At last! I just booked my flight. I'm going to Berlin! (With just a school bag and 20 euros in my pocket, but oh well )
The weather has been pretty dang nice lately. At best, it's going to be 80 degrees F today, right now, it's at 73 degrees F. It hasn't been too hot this summer in general for us, actually. Kinda nice
Had the sudden urge to start world-building for a fantasy idea that I had. Even if nothing comes of this, it's still fun as hell to create a world all my own.
Well, I didn't set my location to "the darkest swamp" because I'm some edgy emo kid but because the region I live in (including Chemnitz aka Karl-Marx-Stadt) is frequently referred to as "darker Germany" or the "brown swamp". It's got three things in abundance: concrete, pensioners and neonazis. Chemnitz is like the sliced imitation cheese of cities. On the plus side, there's the Lulatsch -a landmark that resembles a giant glowing dildo. Gotta be positive, this is the happiness thread after all.
My god... this has got to be one of the most lax, and easiest re-writes ever. Every chapter is doubling in size after fleshing out each scene. A chapter that ended with 2k+ words, expanded to over 4k from fleshing. Amazing. Started the re-write yesterday and I'm already mid-way through chapter 2, this chapter looking like its going to follow the same doubling pattern. If I keep this up, the book will jump from 40k to 80k. For the curious, it is The Brave III that I am re-writing. I already did one and two, and I didn't rewrite those two for reasons related to the journey of my craft. I want to look back and see where I came from, to where I am now. It is a wonderful experience when you look at one piece of work and then the other and see the growth. I also want others to see it too. I ain't afraid of the flaws. It's what makes us human.
Thank you good sir / m'lady. Actually this rewrite is flowing so well, I'm thinking about employing a new method for writing novels. I'm going to try to start my novels off as a VERY rough draft, trying to get only 1k per chapter of the most important parts. No emotional fleshing; no author interruptions, no personal tangents, no inner thoughts, etc. Just actions, and brief narrations and basic setting descriptions. This ensures that I get the full movie in my head (since that is how all my novels play out in my head) on paper. The idea is once I get it all out in concise bullet points, minus all the flowery and poetic language, I can see its basic picture... then I can go back, and start embellishing, as an artist does with a painting or a sketch. Focusing in on certain things. I'm going to do it for the Novermber Nano thingy novel crap, whatever they call it. I say new method, but i'm sure people have done it this way before. To me its new though.
The ladies in the admin department all gave me cards for my birthday, and yesterday I was given some truffles as an end of year gift by one of the Year 7 pupils. I feel warm and fuzzy now.
@Iain Aschendale the chocolates were named after the mushrooms, but when we're talking multiple and gifts, the chocolates are the safer bet. The mushrooms are way to expensive for a secondary school student to give not only their teachers, but the admin staff as well...
I got these beauties - cheap - from the door to door gypsy chap. Fried in butter, salt and delicious.
I have just picked up, all 3 Hobbit Movies and all 3 LotR movies, extended blu-ray editions... something I've wanted to do for a while. Treat for myself. Hellllllllllo Middle Earth.
I went camping and I met a bear. Mr. Turtle and I were at a campground scoping out available sites. I left him to make a tentative claim at one while I drove around checking for something better. Stopped at one, got out, was looking around and thought, "Weird, why would they put a bear statue in the bushes? ... wait that's actually just a bear." We were both surprised and just kinda stared at each other for a minute. Then I got back in the car. I'm a pretty outdoorsy person but I've never encountered one before. That was cool.
I was out hiking yesterday with my mother and sister. There were two bright orange deer hiding in the underbrush. I didn’t notice until we were right up on top of them. They never moved or went away! Just stood dead still, watching us leave. Not as cool as a bear, though.
Those things can be weirdly fearless. One time my dad was standing in the woods taking in the view and a deer came up and LICKED him.