NaNo OMG NaNo

[Mynt]

I shouldn't do this, but I'm typing up what I have so far to so I can get an accurate word count. So far I've been pretty close with my rounding. xD

[Quaddy]

It never hurts to get it cleaned up and organized, which is how I see typing up handwritten materials. You have it saved and backed up in an easy-to-edit format. You're not giving up, you're being intelligent and organized.

[Mynt]

My friends kept saying that i didn't need to back up my novel but like... one poorly handled glass of water and I have nothing.

[Quaddy]

You ALWAYS need to back up your work. It's just a good habit to have, for writing or schoolwork or even your taxes. Back-ups are wonderful things. I lost the first thing I ever wrote ever. Well, technically, I *did* back that stuff up on an external hard drive, but a hurricane came through and fried every small appliance in our house. That was fun.

BACK UP ALL THE THINGS!!!

Also, chapter 10 is done and open. In my port. Eve of the Gods.

Working on chap 11 now.

[Mynt]

My backing up of course takes a long time. @_@ But yes, I agree. Back up everything!

[Aldersmaine]

Thank you for including me in that Dragoon. It's more appreciated then you know.

[Quaddy]

I totally went back and read it again. It kind of fills me with warm fuzzies.

I need them right now. Eve is waking up, and its a difficult scene.

[Matt]

Yeah you did. I like month one or two of our emailing. I was very self conscious for a while. Then I started calling you House instead. ha ha ha ha.

Happy to boost though.

[Matt]

Also I'm now a decade old on wdc. That's nearly half my life.

[Quaddy]

But everyone calls me something different. The only thing that bothers me is mispronunciation of my name. Which is unfortunate, as EVERYONE says it wrong the first time they meet me. I tend to snap and then I'm like...c'mon Chesnaye, don't be mean...it's not their fault.

Ironically enough, half the people I know call me Chez-nay as a nickname.

[Matt]

Yes dear, as I very well experienced. To be fair, it's hardly fair to berate people when a phonetic spelling wouldn't really look very much like your name =P

I am joking. Though to me you'll probably always be Quaddy.

[Quaddy]

Blame the French and the Welsh. My name is a combination of their ridiculously pronounced letters. It comes as a byproduct of the intermingling between the Cymru and the Normans.

It is also the name of a fictional WW2 sea captain from Wales, after whom I am named. Last name, of course. It's how I know I'm the only damn person in the world with my name. (That and I checked.) Source of pride. I'm a mess with regard to my name. I love it, I hate it, I hate when people mispronounce it and then allow people to use the mispronunciation as a nickname.

I am truly the epitome of insane artist, I think.

Did I ever actually tell you the story of where Quaddy came from? It's a long one.

[Matt]

I think you should retell the story if you did tell me. I feel it might be worth it.

[Quaddy]

It begins in my freshman year of High School (9th grade, age 14). My friend Sunny and I had both just joined Stories.com (as it was known before W.com, which you know) and spent our World Geography class drawing pictures and coming up with characters for a hyper-ridiculous soap opera-style story. We certainly didn't think knowing where things were was that important; after all, we could just look at a damned map if he wanted to know where Lesotho was.

Anyway, we decided that the story would revolve around two characters. The first, Sunny's, was a man in love with another man. Believing that this man could never love him, the character would undergo a sex change operation to become a woman, only to fall into a coma because of a botched anesthesia incident. When she finally woke up, it would be to find out that the man she loved this whole time was, in fact, gay, having come to the realization when he found out that Sunny's character had fallen into a coma during a sex change operation to become a woman for him. It would later be revealed that it was actually Sunny's character's evil twin who had undergone the surgery in an attempt to steal the man from her twin.

My character was Quadrilateral Girl. She was a member of not just a love triangle, but a love Quadrilateral. She was in love with three men, one of whom was also in love with the other two men in the Quadrilateral as well as with her. The other two men...one was married to Sunny's character's evil twin the whole time, and encouraged her to undergo the operation to steal Man-Woman's man, who was a bitter rival in the gold-mining business. He was in love with Quadrilateral Girl, however, and was actually behind the botched anesthesia attempt, so they could finally be together. The fourth, who was basically a nice guy, was apparently killed in a fiery motorcycle wreck as he raced him to finally propose to her. Afterward, she discovers she is pregnant with her dead almost fiance's baby, and decides to marry Man-Woman's douchebag husband (not knowing the whole story) in order to care for her baby and provide it with a father. However, at the wedding, Man-Woman's evil sister shows up, a long with the real Man-Woman and the evil husband's bitter gold-mining rival, and reveals the whole thing. Just then, the almost fiance shows up and reveals that he has survived the motorcycle accident and is, in fact, the last living descendent of the Arch-Duke Franz Ferdinand and has been hiding, along with the family gold, for his entire life. Someone tried to kill him--he thinks it's the Illuminati, who is behind all the evil in the world ever--but he managed to survive because of his love for Quadrilateral Girl.

So...Quadrilateral Girl and her man finally get married, Man-Woman (well...man) finally gets together with the man he wanted all along, and everyone is happy. Until, in a surprise twist ending, it is revealed that Quadrilateral Girl's child was actually the product of an alien probe, and the Father is really a Venusian.

That was leading into the sequel, of course. But we never did write it...just talked about it in ridiculously more grandiose terms. But Sunny went by Man-Woman (until she left the site) and I went my Quadrilateral Girl. At some point, I decided to shorten it to Quaddy rather than explain it to everyone who asked, and the rest is, as we say, history.

[Quaddy]

Also, finished the dreaded "breaking Eve" chapter. I feel I did well. If you read it, just tell me I did well. We'll deal with the issues later.

www.writing.com/main/books/entry_id/765127

[Mynt]

Isn't your name like Shay-nee or Shaw-nee or something like that? x:

People always mispronounce my name too. And now it's also the name of the main character of the 50 Shades series... u_u. I do get a little aggressive when people say my name wrong. >_>

[Quaddy]

Shay-nee.

What's the name of the main character in the 50 Shades series? Ana? How do people mess up Ana?

[Matt]

Well I guess there's AH-NAH. Then there's ARH-NAR. Then there's ARN-AR. And ARH-NAH. And AH-NAR.

[Matt]

Also... you're Quadrilateral Girl should meet my Head-Brain-Boy some day. I think they'd be friends.

[Quaddy]

Yeah, if she lives through the bloody birth of her half Venusian baby and doesn't consequently suffer from amnesia.

[Matt]

Head-Brain-Boy doesn't have a brain but he's looking for one. Sometimes he finds one that's suitable, but usually he's dissatisfied with it... Or people are dissatisfied with him taking it.

Terrible predicament.

[Quaddy]

If he can be Venusian, he can be the father of her baby...

[Mynt]

My name is Anastasia.

Which people often say Anna Stay Shia.

And it is Ah-nah Stah Zuh. >_>

Yes. All a's make the Ah sound. I can't remember if that's long a. I think it's long. Like if you were singing "Ahh."

[Quaddy]

Soft A, then, I think. Long A is..aaayyy, like the Fonz.

Sounds cool to me! Woo for cool, weird people names!

[Mynt]

Yes! Our names will look fancy on book covers.