Nat's general journal

I'm the youngest. I've only got one sibling - a brother who's older by about 2 years. I don't think it's influenced my personality that much. When I was younger I might have been spoilt a little, but that's probably it.

Greed:	Medium
Gluttony:	Medium
Wrath:	Very Low
Sloth:	Medium
Envy:	Very Low
Lust:	Very Low
Pride:	Very Low

The Seven Deadly Sins Quiz on 4degreez.com

Sloth and Gluttony? Yeah, seems about right.

I have a very unusual last name - I've never come across someone with it who I'm not related to. My first name, while a common enough name with a standard spelling, well I don't often meet people with my first name on it's own. Definitely never met anyone with my first AND last name in person, BUT there's two other on facebook with my name, one of whom lives in the same city. I'm guessing I'm related to that one if not both of them. Don't know how distantly though.

So, therekinator, your LiveJournal reveals...


 

You are... 0% unique and 45% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy writing). When it comes to friends you are normal. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are keen to please. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is intellectual.

Your overall weirdness is: 27

(The average level of weirdness is: 29.
You are weirder than 59% of other LJers.)

Find out what your weirdness level is!

But at least I'm weirder than the majority of you! :P

Either sloth or gluttony. Probably sloth more than gluttony.

Yeah, I use this LJ a lot. I'm posted a whole 2 entries in the last year. Impressive, eh?


But enough of that! Only what this post is really about!

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*points* I dun did writing!



And the widget says... Nearly at 30K for NaNo *nods*

I have a few, but one of the main ones that sticks out in my mind in butterflies. Yeah, butterflies. As in the colourful fluttery things that couldn't possibly do you any harm. No, it's not some obscure slang, I am genuinely terrified of butterflies.

I have been for longer than I can remember as well. My parents have told me that when I was little I completely freaked out when they took me in a butterfly house at the seal sanctuary near where we always used to go on holiday. They couldn't work out any reason for why I was freaking out at the sight of butterflies, I just was. I still do to this day.

And strangely enough, most people who are scared of butterflies (yeah, there are others who are too!) are scared of moths too. Me? I like moths. I think they're cool! We should keep the moths. Just get rid of the butterflies and all will be well.

At least until I see a spider.

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And in other news, I completed my 50,000 words for NaNo on the 15th. Right now I'm just try to write as much as I can before the end of the month, and I'm currently one about 57,000 words.

Completely unrelated to anything, but I like it anyway!

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In other news, my NaNo's up to 6588 words.

Heehee, my excitement over NaNo's calmed down a little bit, but I reached 5,000 words this morning. I'm up to 5,018 words now, according to MS Word. I'm not sure I trust it's word count, but I'll accept it for now.

I've also remembered now, that I want to post the novel as I go along. I'll probably post chapter by chapter though. Right now all that's complete is the prologue - and that's a grand total of 135 words. I'm posting that now though. I might as well.

And that's all I got for it. Oh well, it's long enough for the prologue, I think.

NANO'S HERE! NANO'S HERE! NANO'S HERE! NANO'S HERE! *does happy dance* It's finally here!

*blushes* Okay, I'm a little excited, but NaNoWriMo's finally here! The month and a half of planning I've done's finally going to be realised, and the months I've spent waiting because I didn't hear about it in time to start last year are finally paying off and I can get my novel written.

I've already been awake about three hours or so, writing. I'm up to about 2,129 words. I'm a little tired, but that's mostly down to not getting a full nights sleep - I was so excited I kept waking up every hour on the hour ready to start - it was like I was a little kid at Christmas again. It was great!

Urgh, I think I just killed my brain. I just did a quick trial run of NaNo. It turns out it takes me 57 minutes to write 1668 words off the stop of my head without breaks. It looks like I'll be needing to put aside a little over an hour each day next month, possibly more, to get my daily word count in. I think it may make my head explode by the end of it.

On the bright side my half term is here so I get to relax for the next week or so. Now if only I hadn't agreed to go shopping with friends in Birmingham tomorrow. I could sleep instead.

Well this NaNo friending meme thing's going around a bit (does 2 people on my flist count as a bit?), so I thought I'd give it a try.

Name: Nat
NaNo username: therekinator
Age: 17
Location: Leicester, England
How many years involved in NaNoWriMo: One if this year counts
How many won: None so far
This year's genre: Fantasy
This year's story idea, if you have one:  There's a war going on between three nations, each of which can control a different element. It basically follows four friends through their lives after they get separated after they come into their powers, each going to a different nation because that's the power they gained. Eventually the war stops and they get reunited, hopefully after I reach my goal.
Word count goal: 50,059 - what? I didn't want a round number
Word war?: I'm not sure if Word Wars and Word Races are the same thing, but I'm doing a word race, there's about 6 of us in it so far, all from BoolProp.com
Interests: Music, reading, writing, Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Death Note, Sims 2 
Favourite fandoms: Harry Potter, with a little Daria and Buffy too  
About you: Well I'm an English teenager with way too much time on my hands which is why I'm doing NaNo. I love writing and I want to be a published author some day but I don't have too much hope for that
What's in your journal?: NaNo stuff, fanfiction and the odd ranty-essay thing
Other journals you want people to add (ex. writing journals): --
Anything else?: Sandwich

Well I may not have posted anything here about it, but I'll be taking part in NaNoWriMo this year. It'll be my first time, and I've got to say I'm a little nervous, as well as annoyed at myself for making the plot I've chosen so complex. Not fun.

With the amount of fanfiction I've been reading the last few days, I'm surprised that I've managed to find something like this, but nevertheless I've found one little niggling detail  mentioned in most of the fics I've read. What is it? Knickers.

Now, I've seen it referred to just underwear in general, and usually men wearing it. That conjured some interesting images, let me tell you. Why? Well knickers are specifically something women and girls wear. They're women's underwear only, if men wear them then it's their choice, but they're most likely to be wearing boxers or the like.

Like every country using a language, British English uses slang, swearing, insults and other things. There are lots of examples out there - even dictionaries out there specifically for it like with the slang and such of most languages. I've even got a few linked. But to quote limeysugar on fanficrants a few days ago, "I should, however, bloody well tell you that we don't bloody go about saying 'bloody' all the bloody time."

Now I'm not so sure about other British-based fandoms, but the Harry Potter fandom certainly has a problem with misusing British slang. I'm sure Doctor Who, Torchwood and all of the others do too, but HP's where I spend most of my time and it's where I notice most of the errors as a result. So let's have a go at correcting them, shall we?




Truthfully there's probably a lot more I could add to this list, but I can't really think of them right now.

Yeah, another fic. But this one is brand new! And a WIP. And HP/LV. I'm kinda nervous about it, actually, it's a very strange feeling. But whatever, here we are.

Title: The Most Valuable Thing
Rating: Probably PG-13 for the moment
Disclaimer: Nothing is mine, sadly. It all belong to JKR and various publishing companies and the like,
Warnings: Nothing yet
Pairings: HP/LV
Summary: The flows of time never stops, even for those who are sent back through it.

Title: The Talk
Rating: G or PG, never really understood the rating system anyway
Summary: Draco has a little talk with his son.
Characters: Draco malfoy, Scorpius Malfoy, Narcissa Malfoy
Disclaimer: Sadly they're not mine, I just borrow them.
Warnings: Implied slash and the obvious DH spoilers
Notes: Yeah, I know, not one of those essayish posts, a fanfic instead. Shockingly I do write them. I've already posted this a couple of places already, and got a fairly positive response. Not bad for my first slash fic.

It's a simple question, wouldn't you agree? What should you and shouldn't you Britpick? Is there anything that should avoid at all costs? Or something people won't really bother with? Well, I'm going to try and answer that.

Okay, last post I went over the English School System. Now it's time to go onto something similar: exams.

Now before you fill with dread, envisioning yourself in your underwear, allow me to remind you that you won't be sitting these exams. All better now? Then I'll begin.

Please, bear in mind that the exams mentioned include both past exams that are no long taken, current exams and a few other things. Also bear in mind that the government is fond of changing the education system every few years, and the modern day exams listed will probably be changed in the future. And don't forget that this is England-only again.

 

The above cut has all of the old exams that I can think of. It isn't the longest list, but then I'm too young to remember any of them and only know about them through references on TV. The Cut below has exams that are used today.

And that, I believe, covers most things to do with schools and education before university.