Long time no blog! Eek!
You should actually take that as a good sign though. It means that all of my writing energy has been poured into my NaNoWriMo book! Last weekend, I finally got the breakthrough I was looking for and I have seriously increased my word count. That being said, I am still massively behind, at only 19,000 words. But I’m not afraid anymore. I feel rather confident that I can get it done, and I’m quickly falling in love with my story.
Falling in love with my story makes me happy, but it makes me worry about the other novel I’ve been working on for a year. I have already invested 300 pages into it and I am still determined to finish it. I’m pretty good and splitting my attention, but I must be honest and say that I am currently obsessed with what I’m working on now and the influences that I’ve been accessing to motivate me. I have a whole new music collection that I’ve been listening to as I write that is completely different from my other book (Click here to see it). I’m not going to lie. A lot of these songs come from Grey’s Anatomy and I think that’s a great thing. There’s a reason why the show uses these songs, because it evokes emotions and allows scenes to play out very well.
So anyway, if you’re wondering what I will be doing the rest of the month, you can bet it’s writing. I’m attacking this NaNoWriMo challenge hardcore!
Speaking of hardcore…I have some other things to report.
As you may recall from 2008, I am a Twilight fan. I shouldn’t be so ashamed about this. I have a strong philosophy of “to each their own.” My hugest pet peeve is when people who have their own nerdy, fringe, or even super popular interest are critical of one of the things I like. This comes out like crazy in the workplace. I happen to work with a lot of lovable nerds that love Sci-Fi, etc., that have literally gone to conventions, and some that love playing WoW and spend a good chunk of their free time doing that. So you would think that I wouldn’t get grief when I mention Days of Our Lives right? I totally do. It’s the most fucking obnoxious thing in the world when people do that and the most hypocritical. Star Trek is not my thing. I barely tolerated the movie and thought it was only okay. I’ll never own it or go to a midnight show for the sequel (actually, I might, because I like going to midnight shows of things). But I have a friend who loves it and I would never try to bring him down. Thankfully, he doesn’t try to bring me down either and totally grasps the “to each their own” philosophy.
So if you’re about to roll your eyes at the next part of this post, because I talk about Twilight. Spare me. It takes so much more effort to hate something than to just accept that some people like it. And if you think that hating on something that is popular, especially amongst women (which I would argue is part of the problem), makes you somehow superior or cool, it doesn’t. It makes you seem insecure.
Life is hard, and so it should be celebrated when anyone can have a ton of fun loving something in the fictional/escapism realm. To-each-their-fucking-own.
Last night I went to the Twilight double feature with my sister and my friend Michelle. It was a blast! We saw Twilight at 9 and then New Moon at midnight. It was a great time and I’m going again tonight with a larger group of friends. Is New Moon the greatest movie ever? Hell no. Do I care? Not one bit. Because I have fun watching it and living in that world for two hours.
So I guess you could call me hardcore for Twlight.
But do you know what you should actually call me hardcore for….
Grey’s Anatomy.
Because even though I got home at 2:45 in the morning and I had to be at work by 9 this morning, I stayed up and watched the new episode of Grey’s Anatomy at 3 in the morning. HARDCORE.
Truthfully, I am not actually hardcore for any of these things. I personally know people that actually attend Days of Our Lives fan events, went to the New Moon premier in Los Angeles, and make montages of Grey’s. And while it’s unlikely that I’ll ever go that far, I could never discredit or mock those girls for being passionate about something they love.
So the next time you’re working hard at hating American Idol, soap operas, Nicholas Sparks, fan fiction, Star Wars, WoW, Lady Gaga, or High School Musical….remember, it’s all for fun and life is too short to stop the fun.
PS……
Grey’s turned out way better than I thought it would for Cristina and Owen last night! I hate that a love triangle is coming, but at least this episode made me pretty happy:
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Amen on the hardcore fans! Regardless of what thing or show it is, it’s an awesome thing to be a fan of something and being excited and positive about it.
While I do not enjoy the whole Twilight thing (mostly because I can’t stand the leads, not the story itself) and don’t get the passion for Grey’s (beyond Jeffrey Dean Morgan who I adore in anything but nothing as much as I loved him as Papa Winchester in Supernatural) I would never diss the FANS of those shows. That’s just mean.
I reserve my meanness for that douchetard Reefer, Lumitards, Snores and the cherry on my hatred cake, that thunderous twat Days Head writer Dena Higley. (laughs)I suppose you can say my meanness is focused on those who are incompetent, illogical and don’t seem to care or work to change that.
I still hate James Patterson…because at least half of the books with his name on them weren’t written by him.
However…carry on with your hardcore self!
OK, I read this post when you first published it but it was on my iPhone and I hate commenting on my iPhone because it takes forever and I make embarrassing mistakes. And THEN I was walking the dogs today and I realized that I never came back to comment even though I really wanted to… so here I am… writing a really stupid and unnecessary explanation of my blog fan failings.
MOVING ON. Firstly, I TOTALLY agree. For some reason people who don’t like Twilight have taken it upon themselves to update Twitter and Facebook with rude comments saying how stupid it is and how stupid the fans are. Um, EXCUSE ME?? I love Twilight because it lets me forget about all of the stupid shit out there, it lets me live in another world, and I think that me loving some stupid BOOK and reading it 4 times should be the least of anyone’s worries.
Second, I LOVE Grey’s Anatomy, too. I once got up at 6 AM to watch a new episode online before I went to work… HARDCORE. It’s silly and the plot is sometimes ridiculous (I mean, every time I’m in a hospital I look for the on-call room and I NEVER see any sex happening… sad.) I recently downloaded a huge amount of music from season 5 and am totally in love with it!! I’m actually listening to your playlist now (swoon).
Last, we should obviously be friends and read Twilight and go see New Moon again and watch Grey’s and listen to it’s music and it would be awesome. Cool? Cool.