가을동화 Autumn tales

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가을동화 is a Korean drama (2000) and first part of the KBS TV drama series Endless Love in 16 episodes. I already wrote a post on the second part 겨울연가.

When she is about 13 years old, Yoon Eun-suh has a road accident. At that moment her family realized that her blood group is different from her parents and that she has been exchanged at birth with Choi Shin Ae.
She is living in a rich family and his very close to her brother Yoon Joon-suh. Choi Shin Ae is at the contraly living with her mum and brother in a poor restaurant. When she realized that her real family is rich, she decide to go live with them but there is no more place for Eun-suh. The family leave for the US leaving her behind.
When he comes back about 10 years latter, Yoon Joon-suh meet Eun-suh again and fall in love with her.

This is a very sad story from the beginning until the end. Despite the nice casting, 송승헌 (He was cool), 송혜교 (풀하우스), I prefered 겨울연가 by far. I think the two main character were a bit called and I find it difficult to believe that the father thought abandonning the daughter he raised for 13 years to take the one that share his blood was the good decision to make.
But I really liked the beginning of the story and the music. Also, 원빈 was brilliant.
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吸血姫 美夕 Vampire Princess Miyu

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Vampire Princess Miyu is a Japanese horror manga series and anime by 垣野内 成美 (Narumi Kakinouchi) and 平野 俊貴 Toshiki Hirano. 垣野内 成美 is known for her anime work on for example Dr Slump, きまぐれオレンジ☆ロード (Kimagure orange road) or 魔法のスターマジカルエミ (Magical Emi, the Magic Star), 平野 俊貴 directed the well known エンジェル・ハート (Angel Heart)

In 1988 was released a serie of 4 OVA and in 1997 an other serie of 26 episodes.
They tell the story of a vampire girl, Miyu, looking to be about 15 years old but who is obviously much older.
She is also called the Guardian, her role is to protect the human being by sending the demon Shinma back to darkness. To help her she has obviously her surnatural powers, she can teleport and controle fire as well as a Eastern Shinma she befriend called ラヴァ (Larva) and a bunny shinma called 死無 (shiima) which mean undead and can see were a shinma attack will be hold.

The title is interesting because in Japanese, vampire is written like that 吸血鬼, here however the character 鬼
meaning demon is replaced by the character 姫 meaning princess.
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NaNoWriMo challenge : day 20

This is the last part of the novel for the moment. The reason is that I'm going to Peru tomorrow so I won't be able to post anymore of the story for some times but don't worry it will continue as soon as i get back.
I'm planing to write a lot during my stay in South America so be prepare to have a lot to read.


Stats of the day 2552 words written adding up to 58320 words in total.
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NaNoWriMo challenge : day 19

I kind of have a basic routine of writing now. Every night, when I got to bed, I start to think about my story before sleeping and then the next day, I just have to find the correct words and write in down. Last night was very creative in my mind and this part bring lots of new thing to the story. I hope you will like reading it as much as I liked writing it.

Stats of the day 2610 words written adding up to 55768 words in total.
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NaNoWriMo challenge : day 18

This is the first part with a word count above the 50000 words limit.
I didn't make it less at all. I want to keep going for ever until the story in finished.
I really like this part because it involves my vampires a bit more. I find them really cool. I knew Viorel was cool but I didn't know how cool Dylan and Daciana were.
I'm glad I wrote this part of the story with them.
Sahel is also getting so big, he is not a baby anymore, I hope he will continue to evolve in a good way despite nasty things around him, such as the dark shadow.
I'm also wondering if he will be strong even to get his last power.
We will see in the near future I hope.

Stats of the day 2748 words written which add up to 53158 words in total.
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NaNoWriMo challenge : day 17

When I started to think about NaNoWriMo two months and a half ago, I was really excited about finding a story to write and to keep writing until I got the 50000 words.
I find what I think is a good story and started to draw part of it the restrain myself from started to write in as I really wanted to do the NaNoWriMo challenge correctly.
I starting to practice my word count on an other story that I'm planing to finish after this one and saw that writing 2500 words a day was pretty difficult.
I also knew that it was the challenge I would have to face because I would have to stop writing on the 20th of November.
I really didn't expect to write so much so fast, I didn't expect to finish my 50000 today, but that's a nice birthday gift.
I think I really get into the idea of being a writer during the time of the challenge and the fact that I made it my principal activity and the principal center of my thoughts probably helped a lot.

So here we go, the stats of the day 2803 words written today 50410 words.
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NaNoWriMo challenge : day 16

If everything goes fine tomorrow I will reach the ultimate goal of my NaNoWriMo challenge, that is the 50000 words. But the story will continue beyond that until I reach the proper ending which of course I know already and you don't :D
I'm very happy at the moment because the action has been accelerating for few days taking the story to a very interesting point.
If you want to know what happens next, just read part 16.

Stats of the day 2541 words written adding up to 47607 words in total.
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NaNoWriMo challenge : day 15

I wrote more than 3000 words today, my average is also a bit more than that. I'm progressing a bit deeper in the story. I really enjoyed working on that part because it involved a bit more action than the parts I wrote those past few days. I also like having my vampires around, I think they add an other dimension to the story. Of course that one in based on Brownie and Sahel but Viorel is one of my important character and I'm planing on giving him a story of his own later. I also like that the artifacts are taking a part in the story. Brownie's aquamarine wasn't supposed to exist and the medallion that Viorel wasn't planed as well as the beginning.
It's amazing the little idea that can come to your mind out of nowhere.
Sometimes I don't really know what to write or how to describe something and I suddenly remember what I previously have in the story that can be used at that particular moment.
The dark shadow as also become one of my favorite character. I was laughing writing about him today and I won't stop laughing until the end of the story. I don't know if you like him too and if he makes you laugh as well or if it's only the way I see him.

Stats of the day 3202 words written which add up to 45066 words. I am less than 5000 words away. I'm so glad I'm there already. That seemed so far away two weeks ago.
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NaNoWriMo challenge : day 14

Again a great day writing, I'm happy because I reached a new part of the story today.
And Sahel is now a very healthy little demon. That's going to be fun.
I also passed the 40000 words and the story is still going on nicely. It's even far from being finished.
I really like my dreams too at the moment, I have been spending so much time on this story during the last 14 days that I'm dreaming about it now and gets more idea to link the different parts.
I hope you still have fun reading it, as much as I have righting it. Don't hesitate leaving comments, I would really like to have something to read too.

Stats of the day 3287 words adding to 41863 words in total.
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NaNoWriMo Challenge : day 13

I started to write a very long time ago, when I was just a child actually I was writing stories during the breaks at school. I don't think I ever finished any of those stories. I think the main problem I add was that I was just writing. I was making my characters evolute in their world without knowing where they were going.
Obviously they got lost and I got lost as well. And the story got lost.
I even wrote a very long one, and don't think I even finished the beginning of it.
I just liked writing. But this time, I have a plan, I know where I'm going, I know the end of the story and that makes it a lot easier to write. I think that's the main reason why I'm doing so well so far.

Stats of the day 2863 words written today which add up to 38576 words in total.
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NaNoWriMo Challenge : day 12

Today, I had no problem to write, I just sad at the computer and wrote my 2500 words.
I know I should be further in the story and that lots of the things I'm writing now where not in the original plan but I think they are bringing an other dimension to the story. Especially because I'm letting you know more things about my characters and you will maybe end up knowing them as well as do. Maybe not yet though, I still have a lot to tell you.
And who care if the story is twice longer than I planed initially. More words = more fun, right?
Thinking about it when I concentrate on my creation, I write about 500 words in half an hour.
During that half hour, you have the typing and the creation of sentence and the little breaks during which you fine the following ideas. That a really interesting process. Also 30 mins is a very good length to be able to concentrate. Then you can take a 5 min breaks or continue and add more. I really like it.
I also enjoy a lot writing very detailed descriptions about what my characters are doing day by day and talking about their pasts. For me their pasts and memories show exactly their current behavior, like in real life.

Stats of the day 2545 words written which add up to 35713 words, such a nice day.
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NaNoWriMo Challenge : day 11

Here is the 11th part of the story, Sahel is getting all this powers and growing up really fast. Gideon is taking care of the dark shadow, but something is telling me that it won't let us rest and bring more problems to solve.

Today was a pretty good writing day two, in two steps. I was doing from virtual write-in sessions with my friend before going to bed in the very early morning which kept me awake until 3am and added about 1500 words to the story.
Of course when I wake up today there was no way for me to write less than my 2500 words even if I had 1500 already. So today I beat up my daily record again.
In a sense reaching the 25000 words free me a bit. Now I know I'm very close to the end and that I will probably achieve it without to much problem. My main preoccupation now is to write enough to finish the story. But the end will take care of itself as long as I keep on writing.

Stats of the day 4019 words written which add up to 33168 words in total. But I'm not sleepy yet and lots of things will happen again before I go to bed.
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NaNoWriMo Challenge : day 10

Today was a great writing day, well especially after 6pm. I don't know why, before in the afternoon I was really slow at writing. Maybe because i have been thinking a lot about part of the story that will happened later.
You see I first I started to draw the part of the story, mostly to avoid writing them before the first of November but also to see if I could imagine the end of the story. I often started to write stories without finishing them.
This time as so many people would be able to read it i really want a good ending and you will have one. I'm not sure that I will reach it after finishing the 50000 words but I'm sure than I won't stop writing this story before the end. I think my characters really deserve it and writing through all of those words made me really attached to them and to the story. Once again I hope you will enjoy reading this part as much as I enjoyed writing it.
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Stats of the day : 3640 words written, yes yes, my best day so far. Adding up to 29149 words in total.


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NaNoWriMo challenge : ninth day

Today, was mad, mad, mad. I couldn't get up in the morning because the story had been turning in my head all night. I went to the lab pretty late to finish my thesis corrections and run back home to arrive at 4.30 without having written a word of the story.
I spend 1 hour writing 943 words before going to the write-in and there a miracle happened I wrote 1924 words there. So I have even more than my daily goal.

Today stats : 2867 words written which add up to 25509 words in total.
I feel happy and relieved because I have more than half done before than expected.
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NaNoWriMo challenge : eighth day

I feel a bit bad for Sahel.
Why does he always have to get sick to get anything in life ?
Demon life is very difficult you see. But don't worry to much for him, he is in good hands and he will become a very strong and healthy demon.
Strangely he is getting his powers over air first. I wasn't prepared for that. Really I was only prepared for the fire and water elements, I needed to do some more research today to make sure to write something at least half sensible.

Stats of the day, 2529 words written which add up to 22641 words in total.
Normally, I would be half way in words for the NaNoWriMo challenge tomorrow.
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NaNoWriMo challenge : seventh day

Today I got up a little sick, I'm still feeling a bit weak but I'm much better.
That didn't stop me from writing the next part of the story. I'm now way above my word goal. As today is the seventh day I needed to reach 17500 words to be on track.
Actually the more you write, the easier it becomes.
Today I'm introducing knew characters. Some are close to the fairy world and I even added an angel who had only appeared briefly before in the story.
I hope you will like them as much as I do. I'm not really sure that all the characters introduced so far in the story will have any importance latter, or even reappeared. The main thing for me to work with now is Gideon.
I didn't planed at all to have him in the story but he is becoming more and more important as I'm writing.
The story is still open and comments and advices are welcome.

The stats of the day, 3092 words written which add up to a total of 20112 words. As I said I'm terrible for keeping track of the time, but I work several hours a day.
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NaNoWriMo challenge : sixth day

One more writing day which didn't look like the one before. This afternoon I went out to meet people, I had only written about 500 words before going and I really didn't know if I would be able to get to my minimum of 2500 words as usual. That was still fun do be able to talk about my novel to other people than my fellow NaNoWriMo writer.
I finally got 2482 words today but as I'm not going to sleep yet I'll probably have a bit more soon.
The total word count add up to 17018 words.
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NaNoWriMo challenge : fifth day

Again a very great day writing. I feel like the more I write, the more I want to write and the easier it becomes.
Today I tried something new, virtual write-in. I already went to a write it last Monday in a café with other people from my region. Basically we talked and then we gave ourselves some time for intensive writing. I did that today with a friend in America with whom I was talking on the chat box.
That worked wonder, for her and for me. I really hope to be able to do it more often. It's good to have people to talk to as well when you start wondering about your story.

So the stats of the day : 3364 words written which add up to 14536 words in total
That's my best day ever so far.
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NaNoWriMo challenge : fourth day

Today was pretty easy, probably because I finally reached a part of the story that I had already imagined in my head several time.
I even have an illustration for the main part.






Stats of the day : 2561 words written which add up to a total of 11172 words.
That's more than one fifth of it and I'm very happy.
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NaNoWriMo challenge : third day

So this is the third day of the NaNoWriMo challenge and lots of things happened.
First I got stuck at 6815 words very badly so I really thought that reaching the 7500 words I was supposed to reach on the third day, not even talking about keeping the 400 and so words advance, was mainly out of reach.
I went to talk to people and ate something and then made it painfully to 7165 words.
And then I get stuck badly again, but Brownie (everybody knows her by now) was taking a shower, so I decided to get one too, crazy idea, anyway, after it I get to 8186 words without effort.
Completely worth it. Hopefully she wasn't doing something too crazy though.
Also I couldn't resist to let my vampires enter the story, I hope you'll like them.

So here are the stats of the day 3152 words (my best day so far, who would have thought)
Which bring us to a total of 8611 words. Tonight, I'm really happy. Don't hesitate to leave comments.
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NaNoWriMo challenge : second day

This is the second day of my NaNoWrimo challenge. Today I had the surprise to find out that a NaNoWriMo meeting was being hold in Belfast tonight and I went to it.
It was pretty good, we wrote more, exchanged ideas, talk about our stories and met with people who already participate or even won NaNoWriMo several times.
I had a lot of fun.

So were am I in the challenge today ?
2742 words more written which had up to a total of 5459 word in two days. That's a bit more than planed and I hope to keep it that way all along.

And of course here is what everybody has been waiting for, what happens next in the story.
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NaNoWriMo challenge : First day

This is the first part of the Novel I'm writing for the NaNoWriMo challenge.
Don't forget that this is a first draft so it hasn't been edited and may content some grammar and spelling mistakes. Remember also that it's my first participation to NaNoWriMo and my first time writing a full novel so be nice.

To get my challenge completed I will need to write at least 2500 words a day until the 20th of November.

Today I wrote 2717 words in almost 3 hours, I think. So the challenge of the day is won.
I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
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