Hello? Anyone out there?

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accidents happen, angels' reflections, camp nanowrimo april 2014, dystopian fiction, keyboard, laptop, laptop returned, nanowrimo, national novel writing month, original stories, story dynamics

Preparation for Nanowrimo Camp: FUN! 😀 Is anyone else super excited? I sure know I am!!!

Okay, so I’m working on the same project as I have been last year for the past two camps and hoping to complete it this time. As soon as I get my laptop back, I’ll start preliminary editing. This is why I love first drafts: you can mess with them as much as you like and see what works best. (I’m addicted to everything Microsoft Word. Did you notice? :-P)

Okay, that first bit was written before my laptop came back. I am currently writing this on my laptop! YAY! 😀

So, besides announcing camp… I have a laptop return to announce! Yay!

Well, recently I’ve been working on getting together the camp workshop, using these blog posts… I think that this blog is like journal keeping for me. I have an obligation to write, since I’m writing for people. Keeping a journal just for myself feels sort of counter-intuitive. Thus, I write my blog more than my diary. It’s almost like I’m keeping a record of all my most pertinent discoveries, and not just for myself, so it keeps me accountable.

I will be continuing my camp project of April and July 2014 that I failed to complete in November. In this chapter of the Angels’ Reflections saga, we meet a whole new group of characters, the Shape-Shifters of Kalya: Karyll, the Raven; Verun, the Wolf; Nadya, the Falcon; and Beckra, the Bear. These four are the only survivors of a genocide against the Shape-Shifters’ race, and play well into the dystopian theme of the previous stories, since they are different from the other people of the world, they want more than simply what they are given, they live under a brain-washing government that promises a utopia, but doesn’t properly deliver… I could take all day listing the reasons why they fit! 😉

Verun, especially, will share a special bond with the Binders, Jay and Aliana: All three of them possess powers that they don’t fully understand, all three of them have a special destiny to complete, and all three of them are questions that have never been posed before.

This is it. This is the final battle for both Elayatar and Kalya. There is nowhere to turn, nowhere to run. Sides must be taken. There is no going back from this moment.

All roads lead here.

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Two Steps Back

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accidents, accidents happen, bad keyboard, internet modem usb fob thingummy, laptop, noveling, star wars, swats upside the head

A great leap forward often requires two steps back.

–Obi-Wan Kenobi

Hey, look at that… *points at all the pretty gorgeous serviceable handwriting*

Sorry, but that’s always what I imagined Obi-Wan’s hand to be like. Not the messy handwriting he annotates his textbooks in…

But the neat, elegant hand of a gentleman, from a more civilized age… *shakes self out of reverie*

What was I going to talk about, anyway? Almost certainly not how much more gorgeous Obi-Wan’s theoretical handwriting is than mine… *gets swatted upside the head for excessive praise of the beauty of the text*

Oh, right. A great leap forward often requiring two steps back. Well, here are the two steps back…

• My laptop getting damaged by the water I spilled on the keyboard, thanks to Raya and her habit of leaving her clothes everywhere (and also the fact that I thought I had put the laptop away when I actually hadn’t… *swats self upside the head for excessive stupidity*)
• The fact that we can’t find the Internet modem fob USB thingummy for the computer downstairs. Double gah! *gets swatted upside the head again, this time for using the word “thingummy” and the sound of dubious status as a word, “gah”*

So, what’s the great leap forward?

How about 5k more words on my novel? How’s that for progress, eh?!

So yeah, I feel kind of good about that… *gets swatted upside the head by Han, for getting cocky* Hey! Han, I thought I had banished you from my mind palace until you’re needed!

Well, hope you enjoyed this post… I have to go chase Han and arrest him for trespassing on private mental property. ‘Bye!

Apologies

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accidents, accidents happen, bad keyboard, taking a hiatus, toddlers

I’m sorry, everyone… Unfortunately I will not be able to post much for a while. My four-year-old sister, Raya, dumped her dress on the floor last night, and I tripped on it and spilled water on the keyboard of my laptop. I didn’t realize what had happened until the next morning, by which time the keyboard had ceased to work at all. I know I should’ve put it away before going to bed, but I could have sworn that I did, in fact, pack it up.
So, I’m sorry… there’s not much I can do about it right now. Until then, I’ll have to see what I can do with a different computer, working from one that everyone uses and another that doesn’t have internet.
Once again, I apologize. I am very grateful for all your support and your kind tolerance.
God bless, and have a great day.