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

 

*Cries*

I have some terrible news…

As most people who’ve been harassing me know, I didn’t update the blog last weekend… and I haven’t done it today either.

Well, *sniffles* I have some horrible news.

At first, I was in denial, but there’s no point denying it. I can’t do anything about it except wait.

I have writer’s block.

*EDIT: not anymore. Thanks for the concern though!*

It’s not that the ideas aren’t coming (because my mind is way overactive) it’s simply that getting them from here *taps head* to here *taps computer screen* is a bit of an issue.

So apologies to everyone and anyone. Hopefully after exams with more time (slightly more time I should say) I will get to write more, but until then it’s pretty much leaving you to your own devices.

Sorry!

I will attempt to write something but please don’t expect anything. I will declare it on Facebook when I have written something.

Thanks guys for your patience.

Dana

 

Runner

Updated Runner–part six is now up! Hope you enjoy. I also hope I survive the week to update this coming Friday. So please don’t kill me until after next update.

Thanks guys!

 

FYI

Okay, COH (Change of Heart) will be updated one hundred percent today Elaine but others will not be maybe some time very, very early Saturday morning if someone (yes I’m looking at you Elaine) is nice to me

So yes, in the mean time I have a website link which was passed onto me and worthy of being looked at:

www.lightningbug.com.au

This website is great for young writers it has a lot of tips and tricks but also a nice long list of writing competitions. Please enjoy!

*EDIT*

COH has been updated!  Now I’ll just start the other updates! No absolute promises though.

Thanks guys!

*EDIT 2*

Sorry COH is so short. Really I am.  But yelling at me is not going to fix anything. All I’ll do is sit on the next chapters and laugh. As a writer I can do that. Ya saavy? Awesome.

 

Oopsies

Hi people!

Um, unfortunately update is going to be a bit later. Sorry! It will be up sometime during the weekend.

Apologies!