NaNoWriMo 2010, Vampire Heart

So today is the first of November and who says November first says the start of NaNoWriMo and I'm starting it again this year with my usual team of crazy writer and a lot more of crazy writer than usual actually, which probably mean that the writing fever is propagating. As planed on the last writing project post, I started to write "Vampire Heart" today.
So you will have a lot to read about it in the coming month, starting tonight. I decided to put the word goal a little bit higher than the standard NaNoWriMo word goal so I will be normally writing 2000 words a day which should allow me to stay on track if I get into crazy adventure and can't write for a day or two.

Also as I'm doing really well with timeboxing at the moment. I decided to write at least 500 words of "Demon and Fairy" during NaNoWriMo as well. Of course they are not going to enter in the NaNoWriMo word count but my characters really deserve an ending and Brownie is probably going to kill me if I let Sahel stuck in the fairy world anyway. I wrote more that 1000 of that today so I'm really happy about my productivity. I'll upload it for you a little later.

I also started to edit Attic Mirror, I started that several times already but never get really far. This time it's a bit different as I decided to edit 5 pages everyday so that I could be finished on time. The main goal is to be able to have the first proof copy by the end of January if not by the end of the year. I know that if I managed to do that it will make some people happy.
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And I also plan to start vloging a bit. I'm not really feeling that comfortable in front of the camera yet but here is the first video of the blog.

America : Konza Prairie

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One Sunday in September, when I was still in Kansas we had a barbecue in a park and then decided to go take a walk in Konza Prairie. Konza Prairie is a biological station for the preservation of Kansas natural wild life such as tall grass. The Prairie offers beautiful scenery and trail to go up the hills allowing to see the all area around. We find some interesting mushrooms and met the local faun, butterflies and deers.We went there in the evening so we could observe the sunset.
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クローズZERO (Crows Zero)

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クローズZERO is a Japanese movie by 三池 崇史 (Miike Takashi) taken from the manga "Crows" by 高橋 ヒロシ (Hiroshi Takahashi). 三池 崇史 also made a lot of movies including 殺し屋1 (Ichi the killer) and 着信アリ (One miss call).

Takiya Genji enters Suzuran high school also known as the school of crows to conquer it. This will allow him  to success his father as the leader of the Yakuza clan. Suzuran high school is a under the law of gang, and Genji has to conquer small classes first to be able to get enough people to defeat the largest gang leaded by Serizawa.
Serizawa's men will beat up the people rallying to Genji one by one to counter him. In the meantime, Genji is helped by Ken from the yakuza clan opposing Genji's father.



This movie is really violent. I wonder if the people standing after beaten each other up in a way that would have killed a dinosaur is a metaphor for human will power or if it's just for the fun of it. Anyway that was fun to watch. I like the part where the movie goes ridiculous as well. There is some similitude with 殺し屋1 even though it's not as insane. Start watching here.

Casting : 

小栗 旬 as Genji Takaya (花より男子 returns, 花より男子 season 1)
山田孝之 as Tamao Serizawa (タイヨウのうた (Midnight Sun))
やべきょうすけ as Ken Katagiri
高岡蒼佑 as Shun Izaki (バトル・ロワイアル)
黒木 メイサ as Ruka

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Europe tour Interail 2006 : Amsterdam, end of the travel

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We arrived in Brussels early morning and took the first train to Amsterdam. The first thing we did arriving in Amsterdam would be to get our train ticket to go back to France. The trip in your own country is not included in the interrail pass. Then we started exploring. Amsterdam is a lot like Venezia with a lot of canal everywhere, so a lot of water and boats. We walked along the canal Damrak until the famous, Mme Tussaud's (wax museum) and Paleis op de Dam (Royal Palace). We continued to the city center and visit a market of flower and seeds. We walked in the pedestrian streets and went to see the Rembrandt museum celebrating the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt Harmenszoon von Rijn's birth. Rembrandt was a painter who contributed to a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age. He is famous for his self portrait. We then took our train to go back to Brussels which is a bit late making us worry about catching the others but we still made it.
We soon realized on the way back that we have been living a memorable adventure during 30 days all over Europe and I will recommend to everyone to try it.
Europe tour Interail 2006 : Introduction 
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