day 24- tooth fairy caper plans!

1900 words off of idea points 17 and 18, making their way to the vault, and combining their heist plans. I also wrote Pontifex talks about mythology stuff today, but didn't finish it. Still, getting there.

Having trouble with exact word count still. I added today's wordcount to the NaNoWriMo website, but there's word count that I've already done but don't have recorded as having done, and so, heck I'm gonna have to figure that out.

Day 23: Ducks and Illuminati Splinter Groups

MAN my writing today was weird. It's very me, though. I'm still learning my style, discovering it, chipping at the core of my own voice and trying to find the way to say what I want to say the clearest. What I want to say is apparently very odd (though why shouldn't it be.) I swing between political commentary, historical analysis, dead serious insight into human nature, make a joke, compound that joke, then swing that joke around into dead serious insight into human nature again. Or that's how I hope it comes across at least. I make a lot of jokes in this, and I don't really like "making" jokes because they just seem so obvious and unfunny to me, and also there's the part where they jar with the rest of the voice that I'd been working in but like I said maybe that is part of my style and there are no bugs, only features.

Being forced to write so quickly really helps. With the style thing. Though I did frequently pause for research and everything as well of course. Is it enjoyable? I don't know if today's stuff is any good or not.

ps I wanted to say something about Magic in the Mirror, but that movie won't come out until 1996, so. also I wanted to make a joke about spell check, which isn't anachronistic or anything (that poem about eye have a spelling chequer dates from around this time,) but I couldn't find a place for it. But that poem is from around this time! 91 or 92, first published in 96ish. So yeah.

day 22- demon attack WIP

Looking at the mobile version of the site, it's quite good. Absolutely nothing like the desktop version. The background is white!, and the typeface is not courier!!. 

Anyway I only had like a half hour today to write, but luckily action scenes come very, very easily to me to freewrite. I'm not a freewriter, but if there's one thing that I can free write, it's action scenes. I'm not sure if they're interesting for anyone else to read, but they're a great way for me to get in loads of word count in a very short amount of time, and it's so awesome that most of the writing I need to do this next week till the end of the month, is action scene writing.

This is a little over 1,000 words, room for more and I'll take that, but this just all came so easily to me, and I can only hope/pray that the rest of it comes out this smoothly in the days upcoming.

day 20: an encounter and a contract

My ostensibly 20 minute sessions are each lasting me like an hour and a half, as I keep on having to pause and look things up. At least I only need two sessions a day instead of three, as revising and clarifying my 1,000 words gives me average of 500 words onto that at least.

The first section here was exactly 200 words in the first draft- do I subtract 200 from my total in the revision? This is a genuine question. That 200 is part of my word count already, of last year. Those words already were part of my 50,000. Revising them, having 200 different words from the original ones, this year, and having 50,000 here, would 200 of those still be "last year's words" because they're interpolated into this year's words? Or would they be this year's words because as long as I have 50,000 this year it doesn't matter whether I have 100,000 between the two years combined?

day 19- woo 3,017+ words!

Doing research on the music charts for 1992, to see what's topping during any given day during the events of the book just for a little atmosphere, I discovered that '92 had terrible taste in music. I mean, I'll give them some credit: Friday I'm in Love by the Cure; One by U2; there's some Mix-a-Lot and Hammer in there if you're willing to admit guilty pleasures... oh and fun fact!: did you know that Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody got back onto the charts again after getting featured in Wayne's World? It made it all the way up to number two; but why not number one, you ask? Well, let me tell you: it was prevented from the number one position by, wait for it, friggin' Jump by Kris Kross! That's the state of music we're talking about in 1992. Just atrocious.

Anyway I really think I'm getting the hang of how the humor in the book is going to be? A lot of it is still way off of course, but I'm getting there.

NaNoWriMo d'18: I actually get the minimum word count in today

Okay so it turns out that the default typeface for the blog hadn't been Courier at all, but a web font called Cousine, which is similarly named enough that I guess I wasn't paying attention when I selected it? It's fixed now, and I am liking this a lot better. Cousine is, fine, as a thing, but it's definitely more a display font than a body font. THIS IS WAY MORE LEGIBLE, EVEN AT THE TINY SIZE OF "NORMAL." Also, the default alignment isn't justified here, but left-aligned, but sometimes the text is just justified for no reason? I thought, maybe it's the write or die html or something, but I just pasted some text from my latest write or die writing session, and it's left aligned! Which is fine, separates this blog visually from Disney Villain Death; just, it's bugging me to have those random paragraphs in justified, in previous posts.

And it's freaking me out a little because the Cousine official website uses the font (as a default display, default paired with the much more legible-as-a-body-font Open Sans) to talk about, in its John Munro-penned sample text, the exact same high-atmospheric conditions that I wrote about in yesterday's entry.

The spectacle was indeed sublime. Apparently we had reached a great height in the atmosphere, for the sky was a dead black, and the stars had ceased to twinkle. By the same illusion which lifts the horizon of the sea to the level of the spectator on a hillside, the sable cloud beneath was dished out, and the car seemed to float in the middle of an immense dark sphere, whose upper half was strewn with silver. Looking down into the dark gulf below, I could see a ruddy light streaming through a rift in the clouds.

-John Munro, A Trip to Venus 

He wrote that in 1897; how the heck did he know what it was like in the mesosphere??

Yeah lowkey freaking me out.