $100 if you consider the most epic item on there: a bulk lot of 450 uncommons/rares!!! Granted, it's $45 with shipping, but that makes the price per card pretty awesome, so I think it's well worth it. I also happen to be in dire need of rares/uncommons because the cards I got from some friends who used to play were all commons. And I only bought myself about 100 - 150 cards, so not much chance of good rares :( Hard to build decks, you see...

Anyhow! I'm totally excited over this new little thing I'm doing with magic! I found out that the card shop at the mall near-ish me does Friday Night Magic tournaments every weekend [mostly]. They do booster and sealed tournaments, too! Which would be amazing if I actually could afford to join one, heh [$40 draft fee seems a tad much, even though you come out with a shiny new deck and 40 new cards AND get to open boosters :) ]

The only downside is that I've never ever ever played in a tournament, so I'm kind of nervous because I don't quite know HOW to play in one. I'm worried that my deck wouldn't be allowed or that I'll miss something and won't get to play or whatever. I did go through the borrowed deck of a friend and realized his is a standard tournament legal deck, so I might give it a shot. But, then again, I'm worried about using HIS deck in a tournament because I'm sure that's not allowed... :( I kind of wish I had some friends closer to home who would join me and know more about this than me, heh. I bet it would be tons of fun!!

But, I'm getting ahead of myself. Before I get to tournamenty stuff, I need a deck. And before I have a deck that's even remotely good/tournament legal... I need to get cards! And organize em and such. And I need crazy way more practice building decks. My first official self-built deck [start-to-finish zero help/advice from anyone or anything!! I'm so proud of me!!] is really quite terrible, haha. It has yet to be tested, but I just kind of realized it as I was building it that the creatures I'm using totally suck. I don't have good cards!! :( But then again, I don't have good spells either... And I also don't have good skill balancing the two, so the poor thing is practically doomed to fail! I just wish I had someone I could test it with or against. Who could give me advice without outright CHANGING the deck FOR me and rebuilding it FOR me.

Anyhow, I thought this was worth mini-ranting about :) I'm clearly a tad too excited over this, haha. I was considering hitting up the mall tonight and getting some booster packs/decks/whatever and checking to see what their prices for accessories are as opposed to amazon's. Honestly, I feel like $8 for 80 deck protectors is kind of a complete rip off. Blah. Oh well.

I am now off to play some HoN [my hobbies lately are very unfeminine, I've been told. But, hey, tons of fun!! :) I definitely recommend both.] and get yelled at by crazy 14 year olds because of how completely terrible I am :)

Oh, speaking of HoN... I JUST started getting good with Torturer! And they changed the freaking free heroes... and now I'm back to Nymph [luckily I have her now..] but I'm realizing how terrible she is and how much I hate her! Sadlife.

Anyhow, bye world! Have a happy January! I'll try to write something more significant soon [had a couple topic pre-thought-out, so it'll really happen, I swear!].

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Happy Holidays!
(Mon) Dec 26, 2011 @ 2:42 am

I know this is belated, but Merry Christmas to all you Christians! And Happy Holidays too all other religions. Or non-religions! Nothing like some good wintery cozyness. Shame the weather has been winter-warm this year... It's hardly even dropped below freezing a full ten times -__- Fail.

I don't know about the rest of you but my holidays have been fun. I got into a nice debate with my family about the media and bias. Parents said news is a waste basically and I argued that it's very much useful and everyone should keep up with news and stuff. And from that we got into my mom saying that she hates news cause it's always so depressing and she feels like crap hearing it [ah, the joys of local news...]. So I said that's not true if you read it, cause you filter whatever you want. Then dad said you can't filter it cause it's 80% bias from what "they" want you to hear and 20% truth. I have yet to figure out who this mysterious "they" is, because he never did specify. That brought up a whoooole debate on bias...

Parents argued that I'm biased because on the American media. Which is kind of ridiculous given that I'm plenty more open minded than your average American. And given that I read more international news than US news. And given that I don't get my bias from the media, but from my own beliefs.

So, my dad eventually, as he always does, changed his whole argument to encompass the [obvious] philosophical idea that everyone is biased as a result of their environment. Which, duh. But somehow his statements on the media being an outlet for "them" to get people to think what "they" want didn't quite get explained. Some of the leftovers of growing up in communism I see, still have their touch on him.

So, on that, I want to kind of make a point. I hate how people do that all the time. There's plenty of people who seem to think that the media is all about bias and brainwashing people. America, of all places, being on the main examples list. I never understood that. Constitutionally speaking, the media is free from government control and influence. With very few exceptions, they're free to print whatever, right? So, what's the deal? Americans have more access to a wide variety of media outlets than do most other places in the world. I can read news from the middle east. I can read news from Europe. I'm sure if I search hard enough for a translator online, I can also read local North Korean news stuffs. So, how can people say we're biased in the US?

My parents legitimately took the war in the middle east as an example of this brainwashing. Which, is ironic, because they're far less informed about it than a lot of other Americans. Apparently they had no idea that the average American is AGAINST the war. So, what gives? Am I just oh-so-brainwashed that I'm missing this bias? I agree with my brother that shit does get biased in a pro-America sort of way, for example, as he said, if you ask any American the greatest tragedy of the past 11 years, they'd give you the example of 9/11. Which, I would probably give too in the context of the US. Even though cancer kills more people in the US alone yearly. Even though the unemployment has dropped five percent. Even though the majority of the country wasn't directly affected by 9/11. But, I would agree that 9/11 was the most significant. 4 separate terrorist attacks in one day? Three of which were successful? Granted the death count was under 5k [if I am correct] nationwide. But, when else has something on such a big scale happened? When else has the US felt such fear [recently] of an imminent war or attack..? When else have modern people experienced such a radical and negative change from the norm..? Katrina? That wasn't as drastic, and it was somewhat expected. Unemployment? Where people aren't just mass dying? Cancer? Which has been a steady black hole of suckyness for years on end..? I disagree that there was something bigger this past decade for this country.

Moreso, back about this bias thing, I feel that people who think Americans are truly so brainwashed are really the biased ones. In fact, most people that I've met don't even care about the politics of this country. They're not all too brainwashed because they HAVE no legitimate opinions on matters. Most people are brainwashed in the sense that they aren't educated to know about world matters, let alone home matters often times, but that does not make them biased one way or another. They tend to simply focus on their own lives and have no input on bigger things. And, that's true of plenty of people in other places as well.

Okay, I'm getting tired cause it's late. But this is certainly a subject that I need to construct a better argument for. I very strongly disagree that this country, or any democratic country with modern day technology, is really that limited. The internet is incredibly open to all sorts to opinions and it's simply up to people to educate themselves on all of it before making up their mind and having opinions. It's not the media's fault nor the government's fault.

But, Happy early New Year in case I miss it! It's a busy time of year :)

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Foreclosure! OhNoes!
(Fri) Dec 2, 2011 @ 10:08 pm

The site is going to close. More like, I won't be maintaining it, by the looks of things. And if that is the case, the domain is going to expire in... a month. I won't be renewing or such. So, in case I don't get back on ever, adios darlings. I wasn't gonna leave without a goodbye :)

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Site Errors...
(Wed) Nov 30, 2011 @ 6:01 am

I was looking through files and noticed that I hadn't uploaded the right files in two locations. One being the author page and the other being the domain page. Both were outdated by about a year. They have been updated!

That's all for now. Happy Wednesday everyone. It's the last day for NaNoWriMo. Hopefully everyone else wrote more than me... 9k words isn't even close to good. Ohwell. I will work on this throughout 2012. By next year's NaNoWriMo, I will certainly have an accomplishment to brag about regardless!

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Music and Ongoings
(Mon) Nov 28, 2011 @ 11:40 pm

I'm finally listening to Devin Townsend's Unplugged album. Needless to say, it's downright orgasmic. Ohman, Coast is like godly on this. I can't believe I got to see this live...

Skyharbor's big thing was that they got signed to a UK record label. I don't know labels, but I guess it's a big deal... And, I can see how that might be true... Except I very very very much liked that they weren't signed and that it was basically as Keshav's awesomeness and other people just working on awesome music. But, meh, I guess that does make them more accessible as they said... Unfortunately, the record label says their album won't be released until "early 2012" now... :( That's a whole two months off!!! Well, one, I guess... Dammit, yet again...

But, man, I can't believe how much I love acoustic DT. This guy is amazing. I've listening to far too much radio music, too, these days because I keep being too lazy to redo my phone's music or burn CDs... Needless to say, this has been a really nice break tonight.

I'm spending a whole ton of time doing music stuffs because, guess what! My computer is being a bit of a bitch. StarCraft has been giving me problems pretty much since the start, but usually restarting my computer and just running the repair tool helps. But last night it got somewhat unfixable, so I figured I'd listen to the darn thing and reinstall. Well, the reinstall has not been going well at all. I've downloaded the installed several times. Each time I get an error... I'm not even sure what to do about it because it just says to go back and redownload the game client... Which I keep doing...

I've done most everything I can think of that seems reasonable at this point. Did a comprehensive scan and found nothing wrong with my computer. Did a restart and let it run its little self-fixing windows-sucks-at-life bit where it checks my files because SOMETHING is wrong in here. [At this point I basically think I need to reinstall the whole operating system with all the problems I get with compy dearest...] I downloaded the client off a different location. I tried activating the thing before installing. Changing install location. Turning my security stuffs off. Not running any other programs simultaneously... Giving it a whole night to calm down. Nothing is working! I'm kind of on my last leg here with this install. If it successfully downloads these last 3gigs and the installer works, I might have to celebrate this super success.

I'm really annoyed with my desktop holistically. It seems everything on it is fallible. I can't install Chrome for some reason. Firefox is being a jerk and crashing on me everytime I use too much flash [watching tv shows and playing flash games simultaneously apparently is a big no-no]. Firefox sometimes crashes when it's doing nothing but stalling on an untouched facebook page. I keep getting my Visual Studio debugger try and debug stuff, but I can't tell you what in heck it's trying to debug because I ain't using VS. HoN won't install. One of my USB drivers seems to not be working and refuses to install/update/whatever on its own and even refuses to let me touch it...

Thing is, I don't have the time to redo my OS... I need to play me some games, so I can't quite take the time off for a day and spend it figuring out my computer and letting it do its thing while I remain computer-less...

Anyhow. In other news this is the last week of November. My NaNoWriMo word count? Around 8k. Yeah, I failed. But, hey, I kind of do want to keep writing after it ends, regardless :) I will have my own little story! I can maybe make it into a series type thing too with oh-so-expected you-never-saw-it-comings in each sequel. We'll see. I'm not too disappointed in myself because it's been kind of a full month. Started a new show. Spent all my weekends away from home. Got good enough for a Gold Placement! Wasted time on a dead-end job idea. Had school and the likes pretty heavily. I think I did well, considering the time I even had to spend on writing.

But, I guess I'm all out of interesting things to say for now. [If I ever had any to begin with, heh] Wish me luck with my installation! I am about to drown in music and probably make something very delicious to eat with new HIMYM! This season has been particularly good!! I get more excited for that than Dexter lately. It looks like I might even cross Dexter off my shows list with how disappointed I've been with this season...

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Happy Thanksgiving!
(Thur) Nov 24, 2011 @ 12:03 am

Ohman, ohman, ohman!

Today was a fun day. Well, yesterday, I guess cause it's past midnight. Classes were awesome and fun and easy. Got 100% on a pie quiz. Got 100% on a not-so-pie-but-almost-equally-delicious quiz. Kicked some lab and homework ass. AND I HAVE A LONG WEEKEND!

And this weekend will be fantabulous. I already did some of my Black Friday shopping, heh. StarCraft was on sale for 30$$, so needless to say I am not 30$$ poorer. But totally worth it! I got placed Gold last night :) I am so proud of myself!!! I won 3/5 games and I might've won a forth one if I hadn't royally messed up getting attacked... I forgot to send my probies back to gather once I fended of an attack on my cute little miners... And so I spent the next forever building probes because I forgot I had some and I'd just sent em away :( Boo. Resources wasted = fail unit building = did not get to send an attack = lost soon thereafter.

ANYHOW. I might be giving myself too much credit cause I might've lost that anyway even if I didn't make a dumb mistake like that... Either way, I'm so happy because up until now I've been playing on someone else's account and he's ranked Platinum, so I've been killing that ranking... and... I brought it all the way down to bronze!! :( So I techhhnically got a twofold increase in my ranking :) ANYHOW.

I'm working to get up to Platinum... or just top of Gold [you can currently find me placed at 99... :( ] and I have been doing terribly. I only get matched up with people better than I am and I keep losing!!! :( I'm not sure what to doooo. I can do a cannon rush well enough, except I don't get matched up with enough Protoss on maps that work with it. And when I get matched with one, I'll 10gate because I'm figuring that a Platinum player will be scouting enough to know what I'm doing and stop me, so I can't pull it off. Boo :( And I'm not good enough at 10 gate yet apparently. Then again the two times I did try it against Protoss I did wind up failing because my timing was horribly off. I can't get a 4gate to be useful to me either because once I have my gates up and I have some units, I don't just go in for the kill because I figure they're more ahead of me... Which, usually, they are! So I wind up not knowing what to do next. I'm building a forge and wasting money on cannons as a "just in case" thing [which saved my ass once... but then I lost anyway...]. I'm not getting colossi out early enough. And I know all this, but I just can't seem to work around it...

:( So, super sadface! I'm getting really frustrated with not knowing what to dooo. I love getting coachingness because it keeps me on track. And, honestly, it gets to be annoying after a while, but playing WITH someone instead of against someone is a huge help, because they tell me what to do... I'm nervous for the tournament I apparently am partaking in this weekend because I don't think I'll do good against people ranked above me... which most [if not all...] will be.

ANYHOW enough about games cause I'm sure no one gets what I'm on about anyhow, heh.

It's Thanksgiving!! I'd be a lot more excited about today than I am about tomorrow, but I'm not making anything and I'm not seeing anyone on Thanksgiving... The food will be meh because I'm having turkey [which is boo] and mashed potatoes [which are expected] and stuffing [which is yay]. There isn't anything else fun or exciting... :( I wanted to make all this other stuff but my mom keeps saying no... So... yeahhh... And we're only having pumpkin pie for dessert... Nothing else! Again, boo. And I won't be drinking much because I'm going out around midnightish to Lynnwood for some hanging out and late night shopping!

I guess a huge part of my displeasure at this holiday is that it's a family holiday and I'm just not feeling it this year... Ohwell. I'll make up for it with lots of shopping because there's a ton of stuff I can't wait to buy on sale! Like makeups! And warm, cozy, amazing sweaters!! And pretty shirts! And other things. And jewelry! Oh, I decided I'm buying myself a Tiffany's for my birthday or for Christmas. I've always wanted one and my ex spent two years convincing me not to because a boy should be getting me it. Well, I sure as hell am not getting any younger and boys sure as hell aren't doing it, so I don't know what I'm waiting for. So. Looks like I'm about to have a huge credit card bill this month... Let's hope I get paid on time. Huh, wait, nvm, it's been 9 days. It's two days late... Well. Let's go raise some hell over my bling.

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Dear Skyharbor, Big Fat Sadface
(Mon) Nov 14, 2011 @ 11:12 pm

Skyharbor album got put off a few more weeks. WEEKS. It's supposed to be less than a week away... :( I've been waiting like all summer for this. I mean, I love that they have stuff on SoundCloud that has been enjoyable to listen to but I want the album. I want to be able to put it all on my phone and in my car and just swim in it. I guess they're making it more epic now... so... I'll pretend like I'm excited. More accessible to US fans and helping the scene in India was the quote, I believe? Meh...

But, on the subject of music news! Cynic ep is out. I guess according to getmetal.org it's been out since June, but I have the feeling that no one's played this for me yet. I found out they're streaming it online on pitchfork, so I've pretty much been listening to it nonstop for the past three hours because I'm too lazy to download it on lappy, heh... It's quite pretty and somewhat familiar. Though I swear I totally haven't heard this, so idk why I felt like it was..? Weird. I guess I need to listen to less of this pretty metaly stuffs. I guess it's a good explanation for my recent Metallica/Avenged Sevenfold kick -- a nice change of pace.

But enough on that. I finished Chapter One today. School was a complete pain because I only got two hours of sleep last night and I've felt really... not good? for the most of the day. So writing was a good distraction. I kind of wish I could have my laptop out in class because I would get so much more writing done. I type much faster than I write by hand. Plus I'm pretty bad at transcribing my written stuff when I get home because I get lazy...

I'm in a really musicy mood, but I can't listen and play starcraft because I'm not happy with constantly losing all the time. I just can't 4gate right... I have been very seriously considering giving up on mastering protoss because I'm just not ever winning. I can get my zerg skills back maybe... I don't even know how to proceed because I keep hitting a wall. I've only won one darn game and it's cause the guy didn't defend against my rush. Almost as if he was letting me win... Blah.

I'm going to try a different strategy. Maybe I'll build up more... Who knows. I feel so disappointed with myself for having lost to a bronze player... Sadface.

Let's hope for a change soon.

Edit @ 11:55 pm: Okay, Cynic EP was posted Nov 6, not June 11. Darn DDMMYY format... Guess I'm not surprised at not having heard it now that I know this, heh...

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New Security & Life
(Mon) Nov 14, 2011 @ 2:19 am

I changed the security on here. I tried to do something fancy with it before but it didn't work out so well. I've updated some stuff for users, but that isn't active just quite yet.

I decided I'm going to open up site a little more and somewhat write about my life a tad more publicly than I have been. So... we'll see how that one goes.

So in the news recently: I have been failing with NaNoWriMo. I just got demoted tonight on StarCraft and... I don't really know what else. I have a bit of drama going on tonight, so I'm having a hard time keeping my mind clear. I'm happy with the changes I made is all, I guess.

More another time. Bye for now, world.

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Hello, November!
(Tues) Nov 1, 2011 @ 10:52 pm

Today I'm going to get a tad more personal than I normally do. Something happened to me today, though, and I feel the need to talk a bit about it on a... higher level.

My car got broken into. Bummer and all. But... it got me thinking about the same thing we've been talking in class with interpreting real life events. And karma. We've been reading Quest for the Holy Grail in Lit. This is an interesting book for multiple reasons. For me, it's interesting because it's the most insane thing I have ever read. This book is religion on bread. It takes this super action-packed story and dumbs it down into religious interpretation. I find that a little hilarious because there's all these events that seem so ridiculously not meant to be interpreted, but then the author FORCES the interpretation on you. For example, Lancelot goes to fight in this tournament and he fights with the losing side, thinking they need help and he loses -- a first for him. Then he talks to a monk and the monk says, okay, the interpretation you should take from this is that you sided with sin and against God, which is why you lost. You should've fought on God's side which was the white knights, not the black knights. The only way to fix your life, Lancelot, is by giving up and repenting all your sins and you can real-life-version-of-win-that-tournament. And Lancelot goes, shit dude, I'm such a sinner... If I wasn't I surely would've chosen the side with the knights who were winning and I, too, would've been victorious. I gotta change, bro.

So, I find that hilarious because he was being perfectly noble by taking the greater challenge: fighting for the losing team. And somehow we're to interpret that he made a horrible choice in life from that..? Come on. I don't believe any religion is THAT ridiculous to not praise undertaking a noble challenge...

So the incident with my car made me think of that. I found it a little comical that I started to analyze my life in this "grand" sort of way. I started thinking about what karma I was paying back with this. Was it my teenage rebellion where I'd taken the car out without parental permission? Was it the fact that I once stole something, too? Was it retribution over the fact that I plainly had wronged others, whether it be cheating on a boyfriend or considering immoral things holistically? I got so determined to "right" this situation morally that I stopped considering that, hey, hold on a second, my car just got broken into!!! I laughed a little at the irony that I could take a book and find it so ridiculous to read into every single event to such a depth when I myself do it for my life. Granted, I don't do it to THAT great an extent but I still take things for more than face value sometimes.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm a firm believer in fate and karma for the most part. But, I also like to think that I believe in living your life rather than analyzing it. It was wise advice I got once that stuck with me. Spending so much time questioning and analyzing every event in life is wasting time that could be spent living and enjoying it.

Sometimes I feel we all need a little dose of that. It makes things a lot easier to face. The reality of things is easier solved than asking yourself why something bad may have happened to you. If I was living my life as a devout religious person trying to attain some high understanding of life and enlightenment and the likes, I'm sure I would make a completely different argument. But, frankly, I don't think that's what my life is or will be any time soon. I'm not seeking religious enlightenment, so I don't see why I should be worrying about what things I need to atone for to get to some "higher" plane in my life.

I just thought it was an amusing little thought and figured I'd share it. Now, go live your life little ones! :)

And, side note! NaNoWriMo! I'm two pages in :) I'm glad I planned because this thing is flowing from me pretty well. It feels nice to write creatively again. You should all go try it, too!

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NaNoWriMo
(Thur) Oct 20, 2011 @ 3:14 pm

What is NaNoWriMo, you might be wondering? It's National Novel Writing Month! It takes place in November. It's pretty much exactly what it sounds like. You're supposed to write a novel over the course of 30 days! Intense, eh? The goal is to get people to just plain write more! There's lots of people out there who enjoy writing and have always wanted to write something... bigger, like a novel! And they just never had either the motivation, time, or that little push. Well, now, those people have NaNoWriMo!

Needless to say I'm pretty excited and fully intend to participate. I encourage everyone else do the same, too. Even if you're not a good writer, even if you don't have any creative or brilliant ideas and even if you don't think you'll finish. [To finish and "win" the challenge you need to write 50,000 words in your novel.] It's a great way to develop your mind. It'll help you get something down on paper! Well... computer mostly, it seems like. But you'll be able to try something incredibly huge and you'll feel amazing if you can accomplish this. Imagine being able to tell your friends that you wrote a NOVEL. Or even if you don't finish and only get 10k or 20k words. You can tell people you're working on a novel. You can have a major accomplishment in the works.

I personally think writing is great. In case you haven't noticed.... Writing creatively, all the more so. You can vent your frustrations in a way that is pleasing to many people later. You do something you will take pride in when you write creatively. Whether its poetry, books, collections of abstract ideas, any of it. It's really satisfying to just find the right words to express what's on your mind in an abstract way.

I recently read something my friend wrote. This friend was talking about a book they've been writing for years. And, not many people might pick this up, but the main characters reflect her life. The book is pretty autobiographical. When I picked up on that little detail, which she didn't share but implied, I just thought, "wow... she must feel such a sense of relief to be able to put that all down on paper".

I really do encourage anyone and everyone to take part in this. It's not supposed to be an exercise for writing WELL. Just, writing. Think about it, if you've always thought this was some major accomplishment to have a published book, here's what this can do for you. You just vomit 50k words cohesively on a topic. Rant about the magic fairy land you want to tell a story about. Rant about the couple falling in love. Rant about the psycho heartbreaker who one day dies at the hands of her lover. Rant about anything that's in your heart, on your mind and can come out of that pen. Er, keyboard... At the end of this you'll have a LOT to work with. You'll have 50k words to add to, take away from, make sound "pretty" or fluid or poetic. You can meet with an editor or publisher to get their input on what you could do with this if you wanted it published. You can give excerpts of it to friends, family, strangers, aquiantances and let them tell you what they think. Does it make sense? Does it bore you? Does it make you want to know more? 50,000 is a huge deal. If you get that you're almost halfway to having a GOOD novel. After all, a short story tends to be around 10k - 20k, right? Juvenille novels are around 40 - 80? New published authors are recommended to have 80 - 120k. Those really long, really tedious books that people hate reading for literature classes only have 500k, anyhow. And I doubt anyone has ambitions high enough to get remembered throughout history for their writing if they haven't already TRIED writing much. So, with 50k you'll have a strong building block to a REAL book. How excellent is that??

For anyone who has either a competitive spirit or always wanted to write, go and check out their website. Or if you need a writing buddy, shoot me an anonymous [or non-anonymous?] email. I really hope to hear from some of you guys. And I really hope you get involved in the challenge.

Oh, in case the website confuses some of you, here's what I gathered. You make an account. You can start your novel now, meaning that you can write the title, description, and an excerpt from the novel now. But I don't think you can submit any writing until november starts. From what I can tell, people can't read your writing, either. But I'm not sure yet. This is, after all, my first year. I will try to find more information soon. But, by all means, prepare yourselves before November starts. That way you can put out more/better writing. I'm planning to have my little novel already brainstormed to heck and back and having a list of characters charts, plot outlines, etc before I start writing. But I won't write a word until Nov 1, 2011 at midnight. If you guys want to do this just for the "writing" aspect without the competition, go ahead and start now. After all, why not! You'll have no to go on for your little novels! :)

Okay, I've ranted enough. Clearly, I'm incredibly excited. I'll leave it at that, for now. Good luck, in advance, everyone! Have fun with this.

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