Nanorimo Day 8: 13339 words

I was so inspired after finishing POPPED TOO that I was able to write 3,100+ words for Pinay's Pie!

*note to self do not write after smoking a stick of Capri, you can't type correctly that you had to delete every other word in your first sentence*

I needed 13336 words to get back on my word count rightness and I was able to do it. I should make my writing life a Nanowrimo challenge since I clearly could do it! I promise to do this in the future so that I would be able to finish my novels and edits after this challenge!

Anyway, I had a lot of fun that my first life was a useful inspiration for my novel. I just put everything on wattpad so that I don't fear that it would get corrupted in Eros and Singko (laptop and HD respectively if you didn't know that about me, I name my things)

Things were coming out so easily for Pinay's Pie. I am so happy. But I am not too proud of it to send it to Summit or anything. Still a coward when it comes to getting my dream of being a published writer to come true. But I am sure this challenge once I win it would fuel my self-esteem for months to come. I just need to write what I knew and made sure I didn't get caught up in the fact that my character is a total Mary Sue, an almost perfect persona in the written world circle.

So what, I am a romance novel writer, the characters were always too good to be true and a piece of a real person was always going to be present in my work. Besides, I have enough friends to make into characters and it would take me fifty novels to run out of people to fictionalize. If that was even a word.

So all is well in the realm of Pinaywriter's world. My first live might be riddled with financial woes and debt to society, but in PW's world, allizwell.

I found out that the Cinema One thing was going to be 150 per movie. No thanks. Indie film problem averted. I was going to the free Italian films. The ones that I would be able to catch at least. So I need to check out the schedule and think of what I wanted to see. So what if I had to do it alone again. I might ask Trina if she was up for it. Gosh, I miss her so much. I have become the friend who neither smses or facebook hellos her and I need to make it up to her. God, I don't even know her days off anymore. I used to schedule my free time around my friends in the past. What a fair-weathered friend I had become.

But I promise to try to ask her when she might be free to catch a movie with me. Sleep be damned. I couldn't let her and my other friends have all the fun in the first life realm again. Now that I was shackle free, I would make sure that the next time I am entangled in another romance, I would not leave them hanging.

My friends had fed my obsession for the written word. Even if I won't be able to get around to hooking up with them in November because of all this writing I would make it up to them in December. This year is one for the books, that was for sure. And I owe so many of the highlights to my dear loving friends that I had to make amends.

I need to write a new chapter again. And I was not going to write them out of it ever again. 

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Added in November 9 :

OMO! Chinggay Labrador did a pep talk Nanomail thingy! I can't believe that the person who inspired me to write 3,100 words actually did a peptalk. Yeah. You are preaching to the choir girlfriend! I super love your books! 

I plan to visit this cafe (God had I know that it was near where I worked. Jesus need to haunt it down) and try that purple latte thing. Though I am not sure if I would like it as much as you gals did. 

I would like to Thank Nina for lending me her Popped Too. I would like to apologize to the people on the Taguig bus yesterday for laughing by myself. I hope I didn't weird you out all that much. 

Chinggay, thanks and Hwaiting!~

As for me Keep it up, self!
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Day 3 : PInay's Pie

written: November 3, 2011

Day 3 of Nanowrimo

I decided to get rid of my previous 7929 words and start over. My previous piece had an ugly title and the rants were pointing in the wrong direction. I used a third person p.o.v. and it was making my teeth hurt. So I decided to change it to Pinay's Pie. I made some supporting characters too, fashioned from an ex and a couple of friends who I love to pieces. I figured Pinay was not going to have to face every thing alone. This was not some romance where the heroine needed a hero to save her. Chick Lit always gave the female lead a support time. She was only thinking that she needed to be alone in the fight but would never really survive it without a saving grace, a deo ex machina or her girlfriends. I gave Pinay, Josh and Valerie. Any coincidence or possible compatibility with one or two of my friends doesn't mean these characters are them entirely. I just couldn't let Pinay rant away like a crazy pscyho who tore someone's heart. J and V would complete the set of friends that would lead Pinay through her mental dilemmas and play devil and angel sides for her. I know it's the easy way out but the female journey needs a transition from the dark moment into enlightenment. So someone needs to be the candle and the lighter. Josh and Valerie would be it.

I am still thinking what to name the guy Pinay would be gaga over and how he would come into her life. It would be cool to let him come in and be a new crush after Ian is officially out of her life. And that he would be her friend first before they can hook up.

Maybe he could help her by setting her up with some guy friends of his or something. He would help her be the kind of girl that those guys would like and he would end up making her realize that she was exactly who she needed to be to find true love.

Or she could fashion a new novel using him as a main character and end up hoping that he would love her too. Only to find out that he was actually single despite saying he had a girlfriend. Hmm...I wonder what to do. I have finished 5354 words in one writing spree. The story is slowly coming out and it's more dynamic since there are dialogues instead of rant narration of angst and past pain.

Don't get me wrong, there are still those in their but I wasn't letting them damper up my story. Pinay's Pie was livelier and a tad less dark than Confessions of Pinaywriter. Boy was that title a bust. My back hurts now and it's raining like you don't want it to be Friday tomorrow but Saturday instead.

I went to Slice and Dice with Ianne and was glad that I got to overlap memories without meaning to. I do that to get over exes before. I would make space for a new memory by doing something else or the same thing only with a new person who is not my boyfriend at a place that I was with an ex. It works actually. It emerses you half into the past and propels you into the future. But all that would be possible if I didn't decide in the present that the past was in the past and that I should look towards the future.

Now I know that I don't need angst or inspiration to write this story and although Pinay's character would not be nicest one that I have ever written, but at least I hope to give her a happy ending. One word at a time. And just before the end of the story, who knows, I might just find that I got another creative output from another ex-boyfriend.

READ Pinay's Pie here at wattpad