Here's what I have left to do in order to finish Libaw (more to get my own thoughts organized than anything):
- That one random scene I didn't write yet in 3.10
- Scenes I haven't finished in 3.14
- Letter from 3.16
- 3.15
- 3.18
That's it! Holy crrrraaaaappp... :|
3 days to d-day, wish me luck!
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
( O5.31.2O1O )
The title links to what I have recently realized my day-to-day life pretty much consists of.
It's May 22nd, which means I have nine - or rather eight, since it's 11:02 pm - days left to write until the day of my "Life in Black and White" first draft completion deadline (May 31st). I only have four chapters left, so yeah, pretty sure I'm going to make it. Yeah. That's not the point. The point is...
EIGHT DAYS OH MY FREAKING GOD AKJDHAIOAHDJSALAKDHNSKABB HZIJSHDAJDGSJKAJDGSKALHNHCUUSZJMANADUASJAKMMBDJLZNDCNS!!!!!!!!
It's May 22nd, which means I have nine - or rather eight, since it's 11:02 pm - days left to write until the day of my "Life in Black and White" first draft completion deadline (May 31st). I only have four chapters left, so yeah, pretty sure I'm going to make it. Yeah. That's not the point. The point is...
EIGHT DAYS OH MY FREAKING GOD AKJDHAIOAHDJSALAKDHNSKABB HZIJSHDAJDGSJKAJDGSKALHNHCUUSZJMANADUASJAKMMBDJLZNDCNS!!!!!!!!
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Sequel Preps
The title links to my epic Facebook page, Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month. :) Just a reminder to check this mother out if you have Facebook!
Speaking of mothers, I have started planning the sequel to "Life in Black and White" (of which there remains only five chapters yet to be written, by the way. :O Somehow that seems too important to put in parentheses, but whatever). So far, "It's All Inside My Head" seems like it's going to be just as:
- Long
- Obnoxious
- Depressing
- Overdramatic
- "Special"
as it's predecessor. :) Perhaps even MORESO in some cases (read: depressing, "special").
:3
So yeah.
One of the first steps I have undertaken in this Thing's planning stages, awkwardly enough, has been to make the soundtrack (version 1.0). This may seem a little bizarre to you, like, "wtf, she made the stupid book soundtrack before she finished excessively tweaking the whole entire plot? Who makes soundtracks for their book, anyway?"
In response to the last question, I do. In response to the first, yep, I did.
I NEED A READY-MADE PLAYLIST BEFORE (NOT WHILST) I START WORKING ON THIS DEPRESSING MOTHER. WHY? BECAUSE LAST TIME I BEGAN WRITING A LARGE BRICK OF FICTION, I DID NOT KNOW IT WOULD BECOME SUCH A LARGE BRICK OF FICTION. HAD I KNOWN THIS BEFOREHAND, I WOULD HAVE HAD A READY-MADE INSPIRATIONAL PLAYLIST BEFORE UNDERTAKING THAT ONE, TOO.
kthx.
Anyway, my soundtrack contains some epic, plot-relevant music. Which I love. I am very excited about this soundtrack. It keeps me from thinking too much about the scariness of finishing "Life in Black and White"!
So here is the track list. :)
It's All Inside My Head, 1.0
1. Enya - Amid the Falling Snow
2. Elton John - Birds
3. Sarah McLachlan - Good Enough
4. Miranda Lambert - The House That Built Me
5. Eiffel 65 - Blue
6. Avril Lavigne - Slipped Away
7. Barenaked Ladies - Brian Wilson
8. Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You
9. Beatles - Hey Jude
10. Elton John - Ballad of the Boy in the Red Shoes (this song inspired the book title)
11. Hedley - Perfect
12. Dido - Don't Leave Home
13. Roch Voisine - Kissing Rain (live version)
14. Coldplay - X&Y (novel theme)
15. The Beatles - In My Life
16. Sarah McLachlan - Answer
17. The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build a Home
I tried my best to put the songs in chronological order of events in the plot. Hopefully, this will help me build the plot elements better. :)
Speaking of mothers, I have started planning the sequel to "Life in Black and White" (of which there remains only five chapters yet to be written, by the way. :O Somehow that seems too important to put in parentheses, but whatever). So far, "It's All Inside My Head" seems like it's going to be just as:
- Long
- Obnoxious
- Depressing
- Overdramatic
- "Special"
as it's predecessor. :) Perhaps even MORESO in some cases (read: depressing, "special").
:3
So yeah.
One of the first steps I have undertaken in this Thing's planning stages, awkwardly enough, has been to make the soundtrack (version 1.0). This may seem a little bizarre to you, like, "wtf, she made the stupid book soundtrack before she finished excessively tweaking the whole entire plot? Who makes soundtracks for their book, anyway?"
In response to the last question, I do. In response to the first, yep, I did.
I NEED A READY-MADE PLAYLIST BEFORE (NOT WHILST) I START WORKING ON THIS DEPRESSING MOTHER. WHY? BECAUSE LAST TIME I BEGAN WRITING A LARGE BRICK OF FICTION, I DID NOT KNOW IT WOULD BECOME SUCH A LARGE BRICK OF FICTION. HAD I KNOWN THIS BEFOREHAND, I WOULD HAVE HAD A READY-MADE INSPIRATIONAL PLAYLIST BEFORE UNDERTAKING THAT ONE, TOO.
kthx.
Anyway, my soundtrack contains some epic, plot-relevant music. Which I love. I am very excited about this soundtrack. It keeps me from thinking too much about the scariness of finishing "Life in Black and White"!
So here is the track list. :)
It's All Inside My Head, 1.0
1. Enya - Amid the Falling Snow
2. Elton John - Birds
3. Sarah McLachlan - Good Enough
4. Miranda Lambert - The House That Built Me
5. Eiffel 65 - Blue
6. Avril Lavigne - Slipped Away
7. Barenaked Ladies - Brian Wilson
8. Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You
9. Beatles - Hey Jude
10. Elton John - Ballad of the Boy in the Red Shoes (this song inspired the book title)
11. Hedley - Perfect
12. Dido - Don't Leave Home
13. Roch Voisine - Kissing Rain (live version)
14. Coldplay - X&Y (novel theme)
15. The Beatles - In My Life
16. Sarah McLachlan - Answer
17. The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build a Home
I tried my best to put the songs in chronological order of events in the plot. Hopefully, this will help me build the plot elements better. :)
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
71 down, 9 to go. Plus, deadlinneeee!! Oh boy.
Chapters of my novel, that is. Just nine more chapters to go until I finish my big disorganized heffa of a book. ;)
I skipped a chapter and a half to write a really entertaining one called "Hurricane Bertha" (72). G's in for a surprise concerning the girl he's developed a bit of a crush on, but for the time being the chapter's atmosphere is really quite pleasant, which let me tell you is a rare occurrence in a book about mental illness. G and his fellow BPs in the guys' ward at good old Perry Springs (= the most epic psychiatric hospital ever, kthx) were watching the news in the day room the other day when they discovered there was a pretty big storm on its way! To make their lives more interesting, they decided to pretend it was a full-out hurricane, which G named Bertha after his deceased schizophrenic great-aunt.
There was also an interesting, pretty much unrelated two-page scene in which G went through three moods. This was surprisingly easy to pull off, though I did have to make sure I just cruised through it in one shot. It was unrelated to the hurricane stuff, but still necessary because at the end of it, G got a call to inform him that his baby sister was born! Yay! :) He's been waiting for that for months.
Unfortunately, the paranoid personalities in Hall B got wind of the "Hurricane Bertha" fabrication, and as a result, they are all royally freaking out and watching the news like their life depended on it. That means there's no room on the couch anymore for the BPs, but then again they kind of asked for it, didn't they? :P
In other news, I own the Facebook page for Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month, which you definitely want to check out if you have Facebook. Randi Kreger, the author of two of my FAVORITE BPD research books, recently asked me to write an article on BPDA Month for her blog on Psychology Today's website (yes, the magazine). Of course I couldn't pass up this amazing opportunity, so I took a bit of time away from writing G's life story to compose that. The title of this post links to it, so feel free to check that out too.
May 31st, 2010 is the deadline I'd set for myself to have the first draft of "Life in Black and White" completed - I'm going to get to work now, because that date is fast approaching and I hope I can make it!
I skipped a chapter and a half to write a really entertaining one called "Hurricane Bertha" (72). G's in for a surprise concerning the girl he's developed a bit of a crush on, but for the time being the chapter's atmosphere is really quite pleasant, which let me tell you is a rare occurrence in a book about mental illness. G and his fellow BPs in the guys' ward at good old Perry Springs (= the most epic psychiatric hospital ever, kthx) were watching the news in the day room the other day when they discovered there was a pretty big storm on its way! To make their lives more interesting, they decided to pretend it was a full-out hurricane, which G named Bertha after his deceased schizophrenic great-aunt.
There was also an interesting, pretty much unrelated two-page scene in which G went through three moods. This was surprisingly easy to pull off, though I did have to make sure I just cruised through it in one shot. It was unrelated to the hurricane stuff, but still necessary because at the end of it, G got a call to inform him that his baby sister was born! Yay! :) He's been waiting for that for months.
Unfortunately, the paranoid personalities in Hall B got wind of the "Hurricane Bertha" fabrication, and as a result, they are all royally freaking out and watching the news like their life depended on it. That means there's no room on the couch anymore for the BPs, but then again they kind of asked for it, didn't they? :P
In other news, I own the Facebook page for Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month, which you definitely want to check out if you have Facebook. Randi Kreger, the author of two of my FAVORITE BPD research books, recently asked me to write an article on BPDA Month for her blog on Psychology Today's website (yes, the magazine). Of course I couldn't pass up this amazing opportunity, so I took a bit of time away from writing G's life story to compose that. The title of this post links to it, so feel free to check that out too.
May 31st, 2010 is the deadline I'd set for myself to have the first draft of "Life in Black and White" completed - I'm going to get to work now, because that date is fast approaching and I hope I can make it!
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