Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
I want to introduce you all to a blog; EpiCute, The Cute Food Blog. It’s just what it says on the tin; a blog of cute food pictures.
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
This is a photo which makes me happy; it’s the Church in my village in the snow earlier this year. Beautiful. ♥
Day 04 → Your favourite book
My current favourite book, seeing as I haven’t read any ‘proper’ books in ages, is my Irving Berlin songbook. ♥ I absolutely love his song writing – particularly stuff like Blue Skies and Cheek to Cheek.
Day 05 → Your favourite quote
My current favourite quote is this one from Scrubs – the season one episode “My Old Lady”: “What about your list? How many of those things have you done? For that matter, how many times have you sat in the grass and done nothing?” A reminder to JD from his patient to step back and relax rather than trying to do too many ‘must do’ things.
Day 03 → Your favourite television programme
There are a lot of TV shows I enjoy – Strictly Come Dancing, It Takes Two, The Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, Diagnosis Murder… but there’s probably only really one show I fell totally in love with after about five minutes of watching it, if that… and it’s Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, my current favourite television programme even though it’s been off air for years.
This fan made trailer is why I love Deep Space Nine. I would recommend episodes but I’d be here all day listing them. Personal favourites, though, are ‘The Visitor’, ‘Chrysalis’, ‘Dr Bashir, I Presume’, ‘Sacrifice of Angels’, ‘Nor The Battle To The Strong’, ‘Trials and Tribble-ations’, ‘The Siege of AR-558′, ‘Badda-Bing Badda-Bang’, ‘Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges’ and ‘Inquistion’.
Day 02 → Your favourite film
It is incredibly hard for me to pick a favourite film, so I’ve gone for one of my favourite classics, Bringing Up Baby (1938, Howard Hawks), a screwball comedy starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. And a leopard. It is absolutely hilarious, I fell in love with the film within about five minutes of it starting.
Here’s the trailer for it and here is the clip of one of my many favourite moments in the film.
I’ve picked this meme up from LiveJournal and thought I’d post it here on my blog too – fingers crossed it will get me to update every day! Doing something every day? Sounds suspiciously like Nanowrimo to me… (I’ll post about how that went tomorrow).
Day 01 → Your favourite song
Day 02 → Your favourite film
Day 03 → Your favourite television programme
Day 04 → Your favourite book
Day 05 → Your favourite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 → A talent of yours
Day 20 → A hobbie of yours
Day 21 → A recipe
Day 22 → A website
Day 23 → A YouTube video
Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 → Your day, in great detail
Day 26 → Your week, in great detail
Day 27 → This month, in great detail
Day 28 → This year, in great detail
Day 29 → Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy
So – favourite song. My current favourite song is ‘Iris’ by The Goo Goo Dolls. It’s sad and beautiful and from the film ‘City of Angels’ (which I haven’t seen, yet) and despite it being sad and beautiful, it makes me smile when I hear it on the music in the shop because I love it so much.
Here’s the Goo Goo Dolls singing Iris and here’s a lovely acoustic version.
So, after a few days of not writing much due to being really tired from work and rehearsal, I finally got in a good writing session today for Nano, hitting about 2,500 words for the day thanks to a couple of word wars. It feels good to get back into it after a few days and I am looking forward to my day off tomorrow to get in another good writing session. I’ll be aiming for 5k!
So, I didn’t keep the insane pace of the first three days of Nano, but I’m still doing pretty well. Still three days ahead of target, which is good. Some of the days it has been an absolute torture getting the daily count in (2,200 words), but I’ve managed it every day so far.
Day 1: 5,093
Day 2: 3,043
Day 3: 5,126
Day 4: 2,211
Day 5: 2,778
Day 6: 2,316
Day 7: 2,243
Day 8: 2,263 so far, for a grand total of 25,073 words in total. I never, ever thought I’d write that much in eight days, it’s crazy.
Everything seemed to hurt. She didn’t quite know what had happened. She didn’t seem to be lying on anything comfortable, so she chanced opening her eyes, wincing as she got some dust in them. She could see rocks, which, as she came round a little more, made sense; she remembered something about a cave in. But she could see light, and people moving, which didn’t make sense. She could feel a body under her arm, but couldn’t remember who it might be, and an arm across her back. She couldn’t remember who that might be either.
Another little excerpt from today’s writing.
I’ve had a good day of Nano. I’ve actually had a really good first three days. I currently stand at 13,262 words, which is about three days ahead of the schedule I made up! It’s partly because I’ve had a day off today so had plenty of chance to do word wars and get in a few good sessions on Write or Die.
Words written by day so far:
Day 1: 5,093
Day 2: 3,043
Day 3: 5,126
I don’t expect to keep this pace up all month, but it’s good to get a cushion in early.
I’ve also come up with a character I really like, I’m interested to see where she goes and what she does. The way I’m doing it this, taking prompts and creating a scene or scenes around them seems to be working well for me, even if they’re not going to all form a single narrative. I’m enjoying writing lots of different characters, although my head is currently bursting with names and personalities!
Here’s to a good day tomorrow, even though I have work and rehearsal.
(Also, I can’t stop listening to Little Shop of Horrors. It’s just ace.)
I’ve hit the 5,000 word target I set myself for the first day of Nano! 5,093 words to be exact. I’m very pleased, and what I’ve managed to write hasn’t been half-bad. Well, some of it isn’t half-bad. I’ve also, obviously, far exceeded the 2,200 words I’m aiming for each day. I’m looking forward to seeing where it all goes this year. It’s very different writing original fiction, set in the real world, rather than something set in space. A different kind of challenge, but I’m enjoying it. Fingers crossed for this optimism lasting until the end of the month!
Here’s a little excerpt from the bit I wrote between midnight and 2am. I think it’s one of my favourite paragraphs so far.
So – Rosa hurt me. Badly. Shattered what I had thought would be one of those long-lasting, ‘forever’ friendships. She’s the one who has hurt me most in my life. If I could say anything to her, though? There’s so much I could say to her. But I’m not sure where I’d start, where do you start with something that gets you that deeply, that makes you cry so hard you’re sick, makes you cry yourself to sleep every night for a month? That still gets you upset now, if you think about it or talk about it too much? That’s – that’s a hard one.
And now, I really should get to bed because I’ve got to be at work tomorrow.
