I am officially ONE THOUSAND two hundred and nine words above my neccesary word quotas. I have the irresistible urge to say BOO FREAKING YAH!!!1!, but, I don't say boo-yah.

So instead, I say:

BWA.

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...I've been making sure to do juuuust a tiiiny bit more than needed each day, and it adds up and it's lovely. Only apparently one of the days I just went a bit over what my total was supposed to be by that point, instead of adding it on to the previous day's total, because now that NaNo's widgets are finally up and running, I see that I was a tiny bit short of 1,667 words one day. (The other big red splotch is because their site was down for the better part of a day and I couldn't update my word count.) But not a big deal, I was ahead of schedule any which way. *dancing all over* I cannot even believe how well this is going. I'm actually getting quite terrified, that I'm going to hit several days where I'm just scraaaaaaping for words. But I've already had a few of those, and really it's just been an issue of getting into a scene and then getting bored and not knowing how to get out.

I suppose I can always kill people again, that seemed to work. >_<;

But I seriously have paaaaages and pages of ideas, some good some utterly cheesy and craptastic, of Phisto things to write. Some are as awesome as failed attempts to give themselves wings again, some are as ridiculous as pirates landing on some obscure island and finding a lil hermit of a Phisto hiding from the world. (Is it bad that I actually reallyreally kind of like the latter idea? pirates!)

I'm rather frustrated that I couldn't for the life of me get into writing Mackie, he just felt so flat and I haven't the faintest what I was doing wrong. Meanwhile Veri? is beautiful. I'm in love with writing his character and I don't know why, I didn't like him at all! He was so one-dimensional!

Holy hell do I love what NaNo creates. ^__________^

I also think I might be actually showing Luce the way I want to have him be - very mysterious and devious, even for a Phisto. No-one really knows quite what he's thinking, and I absolutely love that.

Of course, now I'm nervous as hell to actually write his pov at any point... but I did it in a short story, prior to NaNo - which I have yet to post on AnJ, but rest assured I will because I *love* it. It's a scene more than a story, the sort of lovely little pointless atmospheric thing that I adore.

Plus it's Mackie and Luce, with their dark pasts hanging low and ominous over them.

<333

...I still wonder why I love the things I do about these characters. Their appreciation of beauty, the artistry and sense of the dramatic, is I suppose the main link. And really, prettiness goes an awful long way with me. But still, their world is SO, so different from mine, and while that of course has its own appeal.. I don't know. They're such polar opposites from me, but such a part of me.

Hurrah for artistic MPD! XD