Co-Writing

You want to know what co-writing is like? This is what it's like.




OKAY LETS DO SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE NOW DO IT COME ON IM GOING TO KEEP TYPING UNTIL YOU INTERRUPT ME AND
GLINDA NOW D< DO SOMETHING START A SCENE COME OOOOOON KEEP BEING PRODUCTIVE ALKHGLAKSHG LI’M GOING TO HIT CAPSLOCK CAUSE MY FINGERS IS TIRED OF HOLDING SHIFT OKAY HERE WOW I DID IT CAPS LOCK I LIKE YOU. =D YOU’RE MY NEW FRIEND. ACTUALLY I LIKE SHIFT BETTER STILL, BUT MY FINGERS WAS GETTING REALLY TIRED AND FOR LONG-TERM PROJECTS LIKE THIS I NEED SOME CAPS LOCK. BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT I IN ANY WAY DISOWN THE SHIFT KEY, AS THAT SHALL FOREVER REMAIN IN MY GOOD GRACES, MOSTLY AS MY FAVOuRITE MODE OF CAPITALIZING THINGS WOW I MISSPELLED WORDS GLINDA STOP MAKING MY WORDS CANADIAN D< I DO NOT APPRECIATE IT.
ACTUALLY I TYPE THINGS WITH THE BRITISH SPELLINGS A LOT. AND DON’T NOTICE AND PEOPLE ARE LIKE ._. DUDE YOU SPELLED THAT WRONG -
GLIND. I THINK YOU’RE JUST AMUSED BY MY RAMBLINGS. STOP THAT.
GO BE PRODUCTIVE.
START A SCENE.
WRITE A BOOK.
RECORD A VLOG.
SOMETHING.
PRODUCTIVITY = NOT THIS.
GOT IT?
*WAITS FOR RESPONSE*
.____________________________________________. notthatkindofscene.
Glind sat before the screen, giggling madly. This was way too fun.
Sarah sighs and turns off capslock. That was NOT the response she was looking for.
“You should really be more specific about these things. Lots of miscommunication can happen,” Glind politely informed the marshmallow. “Such as talking to marshmallows and dying of laughter. Shrooms, man.”
Mal gigglesnorts. “Okay, but really. If you don’t want to write your scene, we’re doing some Mick. Nic. Neghan … M...ick. Mick. Yeah.”
“Mick! Like Mickey Mouse! Ohmygoodness, we can name it mouse! But they die. From poison. Or maybe dogs eat them. Maybe the dog is like...like..a euphemism for JAMES.” Glind stared wide-eyed at the marshmallow. “That is so deep.”
“You are a complete dork.” Sarah informs Lauren politely. “Also, I was thinking ‘mick’ like “You’re taking the mick” you ever heard that phrase?”
Laur completely disregarded the point of that sentence and burst out laughing. “You started to spell ‘phrase’ with an f! Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.”
Sarah sighs and tries to not throw things at the Glind. “YesIdidIamsickokaydontmakefunofme.” 
“But.”
“Hey this is not being productive. At all. SHHHH. Go write a scene. Put this in the NOT T&D.”
“You mean the file that is completely dedicated to when we get so derailed off of our novel that we just spaz out like this? The file that will most certainly be longer than our actual novel? Okay.”
“...Yeah, that. And you have thirty seconds. No getting distracted. GO.”\


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Now do you see why nothing ever gets done? This is so completely why.

Mahal na Mahal Kita, Anak

Lauren sat quietly with the small child in her lap, thankful that he'd finally stopped crying long enough for her to enjoy some relative silence. The warmth of the fire behind her was pretty nice and as long as the child did not make a move towards it, this was a pretty good situation.
"Listen!" he said suddenly.
She listened. As far as she could tell, there was just the roar of the vacuum going on in the other room, noisy and obnoxious when she was trying to enjoy sitting down.
Then, quietly, she heard, "I love you."

Horror of All Horrors

Lauren and Meadjean crouched on the bathroom floor, listening to the thumps and yells from outside the room.
"I keep expecting one of their faces to creepily appear in the window or something."
Meadjean shuddered. "I'm so scared."
"Me too," Lauren agreed, drawing her knees to her chest. 
"Lauren! Let us in! Let us in!" one of the menaces called. 
Lauren mimicked it in a horror movie-esque way before making a face. 
The noises outside slowly faded away and the two girls turned to look at each other.
"Think they're gone?"
"It sounds like it."
"Shh. I wanna listen."
They fell silent, both turned towards the direction of the door  as they listened, straining their ears for the sounds of small children.
A couple minutes passed.
"I think they're-"
Loud yelling commenced and Lauren yelped, immediately clinging to Meadjean with her eyes shut and just wishing this night would end.

By Any Other Name

If I hadn't been entirely sure about switching to my middle name in college, I am now. There is just. ahfliehfliahli EVERY SINGLE LAUREN that I have read in books or seen in movies/tv shows is just. Ew.

They're either complete bitches or disgusting or. I just. And that's.

WHY.

Alex is a much safer name.

YAY NANOWRIMO

Okay, so it's kind of already November 3rd, but whatever. Posting every day from here on out. Or trying to. I'll nag Sare about it.

Keh, so, I currently hate my 'new' novel this year. It's stupid and I don't like the character and just...no. We're not going there. I'm plodding along in it every couple hundred words, but that's about it. And that would be why I'm finishing I Dare You and its sequel this month instead.

(Yeah. The sequel. Like you didn't get sick of it enough the first time around.)

There's only a sequel because Sarah insisted on it and apparently it's going to be her reward for getting 100k. MY reward is getting caramacs and her finishing the In The Mood vid of us. =D

Although, Greg sucks and has a ton more than all of us so I'm trying to beat him and I'd have to get 100k anyways. At least he has school and I dooooooon't. Hehehe.

So yeah. I'm not posting my wordcount right now. Too busy trying to disprove Claire's expectations.

And when I do, I will rub it in her face.

Five Minutes To Midnight

AH FIVE DAYS UNTIL NANO

*bites nails nervously*

I am panicking. So much. Agh.

It's exciting and scary and. and. and.

PANIC

at the disco

Do you see how odd I get when I get cut off from talking to people?

(Btw, Sare, I love you and thank you and you're the bestest best person EVER~)  

Excitement Abounds

Okay, so, it's already less than a month to NaNo. I am so PSYCHED. For once, I have a good plot and characters that are starting to open up to me so I'm not blindly blundering along come NaNo. And good NAMES, too. Ty, Vivienne Pierce for talking to me. I appreciate it muchly.

Also, today is our FRIENDAVERSARY. Not mine and Vivienne Pierce's. But mine, Taylor, Sarah, Claire, and Anna's! =D I've known you lot for an ENTIRE year now. That's a long time. I love you guys so much, you know that? You mean the world to me. <3