Electric Church Festival!

So my flatmate (and general all-round awesome dude) Michael is running a festival. If you're reading this, and aren't in another country, come along!



Rainbird (Michael's band) are headlining, but 14 bands are playing over the day, as well as 6 DJs. It's going to be awesome, and also, if you come, Michael can pay the rent. Huzzah!

No, but really, I somewhat adore Rainbird - very cool melodic rock. So come along, have some beer. Tickets are $12, call me if you need 'em.

The Delve - A Wordle

And here she is, ladies and gentlemen. In Wordle form.



It is actually terrifying, seeing this take shape. Of course, there is so much of me in this. It overwhelms me when I think of it. Part of me wants to lock it away so that nobody will ever read it. But how can I do that?

I really think that it's going to work. This feels like something that I should pursue. And it is taking shape in an amazing fashion - i have a rough plot (which rather breaks my heart, now that I'm getting to the meat of it) and plenty of notes on things that I shall edit when I am done. Some of it is obvious, but we'll see what happens when I'm finished.

I wrote a scene today that struck me. It was painful, painful. I almost feel terrible for doing such things to my characters. And it's only going to get worse from here. I'm rather destroying them. It's terrifying. But it is an amazing experience to be writing this. As I said, it feels as if there is so much of me in there. Heady. Marvelous. And yes, absolutely terrifying.

Nearly 24,000 words and counting.

Nano Fragment

She was a/way to me/learning time/first.

Nano Bit Me Again

So I'm attempting NaNoWriMo again this year, after a few failed runs at it previously. Oh, I've won it twice, the first two times that I did it, but since then I've failed twice. I think. Was it twice? Either way, my Novembers have been disgustingly busy and stressy up until this year, so hopefully I'll make it now that all is well.

It's going pretty well so far - I'm at 7,500 and only three days in. The goal is to try to reach 1,667 words a day, so I'm ahead for now. I did just have four days off, which helped, but even so... I have a good feeling about this year, I really do.

I've been a little iffy about my piece, but seeing as it once was a failed short story, I'm actually rather excited to see that it is working nicely in a longer form. I seem to be stitching it all together fairly well, although I'm rather aware that my characters are moderately awful at this point. First draft, first draft!

I shall report back if I do not go insane.