Entries tagged with geek

...you see a license plate that says "Litch" and you think, "Dude, you spelled it wrong!" (Nevermind the fact that no self-respecting undead elven sorcerer would be caught dead in a Honda Civic. A BMW, Mercedes or classic muscle car, but not a rusting Honda Civic)

Anyways, it's September! Where the heck did the year go? I lost it somewhere...

Writing goals for September (I'm going to get back into this writing thing):
- Write half of Last Rites rough draft
- Outline half of TPC
- Start populating Carter's Cove

I might also work on the Rhiannon short story that I started, although I'm afraid it's morphing into a novella at the least. Oh well, backstory is good!

What are your goals for September?

School: First quiz in paralegal and wow, not so good. Thankfully, she said she was most likely dropping the lowest quiz grade. Sunday is study day, seriously. I'm afraid I'm spoiled now - I'm actually having to WORK on this class! Gotta take it more seriously. Luckily, math is braindead.

Personal: Went and had breakfast with my dad today. I love spending time with my father - he and my mother have always been huge supporters of my writing, and he was the one who introduced me to roleplaying at a very early age. (Yes, I was playing D&D when I was 5 - I learned my math skills by counting dice.) We got to talking about Spelljammer, which was part of the D&D world, by way of him asking about what novel I was doing for NaNo, and me telling him about Shanghai. Dad understands my ~~obsession~~ fascination with pirates, and thinks it's a cool concept, and we discussed ships and the various ideas on propulsion, etc. Now I just have to find some of the old Spelljammer modules. We went to 2 used bookstores and looked and puttered and just had a good time.

Work: I'm working nights tonight. 'Nuff said.

Writing: My father was highly amused by the fact that I've been asked if I'm going to write any YA anytime soon. I picked up about 6 YA novels and will be reading them, just to see what they shake loose. Who knows? I could be the next JK Rowling! (Okay, y'all can stop laughing now...)

I'm trying to figure out why I'm having such issues getting Nikki and Jack together in Snow. Tonight, come hell or high water, they are meeting, dammit! I'm alone here as of now (from my team, at least) so I have no excuse. Have ipod, will write, blah, blah, blah... :p

I'm also kind of musing on Rites already. Snow gave me one of the last pieces of the puzzle that is the magical system for my world. I'd wondered what I was missing, and now I just have to reconcile it with everything else. I was going to have Blood Lords be the final part of the triad, but I'm just realizing that it won't work - Justin works Blood magic, and there are Blood Mages on both sides of the Walls. So I need one more type of magic that can coexist within the Walls, and I'll have no Blood Lords. Just Blood Spirits and Blood Mages (because everyone has blood). Hmm. Must figure this out.

More on that later. Now I need to plot.

(writing/random) You know you're a geek when...

(work/personal/school/writing) A random bunch of thoughts...