A life of its own...

So I was bored today and procrastinating shamelessly when I realized that, seeing as my novel is written in journal form, it would be really easy to organize onto a livejournal.  Three hours later, I am proud to present lunarreflection , which is (for all extensive purposes) a copy of the journal of my main character (who has now been officially named Kae).  In other words, the novel is being posted in journal increments on that journal, which has been set up specifically for this purpose.

In order to be able to keep my dates straight, I'm backdating everything.  Same dates as the ones I have in my novel...except the year starts in 1970, because LJ won't let me date entries in the future and '70 is the furthest they'll let me go into the past.  My explanation for this is that it's 1970 AE (yes, Chris, after Earth).  Because of the backdating, I don't know how effective it would be to friend the journal -- entries wouldn't probably show up on your friends page, since they're all (supposedly) from 1970.  But if you want to know what's going on with my novel, check it out.

I know there was a suggestion that I e-mail my story out to all of my friends, but somehow that seems like not the best of ideas, so I've set up this journal instead. 

And now I'm going to go and try and do some homework.  Fun...

I am novelist, hear me write!

So, I just hit 10,000 words. (Actually 10,568 words.) Which means I've written 20% of my novel. (Actually 21.1%.) In 16.6% of the alotted time.

I am feeling very capable and happy at the moment. I don't necessarily think that any of what I'm writing is good, but it feels good to just be able to write it, to meet those quotas. It's easy for me to do this because I'm writing it in journal form, so whenever I don't know what to write about, I just project a little more of myself onto Kae and her life. She's got two friends who have become total conglomerates of everyone I know, which I find funny. I think her older sister is possibly more like me than Kae is, but that's up for interpretation. And I'm still looking for a situation in which to characterize Kae's younger brother, Tatch. He's a bit of a troublemaker, but I haven't had a chance to show that side of him...yet.

Well, I actually am reading a book for fun (something I haven't done in a long time), so as much as I love chronicling my life for all of my friends, reading sounds like more fun right now.

Okay, disregard the above, as I have one more statement to make: I played cricket today, and my team won!

All right. Now I get to say so long to you all, good night, good luck, and happy writing to the Stephs who are doing NaNo!