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I have absolutely no idea what I've done for myself in past couple of weeks. Remember going to my friend's wedding, but nothing after it. Work was (surprisingly) busy. Just finished my 2-day training on Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009. It was boring, but allowed me to come home early and have a speedy recovery from my regular Monday syndrome. (Downton Abbey helped a lot with that as well!)

Wanted to update about a lot of things but nothing interesting is happening. Sometimes I think I have this paid account for nothing. LOL.

I should update my scrapbook and get ready for the "end of year review" post I'll do on Friday! (or Saturday.) Last year's was so much fun!

Started watching Hawaii Five-0. It's delightful! ♥ I love Danny and adore the Danny/Steve dynamic. Also Grace Park, you have the most beautiful smile and Kono is badass. I'm still towards the end of Season 1 so no spoilers please.

I haven't written a single word for 3 weeks (maybe more, not sure), it's bad. I thought I was done with my writer's block. I guess it's not that easy.

Also, I'm reading all of your entries, but too lazy to comment on all, sorry if you think I'm one of your invisible friends, I am not, I promise! I just don't know what to say most of the time. *hugs you all*

People keep asking me what I'm doing for new year's eve and my answer is "nothing, hanging with the family" as usual. It's not like I want to go out and spend it with a bunch of strangers in a stuffed club, but it feels weird after sometime to tell people I have NO PLANS for ANY SPECIAL DAY EVER.

Meeeh, whatever.

Oh and merry belated Christmas to all! I'm more active on Twitter so I usually forget to celebrate special days on here. Oh LJ, why can't I use you more frequently? Why? I think it's the downtime issue. Hopefully it won't happen again anytime soon. I love LJ and I really don't want to leave here even though I'm barely around as it is.

I finally gave in to katayla's rather strong and persistent suggestions and joined getyourwordsout.

It's a place where you pledge to write certain number of words throughout the year. It's interactive, so you have to let them know your word count every month. It's not a contest, but it's surely a good way of keeping yourself in track.

I for one, love tracking my word count and writing towards a word count goal, so yeah, that's pretty awesome for me. BUT, I kinda chickened out and pledged for 150K only :P You have 150, 200, 250, 300 and 350K (which is "insane").

Just a friendly promotion :D Go pledge, then request to join and write! May 2011 bring you lots of awesome ideas and a ton of words to write ♥

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45798 / 50000 words. 92% done! 100% done.

I can't write anymore. The very last sentece I wrote was just the perfect ending at a perfect time ♥ Also, I won't be attempting to do any more NaNo after this one. It just doesn't make sense and after 3 years of not winning, I don't want to do it anymore :))) It's not for me.

ON AN A LOT HAPPIER NOTE: I CAN NOW WRITE THE STORY I'VE BEEN DYING OVER FOR WEEKS NOW! YAY! A WHOLE WEEK TO WRITE MY LOVELY ♥

43337 / 50000 words. 87% done!

Gonna finish this tomorrow. I'm determined. Good night, people!

Another year, another November and another NaNoWriMo! Are you participating?

I'm going in with my current novel. Just updated my word count and it's obvious I'm cheating =)) 32K in one night is just not realistic at all.

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Good luck to everyone who's participating this year. Let us be all winners! :D

I love my new layout. It's absolutely unreadble at times, but do I care? Not a bit. It looks so dreamy and fluffy ♥

I'll be out today to send glenien's external hard drive to a data recovery center. I feel her pain, really. I remember when I dropped mine and lost everything. And I didn't even bother to send it to a recovery place. (Just cried.) (Expensive shit is expensive.)

Ramadan holiday is coming! Tomorrow afternoon we go home and spend the next 4 and a half days relaxing. Oh yes. Well, we have to go to the other side of the city to vote for the referandum on constitutional changes (which is something extremely important in Turkey nowadays), but it's on Sunday so I don't care. I don't like Sundays anyway.

I'm listening to Whisperings Solo Piano radio on iTunes. It.is.a-amazing. Also I'm planning on reading more from The Book Thief today. It's pretty awesome.

Oh and I finished one of my stories last weekend! I feel so good about it and now I can start writing the next one! I have so many incomplete stories I need to finish... *sigh*

It's been really long since I've made a decent update, so I will categorize the stuff on my mind and let you all know how my life is going. I know you're interested (even though it's not going to be as exciting as I'm hoping it would be).

Let's go;

REAL LIFE:

My life lately consists of only 2 things: ( Heat and work. )

WRITING:

I've written 2 chapters worth of stuff 2 weeks ago >=/
I want to write more. I want to finish my current story and move on to the next one until I have nothing waiting in the queue of my mind. It's almost impossible, but I have hope. One day I'm going to look at my writing folder and see only one word document that is incomplete. ONE DAY IT'LL HAPPEN GUYS, I KNOW IT!

FAMILY:

My family literally abandoned me this weekend.( I hate staying alone in the house. )

TV:

Aside from my regular summer shows (True Blood, Drop Dead Diva and WEEDS!!) I tried watching Covert Affairs. It didn't click with me. I really like both leading actors, but it feels so artificial to me, so I gave up after 4 and a half episodes. I think I'm still stuck at the Alias phase.

READING:

I'm still reading Harry Potter. Yeah, I know. BUT THOSE BOOKS ARE HUGE! I've recently finished The Goblet of Fire and I still couldn't pass the first few chapters of The Order of the Phoenix. It's going to take me a lot longer to go through that one big ass novel. I feel like sitting down and reading a book is a waste of time compared to writing one, but since I CAN'T DO THAT EITHER it makes me sad. And mad. I'm smad.

FRIENDS:

I don't want to go out because it's too hot. Therefore I don't call anyone and nobody calls me either.

OTHER STUFF:

I'm constantly in a "meh" mood. I want to feel better. As soon as the weather gets better--AND BY "BETTER" I MEAN "COLDER"--I'll be fine, but that particular period of time seems so far away at this point. I'm annoyed.

Yup, this is it. My mind feels a lot organized at the moment, thanks for listening.

Thanks to chicaintcheap I saw this video where one of my favourite Turkish writers, Elif Şafak (Shafak) gave the most inspiring talk about writing and going beyond borders and cultures with stories.

It's a ~20 minute long speech, but I guarantee that you will want more when it ends. Please watch, especially if you write.

You can go ahead and download the video from the main page as well: http://www.ted.com/talks/elif_shafak_the_politics_of_fiction.html

( Some of my thoughts... )

I'm reading On Writing by Stephen King and I want to share what he thinks about "plot", because it's very close to my ideas.

Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice. The story which results from it is apt to feel artificial and labored.

( The rest... )

Use Notepad as a Diary:

1. Open a blank Notepad file

2. Write .LOG as the first line of the file, followed by a enter. Save the file and close it.

3. Double-click the file to open it and notice that Notepad appends the current date and time to the end of the file and places the cursor on the line after.

4. Type your notes and then save and close the file.

5. Each time you open the file, Notepad repeats the process.