Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
I just passed 20000, too! Of course, that puts me about 8000 words behind my original quota system, but maybe there's hope. At this point I've given up on making it sound good, making it plausible, making it interesting, doing any research, developing the characters perfectly...in short, given up on basically everything except putting down word after crappy word. Hey...if it gets me there, I guess that's all that matters. ;-)
Sir SuziQ has taste. Lucas needs someone else to write the dialogue for his storylines. All his characters are like AlGore v5.0. They lurch around the scenery babbling stuff they think sounds important, desperately trying to be human and not quite making it. The special effects are in the movie not because it advances the story, but because it looks cool. Very different with LOTR. (/rant)
Hehehe....that's what I've been doing. Now I've actually got something happening. I'm just trying to keep it so I have to write around 2000 words a day at least during the week. Now if I could only find some relative to invite us over for Thanksgiving so I don't have to do all the cooking! :)
I think I'm going to attempt to stay over 2000 all this week. Might get caught up again by the end of the month. I'm kind of glad I have the four points of view, bad writing as it may be - since I can keep switching if I start to get stuck, it's easier. And I'm finally sort of getting to where things are happening, albeit slowly. The fact that I don't care if it's cheesy or not anymore helps, though. ;-)
Now if I can just keep from going into another slump like I did this week - I didn't write for most of the week, not at all. And Thanksgiving is going to be hard, 'cause I don't think I can get out of not doing a lot of the cooking. Dad handles the turkey and the dressing, but everything else...will probably be my job this year. Goody!
That's about my goal, I guess. I'm not going to write 8000 words in a day in order to catch up...can't do it! So I just have to keep plugging.
Doesn't help that I checked on the Winner's page over at NaNoWriMo's site. I need to stay off of that page! How people can write that much that fast without any cheating...I don't understand! I hates 'em!
How people can write that much that fast without any cheating...I don't understand! I hates 'em!
That must be the only thing they have to do! LOL. They cheats us, they do, and we hates them. Don't we, gollum.
From scratch? If so, you have a recipe?
"[Tolkien] described it as a romance and a saga," said Walsh. "The big challenge was to find a level of engagement for the audience. A saga really doesn't allow that. Like Aragorn, who is a classic saga hero. He really has no interesting psychological makeup in the book, no emotional depth. Yet the audience must connect with him."Link to the rest of the interview."We had to dig a little deeper beyond the mythic hero," said Jackson.
"Aragorn was caught between his role in the quest and his kingship," said Fran. "He understood that power corrupts and so to embrace it would be dangerous, especially to him."
"He realizes the power of the ring is evil and that his forebears were ruined by it," said Jackson. "He was raised by elves, so his attitude might well have been that this race of man is weak. He might doubt whether men can rule the world."
Basically, it's a white cake recipe (I have two that I used depending on which house I'm at. :) I've got 9" layer pans at one house and 8" layer pans at the other.)
Anyway......I get a fresh coconut and drain the milk (save it of course) and then grate it. I have a food processor but I like the results I get using a box grater and doing it by hand. Oh yeah, when I make the cake I substitute coconut flavoring for vanilla. The frosting is that 7 minute frosting using coconut extract instead of vanilla and using the coconut milk for the water.
Putting the cake together......I usually slice the layers in half so I end up with four skinny layers. I use toothpicks to poke holes in each layer and dribble a little of the coconut milk on it before frosting. Sprinkle coconut on the frosting.
BTW, it's really neat the way they score coconut shells these days. They're easier to crack open and I have a set of coconuts suitable for banging together. :)
Yeah! Not fair! I mean...I'm out of work, and I STILL can't write five thousand a day or whatever some of those folks did. I don't hang around at the site except to occasionally update my word count (gives me a sense of accomplishment to see the little blue scale get filled in, I guess), but there were people who had 60K + by the end of the first week...what kind of drugs are they on? :O
Oooh...cool! I want one! I guess that tells you how long it's been since I last got a fresh (well...uncracked, anyway) coconut. We always did it the old fashioned way, with a hammer on the brick hearth that our woodstove sits on. And it usually busted into a bunch of pieces, none of which were remotely even.
You mean all this time I could have had a horse to ride?
Yeah, like looking for a job isn't work. I don't think I can do more that 3000 to 4000 words a day even on a weekend. I'm pooping out real fast over here. :)
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