Post-NaNo Update

[polychrome_pen]

*throws confetti*

I made the 50,000 word goal this year!  Gah, I wish I had remembered to update here right away, but the last couple of weeks have been a bit of a blur for me.  NaNo was a great experience this year - I made it to several write-ins, and was able to connect with some really nice writers in my area.  I even formally registered and everything on the NaNo board.

Unfortunately, Heart Stone still isn't finished.  Even after 50K additional words, I have the remaining portion of the final chapter, and an epilogue to be written.  I'm hoping to update FF.net soon with the rest of the story.  The part written during NaNo will need some serious editing, but my tentative goal is to get the rest of the story up before the end of the year.  I want to get back to an original project I left off at the end of October, but to do that Heart Stone has to be finished.

Also, I have been binge-buying movies and books online ever since Black Friday.  Seriously, someone send an intervention.  I'm going to have to put myself on a buying moratorium again come January, I think.

I've seen some great movies since last update: Ender's Game, Thor: The Dark World, Catching Fire, and Frozen (twice!).  Frozen is definitely shaping up to be my favorite movie of the year, unless it gets toppled by Hobbit Pt. 2.  Frozen is definitely my favorite animated outing since Tangled (though I enjoyed Wreck-It-Ralph).  Gah, I want to see it again!

Thanks to wickedbish's recommendation, I finally read Robin McKinley's Beauty.  In like two days.  It totally sucked me in, and I didn't do too much the last couple of days as I devoured that book.  Definitely recommended for anyone who loves fairy tale retellings!  (I'm apparently kind of on a fairy tale kick after Frozen?  I also deboxed my Ever After High dolls, which are all kinds of awesome.)

Comments

[wickedbish.livejournal.com]

Ever After High! Lori got me hooked on those dolls, even though they have nothing to do with Ponies. I haven't bought one yet, but I'm going to get Maddie as soon as someone offers me a new job (which will not make me want to suicide myself) so I can quit my current one (which does).

Robin McKinley also wrote Spindle's End, which is an EPIC re-telling of Sleeping Beauty.

In conclusion, it's awesome that you participated in NaNo!

[strongheartmaid.livejournal.com]

like he said, Spindle's End is so epic [it's one of my favorite retellings]

@Ry: ::waiting very patiently for Heart Stone to be finished:: I'm excited to read that one [especially since it's Tamara-centric]

and congrats on getting to the goal this year - w00t :D

[ry-sabir.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Have you read the first four chapters? They're up on FF.net. :)

Oooh, double recommendations on Spindle's End! I'm definitely going to have to check that out now. :)

[strongheartmaid.livejournal.com]

I started reading it - but I want to wait until the whole thing is up so I don't start it and end up sulking that I can't complete when I hit the last chapter [I'm impatient when it comes to good fic ::laughs::]

[wickedbish.livejournal.com]

like he said, Spindle's End is so epic [it's one of my favorite retellings

Welp. Adding you just for that.

[ry-sabir.livejournal.com]

Ever After High is incredibly fun. The world is so well put together, and it feeds into my terrible fondness for bad puns.

Oooh, double recs for Spindle's End! I'm going to have to add that to my next Amazon order.

NaNo was super exhausting, but I'm so glad I participated. There's a definite creative energy there that I sometimes find difficult to tap into the rest of the year. (Or maybe I just work better with deadlines?)

[lovelykitta.livejournal.com]

Congrats Ry! I can't wait to read the rest of Heart Stone!

[ry-sabir.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It should be coming soon! (Hopefully!)