It's officially autumn, fall, coldfoggyalmostsnowylovelybirthdayseason .. or whatever you want to call it. Finally. Very obviously my favourite season. I'd even name my daughter (if I ever have one) Autumn if I didn't think it was a rather ominous name to give to an infant.
Anyone who's started following me recently might enjoy reading my old deviantion about summer [link] to understand why I'm so thrilled about fall. Whee!

I put my shoutbox back up, give me a shout so they aren't all from -07.

I'm writing a novel (well I've been a wannabe novelist here for so long I finally changed it to novelist just to get myself going). It's a story about failed relationships and making amends I've been carrying around in my head for a really long time, but things never really felt right upon writing it. So today I tried something new - writing in Norwegian. And out poured a perfect chapter. Or atleast a perfect first draft of a chapter. Believe it or not, I have never written anything in my mother toungue, I have a far better vocabulary in English so tend to stick with that. But it seems to be working so far. Not sure what laguage the book will end up now, as I'll have to do some translating no matter what I do.

There's been an election in Norway, and I feel sad. My dear Liberal democratic party fell to under 4%. I may cry. (This is where I should probably add that we have a multiparty system in Norway, and 8 main parties. 4% can happen to some smaller parties)
*sniffle* I may have to become politically active just to prevent this from ever happening again.


So, how's life? Want a feature? Stumbled upon anything really good that needs to be shared lately? Have a writing prompt for me?

EDIT: I don't understand the new system for journal skins. Enlighten me someone pwease? There used to be a section where you put in the code but it's, um, gone...?

EDIT#2 Ok. Found it. I was being slow. As per usual. *sigh*


First: a rant

Either I aged tremendously while I was away, or. Or nothing really.

Why does every 'new' writer I stumble upon (I'm trying to find more people to watch) seem to hold grammar and form in complete disregard, whilst simultaneously being allergic to capital letters?

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH CAPS AND THEY ARE NOT OPTIONAL DAMN YOU

And no one seems to want to improve either, and even fewer seem to say anything constructive in their comments. Welcome to the world of big fat generalisations.

But still? What's with people?

_{(if I do still follow you despite lack of caps, it means you must be good enough to make me forget my boundless annoyance. Good for you)}

And now

A feature!

~Inallgoodtime Go read some good poetry. Go on. I know you want to.
What's that? Too many poems and you have no idea where to start? He is prolific, I know. Oh well, I'll give you somewhere to start. [link] [link] [link] and especially [link]

(I can't get thumbs to work. Do I need to get that pesky subscription back for that?)

Other stuff

I'm coming up to 7000 page views in a day or so. I feel this warrants some sort of celebration

If I should suddenly disappear for weeks on end it's because I'm going into the Navy for a year and have no idea how free time and internet access etc will impact on my activity levels. I'll still be around.

I'm posting links to all my NaPoWriMo poems at the bottom of this journal!



Well as a matter of fact, I do like Mudkip. But how did my secret-under-the-covers-late-at-night playing of pokémon get known to all of dA? I wonder..

NaPoWriMo

Yes yes, I'm in. Regretting it already! I've decided to post all my lousy poetry as scraps, and some of the more acceptable ones as deviations. And it's not even a stupid April Fools thing.


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