it begins at midnight

A rather uneventful Halloween this year. Not many kids came to our door, although I did see some pretty interesting and cute costumes. One man dressed up as a football player was carrying around his toddler that was dressed up as a football. Too cute. There was however, this one kid dressed up as a terrorist (no joke, I even asked him to be sure!). He had a fake mustache, plastic machine gun, hand grenade, machete and all. And his mom smiled and looked on as I gave him his candy. Wow.

Only a few more hours until nanowrimo starts! Apparently some people that partake in this contest will stay up past midnight to get a bit of a head start on those 50000 words. But not I. I shall be snuggled under my blankets sound asleep by then. These days I have to get up between 5:30 and 6am just so I can fit in the time for a workout, my evenings are busy enough after work as it is. Somehow I’ll have to find a way to make time for this writing thing too…

so… AWAKE

My Dad could not get over the fact that I “went back in time” as I travelled back home. When he picked me up from the airport last night (or a few hours ago), he kept asking me how I liked ‘time-travel’. Silly old man. He made the same joke when we came back from our trip to Australia last year.

I had a pleasant flight though, no screaming babies or obnoxious children to annoy me… One would think I would have taken the opportunity to take a nap, but instead I was making notes for my novel. I was so productive on that plane, I should have been proud.

But now I can’t sleep – it’s what, ten in the morning in London right now? – even though I haven’t closed my eyes in almost two days. I don’t even want to sleep, but I’m fidgety and want to do something… I just don’t know what. All I do know is that I don’t want to read a book (although, there is a nice one sitting on my bedside table right now…), I don’t want to draw, and to go downstairs to turn on the TV/playstation/XBox/Wii would take too much effort. I have yet to finish that Zelda game though…

Yeah, I may be wide awake and all jet-laggy, but that doesn’t mean I’m not lazy. So I think I’m just going to sit right here, kitties keeping me company (they missed me), and playing with iTunes until maybe, just maybe I start to get sleepy.

leaving at the last minute

So… Turns out I’m off to the U.K tomorrow.

I’d been browsing through a number of cheap travel sites since the Sis left for work in September, hoping that I might find something I could afford, but not really expecting to. I decided it was more of a dream than anything, but today I actually found a flight for a reasonable price.

It couldn’t have been better timing; My new job (yay!) starts not on the 15th like I’d been told earlier, but on the 22nd. So I have almost two weeks to play around in London! All I have left to do is call The Sis back with my flight details and finish, er start packing. See you in two weeks!

EDIT: Hmm.. I wonder if we’ll finally have a microwave when I get back…

getting started.. for real this time

I think I’m doing well, considering the fact that this time last year I didn’t even bother to try this whole novel-writing thing. So far, I’ve written up most of my main character’s details, her family’s and a few of the antagonists that may (or may not – some are TBD) appear in my novel. Still need to work on some of the more minor charaacters however…

Though I did jot down some ideas for a couple chapters later in the book. Let’s hope I can keep up the momentum.

getting started

Sign-ups start this evening. And so does the prep work for my first novel. Or, perhaps novella, should I decide to keep it to 50,000 words only. I’ll cross that bridge when I get there, though.

Later today I’m going to work on my main character and, if I have time, her family. All sorts of random background info, appearance, interests/hobbies, likes and dislikes, personality, quirks and so on. Need to get some breakfast in me and run a couple errands and then I will get started.