jinjifore

'Tis finished, 'tis done.

( I'll be honest. I didn't think I was going to be able to finish this year. )

In some ways, I'm a lot more pleased with this year's effort than last year's. I think I did a much better job writing an actual story, and not just a glorified outline. The downside to this is that, while I did reach 50,000 words, I'm a great deal further away from actually finishing the story than I was last year. I found a stopping place and slapped on an epilogue, but there's a considerable chunk of the story missing. As in, pretty much the entire fifth act (if we were talking about a tv show), and a good chunk of the fourth. But what is there is, I think, a much better starting point.

And besides, I have two whole days now to try to finish it. :)

Linkspam: The Firefox Edition

Most of you who are using Firefox seemed to be aware of the awesomeness that is the Greasemonkey script for unfolding LJ threads, but just in case:

The aforementioned Greasemonkey extension

Thread Unfolder script for Greasemonkey

Thread Unfolder script with the "Unfold All" addition (If you install this one you need to uninstall the original)

For vaklam and melissagay and anyone else who accesses multiple LJ accounts from the same computer, there's the LJLogin extension. It allows you to switch from one account to another via pop-up menu, without having to leave the page you're on. Very nifty.

In Other News

In other news, a follow-up of sorts to dement1a's post about the Save Wal-Mart campaign. Another group called off their protest after Wal-Mart issued a statement saying that they "will not make corporate contributions to support or oppose highly controversial issues unless they directly relate to our ability to serve our customers." In other words:

Protesters: Wal-Mart supports icky gay marriage! And the radical gay agenda! Whatever that is!

Wal-Mart: Uh, no, actually. We're concerned with equality in the workplace, and we're going to continue to do exactly what it was that we were doing in the first place. Which, by the way, has nothing at all to do with gay marriage, you morons.

Protesters: We win!

NaNoWriMo Update



Yes, I fell behind this weekened. Like, way behind. I did get some writing done, about 5,000 words, but in order to finish I'll need to do about 3,000 a day (though that doesn't count today--anything I produce for the rest of today will bring that total down). This is perfectly doable, but my sister and my mother will be here on Tuesday, my sister is spending Tuesday night with me, and Wednesday is a day in which it's very, very difficult for me to get any writing done before evening. Still, there's always Monday and Thursday, and I'm still thinking that I can get this done without having to pull an all-nighter or anything.

Okay. I am officially caught up to the recommened daily NaNoWriMo minimum. Well, I'm technically 1 day behind now, word-count-wise, but I've got approximately 23.5 hours to do said day's minimum, so I'm not too worried. Plus, everyone knows it's not tommorrow yet until you've slept. :)

Good night, all.

Along with, apparently, most of my other writing buddies, I got a bit behind on NaNoWriMo this weekend. I'd started out trying for 2,000 words a day to give myself a cushion, but I haven't quite been able to make it. As you can see from the nifty graph, I've gotten to 9265 words today, which is now a bit above the minimum goal. Good enough. :)

Six days in, it seems to be working for me. Every time I've tried to impose a writing deadline during the last four years, I've never met it and felt bad about not meeting it. This feels more like a school paper deadline than anything else, which is weird because it's still mostly self-imposed. Seeing, however, that I'm good at school paper deadlines, I'm not going to question it.