I feel the need...desperate need to make a thread that is the complete OPPISITE of Katherine's threadThe best thing about...
for the sole reason i will explain in a moment...but first
Yes, NaNoWriMo is fun. There are good things about it. Lots of good things...but you'd be lying to yourself if you thought it was all fun and there was NOTHING to hate or dislike or find annoying about it. Sometimes, we just need...as the great Mr. Frank Costanza (you know, Senfield) once said "The airing of greivences!" (you know, since festivus is around the corner)
and here is MY grevience that need to air!
The not so best thing...about nano...is DECREASING your word count because upon coming home, you realized it's not the best idea to use song lyrics in your novel due to copy right issues...and while you COULD get permission...for a budding writer like myself...not worth the hassle or the cost...
ERGH DAMN IT! This lullaby would have worked SO well i this scene and NOW i have to delete it...write something else, or write my own song!! ergh! I was feeling so good about my word count, until i decided to double check the use of lyrics...
2 smaller "not so best thing":
about owning a dog...is when the damn furball eats his wet food too fast...and he ends up horking it up...eating it..horking it up..repeat, repeat, repeat. like..DUDE! SLOW DOWN WHEN YOU EAT AND YOU WON'T HAVE THIS PROBLEM! Ahh, the joys of owning a pet, am I right?
When you have been typing so feverishly or so long, that you get that ONE particular finger that wants to cramp up...for me, it's usually my ring finger...
Don't blink. Blink and your dead.They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, Don't look away, and don't blink!
Most lullabies and nursery rhymes like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star are public domain by now, as well as certain other songs like Happy Birthday, (but that one only as a result of a protracted legal battle.) So you may still be able to use them.
As for dogs, you can solve the problem of them eating too fast by putting a ball on top of their food. Pet stores sell special ones, or if you have an old baseball you can use that. There are also special dishes that have bumps n' spirals in them for the food to make your dog eat slowly.
I can't help with writing cramps. I get them myself.
yeah, i might use something of public domain...though, i am just bummed that the lullaby i wanted to use isn't public domain (Lullaby for a stormy night by Vienna Teng)...it fit SO perfect with the scene and now all i want to do is stomp around like a 3 year old with a tantrum....
well, i can write it different, write my own lullaby, or just write buffalo 400 times. XD
Don't blink. Blink and your dead.They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, Don't look away, and don't blink!
the not so best thing about owning a dog is when he likes to crawl in his little bed that is under my desk ...which is pushed up against two walls...(it's an L shaped desk)...
and he farts...
PET FARTS ARE THE WORST and under a desk is "even worser" because the smells have no where to go and DFKJSDFJK
WHY DOG!! WHYYY!!! You threw off my groove!!!! Nobody throws off the emperor's groove!
Don't blink. Blink and your dead.They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, Don't look away, and don't blink!
I need to air out some BIG greviences!!!!!!!! becuase FML FML FML!
The not so best thing about today:
Last night, when i came home from the nichols library, i rushed into the house and i forgot to take my keys out of the back door. my husband found them when he came on. Often, out of habit...keys go in his coat pocket. The same coat that i assume is NOW AT WORK...
WHICH MEANS I AM ON HOUSE ARREST..which means i can't go to work...which means, I AM STUCK AT HOME...which means i can't go to PANERA LIKE I WANTED TO DO AFTER WORK SO I COULD WRITE!!!! FSDKJJFDSKJFDS
secondly...i go to unplug my laptop from my monitor, and keyboard...and my keyboard decides to give me the big ol middle finger...and through the power of phones, copy/paste, and email...this is the entire alphabet typed on my laptop (thank god my husband never turns his laptop off)
i guess i could use it as some kind of code in my novel...but FDSJKSDFKJSDFA. we shall see if plugging in my laptop bck to to the extra keyboard...resets everything...
LARGE EDIT:
turns out, i had the effin' NUM LOCK KEY TURNED ON...fdjdsfkljdflkjwsalkjfsak *ragequit*
and my keys?! were on my book shelf in my office!!
FML!
there. that rant made me feel a LITTLE better
Don't blink. Blink and your dead.They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, Don't look away, and don't blink!
The worst thing about my new laptop is it's bad habit of opening the Windows search bar while I'm in the middle of writing so my writing goes into the search instead of into my writing program and won't go back until I click back into Scrivener or Libre Office or whatever I'm using. BTW, it's a Dell with Windows 10 and I tried everything and it still messes up. Totally kills my concentration.
ziplizard wrote:The worst thing about my new laptop is it's bad habit of opening the Windows search bar while I'm in the middle of writing so my writing goes into the search instead of into my writing program and won't go back until I click back into Scrivener or Libre Office or whatever I'm using. BTW, it's a Dell with Windows 10 and I tried everything and it still messes up. Totally kills my concentration.
be thankful it's just that...and not some random fb chat window that opens up with your aunt or mom or grandmother in it...just as you are writing a gory scene/murder scene...or an adult 18+ scene o_o; that would be terribly embarassing!
Don't blink. Blink and your dead.They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, Don't look away, and don't blink!
The worst thing about having a sister who loves to do community theater is that sometimes she gets cast in shows that only have performances in November. She's playing Nancy in Oliver this year all the way in Wilmette. I'm going to see it next Sunday and it's totally going to kill my writing for the day.
The worst thing about having A.D.H.D are when you get those moments where your brain doesn't want to cooperate with you...and you can't...for the life of you...focus. You keep getting distracted by anything and everything and it kills the writing you had planned to do...It's often hard to explain to a neurotypical person...how it feels when i LITERALLY...just "can't" for the afternon. like..I...mean...that...in...the...literal-est...sense...of...the...word.
Don't blink. Blink and your dead.They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, Don't look away, and don't blink!
Anyone else think Ziplizard's and Astra's doggies totally need to meet for a puppy playdate? That might be so cute that all our woes would fall away for at least the rest of the day! (~_^)
Mine would be carpel tunnel, my wrist hurts like crazy. And yeah I own pets so ignoring them while I write, they don't like that at all. But I can't write with 5 screaming birds
The not so best thing about... being short is... when taller people reach over you for something. I don't care if it's an item at the grocery store or if they're trying to hold the door for me, the one of the last things I want to do on any given day is compete for headroom with your armpit. It's even worse when people only think they're taller than me, because then I have them invading my personal space on multiple levels.
the not so best thing about being sick with a cold...is that i haven't been writing in a few days...i am SO far behind...BUT...a recent pep talk in the email said...it's not about reaching 50,000 in words...but to finish what you started...so!! whether i meet 50,000 or not...i am goin to see this through to the end!
while i hack up my lungs and blow my nose repeatedly
Don't blink. Blink and your dead.They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, Don't look away, and don't blink!
the not so best thing about eye doctor appointments is NOT finding out i don't get to have glasses (20-20 vision for me!!!) but the fact that my eyeballs are dilated and everything close up is still blurry...thus, making it hard to type on my computer with my novel!
Don't blink. Blink and your dead.They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, Don't look away, and don't blink!
I feel the need...desperate need to make a thread that is the complete OPPISITE of Katherine's threadThe best thing about...
for the sole reason i will explain in a moment...but first
Yes, NaNoWriMo is fun. There are good things about it. Lots of good things...but you'd be lying to yourself if you thought it was all fun and there was NOTHING to hate or dislike or find annoying about it. Sometimes, we just need...as the great Mr. Frank Costanza (you know, Senfield) once said "The airing of greivences!" (you know, since festivus is around the corner)
and here is MY grevience that need to air!
The not so best thing...about nano...is DECREASING your word count because upon coming home, you realized it's not the best idea to use song lyrics in your novel due to copy right issues...and while you COULD get permission...for a budding writer like myself...not worth the hassle or the cost...
ERGH DAMN IT! This lullaby would have worked SO well i this scene and NOW i have to delete it...write something else, or write my own song!! ergh! I was feeling so good about my word count, until i decided to double check the use of lyrics...
2 smaller "not so best thing":
about owning a dog...is when the damn furball eats his wet food too fast...and he ends up horking it up...eating it..horking it up..repeat, repeat, repeat. like..DUDE! SLOW DOWN WHEN YOU EAT AND YOU WON'T HAVE THIS PROBLEM! Ahh, the joys of owning a pet, am I right?
When you have been typing so feverishly or so long, that you get that ONE particular finger that wants to cramp up...for me, it's usually my ring finger...
Don't blink. Blink and your dead.They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, Don't look away, and don't blink!
~Good luck
Most lullabies and nursery rhymes like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star are public domain by now, as well as certain other songs like Happy Birthday, (but that one only as a result of a protracted legal battle.) So you may still be able to use them.
As for dogs, you can solve the problem of them eating too fast by putting a ball on top of their food. Pet stores sell special ones, or if you have an old baseball you can use that. There are also special dishes that have bumps n' spirals in them for the food to make your dog eat slowly.
I can't help with writing cramps. I get them myself.
yeah, i might use something of public domain...though, i am just bummed that the lullaby i wanted to use isn't public domain (Lullaby for a stormy night by Vienna Teng)...it fit SO perfect with the scene and now all i want to do is stomp around like a 3 year old with a tantrum....
well, i can write it different, write my own lullaby, or just write buffalo 400 times. XD
Don't blink. Blink and your dead.They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, Don't look away, and don't blink!
~Good luck
the not so best thing about owning a dog is when he likes to crawl in his little bed that is under my desk ...which is pushed up against two walls...(it's an L shaped desk)...
and he farts...
PET FARTS ARE THE WORST and under a desk is "even worser" because the smells have no where to go and DFKJSDFJK
WHY DOG!! WHYYY!!! You threw off my groove!!!! Nobody throws off the emperor's groove!
Don't blink. Blink and your dead.They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, Don't look away, and don't blink!
~Good luck
I need to air out some BIG greviences!!!!!!!! becuase FML FML FML!
The not so best thing about today:
Last night, when i came home from the nichols library, i rushed into the house and i forgot to take my keys out of the back door. my husband found them when he came on. Often, out of habit...keys go in his coat pocket. The same coat that i assume is NOW AT WORK...
WHICH MEANS I AM ON HOUSE ARREST..which means i can't go to work...which means, I AM STUCK AT HOME...which means i can't go to PANERA LIKE I WANTED TO DO AFTER WORK SO I COULD WRITE!!!! FSDKJJFDSKJFDS
secondly...i go to unplug my laptop from my monitor, and keyboard...and my keyboard decides to give me the big ol middle finger...and through the power of phones, copy/paste, and email...this is the entire alphabet typed on my laptop (thank god my husband never turns his laptop off)
wtf....abcdefgh51230n6*qrst4vwxyz WTF ABCDEFGH51230N6*RST4VWXYZ
i guess i could use it as some kind of code in my novel...but FDSJKSDFKJSDFA. we shall see if plugging in my laptop bck to to the extra keyboard...resets everything...
LARGE EDIT:
turns out, i had the effin' NUM LOCK KEY TURNED ON...fdjdsfkljdflkjwsalkjfsak *ragequit*
and my keys?! were on my book shelf in my office!!
FML!
there. that rant made me feel a LITTLE better
Don't blink. Blink and your dead.They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, Don't look away, and don't blink!
~Good luck
The worst thing about my new laptop is it's bad habit of opening the Windows search bar while I'm in the middle of writing so my writing goes into the search instead of into my writing program and won't go back until I click back into Scrivener or Libre Office or whatever I'm using. BTW, it's a Dell with Windows 10 and I tried everything and it still messes up. Totally kills my concentration.
be thankful it's just that...and not some random fb chat window that opens up with your aunt or mom or grandmother in it...just as you are writing a gory scene/murder scene...or an adult 18+ scene o_o; that would be terribly embarassing!
Don't blink. Blink and your dead.They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, Don't look away, and don't blink!
~Good luck
The worst thing about having a sister who loves to do community theater is that sometimes she gets cast in shows that only have performances in November. She's playing Nancy in Oliver this year all the way in Wilmette. I'm going to see it next Sunday and it's totally going to kill my writing for the day.
That's why you turn off your internet when you're typing a NSFW (not safe for work) scene. Also, why you don't friend family members on Facebook.
The worst thing about having A.D.H.D are when you get those moments where your brain doesn't want to cooperate with you...and you can't...for the life of you...focus. You keep getting distracted by anything and everything and it kills the writing you had planned to do...It's often hard to explain to a neurotypical person...how it feels when i LITERALLY...just "can't" for the afternon. like..I...mean...that...in...the...literal-est...sense...of...the...word.
Don't blink. Blink and your dead.They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, Don't look away, and don't blink!
~Good luck
Anyone else think Ziplizard's and Astra's doggies totally need to meet for a puppy playdate? That might be so cute that all our woes would fall away for at least the rest of the day! (~_^)
Mine would be carpel tunnel, my wrist hurts like crazy. And yeah I own pets so ignoring them while I write, they don't like that at all. But I can't write with 5 screaming birds
The not so best thing about... being short is... when taller people reach over you for something. I don't care if it's an item at the grocery store or if they're trying to hold the door for me, the one of the last things I want to do on any given day is compete for headroom with your armpit. It's even worse when people only think they're taller than me, because then I have them invading my personal space on multiple levels.
the not so best thing about being sick with a cold...is that i haven't been writing in a few days...i am SO far behind...BUT...a recent pep talk in the email said...it's not about reaching 50,000 in words...but to finish what you started...so!! whether i meet 50,000 or not...i am goin to see this through to the end!
while i hack up my lungs and blow my nose repeatedly
Don't blink. Blink and your dead.They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, Don't look away, and don't blink!
~Good luck
the not so best thing about eye doctor appointments is NOT finding out i don't get to have glasses (20-20 vision for me!!!) but the fact that my eyeballs are dilated and everything close up is still blurry...thus, making it hard to type on my computer with my novel!
Don't blink. Blink and your dead.They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, Don't look away, and don't blink!
~Good luck