Becca Stareyes

Nothing witty today. Am trying to catch up between studying for Bio Test.

Jenn

brb Nebraskon. :D

If you have my cell number, feel free to text me!

Post is up a little bit early. I have classes tomorrow and yeah, I'm hoping that you all are having fun and driving your characters through the paces.

Jenn

I've hit 7500+, then restarted so now my count is 3100+. Am tired, hungry and sleepy. Post is up for the day fine ladies and gents.

Numbers so far indicate we've lost Maine. Washington looking more promising but too early to tell. My dad came into my room turning the air blue over Maine -- he doesn't swear much, but he was pissed off. Me, I'm just cynical at this point.

I switched to Arch, which looks like the right level of minimalism for my main machine -- I'll revisit Gentoo when I've got a vacation to set it up in and/or a shiny new system to break (I want a cheapo computer for playing with, but I feel I shouldn't buy one for a while.)

In other news, I'm fed up with casual misogyny in geek circles.

\o/ Except none of that was actually written today. Yep, I totally slacked off and watched Paranormal Activity instead. Go, me! Oh well. I'm off tomorrow so I guess I can just play catch up with my word count then.

This post originally made at Dreamwidth.

Come on guys, even if we're falling face down on our beds tonight. Got to get those word counts in. It's only Day 4.

I'm pretty sure the couple of all-nighters I pulled this week are fucking with me in dramatic fashion. I feel sick--not completely miserable, just 'off,' I'm coughing, have a sore throat, and bits of unsavory phlegm keep on coming up when I do cough, and my stomach is unsettled slightly. On my way back to Lincoln, I'm going to stop and pick up something to help in case I /am/ actually getting sick.

I did pass out last night from 5:30 till my mom woke me up at 6 something, so that's good at least. She originally tried waking me up for pizza around 6, but I said I'd be out in a little while and then rolled right back over on the air mattress and fell back asleep. Oops. (Nuked some of it around 6:45 this morning for a terrible 'breakfast' and I don't think I was missing much. DiGiorno's is better. :x)

I'm going to actually try going to bed at a decent time tonight. I give anyone who sees me online after 1 am permission to kick my ass.

Post is up. Hope you all are having fun trucking through NaNo.

First day's work posted

Daily post for those who are posting, well daily. Ignore the ramblings, ired and feeling it.

Jenn

I am writing this in links (text-only web browser) just because I can. I have an operational Gentoo system. This makes me semi-elite (I won't be elite until I successfully customize my kernel; right now I'm using a generic one.)

Today, I'd like to talk about why I love Linux. Ahem. ( Cut for length; not scary, honest. )

Hacking makes me happy.

Disclaimer: see relevant xkcd.

What a good round! We were graced with some really wonderful fiction and art. Congratulations for a job well done.

Today, I bring you the community time-line:

This month (November) - the community will remain open for any of you that lost momentum during the October round or just had life careen into you at top speed - you may certainly post any late fic that you're still planning to write this month. I am sure the readers won't mind. I will just add them onto the November Fic/Art List as they are posted (which hopefully will be posted this coming week).

December - I will post a list of the retiring prompts. Feel free to grab these at will - no claiming needed - and post the finished work to the community by December 31.

January - we will start another prompting session for the short February round. Feel free to start thinking up your prompts now! ^_^


Again, thanks to all the writers and artists that have contributed to areyougame not only in this round but in past and future ones. You are the reason why this community is successful!

So I play Vampire Wars over on Facebook, and there's five special limited edition abilities available for Halloween, and all are based on Horror classics. There's Blood-Soaked Vengeance (Carrie), Hierophant Transformation (Pinhead), Bile Spew (The Exorcist), Hyde's Rage (Jeckyll and Hyde), and Clown Frenzy (IT)

In order:


yuuo and I together recognized all of these off the bat except for Bile Spew, so I went googling. Since I knew all the others were based on horror movies or novels-turned-movie, it was likely that this was a horror movie reference. I had nothing else to start with but that and the name of the ability.

So I googled.

The first result made me blink, stare, then begin laughing hysterically.

NaNoWriMo postings here: noose1xyear

It just occurred to me that some of our Wrimos are in other countries. Oops, it was Bubblehead!Jenn there for a moment. She makes appearances around birthdays too. I'm pre-marking it for midnight. Have at fellow writers.

So here is the daily word count post.

( Requiem For An Imaginary Mind Book Cover and Word Count )

das_dingsi: Thanks for the card! It helped dispel my gloom today. (Yes, punctuality is evidently not a feature of international mail. But that worked out nice, as it happens, because it's been stressful around here today.)

Everybody's grumpy from being sick and cooped up inside -- I think a fierce bad temper is one of the swine flu symptoms they don't list, because it was the first any of us showed and seems to be the longest-lasting. Matisse and Malcolm had a performance today they had to skip out on due to illness and having missed the crucial preparatory lesson, and Matisse got into a bit of a fight with Mum and Dad over that. I fought with Mum and Dad over some completely different stuff, which was trivial but seemed worthy of an all-out brawl at the time. My grandfather told my grandmother the other day that he wants to die, because his quality of life is so bad, and I'm pretty sure that's the biggest thing bothering Mum, who is snappish of late. Dad was grumpy because his computer (or rather, the printer) wasn't working. Meanwhile, I upgraded my distro with unusually destructive results, forcing me to reconfigure a bunch of files and hack up a fix for Firefox, and it installed Pulseaudio, which breaks my sound every time it sneaks past me.

So I decided it was about time I did the serious-hacker thing and installed Gentoo. I am writing this from my Mac OS X partition because GRUB is now misconfigured and when I booted OS X to have a bit more ease of Google it wanted to update iTunes and had to download the whole big file. Yep. My mum thinks I'm odd for finding new OS installs therapeutic, but the thing about banging your head against a problem like a misconfigured bootloader is that when you're done, you usually have a properly configured bootloader. It feels a lot better than dealing with my grandfather dying and my still not really registering it or having an emotional response beyond guilt at my indifference.

I can hack my bootloader now. Be right back.

Title: To The Rescue
Author: mystiri_1
Rating: PG
Warnings: strong language. Seriously AU.
Word Count: approx 5,500
Prompt: October 30, Final Fantasy VII, Cid/dragon!Vincent, persistence - Go away
Summary: Cid's not the knightly sort, so why is he riding off to rescue a princess?
Author's note: Um... Only a little late?


( 'Do I look like a bloody knight to you?' )

How to survive NaNoWriMo - Ten Rules
(With minimal damage to limbs, family and sanity)

1. Find a comfortable writing spot. Preferably two or three. (I like the big chair in the den, the Borders Cafe, and of course my room.)
2. Keep something to drink constantly. Water, juice, coffee, energy drinks, you pick your poison of choice.
3. When your fingers start to hurt, get up. You can't write if you can't type. This would be an excellent time to get a voice recorder and make your S.O. type for you. Get's them involved.
4. Take out meals, one-pot meals, and any kind of soup you can put in a crock pot are a must. You wanted to try that Vegan Chilli? Go for it.
5. Get up and move. Stiff joints are no good for anyone. Every hour that you're writing, get your butt up and stretch.
6. Eye drops, lots of eye drops. I prefer Rohto V and Similasan.
7. Keep music. I suggest several playlists. One for general writing mayhem, one for passionate scenes, and one for when you want to throttle every character in your novel.
8. Keep your writing area neat. Otherwise when you go to pull up those notes, they may be in Saskatchewan.
9. Shower. Bathe. Just keep clean. A miasma of funk only gets you sprayed with Febreeze and that stings the eyes.
10. Spend time with your loved ones. They'll appreciate it more after not seeing you for a few days. Pets are included in this list.

Those are my 10 rules on how to survive NaNo. Good luck and good novelling.

Jenn