Nyx Goldstone

Well, I hate to admit it, but I did fail this year’s National Novel Writing Month challenge. I clocked in at a whopping 2,949 words.

Yeah, I know, pathetic, right?

I realize I’ve been seriously slacking in the update area. I promise, I’m not dead, but it sure as hell feels damn close. The event itself had its ups and downs this year, though happily it was more up than down. Man, some people can be crazy. Anyhow, the challenge is over and I get a bit of a breather from personal challenges AND school work to just focus on school work. I’ll be doing another one in April with Script Frenzy. I’ve even got a bit of a concept for that one already. Hopefully I won’t start doubting myself by the time April comes around.

What else… What else…

I finally figured out what my site is for until I get some published works out there. It’s kinda weird, but I’m still digging the idea after about a month, so I’m going to try and run with it. What is it? Well, I realized that I’m in my twenties (*coughcough*27*coughhack*) and just starting college, more or less (you know, not counting the high school college courses or the couple semesters at Fullerton College…). I’ve got a different view on the way classes are handled then someone fresh out of high school. Not to mention it’s my blog, so it’s a great way to vent about the over-romanticizing that teachers seem to be doing lately. Dude… Really… I swear, an ice cream sandwich is not some symbol for religion…

I will still be commenting on books I’m reading, since I plan on trying to continue the 100 New Books a Year challenge. Yes, I have been counting the books I read in class. Speaking of, this semester in English we read Never Cry Wolf. Now, being a bit of a wolf nut, I’ve owned a copy of this for a while but never read it. I vaguely remember attempting, but it always going over my head or something. This attempt stuck, though, and probably would have been completed much quicker if it wasn’t for that crazy “Gotta read on MY time-line, sister!” thing that teachers get. There’s some great lines in there, and while it may get a bit dry in places (unless you’re weird like me and find scientific jargon and field journals fascinating), Mowat is actually pretty darn funny.

Speaking of being on a teacher’s time-line, I’ve got an outline for a Never Cry Wolf essay to finish by tomorrow night.

Yeah, I know in my last post I said I was only updating a room, but while I was working on that, I realized that the theme I was using was very pretty and very, very useless for one very important thing I wanted.

I couldn’t see child pages! I wanted, NEEDED child pages! So, the hunt for a new theme began, with thoughts of making another attempt at trying to make my own. I still gave up on that one. I found this new theme, which works kind of like a computer desktop, which makes it really interactive and nifty! So, I’m not as happy as I was with the look, but the child pages are visible now!!

That is all…until later.

Well, okay, not so much a “room” as a section of the site. I learned recently that Laurell K. Hamilton doesn’t just not allow fanfictions of her works, but can and will actually take legal action. Knowing that, I had to take down Of the Faeries until I could get the parts that reference Merry Gentry edited out. So, the story isn’t gone, just…on a nice vacation. Hopefully to Hawai’i

…I miss Hawai’i…

Oh! Hi! I’m back! So, yeah, the Writing page is being reconstructed, slowly but surely. The stories will return! Other than that, I did some other things to the site and am planning others. For starters, I took down the shopping cart. I didn’t like the interface. It made me unhappy; and, really, I realized that when it comes down to it, if I’m not happy with the site I do so much less with it.

The other thing I wanna do is put a little Twitter box on the side panel. I just gotta figure out how. Fun, right? Really, it’s the little things that build up to bigger things that I enjoy most about creating a site.