A fright*!*

Just then I saw something really honestly scary -about writing, just to warn y'all who are getting sick to death of it, sorry :)

But yup it gave me the most dark gripping fright ever (yeah I'm not totally out of nano yet though it ends today :) it wasn't that bad

so this is what it is and if you know anything about writing you'll get just a bit freaked-out:

3 Day Novel www.3daynovel.com/ Write and edit a full novel in 3 days. (WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I though nano was mad enough) so what is it actually about? -wait I haven't actually  looked, I was getting over my fright :P So now that I have read it I have to say you have to read the testimonials some of them are really funny, I love that dog one Anyway three days? Now that is....intense to say the least,  I doubt I could ever get there (well I could if it was a 300 word story :P)

I'm gonna save this

Every week at nano they have asked a whole lot of fellow nano writers to give advice to the strugglers
and they posted one today and it was about finishing and these are my favorites:

Write write write! Even if it's the worst piece of digested-ten-times-by-an-eight-stomached-cow, it's something. Improving that junk is probably one of the most fun things I've ever done. – Sonya Noble

If you're behind, invite some noveling buddies over for an all-nighter. You can even do it online! – nuttynetti98 -one of my writing buddies

This is the time for you to show the world what you are made of. You've persevered up to this point. Now it's time to tackle the last miles. – friendzyfriend


that is only some of the awesome advice 
-Tiffany

Nanowrimo

I'm writing this just in case you missed this year's National Novel Writing Month and you wished that you could do it ( is there anyone that crazy out there?) I'm also writing to those who did it and won (yahoo!) but still have a lot of writing to do....

You can do it again before Nov 2013!!!
 here is what they do all year round:

NaNoWriMo-Style Events

PlotWriMo – Plot Writing Month (December). Goal: Refine the plot arc of your first draft.

WriYe – (Year-Round). Goal: Set a word-count goal for the year and work toward it between January 1 and December 31.

JanNoWriMo – January Novel Writing Month (January). Goal: Write either 50K or your own word-count goal in January.

FAWM – February Album Writing Month (February). Goal: Write 14 original songs in a month.

Script Frenzy – NaNoWriMo's sister challenge (April). Goal: Write a 100-page screenplay or stage play in April.

April Fool's – (April). Goal: Set a word-count goal for yourself and fulfill it by the end of the month.

AugNoWriMo – August Novel Writing Month (August). Goal: Write a novel in one month.

SeptNoWriMo – September Novel Writing Month (September). Goal: Set a word-count goal and edit, write, or edit and write throughout the month of September!

GothNoWriMo – Gothic Novel Writing Month (October). Goal: Write a gothic novel in October.

NaPlWriMo – National Playwriting Month (November). Goal: Write a play in one month.

750 Words – (Year-Round). Goal: Write 750 words a day. Includes month-long challenges.

NaBloPoMo – National Blog Posting Month (Year-Round). Goal: Post every day for a month.

SciFiWriMo – Science Fiction Writing Month (Year-Round). Goal: Choose a target word-count and reach it in a month, writing sci-fi or fantasy.

24 Hour Comics Day – (Changes annually, lasts 24 hours). Goal: Draw a 24-page comic in one 24-hour period.

48 Hour Film Project – (Varies; operates via tours around the USA, lasts 48 hours). Goal: Create a short film in 48 hours.

Happy writing or filming or what ever!

~Tiffany

I've done it

So nearly a month ago I told you I was doing the nearly impossible; writing 30,000 words in a month.
Well nearly four weeks later after two weeks of travelling, hours of writing, writers block, counting, and a halved word count goal (to 15,000)
I've done it with a grand total of 16024 words. Not as much as I'd have liked but with the added pressers on sewing Victorian dresses for the Heritage week in Oamaru and packing for a flight to my grandparents for an 80th I decided I'd go for half.

I may be posting the story over at where words are woven after the up coming fun of editing :D :-/    
~Tiffany




here's the web badge I got 

I haven't written in like forever! :-/

And that is bad - but there is a reason, I am writing just madly about something else. I've been doing nanowrimo and I'm up to 11,242 words, which is 2,000 behind :( 

so that's what I've been doing.

~ Miss Tiffany 

And so it's Nov the 1st (depending on where you live)

So I've started, this morning as soon as I woke up :) well pretty much. Anyway want to hear it?
(disclaimer: I won't be posting here all the time, and I'm just writing enough to be cruel ;-) )

Down the dark, dank, cobbled streets of London the sister's trudged. They passed a beggar/child with sightless staring eyes and a steaming, feverish brow that had turned his sooty face to a mottled grey. A hat lay beside a wasted arm, there was barely a coin in it, but the sister's ignored his plaintive cries and carried on into the deeper filth of London's East-end.

An icy wind breathed down the narrow street and the sister's drew the tattered shawl they shared tighter    , they increased their pace; today had been pay-day at the factory and they needed to get home quickly before the infamous night dwellers, theives, murderers, whores and drunkards appeared.

On they scuttled quite unaware that one such night-dweller was watching them, stalking their progress.
Tonight there'd be murder done.

So how 'bout that? do you think it will do? Please comment, I adore your advice.

Miss Tiffany
( OH and I'll probably post most of the story over at where words are woven my other blog (yes I have two, one just for writing, feel free to read the other storys)  

Guess What!

We have lambs!!! four to be exact. Not all from the same mother; both twins though. First lot were born in the weekend, but we were hardly home for an hour; except at night ;D. And the other two this afternoon. So cute, and no not so late we borrowed the ram later than most farmers. Don't know about genders yet. I'm guessing two boys and two girls -the usual, this is in total : one of each to the two mothers if that makes sense.

-Tiffany  

I'm embarking on a great adventure...

I've entered the...

                                        NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program! 

I know...writing a novel...in one month...sounds BIG. Like, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY big
  
And exciting! And scary! but mostly exciting! So what am I gonna write about? Well you'll probably just have to wait and see!  Cruel aren't I? I suppose I could tell you a little....
It will be historical fiction taking place in NZ - but that's all for now :D

Photo Courtesy

I think I will. But I really need your prayers. I'm stepping on new ground here. Thank you for praying, and I hope you understand if I don't post very much (though I can't say as I post all that much anyways. : / ) in the next month! And hey, maybe you'll join me? I love having friends writing with me, even if we're writing different things! -The more the merrier!

P.S. I'd love to know what you think of my adventure in doing this crazy thing called writing a novel in thirty days! Have any thoughts on the subject? Any tips? Comment below; and thanks a lot!

ok results [drum roll]

Well mostly it was no, it shouldn't be hers.

But I've done some thinking. And for a while I was thinking it should be hers but then, the child would be young and it didn't quite fit for her to have a child growing up with her after the story is finished.
But I'm gonna make it so everyone thinks it's hers. Well, probably.    

A bit of a vote aka HELP!!!!!

ok so I am writing a story behind some of your backs and I've got a bit that I want your opinion on.

Should the main girl have a child?
as in borne of her, or should it be someone else's?

Please comment asp!!!!
Tiffany

Holidays for you

Pretty good. Late mornings [er later] Friends, sunny days [that suddenly turn overcast]  Franticly sewing dance costumes for a concert [that's in a week] Reading -sort of. And making up dances

No I don't get to be half as lazy as all that, I don't get half as much internet time :-( The dance is a pure workout being 3 and a half minutes long [ages for a dance] Sewing is difficult, all the pattern's fault -Truly! I am quite good at sewing, but there is such things called terribly confusing things written on paper that my sewing teacher can't figure out -and I have the best sewing teacher IN THE WORLD.
-well the nicest.
We also have hours of weeding.
So there is some really nice things about holidays and so really nice things about terms.
There's also something really nice about having help ex -they make yummy foreign food from the stuff you have in your cupboard [not that fancy stuff they put in world recipe books] oh and lots more nice things about them [it's just if they keep changing their mind about coming, constantly, that is annoying!]
So as you can guess we have help ex here. From China, as of yesterday, really nice we had the most delicous lunch.

Oh and I wrote this post with the hopes of it being less boring than my others and to tell you that yes I'm alive and typing.

-Miss Tiffany

room tyding

So much for doing it she canceled the flight two days before she was coming. This has happened three times :-(
which is really bad as I have to move out of my room. Well not any more :-)
-slightly annoyed Tiffany 

er um whoopsys

I forgot about posting the story from storyteller so if your sick of waiting you can read the whole lot in
two days over at JOJ

which has quite a few posts on it now! :-)

Long overdue ballet exam results

That shocked both me and my teacher.

here was the email, you know the kind that people see and start screaming over:

WELL DONE TIFFANY - YOU GOT DISTINCTION!! 

THE REPORT does not have marks as such, it has 4 categories - fail, pass, merit and DISTINCTION!!!! 

I am so impressed with that!!

So now we're on to concert work

and I'm making up a 3&1/2 min dance which is lonnnnnnnnnnggggg [in dancing circles] for a different concert [Raise]

Awesome music, you'll get to see it if you come to the Ballet concert ;-)

I plan to do the spilts in it [*plan*]

so if you're interested here's a thing that will [supposedly help you do it in a week]

Try having a light cardio for 4-5 minutes. Then go into light, easy stretches such as touching your toes (or going as close as you can) ten times while breathing deeply. Then separate your legs a little take a deep breath, touch the floor (or as close as you can get without ANY pain), then exhale. Repeat five times. Then sit on the floor with legs together and touch your toes once more doing the breathing technique aforementioned. Repeat five times. Then separate your legs and reach for you left leg, the the the floor in front of you then your other leg.

After warming up your legs, begin kneeling lunges. Go as far as you can, stop, take a deep breath and then slow flex and unflex the muscle. Then do a reverse lunge (as performed in video I'll link you to). Then repeat your kneeling lunges. This should last around five minutes. Then put your back foot against a couch or chair (know as Lunge with back leg against a wall/box on the site I'm going to link you to). Repeat three times resting between each one. Now go into your split as far as you can without pain (you should just feel tension and/or slight pain or slight uncomfort). Then pull up, relax for thirty seconds, stand up and shake your legs, and then repeat your lunges for around a minute, do your split and hold for thirty seconds once more. Then repeat everything with your other leg.

For side splits. You should do frog stretches butterflies, and then v-sit stretches mentioned in the warm-up. Then do side ways lunges and then push up, with hips square and knees pointed to the ceiling, against a wall. Then hold for one minute. Repeat this three times. Then go into a straddle split as you would normally and hold for thirty seconds.

Cool down. Just use the stretches from your warm-up but backwards slowly, and carefully. This transitions your body from excercising mode and reduces chance of injury.

Helpful Links:

http://www.body-fizzeek.co.uk/splits.htm

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pVq9nL_tLbo

P.S.: You may feel numbness during stretching which is GOOD it means your doing the exercises properly. Also, the next morning you may have slight soreness. This is because your body isn't used to stretch but eventually it will. If this happens don't stretch to intensely. But do stretch. Just do your warm-up and cool-down (the first paragraph is warm up, second is front splits, third is side splits, and fourth is cool down). If you continue to feel discomfort after exercising it means your doing it wrong, too fast/to hard for your body, or your warm-up/cool-down isn't long enough. Just relax for a day, and then start anew with a longer warm-up, less intense stretching, and a longer cool down.

Hope I helped  

There done finally 

Hello!

Hello!
I'm this crazy person who is doing a random post and touch typing cause she can't do much else as she went snowboarding yesterday [for the first time] and has the most painful arms, ever [no I assure you snowboarding is fun if you can get up the rope pully things again, which is not me :P the down coming bit is awesome fun] my arms are sore because as a beginner you spend more time on your bum. Which has a lot to do with my arms? Yes, because if you are falling forwards you have to land knees first then elbows [the whole of the lower arm is straight or else you can break it] and after doing that goodness knows how many times your whole body starts to ache [specially the day after]
ok so that was my random post, I'll have to go tidy up my room we have help ex's coming at the beginning of next month.
Miss Tiffany