My sickness has come back after a week long holiday.  IT IS GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN

Nano is almost done- If I work very, very hard tonight, I think that I can get it done before 2am! Plus History homework, which I've had 2 extensions on, plus Cello practice for an exam on Wednesday and I STILL haven't learnt the scales, plus stuff for West Side Story Wednesday-Friday. I am doing too much now. Please be not giving me more essays.

History is really staring to bore me - I really couldn't care less about British Politics in the 20's, and incredibly irritated by the fact that both textbooks AND the teacher ignore the actual stuff we really need to know.

I've purchased Storm Of Zehir and, and, well, underwhelming is my reaction. Horribly buggy, screws up MotB and all player modules, the Overland map has a really, really nasty glitch on my PC so I can't actually see it properly. The story is not there. Nor are the characters. It's like playing Dungeon Siege all over again. The novelty of making several of your own wears off very, very quickly.
It feels like a glorified RTS/ RPG hybrid in the vein of King's Bounty or Heroes of Might and Magic, what  with the wandering about a map, fighting random battles, buying and trading resources and the party of heroes. Fun, but not exactly gripping. It might get better, and the cohorts might develop some personality (Lashti has potential).

Oh, and exams next week? Ho ho ho.

Nano is, so far, going very well.  I've not yet ran into many problems with regards to writing 2k a day, with 5/6k over a weekend.

I'm currently ahead, i think, with 15, 242 words, and I'm aiming to get to 20k by midnight on Sunday. This is good, as the end of this month is going to have so much happening, I'm not going to have the time to write much, if at all.

I think this one flows, for me, much better than my other novel, for jonowrimo. the structure is much more flexible, being told from the PoV's of two women, a Norse Witch, and a Roman Prophetess (or at least analogues of those cultures), as well as occasionally the Pov of the witch's guide; a witch herself, the goddess incarnated as the prophetess, the journal of another noblewoman, and a female captain on a very strange journey, slowly being stripped of herself. They are intentionally female,  and, unlike my other novel, all have a relevant role in the novel, and actually do stuff, instead of always being pushed into doing something for someone else.

The styles are also all very different, so If I get too bored, i can just switch VP and go off on a wild flight of verbal fancy.
Valente has really affected my writing style lately, I'm going to have to be very careful of that.

In other news: Very, very happy Obama won. Much less happy Proposition 8 got passed.

So after deciding I wasn't gong to do Nano this year, I am now doing Nano.

I only discovered this yesterday, so I have absolutely no plans or notes, or hell, even a clue what I'm doing with my novel. Should be, ah, interesting. 2,019 words so far, with a planned 2k for today.

Gaiman's The Graveyard Book is surprisingly good, so far, though it looks like its going to have the usual bland hero (Is this a staple of YA or something? Every YA book I've read with a child/ teenage protagonist has been entirely unremarkable.)  Still , some lovely ideas and worldbuilding so far (I particularly like the Lady on Grey)

Started playing this on Halloween. There is a staggering amount of content in here, most of it top quality (Tiberius69's entry was a particular delight. ChaosWielder's was really quite disturbing. ActorOfVeil's bothered the fuck out of me). Though there are a few weak entries, I'm not sure what the point of Stinkeen's is. But on the whole, well worth playing, and reinstalling NWN2 for, even for just a few hours.

Adam Miller's entry was, as per usual for Miller, all style and no substance, and more than a little pointless. but I must confess I have quite a strong dislike of Miller's work, mainly due to the fact the females in his mods are always bisexual, but the guys? Are always straight. This bothers me on two levels 1) the reduction of female/female relationships to male titillation and 2) The complete absence of homosexual men (probably because as we all know, they're icky, right?) In the readme for the first Dark Waters mod, I remember him saying there was no m/m undertones in the sidetrip to the showers because "It's a family-friendly mod". That pisses me off on so many levels.

Anyway, back to Nano!