Author: Teel

Author, artist, romantic, insomniac, exorcist, creative visionary, lover, and all-around-crazy-person.

Novel Update – 1.3.1.0

Another update over in the forums.

My wrists are too tired to type up the url.

Just click “forums” to the left.

I’m at 54 pages and going strong. Still somehow on track to finish on time. The second part of the book is now 25 pages long, and looks like it may go on another 25 without any difficulty. Maybe another 46. Then I’d be at 100 pages.

Actually, I’d planned on being on the fourth part of the book by around the 100th page. Maybe the second section will come in at 60 pages, and the third will be a short one. I haven’t quite nailed that bit down yet. Maybe something about a documentary, or maybe something about the happy monkeys, or maybe something I haven’t thought of yet.

I read recently that the first finished NaNoWriMo Novel for 2001 quoted The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in their entireties. Maybe I should look into quoting something long. Like The Lord of the Rings.

Felicity is driving me crazy

Since the first season of Felicity, I have believed that Felicity should have chosen Noel over Ben. Yet every year she chooses Ben. She just keeps going back to him and back to him. In fact, a few shows ago they ended the entire story with her ending up with Ben and going back into Pre-Med after all, and it upset me greatly. Except that I knew that the next four episodes involved Felicity being sent back in time to choose Noel. So everything was going to turn out alright, right?

NO! She went back in time and screwed everything up! Sean and Megan split up and may not get back together, Felicity keeps behaving as though she still wants to be with Ben, and long-forgotten characters keep appearing out of knowhere and throwing a wrench into the gears. Then, in the scenes from next week’s two-hour Series finale, we see Noel trapped in a fire (a fire he saved Felicity from the first time around, by the way), and then Felicity telling Ben that Noel is dead. Noel is dead?!?!?!!!

I thought the writers and producers of Felicity were going to take this very clever opportunity and wrap the show up to please both sides of the audience; she ends up with Ben in one timeline and she ends up with Noel in the other. If Noel actually ends up dead, and worse if Felicity ends up with Ben again, this will have been the worst possible alternate timeline she could have created.

As far as I’m concerned, anyway. Like I said, I thought she should have just stayed with Noel from the start.

Apocalypse Drinking game

Now here’s the drinking game for me (courtesy The Brunching Shuttlecocks):

The Apocalypse Drinking Game!

With rules like

If the righteous ascend into heaven while the sinful remain on the Earth to face the tribulations of Satan, take a drink.

If four horsemen ride out, and the fourth rides a pale horse, and the name of that who sits on on the horse is Death, take a drink.

If the sun is blackened as a sackcloth of hair, take a drink.

If the moon becomes the color of blood, take a drink.

If the stars of heaven fall unto the earth, take a drink.

I can hardly wait to start playing!

Stupid dinosaurs!

So, I was misaken last night when I thought I had taped the last two hours of the Dinotopia miniseries. As it turns out, I was merely taping the middle two hours. There are two hours remaining to record tonight, which means that I have to watch my normal shows during that time period. We’re talking about the last episode of Roswell, here. And it looks like Tara dies and Willow decides to become a vengence demon after all. How can I miss it? What am I doing sitting here, when I should be at my typewriter? Will Batmen be able to escape Catwoman’s sexy clutches?

Tune in next time to find out!