Change…

Sorry, nothing profound today (aside from the fact I can never find one sock. Often I find myself collecting pairs and I’m one sock short…) but I thought, it’s probably time to make an excuse–*coughs* I mean, give a reason for having not posted in… awhile.

I think I figured it out. I’ve become one of those writers I dreaded becoming! A by-hand author *shocked gasps*… and the main problems with that are a) I lose pieces of paper and books that I write in. Anyone that knows me knows I write in pretty much everything and anything. And b) Retyping pains me.

So anyway, that’s my excuse.

Having said that… guess what day it is tomorrow… Friday! And guess what’s happening tomorrow? The long-awaited ~update~!

Hopefully for both stories…

 

Writing@Mac.Rob

Okay–I am so freaking excited! It’s official–this year (being 2010 for those prone to hiding under rocks) I am running Writing@Mac.Rob –a writing club!

It’s going to be a great learning experience for everyone (including me) and I think it will be fantastic.

In fact, it’ll be so amazing all MacRobbians should come. If I haven’t already won you over… I’ve created a Facebook group, therefore you should join. (Both the group and the club.)

Monday (22/3) lunchtime L207 for those needing details!

Hope to see you all there!

Sidenote:

More top searches… these make me laugh.

“i want to rub your face on a cheese grater”,  “cheese grater to face”,  “i think you’ve just volunteered yourself for the next pub quiz” and ”mister geography genius!”  

I think that naming COH part 5 “Cheesegrater face” was the best decision I ever made…

 

I have a pounding headache, but that’s okay. It’s finished.

If the title was just a bit too subtle for you, I’ve finished.

What you ask?

A very good question.

A few things: a box of nurofen… the number of panadol is dwindling and I have a half full (see, I’m an optimist) glass of water beside me. But these things are irrelevant to your happiness and therefore my continued survival.

I’ve finished Part 11 of Runner. And I will stick it up. It’s not momentous like I’m accidentally portraying it as but it is somewhat of an achievement. Oh yeah, and I’ve also managed to survive four weeks of VCE. Haha! Success is mine. (私のかち!)

Hope you enjoy!

PS. For reasons completely, truly and utterly past my control my pages don’t stack up after 9… so basically, part 10 and 11 of Runner (and every future update of Runner) will be under part 9 until that no longer works either… then I’ll continue to improvise so they’re at least in some sort of logical order…

 

Cheese grater up her bum…?

Safe to say, I’m more than a little startled.

The hilarity of what people type into google to find my site.

Continuing on with the theme of search engines, Google and Yahoo are at war. Those of you who regularly find yourself on MLIA will know this. According to Yahoo, “Google is going down” and Google  claims to be taking over the world. It’s nice to know there is some healthy competition between our most used search engines.

That’s pretty much all I have to report at this state; well, aside from the fact I’m about… half way through “Runner: Part 11″ and it is actually working now, so provided I don’t get limited expressed all the way back to Chelt. station again tomorrow afternoon I might finish it. Oh wait, debating related activities after school? Quite possibly…

Promise to keep you updated on the hilarity that finds my blog,

Fingers crossed for the update.

Dana

 

Keeping you informed…

I wrote something. I swear I did. But then… I decided I didn’t like it.

So alas, I currently have very little to give you, aside from a few half-baked ideas, a few witty lines and a bottle of vodka. Scratch zat, zere is no viddle varder. (Vodka means ‘little water’.)–Huh, so it turns out I have a few facts I could dish out too.

So, while many of you threatened to shake fists and yell I’m afraid I can’t update.

Not so much afraid as frustrated.

See, it’s not like I haven’t been writing. It’s more like, I’ve been attempting to write really long stories. So I can’t really show them to you… because I don’t usually write in a straight line. And you must have read/dreamed up the whole story to understand.

But, I refuse to leave you empty-handed.

So, I pose a riddle to you.

If you’ve got it you can’t share it, but if you’ve shared it you haven’t got it.

If you know where that comes from I applaud you.

It’s a good movie (:

A few other movie quotes that amused me:

- It’s like trying to find a need… no, not a needle. Something SMALLER than a needle, in a haystack, when you don’t even know if you’re in the right field!

- Ha! You may think I’m a hard-hearted black sock, but underneath this dark woolly exterior is a naked pink foot.

- If I tell you something weird… will you think I’m crazy?
Yes. I expect so.

- That’s not my future… NO! I don’t want to be a waiter!

Here’s hoping to an update!

Catch you later!

Dana

 

Much to my amusement…

So, I was perusing through “My Dashboard” (basically what allows me to be the evil overlord of my blog if you’re not a WordPress person ) and was most amused to discover that one the top searches [that leads people to my blog/site] was “macrob holiday homework”. Okay, I had to admit I was thoroughly amused.

Just thought I’d share that snippet of information with you.

Oh and to everyone waiting for me to do something that I haven’t done yet, I apologise. Profusely. I’m just so lazy and it’s holidays and I… oh never mind. I’ll get around to it!

Catchya guys Friday (hopefully) for an update

Dana

 

In the spirit of the holidays…

Double update? I think so.

Consider it a late Happy New Year and Merry Christmas (which isn’t necessarily late–Serbian Christmas is on the 7th everyone, just so you know.)

Runner part 9 and 10. I can guarantee that part 9 will be confusing but part 10 will clear it up (hence my releasing one with the other.)

 

Cover Art

Cleaning rooms and organising things is surprising good at times… I found a box on top of a shelf in my mother’s study with about 6 Adobe programs in it. It included: Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator! So the covers I created tonight were done on Illustrator (a very good program, if only I understood how to use it properly/could find the tools I need… damn you live trace, damn you.) 

Without further ado, hope you enjoy: here they are!

 

Hope you liked them! Please rate!

 

Spectacular News!

Ladies and gentlemen, it appears… I’M BACK!

NaNoWriMo officically came to a close twenty one minutes ago according to my computer clock and I am overjoyed to announce, I did it. I won. I wrote fifty thousand words in a month. It was hard and I’m pretty sure you don’t want to read what I came up with in the end but I did it.

So, with NaNo pulling to a close, and school in the process (a very slow process might I add) of closing for the year I am faced with three challenges.

1) Write those emails I’ve been wanting to write the last few days but because of reasons beyond my control *cough* SCUBA diving and NaNoWriMo *cough* I have been unable to.

2) Do my bucket loads of holiday homework.

And then there’s this one (I think you may or may not find this one mildly satisfying)…

3)Finish those stories I left hanging in October. Yeah, sorry about that. So, hopefully, from this Friday onwards I will be updating again. Most likely starting with Runner, I’ve got a half baked idea forming in my head. Bear with me though, I’m a little bit sleep deprived and my brain is a little bit mushy.

Oh and something else I just thought of–Mac.Rob people (if any Mac.Rob person is reading this) what do you think of the idea of a Writing Guild/Club at our school? I’m happy to explain more specifically what we’d do so email me on danaharding@live.com.au if you want to know more but basically it would be one lunchtime every two weeks or so and we just write short stories, focus on certain aspects, have different sorts of writing tasks (e.g. write a story based on a song title or pair up and write a two page story etc…) I’ll set up a poll to hear your ideas (bear with me on the poll thing, I’m a little lost when it comes to them…) Otherwise if you’d like to add something, there is a little comment button at the top of this post ^_^

Thanks guys for still checking the page despite my lack of updating and many, many other things!

Dana

 

Here’s the poll!

 

FYI

NaNoWriMo. You may not have heard of it but it is this challenge: write 50 000 words in a month. I know right? I’m insane. Oh well. Yes ladies and gentlemen, I am doing NaNoWriMo. And it is taking up ALL of my time at the moment so until the end of December, you’re left to your own devices.

NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writer’s Month (but it’s actually something that is now international) and that goes from the 1st of Nov-30th of Nov so until the 1st of December updates will be sporadic, if existent.
Well, thats all for now really… I have to go back to writing now Please check back for updates in December!
Dana