Well...

Ok. So I haven't been on much recently. Don't fret though, the drought will cease, with this post of course. Let's start off with goals...

Write a minimum of 1,500 words towards Resurrection.
And possibly...Critique 2 stories on CC

I wrote, roughly, 700 words towards Resurrection, but I critted 3 stories on CC, so half and half I say.

Today was odd. I'm meant to have two weeks of Work Experience, one of the two weeks being this week, but unfortunately I only have one week, which is next week. So, I was told to go to school today, and, whilst at school, the few students of Year 10 who hadn't received Work Experience had to search through the Yellow Pages and find places to do their Work Experience. We were given a deadline of 1 o'clock to have been accepted into somewhere. I phoned Coles Supermarket and was given a place there just before 10.

I made the deadline, but tonight before I work I must go down to Coles, find the manager guy, and have a form filled out, then tomorrow morning I must make my way to school again, hand in the said form, then the remainder of the week is the first week of my Winter Holidays.

So, here I am, sitting on my computer, at 2 pm, instead of being at school, phone in my ear, listening to annoying 'on hold' music. Haha! One of the guys I was with was put on hold for about 20 minutes! Damn that was funny...

NANO

NANO or Nation Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30, and, this year I shall enter!

The other day while watching TV I came up with an idea for a novel. The news report was of a body that was found floating down a river. Immediately I jumped up, dashed into the kitchen, only just missing the corner of a head high cupboard, and began joting down whatever came to my head after my original idea.

That was last Wednesday. By Wednesday night I had written one A4 page of notes, currently I have over 4 A4 pages full of notes. And while doing research last night I have already come up with a suitable title for it.

Signature.

I love it because it already fits what shall happen in the story. I've already made many notes and I have also begun outlining chapters although that is a bit difficult.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to come up with a name for my MC yet. 'Tis a crime novel and my MC is a local cop, not an FBI Agent or anything special, just a local cop. He has a partner who I have discovered the perfect name for. The name fits her and everything, and right now I can't imagine her with another name. Her name is so good! Oh right! You're probably wondering what the name is. Maybe I'll tell you later, or it might just slip into another post. Who knows?

Anyway, I can't wait 'till November so I can get started on this awesome project. I am in love with it already!

Yes. Resurrection may become jealous but he should know that he's got until November before he may get covered in dust. Let's hope he does good things until then.

DISJTUJOB SPESJHVFA

There you go. Cracked the code?

The Other Half

Ok. Week's over and I've barely been on here at all. Exams are annoying, even if I am only in Year 10, I still don't like them!

What were my goals? Oh that's right!

Complete all my exams and feel happy with each of them!
Continue reading my L's book. Perhaps finish it,
Start on my next book, The Artic Event by James Cobb,
and...Write 500 words towards Resurrection.

I am...feeling...kind of happy with my exams, not all of them, but most of them.
I have been reading my L book and I've done a few practise tests online as well.
I got 12 pages into the book then threw it aside...
I wrote 2,175!!!

So...hm...I think that's a pass, but only just.

The only goal I want to give myself for this week is:

Write a minimum of 1,500 words towards Resurrection.
And possibly...Critique 2 stories on CC

But that's it. I'm just happy exams are over and I can't wait for my results. Hope I do well. There is a few things I'd like to talk about on here by the weeks end but I'll do that another time because right now I am freezing cold. It's what? 12 degrees? Celsius! Maybe 10 degrees!

Doesn't matter! To me it feels like 3 degrees! And I'm wearing a jacket, jeans and a t-shirt! But I'm still freezing!

...oh no...Rant coming...about global warming...eep!

Exams!!!

Yay! I'm now over half way through my mid-year exams after today!

Today I had, um, English, P.E then Visual Communication and Design.
Ok. I think I've aced English. I had to write a 400-450 word essay on how the main two characters of Two Way Cut by Garry Disher responded to harrassment that they had each received and how the said harrassment changed their lives. Then I had to answer 6 questions about a newspaper article including stuff like: Find an example of a rhetorical question, find an example of a generalisation, what is the contention of this article and so forth. I found it quite easy and was very happy with what I wrote for my essay.

P.E...well...I answered every question (there was about 40), and I was very pleased with the answers I gave. The bulk of the marks will come from questions about Alcohol, Coaching and Drugs and there'll be a few that come from a newspaper article we had to read.

VCD, don't even get me started! I skipped about 3 questions, had no idea how to answer about 5 of the and I imagine that the drawings I had to do will get low marks because the drawings were shocking! ...I didn't like that exam...

So, now I only have two more exams to attend. One tomorrow at 10:50 (Advanced Maths) and one on Friday morning at 8:50 (Biology). Can't wait till they are over because in two weeks I have work experience at the Leader Newspaper! That will be so much fun!

Well, that's in about 3 weeks, up until then I guess the only thing I can do is write...

Did I Fail Or Not?

Ok. It's Monday evening, I had one exam at school today, Electronics. Out of the 29 questions I had to answer, I answered 23. I'm happy with that. I did some Math while waiting for time to run out and figured out that I'll probably get between 65% and 80%. I'd be very happy with anything over 70%.

So, how did I do on those goals of mine?

Complete the first draft of Toy Terror (I'm kinda stuck, and I can't turn to CC for help on this either),
Write atleast 1 paragraph towards Resurrection, or, re-write the last paragraph I wrote, Remember to study for my first exam, Electronics,
Read over half of the book I'm about to start (Shatter by Michael Robothom),
And... Just be nice!

I finished the first draft of Toy Terror, yay!
I wrote a whole 200 words towards Resurrection!
Studied and have completed my Electronics exam,
I, in fact, finished reading Shatter. I had only read 206 pages by Sunday morning, and by Sunday night I had finished the book. I read 260 pages on Sunday alone.
Be nice?...Nope. Failed this one...

Ok, How about I write goals for this week?

Complete all my exams and feel happy with each of them!
Continue reading my L's book. Perhaps finish it,
Start on my next book, The Artic Event by James Cobb,
and...
Write 500 words towards Resurrection.

Yeah. I'm happy with all that. Well, I'll keep you posted with how my exams are going this week. Until then...