I'm doing National Writing Something Month.  My goal is just to write something every day.  Not that I think anyone particularly cares, but I'm going to do brief posts every evening charting my progress, as a way to keep myself accountable.  I'm only counting original projects; no fanfic.

The Orphan Queen (novel): 20,054 words --> 20, 583 words --> daily total: 529 words
The Fall (tv pilot): 0 pages --> 6 pages --> daily total: 6 pages
The Burning Brand (screenplay): 11 pages --> 11 pages --> daily total: 0 pages
Untitled Zombie Screenplay: 0 pages --> 0 pages --> daily total: 0 pages

In the future, I'll just post the last two options for each.  So, 500 words and 6 pages on two projects is a pretty damned good start, I think!  (Especially since I did almost all of that at work.)
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I never finish old memes before I start new ones.  Expect three entries before I get bored and wander someplace else.  Grabbed this meme from sonneta.

01. A fictional character you identify with and why.

I was in high school the first time I read the Mars Trilogy, and the series impacted me in a lot of different ways - it made me think about history as something living, as culture and government and society as something we create while we live in it, about conservation and environmentalism and how those aren't always the same thing.  But one thing that immediately struck me the most, and has stayed with me the most over the years, is my huge and undying love for Sax Russell.  He's my favorite fictional character from any medium - books, TV, film - for a variety of reasons.  One big thing that I identify with him is the way he is a very logical, pragmatic person who is also very emotional, even if no one else realizes it.  I'd spent quite a few years by that point trying to make myself more popular, believing that I had to be Miss Bubbles and Butterflies and tamp down those parts of myself that were too cold or rational or unfeeling if people were going to like me.  I can't honestly say that I had some kind of eureka! moment after reading the books that made me decide to be myself, but this was definitely one of the steps along the way.
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First, an ickle music meme.

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload) 5(ish) songs you love that begin with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

tictactardis gave me the letter W, so here you go:

1. The Arcade Fire - "Wake Up"
2. Bush - "Watching the Cables Sleep"
3. John Williams - "Welcome to Jurassic Park"
4. Janelle Monáe - "Wondaland"
5. Gogol Bordello - "Wonderlust King"

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If anyone's looking for a new show to watch, maybe over the holidays when things are on hiatus, I cannot recommend Raising Hope enough.  Last night I literally slapped my knee - slapped my knee! - I was laughing so hard, and when the episode was over I had a big grin on my face.  It is just too cute for words.

I may just squeak by on my new books goal, but barring a marathon I probably will just miss new TV; no chance in hell on movies, but I never get anywhere close.  Ah well - it's more about my love of lists and meta and being able to keep track of things than to actually try and meet these arbitrary goals.

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The last time I posted my new media lists was way back at the end of July, and I didn't really have that many readers of this LJ at that time.  So, basically, I've been keeping track of the new books I read, movies I see, and scripted TV I watch for three years now.  At first I started it because it was a really popular meme, but I've kept doing it for two reasons.  One: I like keeping track of things.  I like lists.  I don't know.  Two: It's really helpful to know where I am in both book series and TV shows, if I end up letting time pass.  So right now, there are two different series that I've wandered away from, and it's really easy to look back and say, which was the last book I read?  And just look it up, instead of going to the library and reading the back covers and trying to remember.  Same with TV.  Right now, I'm like, what the hell was the last episode of Dexter I watched?  Since it's been, oh, six months or so since I last watched an episode.

So I mostly just post these for my own benefit.  Feel under no obligation to read and/or comment.

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