Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 1

Disappearing Act

Well, I expected to be able to handle my November better than I did, but many things kind of piled up, not the least of which was NaNoWriMo. However, I managed to pull through it all, and actually won!


"Winning" basically means I wrote 50,000+ words in November. I am not deluding myself, the "novel" I wrote was horrible, but, it's a good learning experience, and, just like exercising, I want to write more and more now.

Other than that, I have been doing a lot of volunteer work at Discovery World, in their new Design-It Lab.



This is very, very awesome, and I'll post when more of it is opened up, but right now, you can come in to the Quick Shop on the weekends, and create whatever projects are "on the menu" at that time. It's run like a diner, and really fun to be in. There are laser cutters, vacuum formers, rapid prototype machines, 3D printers and more! In the future, I think the goal is to open up the Work Shop area, where you can do longer projects, or (possibly) even just have some personal time with the equipment!

So, it's awesome, but killer work, because, whenever I'm there, it's basically 12 hours on my feet. Fun, but exhausting. And it's cut the time I have to do other stuffs, and I'm trying to get back into my sewing again, but it's hard. Not for the reasons I thought it would be, but it's more because I have too many ideas and I don't know where to start!

Anywho, that is what's up with me. I'll have some December specials coming up in my Etsy shop shortly, which I'll post here, on my Twitter, and anywhere else I can, for anyone who is interested!

Friday, September 24

Not sewing related at all...

Sorry, guys, but I need to post this and ask if anyone out there can help me with a bit o' writing.

I'm completely stumped. I need to come up with a name of an organization, here is a rough summary of it. The world setting is fantasy, high fantasy (magic, but not like everyone shoots fireballs and can fly on carpets magic, but just kind of some people can do magic, most can't... think "Dragon Age Origins" if that helps) The organization is evil, a kind of "dark" organization, almost vampire-like. It is a series of families that kind of rule behind the scenes, Mafia-style, but I need something to collectively call them - I can't just refer to them as "Families" or something like that :\

So... anyone have any good ideas? I'm out of them...

If a naming convention helps, here are some things I have set out: my main character is named Ceinwyn (kane-win), another is Siorus (shoy-russ). Cities are things like Et Sharov and An Kimor... so I'm completely all over the board!

Edit: Thank you so much for the help via Twitter, and to my husband, too! We took some of the ideas and went around a corner with them, and the organization now has a name :3 "Abadon" is what we decided on!

Thank you!! <3