[Taylani's Scrapbook] Taylani's randomness

by **Fallan Windchaser** on October 31st, 2013, 5:31 pm

Yes... Nano, the ultimate word splurge. As I remember the main competition does have an editing month following the word count month.

by **Taylani** on October 31st, 2013, 5:37 pm

Ahh I didn't know about that.

by **Gossamer** on October 31st, 2013, 5:55 pm

It seems to me that overthinking anything robs it of its inherent fun. The whole point of NaNo isn't to write something perfectly. The whole point is to write. It's one giant word orgy and we love November for it. There are plenty of NaNo haters out there. Lots of folks put down what they don't understand or want to participate in. Call us nerds. That's fine. But I know a ton of people absolutely LOVED NaNo, even Miz Style, last year. I wrote over 100,000 words, and I promise none of them were crap... well at least not all of them.

by **Taylani** on October 31st, 2013, 6:04 pm

lol I wasn't trying to say I hated Nano. I actually love it. I just tend to go a little ..hog-wild myself and forget the finer points of writing. I tend to be overly critical of my writing anyways, and if I am not super conscious of what I am writing I end up with what I think is more garbage then anything. Its a fine line for me.

by **Taylani** on November 1st, 2013, 7:37 pm

I wanted to share this with you guys because it was a really freaky occurrence. So last night my oldest daughter, Jordan, spent time with her friends on her own without me. Meaning she walked around are very small town (population 320) with a group of friends. Her curfew was 9 pm since it was a school night and she came back at 8:30 pm. I was a nervous wreck as it was her first time out without adults being right with her the whole time (she is 14). But to see her and her friends hit my house again 30 mins earlier then curfew I was ecstatic! I drove her friend Jessica home, her friend Taylor walked home (he lives super close) and then her friend Charlie's dad wasn't answering his phone so I offered to just drive him home though it was a long way out.

This road, I call it the road that never ends. It goes on foreeeever its stupid long, and no street lights because remember I live in the sticks. I am driving, looking for the road I am suppose to turn off when a huge motorcycle (big for a motorcycle, not saying it was bigger then my van or anything) comes barrelling up behind me with its brights on. The light was blinding me in my mirrors, and he kept speeding up to ride my tail and then slowing down, then speeding up again. I finally pull over and he goes around. Five minutes later he slams on his brakes, and I had to slam on mine and swerve around him. Once again he pulls behind me and start speeding up and slowing down, this time flashing his lights at me. I am completely blinded by this thanks to the mirrors so I pull over again, and he pulsl in behind me and turns off his lights completely. Tell you what that freaked me out there, and I drove off. He didn't follow.

After I got home and calmed down husband said I was right to do what I did but I felt bad, wondering if he was having trouble and was just trying to get my attention to get help...but yeah. I had my daughter and her friend in the car, I had no clue what he was doing. Freaky!

by **Katherine Morealis** on November 1st, 2013, 10:38 pm

*dances cheerleader style* Good luck to the both of us on Nano!

PS. I post sooo much faster now, hee hee.

by **Taylani** on November 1st, 2013, 10:39 pm

hehehe Bet that we can bump Shayna's and Katherine's Word count if your finals are done. Hope you did well in them!

by **Taylani** on November 2nd, 2013, 5:02 pm

Woots! Had a little bit of a 'problem' logging intoday...I owed lots of posties

Yay. I would love to have that problem more often! However with my hyper-postyness it doesn't happen lol. My poor writing partners probably all dread seeing a response from Taylani. Even when I try to wait I end up sitting so antsy that I just go and make a post lol. I have a problem, I admit that, addicted to writing, plotting, and character creation. But It is not an addiction I am willing to break at the moment

Threads replied, now is time to go vacuum and think of another solo write today. I am definitely going to hit 50,000 words.

by **Fallan Windchaser** on November 2nd, 2013, 5:51 pm

The only question is when you are going to hit 50,000 words. But I'm expecting you to manage it with at least one other account too

by **Taylani** on November 2nd, 2013, 5:55 pm

*grins* meh I have to get out of my slump on those two characters. Not really a slump as meh writers block on solo threads I will get there.