NaNoWriMo, NaNoFiMo, part 24 of "Demon soul"

Yesterday had been a bad writing day. For the first time I didn't reach my daily goal of 2500 words and only wrote 1500. However today I catch up the 1000 words missing and also added the 2500 of the day. So I'm pretty happy about the all thing. I must say that yesterday I was pretty tired so I didn't use my usual rule : "You won't go to bed until you have your word count done."
But anyway, what is done is done.
I'm also happy because I was pretty annoyed about making Sahel go through so much hardship but now it's going to get better.
So stats since last time : 5015 words written which had up to 77440 words in total and to 20760 for NaNoFiMo.
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NaNoWriMo, NaNoFiMo, part 23 of "Demon soul"

Getting their aether power is far from being easy for the young demons. I feel half bad for making them go through such hard ship. Poor Sahel, hopefully Brownie is here to take care of him. One power is tasted in this part of the story, three more to go.
Don't cry to much, Sahel will be fine in the end, I think.
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Stats of the day 2841 words written, bringing the story up to 72425 words and the NaNoFiMo word count to 14105 words.




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NaNoWriMo, NaNoFiMo, part 22 of "Demon soul"

Today was an exceptional writing day. I never ever wrote that much in a single day, not even talking about writing that much in a single session. I was so inspired and so excited about that part of the story. Probably because I though about it so much during the past few days, I don't know.
I could probably have written more if I really wanted to but it's a bit late now and I don't want to push my luck to far at the risk of writing something bad.
Anyway, I'm really happy with my performance of the day and I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Stats of the day :
5083 words written, adding up to 69584 words for the story and 11264 words for NaNoFiMo.
Everything is going more than fine.
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NaNoWriMo, NaNoFiMo, part 21 of "Demon soul"

A lot of things happened recently from a writing point of view.
First I won NaNoWriMo officially, having written 58320words of fiction by the 20th of November.
Now I have to finish the story and to edit it to be able to have it for sell on amazon by June.

I left to Peru on the 21th of November (more about the travel in the travel section of the blog coming soon) for 18 days. But during that time, I still continue to work on the story to be able to give you something to read when I come back. I typed it all yesterday, I ws thinking roughly at 5000 words but I wrote in fact 6181 words, so almost 12 pages more for you to enjoy.

I also register to a second challenge called NaNoFiMo (National Novel Finishing Month).
The normal goal is to finish a draft (possibly your NaNoWriMo draft) by adding 30000 words to it by the 31th of December.
It's not as well organized as NaNoWriMo, it doesn't have that many goodies and interesting prizes to win but I think that still can be interesting.
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I don't know if I need that many words to finish the story, probably yes.
So here is my goal : finishing the story before the 23rd of December because that's the day when I'll be leaving for France and that I'm not sure how will be my computer access there.
I will give you day by day, as I did for NaNoWriMo, my word count of the day, the total word count and the word count for NaNoFiMo.
So here are the statistics :


6181 words written which bring the story to 64501 words.
The NaNoFiMo word count is obviously 6181 words.





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베토벤 바이러스 Beethoven Virus

En français
베토벤 바이러스 (Beethoven Virus) is a Korean drama by 이재규 (Lee Jae Kyu) (2008) in 18 episodes.

Du Ru Mi a young violinist working for the Governor need to organize a concert for the creation of an orchestra. Unfortunately, all the founding get stolen and the professional musicians refuse to play for free.
She then decide to make a casting to get unprofessional musician to form the orchestra. She hire her landlady to be the cello player, a retired Oboe player from the Seoul orchestra, a trumpet player from a cabaret and a young cops named Kang Gun Woo, a music genius. They practice waiting for the conductor to arrive. But he is Kang Gun Woo Maestro, the orchestra killer, he never stay in an orchestra for more than 6 months and is well know to interrupt concerts if he estimate that the players are not good enough.

That drama is so funny and so exciting, I couldn't stop watching it and was watching several episodes in a row.
I really wish there was more of it. And of course, as it's all about music, the music is excellent.

Casting :

김명민 (Kim Myung Min) as Kang Gun Woo/Kang Mae
이지아 (Lee Ji Ah) as Du Ru Mi (태왕사신기 The Story of the First King's Four Gods)
장근석 (Jang Geun Seok) as Kang Gun Woo (One miss call final, 프라하의 연인, 쾌도 홍길동, 도 레 미 파 소 라 시 도)
이순재 (Lee Soon Jae) as Kim Gab Yong (이 죽일놈의 사랑)
현쥬니 (Hyun Jyu Ni) as Ha Yi Deun
송옥숙 (Song Ok Sook) as Jung Hee Yun (겨울연가, 전설의고향)
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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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