What do People Search For at the Leaning Tower of Plot?

Yes, yes, I know, everyone is doing these. However, as I am currently busy trying to organise two-hundred-plus parents and schoolchildren, as well as juggling the small bombsite that my life has become at the moment, I felt the need to fill the blogging void.

Besides, some of these are freaking hilarious:


Top Ten Blog Searches from the Past Month:

brushes photoshop rawr dinosaur - Fear not, oh lost dinosaur, I shall find your photoshop brushes!


saga dinosaurs turkey - Is it strange that I think this would be an awesome idea for a ballad?


fandoms - Are coming. Just like winter.


carcassone - Is not my name. Unfortunately.


dino go instinkt - Is this some unknown cousin of "Hulk smash"? Because if it is, I'mma start running.


{some indicipherable URL} - Probably a copy-paste error. Not half as exciting as it should be.


keep calm and don't by forever alone - Yes, yes, I am Forever Alone. You needn't remind me.


keep calm and carry on - Thanks for the tip. So original.


loki avengers creepy smile - What on earth ... how did you get in here!?


loki smirk - Don't rub it in, you mischief-making wretch. You're lucky you're so adorable...

So ... does this mean I've been officially Loki'd?

~ Charley R

The Holy Grail of All Things Geeky

The quiz can be taken here at The Fandom - The Universal Fandom Quiz

Oh, and before I go...

EXTERMINATE!!!

The Golden Sponge Stick Competition

I don't know how many of you know of this competition, but basically it is a competition run by an author, sponsored by her old school (I think). The challenge is to write a short story, 1500 words or less, set in Roman times. It's completely open ended as to what you can write, and there are several age brackets for entrants. I entered in the Over Fourteen category, after my Latin teacher pointed the competition out to me. I entered my story a couple of days before the competition closed, and since then I have been wondering about the results.

Then, this afternoon, I received a strange parcel in the mail. Inside it was ...

That's right everyone, it's a Golden Sponge Stick! I won the competition! Yippee!

After bouncing around the room excitedly for several minutes, I opened up the card that came inside the parcel. It was a letter from Jenny Pine, the lady in charge of the competition, congratulating me on the win! Also inside was a £25 HMV voucher, and a request from her that I get my parents to give permission for her to publish my story on her website! Wheeeeee!

*sniffs* I'm so happy! I shall treasure this gold-painted sponge for years to come!

Wait until my mother hears about this one ...

-Spook

Veni! Vidi! Scripti!

Okay, so that's not proper Latin, but guess what everyone?
MY NOVEL HAS PASSED 50K!!!!!!
...
This is the part where we all burst into happy song and dance routines, shower each other with confetti , devour unseemly amounts of junk food and drink copious amounts of sugary fruit juice.

The only thing spoiling my mood?

The story's not finished yet. I still have about a third (well, maybe a bit less than that. A quarter and a bit?) of the plot to get down on the page. I doubt it'll ever be enormous (looking at you Del, *coughcough*) but I do want to actually finish the story, you know?
Some of my friends have already agreed to give the thing a read when I'm done ... so I want to finish it so they're not left with an irritating I'm-not-done-yet-bear-with-me ending.

Still.... my first year doing NaNoWriMo and I won!
Good omens? I hope so.