NaNoWriMo update3

No, I’m not disappeared, I was just trying to survive. To be honest I decided today to not post on the blog but I needed a break so here I am! Having a break from writing, doing what? Writing…maybe it is really an addiction!

For the curious I’ll update immediately my word count: 41,330. There are still 6 days to go and I’m over excited because at this stage I cannot stay beyond!

The moving house business is over now, but the new house, my house, is a massive mess. Fine, it can wait till the 1^st of December!

The nice thing that happened last week was that I met other NaNoWriMo participants. They are all really nice. I found out there are loads of different people out there, who love the same thing I love!

I thought I could update more often about my adventure but the level of stress was rising constantly in particular in the last few days!

I’ll use, anyway, this post to make some considerations:

1. I found out that it’s not easy bring on three things together, when one of this, is working full time or moving house or writing seriously like it was your real full time job when you don’t have time! BUT I’d do the very same again, because that showed me that I can do that if I want!

2. I realized that coffee have a strange effect on me when I’m under pressure; it is really stimulating but it doesn’t work if I’m too sleepy so the effect is more or less like a yo-yo with its eyes closed!

3. The place where I love most to write is the kitchen. I know that for the moment is the only room with furniture along with the bedroom, but I don’t care, now I have a kitchen and I’m proud of it!

4. I love to know other writers! They don’t care about the fact I’m Italian and I’m writing in English, they just sustain me, which is amazing! Thanks to all of you! If everybody would do the very same in his or her own field there would be less wars in the world!

5. I know words I didn’t know I knew… but most of all I know the meaning and I have to look on the dictionary the meaning in Italian, because I know they’re right but I don’t know how to translate them in case I have to!

Said that I’ll copy here, updated, The Other Count not the word count, like it was suggested in one of the forum thread on the website:

Number of the sheets of paper written during work: 19

Number of chocolate bars eaten: 27

Numbers of cups of infuses drunk: 54

Number of real supporters in work: 5

Number of cheerleaders in work: 1

Promise of creating my fan club if I manage to finish the NaNoWriMo successfully: 1

Well, that’s that for now. I suppose that next time I’ll update the blog I’ll know if I did it or not, so keep your fingers crossed for me!!!!

NaNoWriMo update2

And I’m writing on my blog one week after to tell you my progress.

First of all, the word count at the moment amounts to 20.168, which, according to the stats on the web site, will allow me to finish in time for the 30^th of November! I hope so, therefore you just keep your fingers crossed for me…your toes and whatever is crossable!!!

Although I should be on diet the level of sugar, chocolate in particular, to taste immediately after savoury, is hugely increased. All that along with the consume of coffee, my loyal friend of university time. Seriously I’m just missing cheese flavoured chips and my sweet friend Anna and it would be the very same!

The only huge difference is that while I’m doing that I’m moving house, and for all the people who wants to know, no I’m not there yet, it’s freezing, I’m still waiting for my heating working!!! And, of course how do not consider my full time job. I hope my colleagues will excuse me if I’m a bit more weird than usual, but I’m proud to say that at least a good 60% of them are giving to me their full support!

And speaking of which exactly yesterday Dee told me that mine is now an addiction to writing! Maybe she’s right but just to have a little confirmation I had a dream last night at the end of which I saw a white wolf looking at me with his blue eyes! (Now, I don’t know if wolves have blue eyes or not, but that’s that!)

I went on the dream dictionary online once I got up and I got this explanation:

“To see a wolf in your dream, symbolizes survival, beauty, solitude, mystery, self-confidence and pride. (Well…not really!) You are able to keep your composure in a variety of social circumstances and blend into any situation with ease and grace. (I won’t say that, to be honest, I’m the clumsiest person in the world!) Negatively, the wolf represents hostility, aggression, or sneakiness. It may reflect an uncontrollable situation or an all-consuming force in your life. (Consuming force…I can count at least three, so what!?) This could point to an obsession, an addiction or something that is beyond your control. (Oh dear, I suppose Dee was right then!)

To see a white wolf in your dream (here he is!) signifies valour and victory. You have the ability to see the light even in your darkest hours. (What to say on this, I desperately hope they’re right!)”

Now, I’m aware that at least the half of you is trying to get the point of the whole business here, but you won’t because this post has no sense at all and maybe I’m really getting creasy!!!

You’re not envying my partner at all at the moment, right?!!

So happy reading and writing to all!!!

NaNoWriMo update1

I’ve just updated my word count: after three days I wrote 5303 words. Not good but not bad either. At least I’m following the stats in my profile!

I have to admit that I feel weird! Maybe because I put in stand by the other book I was working on, and maybe because this one is supposed to be the sequel of the one that is not finished yet!!

I cannot get the personality of my characters yet, and although I have the structure of the book ready I have a massive quantity of details that are coming out all together at the same time!

Let’s see what I’ll end up with! I’m happy enough that out there, there are many people mental like me! Happy days!

Following the synopsis of the book I wrote on my profile.

Solo Of Water

(Fantasy)

Alnilam is safe but another lady, a solo of water, is in a great danger. She’s chased by Black Dragon folks and she has to survive.

Alnilam and Orion, parents to be, want to find the solo of water and save her.

Cleo and Julius want to find the solo of water and kill her.

Who’ll be there first?

Talitha will be saved or condemned to death?

Thuban will be able to take care of the children and himself?

And Ursa will change for love’s sake or will surrender to the dark lady?

It’s a simple fight good V evil but who will win? Who will win the battle and who will win the war?

Do we have any hope left?

What do you think about that?

Happy reading!

NaNoWriMo

THE FOLLOWING THREE POSTS, THIS INCLUDED, ARE COPIES OF THE ONES I'VE POSTED ON THE MAIN BLOG I HAVE. FOR TECHNICAL PROBLEMS I WASN'T ABLE TO PASTE AND COPY THEM BEFORE! SORRY!

I’ve recently found out a group and a website called NaNoWriMo, which stands for National Novel Writing Month.

At the beginning I didn’t know what this was about, but then I decided to join the group on face book. What I knew was that some people were trying to write a novel, an entire novel, in one month! What I didn’t know was that the group on face book was the top of the iceberg!

When I decided to have a look at the website I realized that there are members coming from all over the world. There are thousands of them, divided in areas, regions and cities.

It is amazing. The more I surf on internet, the more I find something new about the writing I didn’t know and I’ve never suspect existed.

I opened the account on the website, and now I’m one of the official participants.

Everything will start the 1^st of November and will end the 30^th. The challenge is to write a novel from the scratches, although some plotting is allowed before you start the actual writing. The novel had to be minimum 50,000 words, even if I saw at least one person who was aiming to the double!

I don’t even know if I’ll manage to go on the half way through but I want to try. The period of “No, I don’t want to do that”/ “It’s too difficult” / “It’s impossible” is over, now I have to do what I want to do and to try new things and to challenge myself. That’s the things I’m trying to do now, but I’ll tell you better in another post.

I have no idea what I will write about. I have loads of ideas in my head and a kind of neurons storm in my brain, but I believe I’ll do something fantasy.

I think that the best solution is jotting all my ideas on a piece of paper and then see what inspire me most.

Considering that I’m on holiday at the moment and when I’ll come back I’ll have to work and move in the new house I think that the task to write 2,000 words per day will be tough! But I’ll try to be tougher!

I also think that maybe when my colleagues tell me that I’m weird /mental/quirky, although they say it is a compliment, they’re telling a great truth!!!!

The only problem would be update regularly this blog, but I suppose that I’ll put here too my word count and some excerpts from the book as I’ll have to do on the account on the NaNoWriMo.

I already know that this will be stressful but hugely fun!

So happy week to everybody!!!

Mickey Mouse and Co.

After the latest happenings I think it’s right to show you a post I wrote a few months ago! I’ll keep for me the comment people wrote about it for obvious reasons!

Today has been another day that you’d rather dump in the farest bin!

How’s possible working in a place where two or three buffoons rule the entire world. Do you know what? On a certain point of view they’re helping me: I’ve never had so much self-confidence, but I start thinking that I’m not so bad! Even if the little squirrel inside my brain the most of the time is in hangover (at least he drinks) I can still think more that these people all together!

And you know another thing? I’m pretty sure that someone loyal to the dark empire, would report this post to the dark emperor, but I don’t care! Number one because it means that they fear the truth so much that they simply have you to shut up and number two because I want really having a fun in watching which is their limit! I mean, apparently you’re not able anymore to do whatever you please in your time off, but they should understand that the “7 years apprenticeship” thing is not valid anymore, we’re in 2010, you know?

So let me tell what I think!

I’ve always thought that you needed a degree to run a place like a tourist attraction, but apparently you don’t need one.

If it’s like that, I think that from tomorrow I’ll look for a place as a manager in another area.

I saw a few of the big bosses today coming in and I thought that all the hiring problem is explained.

Maybe they are managers in training but I wonder who took on bord Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Minnie Mouse in the higher ranks.

Well, if the aim was to make people laugh is fine, but if it was to improve the image of the company probably they should think twice before they accept Goofy too!

Let’s be serious, in my workplace people who work hard can be counted on the fingers of ONE hand, and if you consider that we’re more than 50, just in my area, probably there is something that doesn’t work!

Anyway there is no way to speak with them because apparently Peter Pan and Cinderella decided that it is more important to help the three pigs getting rid of the bad wolf instead of helping the poor 7 dwarfs in the collapsing mine!

But I’m a writer and I will write!

Arilla chapter 7 part1

Hi everybody,

this week we'll see Arilla facing her real obstacle!

To read the second part, anyway I'm afraid you'll have to wait a couple of weeks, as I'm going on holiday for a while! But no worries, I hope I can post all the nonsense stuff in the while!

I hope you like the story and this new part too!

Happy reading!

Big News!

Hi everybody,
I'm here just a little bit earlier than you expected. I'm coming with good news! Remember when I told you I was thinking about some changes for my blog!?
Right, I' m going to start at this very minute. What I thought to do, in fact, was to put together my old blog, which is this one, and my nonsense blog, which I opened a few months ago.
I tried to keep them separated but after a wile I noticed that the ''serious one'' was a bit too serious and poor in contents.
Now reading again what I wrote in my old page 'Who's Franny’. It says
''I’m a writer, and that is my real dream and priority! I write every time I have a minute free, it doesn’t matter what! My only problem is that I was taking too seriously the matter forgetting the nice and funny side of it, and this is “inconceivable”, if you let me quote! This is why I opened this blog. You’ll find here the funniest (I hope), the most lunatic and the most human part of me!''
I even quote myself, so you understand why I tried to keep away from your sight these kinds of posts!
So, all the posts like this one will be tagged in ‘Nonsense’. In this way you'll be warned!!!!
I' m going to copy a few of the nonsense posts over here and the comments in the first comment, be patient! The good news, for who enjoy this side of me, is that I'll update this blog a little more often!
On the no side I have to apologise to my readers because those posts will be less grammatically correct than the other ones. But that's me, and I hope you'll enjoy it anyway!