It's that time of year again!

Cheers, Mesteut!

 

Progress Report for Friday November 13th
Starting Count: 33,048
Finishing Count: 34,053
Day's Count: 1,005 (Not bad for a no-write day!)
Location Written: Second verse, same as the first...
While Watching: Just, Martin: Just Evil (deeply upsetting), Crime Investigation Australia, NCIS
While Listening To: The soundtrack for Chocobo's Magic Book 2
Productive Things I Have Done Today: Worked out where my damn plot is going. AT LAST.

 

Yes, so you expend all your energy doing the work.

 

So your saying masterbation is the key to enjoying life. It cost nothing, you always have time for it, and you always have the energy for it.

 

Progress Report for Saturday November 14th
Starting Count: 34,053
Finishing Count: 36,306
Day's Count: 2,253
Location Written: My room, Josh's house
While Watching: Crank: High Voltage (seriously, wtf was with this film?), Class of the Titans (Odie is love), Josh playing the new Ratchet and Clank game
While Listening To: The Arcanum Soundtrack, J-E-N-O-V-A from Chocobo's Magic Book 2
Today Was: Less productive than I would have liked
Stuff I'm Looking Forward To: Tomorrow's get-together with a couple of local NaNo'ers. It's gonna be great.

BONUS: What I pray my cover blurb looks like if this gets published...

Grand Symphony
For all that it had a fancy name, the town of Hightower was small, quiet and simple - all that Jean ever wanted out of life, in fact. She was taught to use her tiny Spark of magic usefully, and she was the Journeyman to the local Scribe, a solid position that guaranteed her employment for the rest of her life. Then her father finally got himself killed on campaign, and her entire world got turned upside down...

Lacking the money and experience to run her father's estate, she finds herself in the unenviable position of having to sell her childhood home and return to the city of her birth, Tarant, a city she can barely even remember, While going through his papers in order to wrap up his affairs, she discovers that the grandmother she has long thought dead is not only still alive, but has been searching for her since she was a child.

But her joy at discovering her family is dulled by infighting, politics and magic bias. The Mage's Society is facing pressure from all sides, with technology forcing its way into the realms that had always belonged to magic and numerous bids to have the 'Magic District' moved entirely.

Yet the greatest threat to the strange new society she's joined may come from within, as ancient secrets and a long-brewing conflict finally explodes into a terrible inferno...

 

The blurb is looking good. It's intriguing and makes the reader want to know more, which is the goal of every blurb after all. But as good as it is, I'm not sure if it isn't a bit too long.

 

Progress Report for Sunday November 15th
Starting Count: 36,306
Finishing Count 38,394 (one more day til I start considering which film festival movie to attend)
Day's Count: 2,088
Location Written: Do you even need to ask?, Ricky's place
While Watching: Timelash (Worst Doctor Who Ever), Hocus Pocus, The Mummy: Curse of the Dragon Emperor
While Listening To: Ricky playing Phantasy Star Portable
Things I Did Today: I met a local NaNo'er and she ROCKED. It's just a pity that the rest of them didn't turn up.

 

Xiao's a woman, it can never be too long. Much like a submarine sandwich.

That she will put in her vagina

 

You're both disgusting.

 

Progress Report for (I Hate) Monday November 16th
Starting Count: 38,294
Finishing Count: 40,773
Day's Count: 2,379
Location Written: My house, the sucktastic computer labs at TAFE
While Watching: Judge Judy, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy (Mandy is my spirit guide)
While Listening To: The Crossroads (An FFVII remix), Sanctuary (The theme to Angel)
Joy Joy Joy: Atelier Annie got here today! Mwahahahaha!
This Book Introduced Me To The Concept Of The Unreliable Narrator: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is about to start on the new '13th Street' channel! I looooove Poirot.

 

Theme of Angel as in Buffy? Because the more I learn about you, the more I think I'm going to abduct you and chain you in my basement.

 

Angel as in Buffy, yes. I'm not the biggest Buffy or Angel fan, but I do love the final season of Angel. A lot.

 

My name is PapaDog and I endorse this message.

 

Progress Report for Tuesday 17th November
Starting Count: 40,773
Finishing Count: 43,006
Day's Count: 2,233
Location Written: My place
While Watching: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (If you want the angry rant, do ask), QI, Mock the Week, Adam Hills, random crap
While Listening To: Tim Minchin
Oh God, Where Did The Day Go?: I lost like six hours to Atelier Annie. It's addictiiiiiiive...
Stuff That I Had To Do To Shut Up The Voices: Jean's grandmother has an animated suit of armour as a butler.

 

I like it! :thumbup:

 

Not only that, but it's a poncy suit of armour who fusses about Jean's taste in clothes and short hair.