If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire, if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life on our shores, if women could be dragged to jail for seeking the vote, if a generation could defeat a depression, and define greatness for all time, if a young preacher could lift us to the mountaintop with his righteous dream, and if proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love… then surely… surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.
Michelle Obama, speaking at the Democratic National Convention. (via pantslessprogressive)

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NaNoWriMo Meme

NaNoWriMo Meme   per http://theawkwardginge.tumblr.com/



Working Title: on their site it is just “Working Title”…so far

Genre: Historical Fiction

Projected Word Count: hoping for at least 50,000… eek :O  and maybe another couple?


AT THE START DO YOU

Have an outline?:not yet, that is today, plus some research

Scene-by-scene? nope, not at all

Know how it starts?:  kinda

Know how it ends?: the general idea

Have your climax in order?: not quite

Have your main characters yet? mostly

Plan to draw on your experiences?: yep

IS YOUR WORK GOING TO BE

Funny?: mostly no

Serious?: yes

Sad?: definitely

HOW MUCH HAVE YOU PLANNED? HAVE YOU USED

A paper journal?: nope

A computer?: not much

Index cards?: no

Bulleted lists?: not yet

Plot Charts?: not yet 

Character Charts?:  not yet

Character formulas?: nope

ODDS AND ENDS, though I deleted a few…

Favorite writing resource?: PC, online thesarus, google search & drive, slacker & pandora

A scene you would like to include: oooh theres this intense three way naval battle towards the end and shit goes down

A concept you would like to explore: why people fall in love and also how pain is used as a manipulator

A cliché you would like avoid: the whole buried treasure pirate thing

A character you would like to use: my sassy villain who looks like Tom Felton :)

FORWARD THINKING

Do you expect to be able to complete it? yes if i can stop procrastinating

Do you intend to complete it? HELLLLL YEAH

Would you ever try to publish it? hopefully

What do you expect to get out this month of frantic writing?: a manuscript

whoneedsfeminism: I need feminism because my housemates recently had a party and mid-way through the night someone mentioned that my boobs were really big and that I should show them off to everyone. I said “no” but was still pressured by all of my housemates AND a group of complete strangers to take my top off. I ended up having my shirt torn by one of the guys who thought it was his right to just rip my shirt off me in order to get a look at my breasts. I ended up feeling so threatened and alone (nobody stuck up for me) that I ran to my room and locked the door. Nobody saw anything wrong with this. Not even my housemates (who I have lived with for over a year no). I was nearly sexually assaulted, but I was the one made to feel bad because I “disappointed” the guys who were there. 
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whoneedsfeminism:

I need feminism because my housemates recently had a party and mid-way through the night someone mentioned that my boobs were really big and that I should show them off to everyone.

I said “no” but was still pressured by all of my housemates AND a group of complete strangers to take my top off. I ended up having my shirt torn by one of the guys who thought it was his right to just rip my shirt off me in order to get a look at my breasts. I ended up feeling so threatened and alone (nobody stuck up for me) that I ran to my room and locked the door.

Nobody saw anything wrong with this. Not even my housemates (who I have lived with for over a year no). I was nearly sexually assaulted, but I was the one made to feel bad because I “disappointed” the guys who were there.