Ahem.
Just a brief note to update you on how the work is progressing. So far, every book has been longer than the one before. The first book was about 75,000 words, and Mortal Coil was over 100,000. With Book 6, I'm planning on continuing that trend, but I don't know by how much.
I've been working away at the first section of the story, the first quarter of the book, dipping in an out of scenes and chapters... Even though, officially, I started this book on November 6th, a lot of things have been taking up my time, so I've really only been able to seriously write in the past week. And in the past week I've written almost 20,000 words. That's roughly a fifth of the book, and I've done it in six days.
I am on a ROLL.
Praise be to me!
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(octa whispers to nicolette)
what was that? I can't hear you!
Kallista, it's quarter past six, all the hair dressers are closed.
Drink driving is a bad idea... DRUNK driving is a different matter :D
*gets random ferarri, drives off in it*
Cool! You get a computer to count up all those words right? I am just imagining you counting ALL of those words......
Can you make the pages of the next book thinner because my arms get sore holding it up because it's so heavy and every time I turn a page I think I have turned two pages.
Hello everyone.
*sobs*
I DON'T LIKE CREEEAAAMMM!
*wipes the pie off face, drives off in the ferarri*
Sigh. *Shoots the Ferraris wheels out*
Hey Tanith.
I'll ask my mum if she'll bring me tomorrow, Kallista.
*drives in the ferarri with burst tyres*
WEEEEE!!!
*tries to point at Kallista as he drives past*
I'm not happy, but I AM happy being drunk :D
Wow.... I can see that there is a lot of action going on here....
*Whispers to Dragona* Your spelling ferrari wrong.
Hmmmm who should I side with?
I AM THE ACTION MUHAHAHA!
*crashes into a tree, Dragona flies through the windscreen, falls off a cliff, dies*
I WAS the action...
*ghost of Dragona flies around the room*
*Sprays black paint on the windscreen of the Ferrari*
I KNOW I'm spelling Ferrari wrong... I AM drunk :P
*flies around the room more*
Ah, too late. *Blows up the Ferrari. builds a bonfire and starts shooting Kallista with a marshmallow gun*
You don't happen to know Bert, the ghost. He was one of my friends from the stone age times.
GHOSTY ME!
*has a conversation with bert*
SHES SPECIAL BECAUSE SHE HAS NO PATTERNS NO TAIL AND IS TOO SMALL BUT I LOVE HER ANYWAY!
999,999,999 marchmallows bounce off Kallista's nose and get toasted on the bonfire* Mmmmmmmm, marshmallows.
*cries*
I HAD SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR... WAIT, NO I DIDN'T... I HAD THIS BLOG TO LIVE FOR!
Aw.... look at little Tilly. *Tilly eats one of the marshmallows*
Ok I think I will side with Dragona because he knows Bert.
*Octaboona runs screaming in*
I want some of the action
*has a teaparty with death*
Wait no she
I think
I AM dead you know Odile...
*Brings Dragona back to life with magic* This blog is awesome, you should live for it. And how would you have turned the pages of the SP books if your hand goes through them. LIVE I SAY!
dragona's a boy :)
*Gets ready to fight with a toothpick and a bin lid.*
ok I was right the first time (sorry)
*when Octa comes in, Dragona holds his fist out, Octa's face walks into the fist, Octa falls to the floor*
*Whispers to Tanith* Dragona's a boy. Who throw people and is six foot four.
Dragona, faces can't walk.
Well good thing I am on his side then
You didn't know I was a boy?
*looks shocked*
How could you!?
No... but Octa can...
*Goes in search of a better weapon.*
But you said 'Octa's face walks into the fist' and faces can't walk.
Mine
Well I thought you were but then I thought I was wrong because you said you cried and then I thought I was right again.
COOL!! New page!
*tries to get out Sigmus 9, remembers it is crushed in a landfill site after Dragona proved he didn't love it*
Damn... never should have done that... but it shut Lunar up on THAT thing... but Lunar NEVER shuts up... until Flo shredded her :P and I HELPED...
*Kills the banana peels and eats all of Kallista's amo*
*Finds Sting (Frodo's sword) and gets ready again.*
Hi Kallista...
Starts fencing with some random person.
*Stares at Dragona in bafflement. Gives him a new Sigmus 9 that has unlimited amo of................................................ hats*
Where are you Kallista? Are you still there?
Don't you mean bullets? I don't want hats :P
What on EARTH is a Sigmus 9?!
A type of gun
Oh yes battle...
My sword glows as it swipes towards Kalista's neck.
Like ak47 (the only one I know)
A Sigmus 9 is a GoldenEye weapon, in real life, it's counterpart is called the Heckler and Koch MP5A3, it is a Submachine gun made in west germany, 800 bullets a minuite and effective range is 200m...
NO DRAGONA DON'T START OR I WILL SWITCH TO KALLISTA'S SIDE!
Suddenly realises what she has done and askes her ghost friend Bert to bring Kallista back.
*uses magic yorkshire pudding to return Kallista to zombie life*
Brb for maybe 15mins...
i'm back
but i have to go now
performing in a concert
i play trombone btw
bye all!
Wow! You play trombone! I play horn. Good luck.
Bye Octaboona, good luck in the concert.
Bye guys. I have to have dinner and then I'm studying so I won't be nack for a while. BYE!!
Ok I a switching sides... I don't think I can face another lecture of gibberish on Golden Eye from Dragona. Forgive me Kallista.
nack hehe!
Bye
Oh! Well everyone might alwell go because I am going too. (Dinner.)
Bye everyone.
The table isn't even laid yet so I guess I can Have another 5 minutes!
Eating lunch at half six?
BOY: Miss, you look incredibly old
DRAMA TEACHER: I'm OK with that. I AM old.
BOY 2: Miss, he's just called you incredibly OLD.
DRAMA TEACHER: And I'm fine with that.
BOY 3: It's OK, Miss, you don't look a day over 21!
:)
Just popped on :)
I have to do last weeks homework :(
Kallista will your story be up tonight?
Ah! Cool! It's weird to think that it is lunchtime where you are and dinnertime where I am. America is awesome. Ok, dinner is now officially ready so bye!
thanks Kallista :D
ENGLISH TEACHER: Mainly, people's targets are to vary sentences. But I remember 1 person, I can't remember their name, used repetition in a great way. Would the person like to put their hand up to show who they are?
*ME: Head shrinks down and face goes bright red*
ENGLISH TEACHER: They must have gone shy...
Do you know when you realise something? Like a moment of realisation? I just had one... I realise that you guys must be fed up of me talking about GoldenEye and guns 24/7, I'm sorry for it, I'll stop it, I don't mean for you guys to start hating me, it's just that finding something to talk about on here is hard, and I've got nothing else really to think about... sorry guys...
Anyone on?
hey Dragona
Hi Lizzy...
NO.
but If I was I'd ruffle your hair and tell you to stop being so silly and that you have nothing to worry about .. beside I don't mind .. then I would scream because I'd be dangling a foot off the ground after being stuck in your hair
I saw your big comment above, its ok if you want to talk about guns, I'm a gun nut to :)
I know you mind really Nicolette... I will stop it...
LOL Nicolette
And Thrice made it pretty clear your happier without me... without anyone to spread depression...
*rolls eyes* what a load of BS
He said it...
I'm worried
I'm sure my English teacher gave me homework
But my friend says that she didn't
I never wrote anything down
But I've got a feeling that we have homework
And she's not nice to people who forget their homework...
ok, its still BS
He said something like "On this blog, we're all too happy, you bring us down, in a good way" how is that good? It makes me feel worse...
Ask another one of your friends, or someone in your class
Hi Lunar...
*army of Dragona clones march to her shouting "Shred, shred, shred"*
:P
I have nobody in my classes' numbers, and it's due tomorrow!
dude, i'm not going to play shrink so cheer up and move on to another topic that won't make you depressed, if it happens to be Golden Eye or Guns so be it.
*opens door for Dragona*
Age before beauty
:P
ummmm... call in sick
I said I'm not going to talk about it Lizzy... I know you guys are fed up with it... so what DO you want to talk about?
*goes in after Lunar*
Thankyou :P
But I'm going for 100% attendance!
Since, I've never got 100% before
Yeh... my attendance must be pretty bad, with like a month off with my illness which hasn't seemed to go away yet...
But you're OLDER than my Dragona
That means that if I go in after you, you're ANCIENT
So much so, that you can't be more beautiful than anyone
:P
be back in 50 mins watching a python be disected :D
*shrugs*
Shut up Lunar... I am very... Dragona-ish...
ugggg! its snowing out :/
I just always go on holiday
:P
And my friend, who's only a few months older than me, she'll let me past and say: Beauty before age
She just twists the saying, and that's why beauty before age goes on my FAVOURITE SAYINGS list :)
Yep, I have one
*OK... typos grr... that was a HUGE typo...
*stabs typo*
I've just realised something... haven't you noticed they're more girls than boys on this blog? I mean, I'm the ONLY boy on now... I think...
I realised a while ago
Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
Satchel Paige
All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
Casey Stengel
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp
That doesn't make sense Lizzy... Aeroplanes, if they kill you, WILL hurt you...
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Lily Tomlin
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
Laurence J. Peter
And the failure one is the one I UNDERSTAND!
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudner
It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
Dave Barry
Can you stop posting random quotes please... sorry, it's just quite irritating after a while...
My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.
Emo Philips
Hmm...
heheheee I'm annoying!
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
Mitch Hedberg
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Ellen DeGeneres
Hmm...
*sits in corner, face in hands, waiting for someone who doesn't post quotes to come on*
My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
Mike Myers
ok, ok, ok. last one:
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis
Hmm...
YES, you've done!
i have stopped posting quotes (for the time being)
Lol...
now i'm bored...
Hey Kallista!
1. I am not cute
2. I said I would stop talking about the crap that I was doing, it was obvious you guys didn't like it, and soon you would start hating me.
3. I know what Thrice meant, but it DID make me feel unwanted...
1. you are cute
2. we will never hate you
3. who cares what Thrice said
Kallista, your fanfic isn't lame! It's epic! One of the best I've ever read... now take that back! Yours, Hellboys, Sarthacus' and Lizzy's are the best I've read, but EVERYONE'S IS AWESOME...
How am I cute though? Is it what I say? Is it what I do? I THROW people... and I'm 6ft 4... I don't think I'm cute...
yes! i am awesome! *fist pump*
i thought you said you where 6ft 3
I WAS 6ft 3 and a half, before I got measured the other day, and now I'm 6ft 4... BUT HOW AM I CUTE?
How am I cute? Seriously... is it what I do? Is it what I say? I'm not cute...
you are cute because you keep saying you aren't cute
WOO
Thanks for the quotes, Lizzy
1. I have no idea if your'e cute, but I'll say you are because I'm an optimist
2. I won't/don't hate you, I just laugh
3. NEVER listen to 11 year old's... unless they're saying your poem is awesome
That doesn't make sense Lizzy :S but what have I done to be cute?
I'm deffinatly unique... but cool I beg to differ...
When people who are over 6 ft throw a baby temper tantrum it's really cute
5,822 words fot TTOTC!!!
I don't do it full time which is why I don't have so many wds.
Hi Sarthacus... save me!
*hides behind him*
THEY SAY I'M CUTE!
"Hmm..."
REALLY cute :D
Sarthacus, tell me. Do you think Dragona is cute? we're having a argument about it
I'm taking a ten minute break from studying.
i totally agree Lunar
Darkane! tell dragona he is cute!
Ah Darkane! You don't think I'm cute, do you? BECAUSE THEY DO!
Oh, God, how many lvers has he got now?
*Makes Dragona undead and skins his face*
Is he cute now?
I WILL stay Kallista... you have to put up with me for a long while yet :P
Why do you think Dragona's cute?
*uses magic yorkshire pudding to make Dragona back to normal*
... what do you mean "now"?
Ooh dear.
Uh, I'm gonna write TTOTC...
BTW, I listen to 5:30 on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXrhVrQyT4A&feature=related
For the Feather City theme song.
That IS a good question Darkane... which THEY haven't answered...
HAS THE WORLD GONE... INSANE? Or is it just you lot?
squeee! they are so cute!
just us :D
*puts paper bag over head with eye holes*
hehehe the inside of snakes are cooool
We were always insane.
I only have 5 mins left of my study break. Answer the question
*draws funny mustache on bag*
Nicolette... praise you for your randomness! HELP ME!
*Draws eyebrows on the bag with one really high up*
AAAAAAAAHHHH YOU ARE ALL HIGH! HIGH I TELL YOU!
Ok Lizzy...
3 mins left.
*gives the bag freckles*
*sees the tangerines*
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!
*runs the opposite way*
Behold the great Florence is back
*stands proudly on a box*
*sees everyone shuffling uncomfortably*
*notices kallista standing on a bigger box with the words "Mars bars are awesome" scribbled on*
i need to work on my entrance
*abandons the bag*
I'm debating with myself whether to post my drawings (ON MY BLOG)
I have drawn Emily the Strange (which I know people don't really know), and Skulduggery Pleasant.
FOR: It would be good to see if people thought I could draw, and I'd like to share them with some people
AGAINST: I don't want to be put to shame by Darkane, and I might have trouble uploading them.
So what do you think?
HI FLO! WILL YOU HELP ME!?
*Laughs as the paper bag slips and the eye hole are no longer over Dragonas eyes so he runs into a tree*
*hides*
Someone help me from these insane people who think I'm cute!
I think you should Lunar. I bet your a better artists then me and I love Emily the Strange.
Flo, do YOU think Dragona is cute?
ASDFAS!
Dragona language... only use for everyone is insane :P
Well, as much as I enjoy your wonderful conversations I must leave you and study History. Good day to you sir and madams *Bows and leaves the room. Slips on one of Kallista's left over banana peels and falls over. Jumps back up* No one saw that. *Walks out*
Bye Darkane...
fewer people...
BYE Darkane................ *looks down*
Hmm...
*daggers appear threw the backs of Kallista and Lizzy, they bleed heavily and fall to the floor*
*Nicolette drops from ceiling* Ok so You can either stop teasing Dragona and I'll remove the daggers and heal you but if you dont I will twist the daggers .. striking your heart
YES THANKYOU NICOLETTE!
Emily is a beautiful name .. my best freinds called emily
erm....dragona cute???....dunno...maybe
Brb... signing in on laptop...
I'm going to delete where I said my name, because I don't want Thrice to see...
*looks left and right in a mysterious way*
MAYBE? NOT!
NOW BRB!
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