WM Is Excited.

I just ordered a sewing machine. This one: http://www.amazon.com/Brother-machine-LS-2125i-Automatic-buttonholer/dp/B000EOX28E/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1196371258&sr=1-5

I’m so excited :ninja: I can’t wait until it arrives…then I can start learning to sew. Hehe. It’s supposed to get here sometime before December 24. I got free shipping. I thought that since I added a sewing machine to my Christmas list so late, compared to when my parents usually shop, the chances of getting one for Christmas were slim. So I asked Mom about it, and I was right, so…I’m excited.

I’m reading Red by Ted Dekker more slowly than I read Black – not because it’s less exciting, but because I want to draw it out a bit more, especially since I don’t have White yet. Then I am going to read Showdown, by the same author, which I found one day for three or four dollars in Sam’s Club, and then I am going to try to get my hands on Saint, which is actually the reason I started reading these books in the first place. I picked Saint up in Wal-Mart one day while waiting for my mother to finish shopping, read the back and the inside slip, and thought, This reminds me of the Bourne movies… So I started reading it, and indeed, it sounds very much like them, which excited me tremendously because I like those movies except for all the cussing (the reason I don’t watch them much), and because I like them, I wanted to read the books, but I flipped through one in a store one day and decided against it, after viewing half a dozen accounts of God’s name being taken in vain, and maybe a cuss word or two, I don’t remember. Those are things I’d rather not have in my head. But Ted Dekker is a Christian author! Hence the excitement.

So…I’m excited about the sewing machine. =-D Very excited.

God bless you beyond what your mind can contain.

- WM

Black

I have school this week, including more chemistry homework than I think should be legal, and had art class today. Yet I found time to read Ted Dekker’s 408-page novel “Black”, which I started yesterday and finished a short while ago. That’s how suspensful and fast-paced it is. But the suspensefulness came with two costs – the first being that I lost a considerable amount of sleep reading in bed with the flashlight until 3 AM last night/this early morning, and second, that book has the most suspensful, cut-off ending I have ever read.

Thankfully, I have the second book in the trilogy, “Red”. I need to sleep tonight, though, since chemistry class is tomorrow I do not know how I will survive until I get the third book, “White”, if “Red” has an ending akin to “Black”. It’s on my Christmas list, but that feels like such an awfully long time to wait…

Aside from that, I do not like being cold. This is one of my least favorite things. I was cold earlier, hence the train of thought, but I’m not anymore.

I finished a drawing of Aslan today in art class. I’m fairly pleased with it, though it could be better, but how to make it better, I am not certain.

Anyways…

Have a mind-blowing rest of your life.

- WM

“Chain Mail” Jewelry

I spent a large portion of the day (the part I didn’t spend sleeping and writing and walking) creating jewelry out of the gold and silver rings I remembered seeing in our stash of jewelry-making supplies. I was inspired by my research on the creation of chain mail (though I was looking mostly at the creation process of vests and hauberks).

I made three pairs of earrings, a bracelet, and a necklace, as follows.

The bracelet:

Closeups:

On my wrist:

The earrings, in order of creation:

The last pair of earrings I made after the necklace to match it. The necklace took me two to three hours and more than three hundred gold rings. If I made another, I could do it in a shorter amount of time, since I know a lot more about what not to do (and what to do).

 I would have posed in the necklace so that you could see the drape, but I would look like a homeless person who robbed a jewelry store in my current ensemble.

Have an amazing day.
- WM

Oh yes.

I reached and passed 50,000 words in my novel this morning. I blinded poor Gabriel, so he is having a hard time adjusting, and he just got separated from Kylie and Hayden because they were attacked. So now he’s out in the middle of nowhere, without his sight, with his horse, and has run out of food, but of course he will be all right, because he’s the hero.

But, for the record, I have been nicer to Gabriel in the course of these two novels than I was to Calruin in The Quest for the Diamond Blade (which I am thinking about rewriting someday, or at least finishing). You can all rejoice, because I am leaning toward not killing Nastasia after all. Then I thought about killing Calruin, but I’m too fond of the character. So they will both, most likely, live, if I ever to get to the end. If I don’t, they will be suspended in time for all eternity, in the forest with the elves (at least, I think that’s where I left them). Which is fine for me, because I did not like the elves very much anyway, but they might get tired of waiting around. Or they would, if they were real, and now you are all quite sure that I am quite insane, which is probably true, but I don’t actually consider my characters as real people, and I don’t talk to them in my head on a regular basis, and this is a very long sentence! I only talk about them this way in this blog, or, well, for the most part. I do speak of them in a way something like this to my friends.

Hayden…I am not sure what he is up to. He confuses me, which is not very good, since I’m his writer :6: He has some sort of dark secret in his past that’s haunting him, but he won’t tell me what it is (in other words, I have no ideas). I do know what some of his past professions are, and any of those could have led something that is catching up with him, mercenary in particular, but I think he was only a mercenary for a short time.

Enough rambling.

God bless you.

- WM

Thanksgiving

Well, of course I have to have a list of some of the things I’m thankful for!

1. God’s love for me.

2. Jesus

3. The Well

4. My parents, who provide for and love me.

5. My older brother, who occasionally adds things to my novels and other stories when I’m not in the room (none of his additions have remained), practices his Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu moves on me, bought me a wireless internet thing for my birthday ;p, and would shoot anyone that tried to harm me.

6. My older sister, who is one of my role-models in some ways, and is one of my friends and the person I hung out with when we were extra introverts (I still am, while she has grown in boldness) whose family was looking for a new church.

7. My younger sister, who I can be crazy around even when she doesn’t want me to, probably knows more about me then anyone else despite not being able to figure out my personality a’tall, puts up with me when I ask her to take pictures of me in some new cloak or sword, has late-night chats with me even when she wants to go to sleep, and who I had a great time with doing “interviews” in the karoake mic.

8. My two dogs, Molly and Sydney – Molly, the sweetest animal on earth, and Sydney, who provides me with quite a bit of amusement (and annoyance), and their “brothers” the gerbils, Tahn and Drinian.

9. The talents God has given me – writing, drawing, etc.

10. The fact that I am only 201 words away from reaching 50,000 words, though the story might not be over for another 50,000.

Happy Thanksgiving. May God bless you as much as He has blessed me and even more!

I am going to go for those 201 words now. Have an amazing day.

- WM

Good Evening

I’m rather tired right now, but I am writing a blog entry anyway, because I was inspired to by reading someone else’s blog. Go figure.

I’m a little over 46.5 thousand words in my NaNo. I was hoping to reach 50,000 today, but I had house cleaning to help with. We’re having a family from church over tomorrow for Thanksgiving, but I hope I can get a few thousand words written anyway.

I am trying to figure out how to make my blog entries more colorful and interesting, but most of the interesting things happen in my head and aren’t real. I am going to try to think of one thing that happened today that was interesting or funny.

Hmm….

Hmm….

Well, the best I can do is that my younger sister was sticking the smaller dog’s feet in my face while I was trying to write. Isn’t that sad? She tests my character. So when I learn how to respond to everything the way God wants me to, I will have a greater capacity to love unconditionally and will be able to deal with grown ups better when I grow up.

I really do love her and am grateful for her. We have shared many laughs together, and had many strange incidents where we were thinking exactly the same thing or knew what the other meant despite extremely vague terms being used (“You know that thing?”), and even though we have opposite personalities.

It’s supposed to rain tomorrow. I hope it does. Georgia needs rain badly.

I just did a word war with Crimson Phoenix and Legossi. I got 295 more words written in five minutes. I’m close to 47,000 now, less than a hundred words away. I’ll probably have reached that by the time I publish this blog entry, since I’m about to do another word war with them.

But I need to go to sleep after that, so on second thought, I will end it now.

Goodnight and God bless you!

- WM

40k

I passed 40,000 words today and have gotten more into my story again! That makes me happy. I hope I can finish the novel by the end of the month. I also think I already said that here, but I am not sure.

Have a great, super, amazing, blessed rest of your life.

- WM

34k

I reached my goal for today – 34,000 (plus 14) – pretty early. I word-warred with myself.

Hayden is a much more interesting character than I knew he was.

Yayness

I reached my goal for the day word-warring with Rasi! I am now at 30,418 and feeling a bit hyper/drunk on words, which is bad because I shouldn’t get cocky (“Don’t get cocky, kid” – Han Solo. Sorry for that bit of randomness.). I need to keep going, but after writing almost 4,000 words today, I would like a bit of a break. I might go get a snack.

I changed to Hayden’s POV and he turned out to be more interesting than I thought he was, even though I thought he was quite interesting and fun to write. He is deeper and more troubled than I assumed at first acquaintance and I feel sorry for him :6:

I think I will get something to eat now, because I am hungry, so namarie without the accent marks.

Have a special day.

- WM

Oh yeah, I do have a blog.

Here is an update, finally.

I have 25,607 words and need to reach 28,000 by the end of the day to meet my goal. I have chemistry class and I babysit today, so I am not sure if I will make it or not.

So I’m going to write now.

God bless you.

- WM