So What Now?

Well, I'm done The Host and have no plans to continue with the other Twilight books again. I'll probably go back to doing fairy tales again until I find Left Behind. But not for awhile. I'm doing JulNoWriMo this month, and it hasn't been going too well. I've had writer's block from the very BEGINNING, which never happens to me. It's supposed to go very, very well from the beginning, until about 20K when writer's block sets in. But whatever. I was at 10K yesterday, and I had to write 6K today because my friend is coming over for the next two days (my two days off) and I didn't want to get any more behind than I was already. With the help of the beautiful, BEAUTIFUL, Write or Die (http://lab.drwicked.com/writeordie.html) I'm finally caught up. The point of all this is that I won't have time to update my blog until next month. I'll try to update a few times before then, but I'm not expecting much. For today's post, I have my nanoisms already collected from JulNoWriMo:

Another one emerged from the door of the pod. This one was a close approximation of Jo-Jo the Dog Faced Boy. He had a short, dog-like snout, and his face was covered entirely with thick, black, wiry fur. His eyes were human, belying his animal-like exterior. Rounding out the trio was your basic tall, willowy, green-skinned alien babe with soft features and Medusa-like tentacles radiating from her head.
These aliens are “like” a lot of things. I need some new adjectives.

“It’s not a big deal,” I said. I wasn’t being honest.
Actually, she wasn’t being modest.

In the year since, I dropped out of school, my career died before it had a chance to stop
Or, you know, start.

Puke in voice. Not good.
Ha ha, I don’t even remember writing this! I meant face. Puke in voice makes absolutely no sense.

Long story short: Cooper, my brother’s girlfriend, Veronica, my childhood friend who had been committed, Jake, and I destroyed the headquarters and bim bam boom, the aliens left and the plot was foiled.
Am I the only one who’s confused about who’s who?

It was a small, silver sphere with an awning looking thing (?) bisecting it.
I am so bad at description. I’m not even kidding. Trying to describe the flying saucer, I gave up and went with “awning looking thing.” In retrospect, I’m also not sure my use of the word “bisecting” is correct either.

“Pretty cool, huh? Too bad no one on Earth, told us.”
I don’t remember writing this at all. I think I meant something along the lines of “Too bad no one on Earth knows” but how “told us” came out of that, I have no idea. Random comma, too.

“Yeah, they told me about that,” I said. “Pretty cool, huh? Too bad no one on knows. It would have been nice to have been appreciated.”
“Well, we saved the world,” I said.
Because she’s suddenly schizophrenic.

“SETI?” I said. “Liar. SETI was disbanded in the nineties after the government realized it served absolutely no purpose.”
This is a lie. SETI was never disbanded. I just wanted her to sound intelligent/amp up my word count.

“You’re a fan of her book?” Cooper asked?
I don’t know, did he?

“I’ve read both books so many times that it feels like I was there through the whole adventures.”
“I’ve read them so many times I’ve lost all concept of grammar!”

“Because I like to sound more intelligent than I actually am, and using actually distractions
LOL. I’m only half paying attention to this right now, because I’m watching Stargate SG-1. He is actually using “actual directions.”

“He has a point,” Veronica said. “You can’t just go up to a ask and ask what they’re going undercover for.”
Just noticed this one. You actually can’t go up to a cop, not an ask, whatever that is.

"We're not going to do this just out of the goodness of our hurts and an implicit belief in your word," Veronica said.
This is a direct product of Write or Die.