So I just noticed that the little word progress meter on the right-side menu broke the web page in Internet Explorer, so I was forced to remove it for the benefit of those not yet enlightened enough to be using Firefox instead. So that's been fixed. Or... At least fixed in the sense that there's no problem on my site anymore.

Also, I noticed that my server didn't properly adjust for Daylight Time Savings. (Ugh.) So I had to go back through some of my latest posts and subtract an hour. So folks, I really wasn't up as late as the last posts tried to tell you I was. But those are fixed now, too. I need to figure out a way so it adjusts automatically... Or at least give myself a warning.

So here I am... wrapping up day three. 10,035 words so far. I'm a tad over 20% complete! In three days. I think that's a good sign. See, the Nintendo Wii comes out on the 19th. That means I need to write about 2,632 words a day. But according to my chart, I've been writing about 3,000 words a day (or more). So I'm well ahead of schedule! I almost burned myself out tonight by straining for the 10,000th word. You can feel your brain being stretched while you're grabbing for anything that seems remotely related to the paragraph you've got written already. They said there'd be a lot of junk by the time you got done... That's for sure!

Some people have told me that it's hard to keep up the pace I'm going at. Naaah. Of course, these were people who hadn't even started yet. So that was interesting. I'll get 50,000 words by the end of the month if it KILLS me. Which it won't, because I'm having a blast and 3,000 a day is no sweat. Yes, I'm bragging. What can I say? It's my blog and I'm finally getting something done that I've always wanted to do, and I'm having fun, and it's not hard since I've already had story outlines for months. It's sort of like saving up for rested experience in Warcraft. You don't do anything for a couple of weeks, and when you get on to play, your character is all rested up and you get double experience for everything you do and you fly through the level! Of course... there's always the chance you run out of rested experience and you start going slow again. Hopefully I don't hit that particular snag in writing.

One thing I've noticed though... 50,000 words isn't nearly enough to actually finish the book I have planned, much less the entire story. I'm thinking maybe something like Lord of the Rings... A trilogy of three fat books and then be done. Or maybe five slightly smaller books and have prequels and in-between stories like Dragonriders of Pern seems to do. I thought about going for a Chronicles of Narnia style, where you've got seven small books, but I don't think I'd be able to cram a story into a Narnia-sized book. That'd be a bit much, I think...

Yes, I'm daydreaming. But hey, as I've always said, one of my life goals is to write a commercially published novel, just to be able to tell people "yep, I've written a novel". It's going to be original, too... Not some stereotypical Lord of the Rings rip-off. (I'm looking at YOU, Wheel of Time!) You'll see! People will be ripping ME off by the time I'm done! (Oh, wouldn't that just be awesome.)

Anyway... I took a nap at like... 7pm tonight... so I'm all awake right now. But I think I'm gonna take my shower and head to bed anyway. Starting to get sleepy and I want to try for 5,000 words tomorrow, since it's a weekend and I don't have any Peter Heck Show to hog my afternoon. (Haha, joking.) The NaNoWriMo people say to try to get a 5,000 word weekend... 5,000 words in three weekend days? Pleeeeease. Should be able to get another 10,000 at least! Think maybe I could get to 25,000 by Sunday night? Hmm... That might be pushing it.

Ya'know, I could really do this for a living. Heard it's really not good money, though. More of a second job than an only-job sorta thing. Capella told me some fellow who writes Star Trek novels said the only way to make a real living off writing books alone is to release one a month. Ouch. That would just... Literally hurt my brain to try.

Behold! The pure awesomeness that is The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Coming November 19th to a Nintendo Wii near you! (I mean, seriously... two wolf-centric games in a single year? One being similar to Zelda and one actually BEING Zelda? How lucky can ya' get?)

Well, I decided to sign up for something called last.fm. Some kind of service that you join and it analyzes the music you listen to and projects what else you might enjoy based on statistics like genre and artist and stuff. It's kinda interesting... and I'm always a sucker for statistics... things. So in case you were ever wondering what music I listen to, you can just look my up on my last.fm profile. Yes... it is mostly songs by Japanese artists, but that's solely because most of the music I listen to is video game music... and all the best video games come from Japan anyway, so there you have it!

Although, right now, it's mostly Enya, because it's soft, ambient background music that keeps my mind clear while I'm writing. Yep, I started writing for that National Novel Writing Month. Very interesting, to say the least. I think it'll be good for me... not only do I actually get some writing done, but it forces me to write more and write faster and not letting me rewrite stuff into oblivion and waste time and get bored and stop. It's forcing me to charge through the basic storyline and when I'm done, I'll have a potentially chaotic book, but it'd be a first draft and I'll be able to go back later and edit everything in context! Much better than editing as you go... like, duuuh. But that's how I am... and that's why I've never finished writing any ideas I've had.

You can click the little image counter icon on the right to go straight to my profile (or just look at the image to see how much I've written) or you can go here and see how well I'm writing. Pretty much a progress report with projections and advanced statistics and stuff. Really cool stuff, that. I already said I'm a sucker for statistics, and this is no exception. I always load this up when I update my word count and see what it says!

So far, I've got 3,052 words logged on the first day, which is nearly twice what I need to do every day. I've got to make sure to write 1,666 words a day if I want to get done in 30 days. I was trying to shoot for 5,000 words today, but that was a bit out of my reach, since I had a bunch of odd stuff to do today. I might be able to hit 5,000 words tomorrow. 7,000 words total, bwahaha. We'll see.

Anyway... I'm tired... I'm going to sleep now. Bye!