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I need a name…

ben — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:50:57 +0000

For an application that I’m creating with a couple of guys from work. It’s going to be a help desk application geared for the IT world, but hopefully flexible enough to be used in other industries that would need software of that type. I’d like to avoid both the words “help” and “desk”, unless they can be cleverly used in some kind of acronym. In case you care, the software will be web-based, open source, built with php, mysql, javascript, xhtml, css, xml and probably somewhat awesome. If anyone would like to help, just let me know; none of those involved so far are expert programmers, web designers, graphical artists, or documentation writers, so we are not looking for someone with “mad skillz”, just people who would like to help out and have fun. More on this, some other time.

This, in a way, is me making up for not being able to participate in NaNoWriMo this year. I have also resolved to do some planning, brainstorming and outlining for a new novel that I hope to actually write at some point in my lifetime–that time is not now. So, instead of writing 1,667 words every day this month, I will spend at least thirty minutes drafting a new story. Yes, you should expect awesomeness.

I played Guitar Hero III today for the Wii, and I now have to have it, as well as my own Wii with which to play it on.

NaNo: Day 30

ben — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:16:48 +0000

Words written: 50,020

Remaining: 0

Percentage complete: 100%

Pages: 155

Document size: 400KB

I am thankfully done. The last few thousand words were complete and total crap, but it does not even matter. I would have finished sometime early in the morning had I not been at work for fifteen hours. So instead, I finished just a few moments ago, let’s say 2:15 PM EST. I have no words of wisdom or profound thoughts to share at the moment; I have to take a shower and go back to work soon.

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NaNo: Day 29

ben — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:26:33 +0000

Words written: 49.027

Remaining: 973

Percentage complete: 98%

Pages: 152

Oh yes. I have resorted to writing complete and utter crap; just so I can be done with this. Seriously, I’m just ranting about stuff and ignoring any of the plot that I had set up originally.

NaNo: Day 28

ben — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 04:47:06 +0000

Words written: 46,112

Remaining: 3,888

Percentage complete: 92%

Pages: 144

Well, I did not reach my goal of 47K. I’m over it. 2,000 words again before I go to bed, and hopefully another thousand on top of that before the next update.

NaNo: Day 27

ben — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:41:14 +0000

Words written: 44,031

Remaining: 5,969

Percentage complete: 88%

Pages: 137

Uggh. I’m not letting myself go to bed until I have written 2,000 more words. Before the next update, I’m hoping for 47K. The plot has officially went in directions that I hate; and I am probably not going to let anyone set eyes upon this crap until I have had a chance to rework it. I am at the point that I really do not care what happens, as long as it gets me fifty thousand words before the end of November. It is very, very, very tempting to copy and paste a few pages in order to be done with this trash.

NaNo: Day 26

ben — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:52:04 +0000

Words written: 43,008

Remaining: 6,992

Percentage complete: 86%

Pages: 133

I have no idea how this story is going to end and I waver back and forth between worrying that I am going to run out of things to say, and I will have too many things to say before I hit the 50K mark. Unless something crazy happens in the next few days; I am going to finish this on time. I probably just jinxed myself.

NaNo: Day 25

ben — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:39:55 +0000

Words written: 40,511

Remaining: 9,489

Percentage complete: 81%

Pages: 125

Saw “The Fountain” tonight. Wow. My brain has been melted. When I have the capacity for thought again, I shall form an opinion about it. I liked it, I know that much. Only 1,000 words today. I suck. I’m going to drag this thing out to the very last minute.

NaNo: Day 24

ben — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 04:45:15 +0000

Words written: 39,500

Remaining: 10,500

Percentage complete: 79%

Pages: 122

Document size: 319KB

508 words away from being caught up today. I am very pleased with the amount of progress made since yesterday. I plan on getting officially back on track this weekend, and maybe even trying to get ahead. Ideally I’d like to finish a day early, or at least set myself up to only have a couple hundred words remaining on the 30th.

NaNo: Day 23

ben — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 04:42:00 +0000

Words written: 35,359

Remaining: 14,641

Percentage complete: 70.7%

Pages: 109

So much hate. I now have to write approximately 2,500 words a day in order to finish on time.

NaNo: Day 22

ben — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 04:50:31 +0000

Words written: 34,004

Remaining: 15,996

Percentage complete: 68%

Pages: 105

No I’m not. If I want to get back on schedule, I will have to write 4,337 words before this time tomorrow. Which is only 181 words an hour, but I’d like to sleep, and eat turkey at some point also. I have no idea how I’m going to end this story, or if I’ll even make it to the end by the 50k mark. These next 16,000 words are going to be hella rough.

Happy Thanksgiving!