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message 101:
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Isaac
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Nov 07, 2011 05:04PM
...And that is one of the many reasons why I now hate writing, ladies and gentlemen.
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WHY? There's nothing wrong with that. I always write random nonsense that my characters are thinking like: There was a person walking up to me. It was a girl. No, it was a boy. No, no, I decided. It was a girl. The person opened its mouth and started talking. It was a boy, I realized.
*sigh*I'maperfectionistandeverythingIdosucksandIhatemyselfbecauseIcan'tdoanythingright.
Except you can do everything right, and it's not actually wrong, you are just too hard on yourself. Because guess what? You are my friend and you do that perfectly awesomely right, and don't you dare try to tell me otherwise.
I love you, okay? Maybe I was exaggerating when I said you can do everything right, but nobody can do that. Nobody can do everything right, even if they're a freaking dragon or a unicorn because we're all just people in the end. We breathe, we live, we exist, and we make mistakes. It's what we do. And our imperfections make us whole.
*whispers*Butmyimperfectionsmakemeugly.
Do you know what really makes you ugly?Trick question. You are beautiful. You are a deep, wonderful, amazing person with opinions and feelings. Even if you feel like nothing, you are everything—sad or afraid or tired or whatever. Ugly is a silly word.
But beauty is like the only thing that matters anymore.And I am ugly.
That's not necessarily true. It isn't the only thing that matters, especially not to people that are worthy your time. Even if it is true, you aren't ugly. I keep telling you and telling you that, and it is true. You have a beautiful personality and a beautiful face. I keep throwing words in your face, but you never believe me D:
I hope you do one day. Even for a second. Because then it will catch, little by little.
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Word Count: 29,228
Characters Killed; One
Cups of Coffee Drunk: Uh... none
Hours Spent Procrastinating: Like... 4,right now. This minute.
Word Goal for Today: 32k
Words actually written today: 2k meh.
Book Title: A Beating Dead HeartWord Count: 36.197
Characters Killed: 3
Cups of Coffee Drunk: Too many to count.
Hours Spent Procrastinating: 30-something. Sigh.
Word Goal for Today: 41.000
Words Actually Written today: 0, but I woke up two minutes ago.
Yesterday I had a super amazing burst of inspiration, and today my brain is dead.Book Title: [STILL NO TITLE]
Word Count: 7560
Characters Killed: 0
Cups of Coffee Drunk: 0, unfortunately
Hours Spent Procrastinating: ALL OF THEM (although some of them were spent curled into a Ball of Pain because aaaargh, where is the Advil when you need it)
Word Goal for Today: 2000
Words Actually Written today: 532
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Word Count: 13,024
Characters Killed: Still no one >.<
Cups of Coffee Drunk: I haven't had anything to drink for a while. I think I may be slightly dehydrated.
Hours Spent Procrastinating: I watched 4 hours of Doctor Who today instead of writing. Whoops.
Word Goal for Today: I want to hit 15K but meh.
Words Actually Written today: 206
Book Title: Wilted FlowersWord Count: 24035
Characters Killed: 3
Cups of Coffee Drunk: none today.
Hours Spent Procrastinating: all day till an hour ago.
Word Goal for Today: 26000
Words Actually Written today: 1000
message 118:
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Brigid ✩, No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
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Word Count: 28,620
Cups of Coffee Drunk: One
Hours Spent Procrastinating: Errr not really any unless you count eating and doing homework.
Word Goal for Today: If I don't reach 30k today I will repeatedly punch myself in the face. But I would like to get even further than that. I want to finish by Day 10. And that's in ... two days. F***!!!
Words Actually Written today: NONE! HAHAHAHAHAA. I'm determined to do all my homework first...
Book Title: Call of the SeaWord Count: 11,042
Characters Killed: 2.
Chocolate consumed: 4 packets of Maltesers, 2.5 KitKats, a slice of fudge cake and an enormous packet of white chocolate buttons.
Hours Spent Procrastinating: About an hour and a half.
Word Goal for Today: I didn't have one. I'm going to bed now.
Words Actually Written today: About 1K.
Book Title: WanderWord Count: 14,377
Characters Killed: 0
Cups of Coffee Drunk: 1
Hours Spent Procrastinating: 2
Word Goal for Today: 15k
Words Actually Written today: 100
Book Title: The Bluest RoseWord Count:18492
Characters Killed:0 (they have escaped so far, but not for long moo ha ha)
Cups of Tea Drunk: Too many to count
Hours Spent Procrastinating: Too many to count
Word Goal for Today:Trying to get to 20,000 total
Words Actually Written today: 3831
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Word Count:35k
Characters Killed:1
Cups of Coffee Drunk: None
Hours Spent Procrastinating: ALL OF THEM. Heh.
Word Goal for Today: ...37k, yeah. Not gonna happen.
Words Actually Written today: 5k
*CAUTION: Inappropriate language referring to bodily functions may be enclosed within this message of failure.Book Title: David and the Sirens
Word Count: 4,849...poop.
Hours Spent Procrastinating: A good two...poop.
Word Goal: Well, 15,000 by the end of the week. Not sure about today though...
Words Actually Written: 1, 091...poop.
Good News:
-I love my characters because I just do. :) Eep! My main character is so hot. His name's Evan, and he rocks my socks.
-I don't think I'm going to really run into a stump with this one. I'll be swinging tree to tree...if only I had the time to write. (Could be writing now...eh) I feel like I given myself a lot more liberty with this idea.
-It's cool to see an idea I had in my head coming to life. Always cool.
-That WriteOrDie website really helped me out. I don't think I'm going to do Kamikaze though. Way too freaky. I'd probably start screaming.
Bad News:
-NEED MORE WORDS. And I don't think I'm going to do the whole, "Very very very very very good. He was very very very very very very very very very very very very very good."
-I have HOMEWORK! DUCK YOU HOMEWORK! I QUACKING DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU!
You know, I wonder if that would count as a psuedo swear word. Lol.
You guys want to know something funny? (WHAT! WHAT!)
For some reason in my head, I mixed up the titles "Word Goal" and "Words Actually Written Today." I was like, "Are you quacking kidding me? 26,000 words written today?"
Lol.
Poop.
Book Title: CondemnedWord Count: 20632
Characters Killed: 2 nonimportant...within the next 5000 words, a character SHALL DIEEE :D:D:D:D:D
Cups of Coffee Drunk: ...since WHEN!?
Hours Spent Procrastinating: OMG...like 6 in reality but in my head like 24602430520735093095MILLION
Word Goal for Today: 20k, ACHIEVED :D
Words Actually Written today: 2072
Book Title: And They Changed Like SeasonsWord Count: 43,011
Characters Killed: none
Cups of Milk Drunk: Since this morning…five.
Hours Spent Procrastinating: A grand total of 987654334567876347839785
Word Goal for Today: 2,000
Words Actually Written today: 4,771
“At This Rate You Will Finish On”: November 9, 2011 MEEP.
Thanksiesssss. (I am dead right now).
Merciiii beaucoup. I am proud of you, too! You weren't even sure you wanted to do it and look how wonderfully you are doing.
Yay! So proud! I need to pick up my slack!
Guess what my weekend's going to be dedicated to!
Good night, all of you awesome, wonderful people whom I love so dearly. <3
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Word Count: 43,011
Characters Killed: none
Cups of Milk Drunk: Since this morning…five.
Hours Spent Procrastinating: A grand total of 987654334567876347839..."
Woah, Autumn, you are so freaking cool! LOOK AT ALL THOSE WORDS.
message 131:
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Brigid ✩, No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
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Word Count: 31,679
Characters Killed: none
Cups of Coffee Drunk: None yet.
Hours Spent Procrastinating: I woke up about twenty minutes ago...
Word Goal for Today: Um, I want to write 8321 more words today because I want to reach 40k. At least.
Words Actually Written today: ZERO!!!!
“At This Rate You Will Finish On”: November 14th, 2011. AGGGH. Well, I haven't written yet today so hopefully that will change. And even if it doesn't ... oh well. I'm trying to break my record, which was finishing by the 15th.
Brigid *Flying Kick-a-pow!* wrote: "Book Title: Sweet SorrowWord Count: 31,679
Characters Killed: none
Cups of Coffee Drunk: None yet.
Hours Spent Procrastinating: I woke up about twenty minutes ago...
Word Goal for Today: Um, I wan..."
Uh, on my page, it say's I'll finish in January 2012. *headdesk* Why am I such a failure?
message 133:
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Brigid ✩, No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
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Book Title: Wilted FlowersWord Count: 28033
Characters Killed: still 3. i think only one more will die...
Cups of Coffee Drunk: 1.
Hours Spent Procrastinating: pretty much all day. i just spent two hours on the phone with my friend.... its 11 15 pm and i have 45 minutes to reach my word goal. and i have school tomorrow morning. help!!!
Word Goal for Today:29000.
Words Actually Written today: about 2k. 1k more and then i can go to bed! why do i always procrastinate and then do everything at the last second?!?!? you'd think i'd learn, but no....
Brigid *Flying Kick-a-pow!* wrote: "Aw, Picture. You're not a failure."Zombie: Why am I dead?
Person: Aw, Zombie, you're not dead...
Oh, wait...
I'm so stressed out. In my head, I'm crying with a box of tissues...and a big bag of candy corn. I want candy corn.
Except, I don't even like candy corn.
On the news, they did this Halloween story on candy corn. I think I salivated a little.
Do you have craving for food you dislike? I do.
Book Title: And They Changed Like SeasonsWord Count: 45,775
Characters Killed: none
Candy Consumed: Oh my goodness.
Hours Spent Procrastinating: One or two
Word Goal for Today: 50K! I shall, I shall, I shall, I shall
Words Actually Written today: 2,764
message 137:
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Brigid ✩, No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
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Book Title: CondemnedWord Count: 23,450
Characters Killed: 2 unimportant...my firts main character just died. My god it was an odd death...It's hard for me to describe the pain of the people who watched her death. Oh god...how terrible
Cups of Coffee Drunk: none today...
Hours Spent Procrastinating: About one...
Word Goal for Today: 25k :D
Words Actually Written today: An estimated 3000...
Is anyone else writing a lot by hand? God, it's going to take me a while to type it out.
Autumn [author of the moment, can you tell me?] wrote: "Book Title: And They Changed Like SeasonsWord Count: 45,775
Characters Killed: none
Candy Consumed: Oh my goodness.
Hours Spent Procrastinating: One or two
Word Goal for Today: 50K! I shall, I sha..."
YOU'RE SO CLOSE. GO FOR IT.
Book Title: Call of the SeaWord Count: 12,187
Characters Killed: 2.
Cups of Coffee Drunk: 1.
Chocolate consumed: 4 packets of Maltesers, 2.5 KitKats, a slice of fudge cake and an enormous packet of white chocolate buttons.
Hours Spent Procrastinating: About an hour and a half today, when I watched Destry Rides Again.
Word Goal for Today: 13K.
“At This Rate You Will Finish On”: December 6th
Eep, thanks, y'all. Y'all are all doing so well, too! Keep going, you're doing wonderfully :)
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Word Count: 39,000
Characters Killed: 1, kind of. Like, she died before the book was written, but like, she's kind of a main character... Sooyeah.
Cups of Coffee Drunk: My tummy hurts too much to drink coffee
Hours Spent Procrastinating: I didn't start writing till like 6 sooooo.
Word Goal for Today: 41k
Words Actually Written today: About 3,000.
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Word Count: 18,563
Characters Killed: 1. I killed Ryan. But I have no idea where it goes in the book so it's sort of odd.
Mini chocolates eaten: About 7. I LIKE CHOCOLATE.
Hours Spent Procrastinating: Not really that many at all today. YAY FOR WRITE INS!
Word Goal for Today: 20K
Words actually written today: 3,459
Book Title: Divya's Story.Word Count: 10,000 I'm behind.
Characters Killed: 0
Cups of Coffee Drunk: *barf* No thanks.
Hours Spent Procrastinating: About an hour so far...
Word Goal for Today: 5000 words.
Words Actually Written today: Ahem. About 1000.
message 146:
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Maria [the clockwork creeps on useless lives], Butts butts
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*high fives* We are behind buddies.
Book Title: The Funhouse; Buried BeneathWord Count: 52,802
Characters Killed: 3... so far...
Cups of Hot Chocolate Drunk: 1 cup today :)
Hours Spent Procrastinating: A good few...
Word Goal for Today: I hit my main goal (2k) but I'm thinking maybe I'll try to hit 53,000 words before the end of the night
Words Actually Written today: 2k :)
I'm going to try just to write a bunch of short little things, but it is very hard for me to come up with such things. -_-
message 149:
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Brigid ✩, No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
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Word Count: 36,264
Characters Killed: None, although I'm about to kill one.
Cups of Coffee Drunk: One
Hours Spent Procrastinating: UMMM.
Word Goal for Today: I'm going to try to get to 50k by midnight. That's like, 5.5 hours. Um. Probably won't happen, but a girl can dream.
Words Actually Written today: 2,969
Book Title: UntitledWord Count: 0
Characters Killed: 0
Cups of Coffee Drunk: ...Ew
Hours Spent Procrastinating: Every time I'm on the computer.
Word Goal for Today: 17,000
Words Actually Written today: 0
...I fail.
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