Bunraku Seirei

Go, go, Pokemon!

I traded Crisis Core to my friend for the weekend and received in return Pokemon Sapphire and Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. Hmm. So far, Pokemon is not as wonderful as Crisis Core (just thinking of the game makes me sob) but Pokemon has its charms and I want popcorn and Pokemon isn't horrible.

I have a mudkip! Be proud of me, please!

I read "The Most Dangerous Game" and, though at first I abhorred the simplicity of the sentence structure and the writing style in general, by the end I adored it. Absolutely brilliant. I found myself short of breath (not at its literary merits, oh no) but because of the way Mr. Author-Man made me hang on to every single word and care about what was happening next. Brilliant.

My list of things to do is so very long, as of late. Ah well, at least Friday means late night and later morning. Tomorrow I am off to see Twilight!

At my school where preps swarm the halls and feed on the color pink, it is not a matter of "Are you going to see Twilight?" but rather "When are you seeing Twilight?"

2pm. So there.

WordCount: 47130. And I'm not even halfway through my outline. Oh, the joys...

I did it. 

I beat it.

Crisis Core.

YES!  Twenty-five hours of saved play (probably twenty-seven or so from failure), frustration, surprise, excitement, general squeeing and one heck of an ending.  The ending...  I was sobbing and I didn't know why.  A heavy hand of grey had closed around my heart, no lie.

Yet it was so amazing that I want to play Final Fantasy VII now!  Which is a problem, seeing as the graphics make me go twitch.  And Advent Children doesn't really interest me.  What to do, what to do...

Wait for a good remake!  Or read a Final Fantasy VII novelization--I found a pretty good one, too. 

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3122672/127/The_Jenova_Project

Thank you, Mr. Ite.  Pushing for 50k tonight!  Won't make it, but...

WordCount: 46,438

Oh yes, and my friend is letting me borrow Dirge of Cerberus.  For.  The.  Win.

If love is blind, then faith is how we see through the rain tonight.

There are some writers in this world who simply amaze me.

The ones that amaze me the most are the ones who churn out fiction like a well-oiled and witty machine on a regular basis, seemingly without ever having to stop for bathroom breaks, and whose fiction is actually of high quality.  Indeed.  High.  Quality.  That's a rare find on the interwebs.  So when I find a writer who has written, I don't know, three hundred seventeen fanfictions, where the shortest are about three thousand words and some continue on past forty-thousand and all of them should be on my favorites list...

I am speechless, and that is my drive.

Luckyladybug, I wanna be just like you!

And Aspen in the Sunlight, for her wonderful, fabulous, extremely long Harry Potter fic entitled A Year Like None Other.  (I was going to write a summary for it but here is the wonderful link instead: http://aspenlight.livejournal.com/ )

So.  I do believe I want to go back to Internet posting of some caliber, and now--I am just realizing this--since I am a bit reluctant to post original fiction on the Internet when I could sell it to literary magazines and make a few dollars (I am a poor student.  Don't judge me.) I may move back into the realm of fanfic.  Build up my credibility again, maybe actually get someone to read my blog, hmm?

I am liking this idea.  Yes, indeed.  I shall hop to it immediately!  Immediately as in, after I write a thousand more words for NaNo, get in a few hours of Crisis Core, and type up my plan so far for my newest original fic idea.

WordCount: 34,248

I feel like such a plebeian. A neophyte.

(In truth I'm not actually sure what the word neophyte means, but it sounds synonymous with plebeian and phonetically resembles noob, so whatever it is, that is me.)

I was feeling rather proud of myself with Crisis Core. Twelve hours and counting, baby! So naturally when I took a break I searched the magical interwebs for Crisis Core fanfic and came across a lovely little writer whose ffnet name is luckyladybug. (http://www.fanfiction.net/u/32718/LuckyLadybug)

Now she, from what I can tell, is a writer.

Three-hundred-seventeen fanfictions in all, and a great deal of them are just from the past few months! She hasn't ffnetposted since September, but according to her livejournal she's still going strong, and I am appalled at how quickly she cranks out those fics. And the writing has quality as well!

Which of course is a blow to my pride (though, I try not to have pride as it is a mortal sin) seeing as it is NaNoWriMo and subsequently my writing is BLUH. Not that it's any better outside of November, but when I look at people like luckyladybug and then glance at the calender, I feel a little bit dead inside.

I'm going to go for three more k today. That would put me at a nice 34. Of course, I'll be using Crisis Core and Lucky as my inspiration, assuming I can get my butt off my PSP long enough to write. Heh.

Ugh...

By the way, awesome religious teen Bible plug here: Xtreme Bible Study. Google it. Listen. Each episode is three minutes and it is so worth it, hecks yeah. Hug Jesus, if you get a chance.

Another day sans much NaNoing. It's not that I don't want to, honestly--why, I jumped into my novel Rift for about five minutes and just about flew, the inspiration was pounding so hard. But... Crisis Core is one pretty powerful drug. Go inject yourself.

So I'm off to salvage what's left of today and perhaps milk it for a hundred words assuming my eyes don't give out and clamp shut. Mmm, this pillow is warm.

Let us end with a song!

You don't know how long I've waited
For this to be over
I thought if I waited long enough
It would just blow over

Too much time has passed already
I have paid my debt
The sands of time are running fast
Yours will soon run out

'Cause I've got your knife in my left hand
And your throat in my right
'Cause I've got your life in my left hand
And your hope in my right

'Cause I've got your
I've got your
I've got you finally
'Cause I've got you
I've got you
I've got you don't have me

http://allpoetry.com/twelve-and-charlie

Yes, that is my account.

WordCount: 29,640

I have not done a lick of NaNo writing today.

This morning I went to church and I worked out and I washed my hair and I gorged on meatloaf--and then I got Crisis Core so I have been attacking that obsessively for the past five hours. Between homework and chores I got a good two and a half hours of gameplay in. Hello, amazing!

Best. Game. Evar. Misspelling intentional.

I'm hardly a tenth of the way through, from what I understand, and not counting many missions, but already the story has me squeeing and mashing buttons and loving the characters. Genesis is awesome, and I just met Reno of the Turks. He seems fun. I'm not going to spoil the story for anyone, but I am hooked. And if you have a PSP, go buy the game--don't download it, like I tried to do, just buy it. Buy it. Support Shinra today!

Now then, nerd fest over. Oh wait, my tie needs adjusting.

By the way, does anyone know of any good Bible podcasts for teens? Just wondering.

WordCount: 27,016.

I finally finished my NaNoWriMo outline, and I am v proud of myself for it. Mostly I was procrastinating on all the studying I have to do, but outlining is a good excuse not to open my Spanish books.

Me: *cracks textbook* Ho-la.

Textbook: ...

Me: Co-mo es-tas?

Textbook: ...

Me: Muy bee-en, gra-ci-as.

At which point the textbook gets up and struts away, and if I didn't know my textbook better I'd say it was being condescending.

Other than that, I spent my day at church, and at my sis's soccer game, and reading the Sweet Far Thing, and downloading Crisis Core, the last of which has taken me more than an entire day to do. Heh. But I'm told it's worth it and I absolutely positively cannot wait for Final Fantasy XIII: Agito. Or Versus, though chances of me acquiring a PS3 any time soon are slim.

For Christmas this year, I think I want to sponsor a child. You know those 80 cents-a-day things, like the Christian Children's Fund? I could get a whole child sponsored for less than what it would cost to get a Playstation 3. Hello, I think I'm gonna go with the kid.

I love the children!

Well, not all of them. While at my friend's house her little sister tied me up forty different ways--back in my day we didn't teach five-year-olds how to tie knots, and forget laces, we gave them velcro. That's the only proper way.

Sometimes when people finish things, they feel empty, and I know that's true. For some things. Like with God of War Chains of Olympus, the first video game I beat (yes, that's sad, shut up), now I'm not sure what to play. Hence, I'm downloading Crisis Core. Which I bought legally, then it broke--not by me, there was a glitch--and then I got a full refund but the game was still broken and this is the only way for me to get it. Besides, downloading isn't stealing, it's sharing.

Now then.

I fear I would have spent a day and a half working on this download, only to have it not work. Or explode. Or something.

I am not quite to page 500 of the Sweet Far Thing like I'd hoped, but I'm past 450 so I'm getting there. I finally broke halfway through and I'm excited. After that I'm reading My Bonny Light Horseman by L. A. Meyer, part of the Bloody Jack series which I recommend v much. Pirates and lies and love and deception, action, adventure, spies, war and death. That about sums it up. Also, on iTunes there's a free download of Gossip Girl, how they started the series. Sort of behind the scenes. Very interesting, in my opinion. I love that sort of thing.

My procrastination is closing in on me. Ack, soon I shan't be able to breathe, so I suppose this is adieu.