Well, most of us are used to seeing the words 'Camp NaNoWriMo' and thinking 'YES! I can do this because there's finally no school in the way!'
Unfortunately, this year it's in April. We still have school, and although I have the month off work, I am a senior this year and have to graduate several weeks early. A tad stressful. Just a tad.
So to make sure I don't die of stress, I'm going to make even less time for myself and be sure to make (or try to make) one blog post a day to keep basic track on... stuff. So yeah. It might be a very, very short post once a day, either tracking my word count or my frustration as a writer put through a 65,000-word count goal in less than 30 days.
(It's always less than 30 days in my house. Nobody's going to just let me write every single day. *sigh*).
SO! If anybody reads this, you get to watch me transform from an insane writer to a super-insane-and-on-the-verge-of-breakdown writer. Have fun watching me lose it!
~Silvermist
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Friday, February 8, 2013
A Take on Writers
You may forget, but writers are people. We have lives, we do school, we go to work at seven o' clock at night and then stay over the weekend!!!
But that aside. Writers have this weird, dynamic angle that lets them see the same thing you do, but see it in an entirely different context than you. Much the way that humans see snow as a nuisance, and dogs see it as white fluffy cold stuff to bounce around in...
In a slightly more sympathetic instance, if you see a flower pot you see a flower pot. I, on the other hand, would automatically assume it's either a magical hotspot for those pesky mini-gremlins that infect the wall, or a misused helmet mold for the warriors of the Farway Realm of death.
Oh dear, dinner just got called. I must depart, but LET IT BE KNOWN!
WRITERS ARE PEOPLE, WE'RE JUST WEIRD!
Fail for this being a long-though-out post but being short anyway,
Silvermist
But that aside. Writers have this weird, dynamic angle that lets them see the same thing you do, but see it in an entirely different context than you. Much the way that humans see snow as a nuisance, and dogs see it as white fluffy cold stuff to bounce around in...
In a slightly more sympathetic instance, if you see a flower pot you see a flower pot. I, on the other hand, would automatically assume it's either a magical hotspot for those pesky mini-gremlins that infect the wall, or a misused helmet mold for the warriors of the Farway Realm of death.
Oh dear, dinner just got called. I must depart, but LET IT BE KNOWN!
WRITERS ARE PEOPLE, WE'RE JUST WEIRD!
Fail for this being a long-though-out post but being short anyway,
Silvermist
Friday, February 1, 2013
The Truth Update
The Truth < click link
Finally, after a long time! Here is the next update of 'The Truth', my August Camp 'WriMo novel 2012. :)
~Silvermist
Finally, after a long time! Here is the next update of 'The Truth', my August Camp 'WriMo novel 2012. :)
~Silvermist
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Short Stories, CICADA, and Pre-NaNo Craze
So it's September again. Nearing the end, albeit, but still September. The summer is over and everyone has settled back into school, watching the leaves turn (and the wind blow said leaves to afar).
With September's come, for me, at least, there is also a rise in time to be on the computer. (Ah joy to online school). This means I have more time to write during my breaks, since I have an excuse to stay where I am. I've been using this time on the computer to write, edit, and prepare a short story for publishing in Cicada Magazine.
It's really quite interesting, that mini journey that short stories take us on. As if reading (and understanding) one was hard enough, writing (and understanding) one is exceptionally harder. Anyone who has ever been annoyed by having to pick apart a meaningful short story in English class should really try writing one as such. English class is nothing to complain about. (Although to be fair, writing is much more desirable in general).
Cicada, a magazine that publishes work by teens and young adults, has rejected me before. No biggie - it was a terrible story anyway. All action and no plot. Quite silly and frivolous now that I look back on it. The story that I have now is definitely better. I took quite a lot of time editing the first draft, had it proofread by three people (one of whom is my English teacher), and then edited it again. Now I finally have the finished product. I'll look at it once or twice more before I submit, but from there, I hope things go well. And by well, I mean "I hope I get published." One more good thing to list on a query.
That said, let's look to the not-so-far future.
NaNoWriMo!
My NaNo plans are, so far, quite jerky and seem almost as if they are being sabotaged. I've sort-of settled on a plot centered around Hades' kidanpping and falling-in-love-with Persephone, which means I'll finally get a chance to write from the POV of all those ridiculously animated Greek gods. Oh boy!
On the other hand... it almost seems like a fanfiction. I want whatever I write to be original... but does this count? I am very torn.
The other three or so ideas are just as readily available to be written, but they're either "not right" or it's "not time yet"... It's a very tough Muse vs. Writer battle. And it's been ongoing. ...I need cookies...
Anyway, it's an interesting world out there. So much to do just by writing. I'll make my mark on it one way or another!
Hopefully famous one day,
~Silvermist
P.S. Check out some of my recent art! (Now all of this is original).
With September's come, for me, at least, there is also a rise in time to be on the computer. (Ah joy to online school). This means I have more time to write during my breaks, since I have an excuse to stay where I am. I've been using this time on the computer to write, edit, and prepare a short story for publishing in Cicada Magazine.
It's really quite interesting, that mini journey that short stories take us on. As if reading (and understanding) one was hard enough, writing (and understanding) one is exceptionally harder. Anyone who has ever been annoyed by having to pick apart a meaningful short story in English class should really try writing one as such. English class is nothing to complain about. (Although to be fair, writing is much more desirable in general).
Cicada, a magazine that publishes work by teens and young adults, has rejected me before. No biggie - it was a terrible story anyway. All action and no plot. Quite silly and frivolous now that I look back on it. The story that I have now is definitely better. I took quite a lot of time editing the first draft, had it proofread by three people (one of whom is my English teacher), and then edited it again. Now I finally have the finished product. I'll look at it once or twice more before I submit, but from there, I hope things go well. And by well, I mean "I hope I get published." One more good thing to list on a query.
That said, let's look to the not-so-far future.
NaNoWriMo!
My NaNo plans are, so far, quite jerky and seem almost as if they are being sabotaged. I've sort-of settled on a plot centered around Hades' kidanpping and falling-in-love-with Persephone, which means I'll finally get a chance to write from the POV of all those ridiculously animated Greek gods. Oh boy!
On the other hand... it almost seems like a fanfiction. I want whatever I write to be original... but does this count? I am very torn.
The other three or so ideas are just as readily available to be written, but they're either "not right" or it's "not time yet"... It's a very tough Muse vs. Writer battle. And it's been ongoing. ...I need cookies...
Anyway, it's an interesting world out there. So much to do just by writing. I'll make my mark on it one way or another!
Hopefully famous one day,
~Silvermist
P.S. Check out some of my recent art! (Now all of this is original).
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
My First Digital Coloring
Yes, I am doing digital coloring.
With layers and everything.
Here it is!
BEFORE:
So you see, I had lots of fun. It's not as perfect as I'd like, but still. I want to get better at this. :)
~Silvermist
With layers and everything.
Here it is!
BEFORE:
AFTER:
So you see, I had lots of fun. It's not as perfect as I'd like, but still. I want to get better at this. :)
~Silvermist
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