Jessi's Playground

I really need that animated computer-bashed-with-head icon.

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It always amuses me to see character journals on these stat counters. Y'all, we're so lazy.

I've decided to do NaNo. No, I don't know what I'm thinking, given how much writing I already do on a daily basis and how suck at deadlines I am, but I got bit by an idea that I think I actually could get a novel out of, so I'm going to try. So, rollcall of my f-list to see if any of you are going to be similarly crazy for the month of November! I'm princessjessia on the NaNo site for anyone else participating.

Rather than be original or one-fandom, it's going to be a multi-fandom thing, and I'll likely talk more about the exact concept closer to November, because I know if I start now, I'll talk the shine right off the idea, or get frustrated I have the idea but can't be WRITING it, and that's never good for my long-term attention.

Now, technical discussion, because it's the random things like this I wonder about. I'm very much in the habit now of typing everything I do as though it will be posted, so basically with the html code, rather than formatting in the doc. My question to NaNo writers of the past is - how exactly did you go about your formatting? Did you just italicize/bold/underline/etc within the document's formatting, or did you use something different (like, for example *this* for italics or somesuch)? I'm especially curious for those of you who post what you've been writing in your journals/NaNo specific journals.

I ask this all because the word count function in Open Office includes HTML in the word count, so writing as I normally would will affect my word count. I want some system that allows me to avoid affecting my word count, but if I post excerpts, the formatting comes across without me having to have the copy to submit for my word count verification and a copy with all the proper formatting.

And apropos of nothing, MY FINGERS ARE FREEZING. Not my palms or the backs of my hands, just my fingers.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Marian relaxed a little. If wages were included as well as room and board, she could fulfill her obligations to the Lady's court.

Janelle looked up at the sky and winced. "Come on. We'd better ride the Winds and get there. If I'm late getting back to the Hall, Papa will give me that patient look. I really hate that patient look -- especially when I deserve it."

→ Dreams Made Flesh by Anne Bishop (A Black Jewels Book)

ganking and remixing this fandom meme for rpg purposes because I am brain bored!

Pick one of my characters and one of the following options:

(a) three facts about them from my personal canon/fanon
(b) a reason he/she sucks
(c) a reason he/she is awesomecakes
(d) five things that never happened to that character
(e) five people that character never fell in love with and why

Past and present RP characters, public and PSL. Anything's game!

And if you want more than one character/letter combo, I won't smack your hand.