Steampunk Video

This is the official video for Lovett's Eye of the Storm directed by Christopher Alender, from the soon to be released debut album, Highway Collection. It embodies the heart and soul of steampunk in its brief five minutes. The video lends itself to the imagination, leaving so many questions about the character and his actions. I could see him being the main character of a book or movie. Enjoy!





 

What I learned from FAILING NaNoWriMo 2010

Well, week one was almost too easy.  I was sitting high on my throne, looking down at the common man and laughing.

Ah, such skill.  I won't even need 30 days! I thought to myself.


Then real life rolled over me, backed up and rolled over me again.  Enough of my excuses.  This is what I learned from FAILING NaNoWriMo 2010:

1. Setting goals is good.  Winging it is bad. When I wrote I wrote well, but I allowed myself to begin to slack when I thought it was going too easy.  Sticking to the 1,667+ words a day is an attainable goal...if you hold yourself to it.


2. I sometimes have the attention span of a 5th grader. When I set a goal which requires a consistent output as in NaNoWriMo, I need to remove distraction.  No cell phone beeping incessantly with text and email.  No TV. No Facebook or gaming breaks.  Not until the work is done.


3. I am not a seat of the pants writer, I need an outline. I think the idea of people just writing, letting the words/characters lead them, is an overly romanticized notion.  I'd love for it to work that way, but as well as I did write, I know now it would have gone better if I'd had better focus and direction.  Not that the story won't take a twist or a turn on its own, or even take a new direction entirely, but I need a road map so I at least end up in the right state.

NaNoWriMo 2010, Day 7

Well it's the end of week one.  I haven't kept wholly on task, but I am happy with my progress.  It has been a busy week and I still managed 6500+ words.  I will try and catch up to my original goal next week.






Current Word Count: 6538

Words to Go: 43,500 minus a couple

Cups of Coffee: 1

Hours Spent Writing Today: 1

Number of Breaks Taken: None

Number of Characters Killed: 1

Number of Times Writers’ Block Occurred: None!

Number of Times I Almost Gave Up: Not once.

Number of Chapters: 3

Favorite Character of the Day: Jor still, he was the reason this story developed

My Morality Level: Doing well, wishing we didn't start the bathroom remodel this week, but it was planned.

NaNoWriMo 2010, Day 6

Well, no real update today.  The weekends are hard to fit in writing especially with a bathroom remodel going on.  The one thing I have learned is to plan ahead and write more going into the weekend.  This way I can relax knowing I hit the week's target.  Instead I just feel I'll be playing catch up this week.  Hope everyone else is having a good NaNo week.  As always thanks for all the comments and tweets.

NaNoWriMo 2010, Day 5

Well, I am averaging about 1,200 words a day which isn't as much as I'd like, but its steady.  I am very happy that I haven't been discouraged by the low word count, I feel like this story is going somewhere.  The support from the other writers and NaNo'ers on Twitter has been amazing.  It has kept me going.  So thanks to all of you.  On a side note, the wife wants to start the bathroom remodel this weekend...doesn't she understand its November, lol.


Current Word Count: 6013

Words to Go: 44,000 minus a couple

Cups of Coffee: 0

Hours Spent Writing Today: 1

Number of Breaks Taken: None

Number of Characters Killed: 1

Number of Times Writers’ Block Occurred: None!

Number of Times I Almost Gave Up: Not once.

Number of Chapters: 2

Favorite Character of the Day: Jor, the MC, though I am liking Amaelia more and more

My Morality Level: Still impressed, making good progress

NaNoWriMo 2010, Day 4

Was hoping to get in a little more writing tonight, but forgot me and the wife have a benefit to go to tonight.  I guess I will have to let today stand as it is.







Current Word Count: 5342

Words to Go: To many to think about yet

Cups of Coffee: 1

Hours Spent Writing Today: 1 1/4

Number of Breaks Taken: None

Number of Characters Killed: None yet

Number of Times Writers’ Block Occurred: None!

Number of Times I Almost Gave Up: Not once.

Number of Chapters: 1

Favorite Character of the Day: Jor, the MC, though I am liking Amaelia more and more

My Morality Level: Still impressed, making good progress

NaNoWrimo 2010, Day 3

Worked all night on the graveyard shift, so wrote when I got home.  Was able to churn out 956 quality words.  I was happy with that.  I was worried I'd be too tired, but once I sat my ass in the chair the words just flowed.  Actually had to stop myself so I could get some sleep.  All in all a good word count, always wish it was more, but content for today.




Current Word Count: 3676

Words to Go: Many many

Cups of Coffee: 0

Hours Spent Writing Today: 1 1/4

Number of Breaks Taken: None

Number of Characters Killed: None yet

Number of Times Writers’ Block Occurred: None!

Number of Times I Almost Gave Up: Not once.

Number of Chapters: 1

Favorite Character of the Day: Jor, the MC, though I am liking Amaelia more and more

My Morality Level: Happy, making good progress