OKAY. YOU HAVE A LOT OF BAD HABITS, MISSY.
TIME TO STOP BEING SUCH A LOSER.

First of all... STOP ROLEPLAYING GODDAMNIT. Don't give me that shit about how it builds characters - IT WASTES FRICKIN TME. Plus, the only thing you like doing in roleplays is making the goddamn characters. Once it comes time to post, if you actually have to take longer than twenty minutes to write something, you'll claim that it's useless and ignore it. SOON, PEOPLE WILL GET MAD AT YOU. It's because the site doesn't take yourself seriously - soon you won't take yourself seriously! You are who your friends are and all that jazz...

ALSO, devART is for looking at art. For looking at prompts. NOT FOR POSTING UP WRITING. Seriously, all the writers there are lame as all hell. DO NOT POST PRIDEA PIECES ON DEVART ESPECIALLY. It'd be nice if you could just close your damn account there, but you need it to be subscribed to frickin' writing groups, so just lurk. DON'T EVEN POST JOURNAL ENTRIES. Who gives a fuck if people miss you, they don't do anything except post on your journal entries with cutesy little hug emoticons. Seriously, just lurk there. Don't bother posting anything up. After all, you want comments/feedback on your work, right? You ain't gonna get it from devART.

OKAY, HERE'S THE PLAN. YOU NEED TO FINISH PRIDEA BEFORE NOVEMBER (so you can participate in NaNoWriMo for once in your goddamn life) and YOU NEED TO WRITE MORE. You also need to START YOUR BLOGGER BLOG, but not before you WRITE MORE and JOIN the Absolute Write forum and POST said writings (that are not Pridea writing!) for comments/feedback on SCRIBOPHILE.

Did you get all that? Do you need me to spell it out for you? Okay, fine, here goes.

1. WRITE MORE STUFF. Why not finish that goddamn Bingo card you lazy sack of shit.

2. POST STUFF ON SCRIBOPHILE. You'll get comments for sure! And Scribo is full of actual writers, you'll learn a lot there. (DO NOT POST YOUR SHIT ON FIGMENT, That place is like the plague. Do not go there by any means!) With Scribo, you can choose to make your work private to users who aren't logged in, so it's not a public acrhive like devART is, which makes me feel a little more comfortable about posting my writing up.

3. START WRITING BLOG. On Blogger. Don't worry about connecting with people just yet, that'll come. Just blog about the actual writing process, any problems you have about Pridea, etc. DO NOT POST EXCERPTS. DO NOT TALK TOO MUCH (IF AT ALL) ABOUT YOUR PERSONAL LIFE. Fuck, that's what this blog is for. You can, however, talk about any and all things fantasy - 'cause it'll be a fantasy writing blog. See what I did there? Fantasy video games, fantasy anime...

4. JOIN ABSOLUTE WRITE. The ultimate writing forum. Ask for crit on some of your non-essential works that you already got crit on from Scribo - it's fine, you're just doing it to get to know them. Talk to writers. Don't try too hard to give a shit about them if some of them are boring as fuck. There are interesting writers out there... you just have to look. Get to know people - give criticism when you can. Remember - you're not a pro, some of these people, however, have been giving good crits for years. Keep a look out for anyone who is trustworthy enough to be your future beta-reader. That's the whole

ALRIGHT. If you follow those easy steps, you'll start getting more serious about writing and moving away from this kiddy atmosphere. You're movin' on up, kid! Soon, you'll be around other writers, if all goes according to plan. And lets hope it goes according to plan... Remember, you can't join Scribo until you're eighteen, so just start WRITING SOME SHIT so you can get back in the groove, okay? Okay. ... But wait, you thought I was done? Hell no! You've been a lazy sack of shit all of 2010, you think I'm gonna let you sit on your ass for another year? HELL NO.

FINISH PRIDEA GODDAMNIT. You've had ample time. Now I'm giving you until October 31, 2011 at 11:49 PM to finish the goddamn thing.

HERE'S THE PLAN.
FEB - MARCH/APRIL: THE PLANNING STAGES. GET ALL THE DAMN DETAILS DOWN. YEAH, ALL OF EM. YOU HEARD ME! I don't want any inconsistencies. I want every single character, every single tech gadget, every single detail about their food analyzed so nothing contradicts the other. Use the old Pridea Encyclopedia you made and then add on to it. Get the plot down. Get the ending down. Evaluate whether bringing in Kaiden Kairo at all is a good idea or not.

APRIL - OCT: FINISH THE DAMN BOOK. Should be pretty easy once you get everything down. That's ample time. Hell, you can write 150K in a month, so why the hell do you need all this time, anyway? The book definitely should not be longer than 200K, I mean, 150K is pushing it, isn't it? The first time you started, Part I took 150K, but that's because you didn't really know what you were doing. Get all the details down, but leave a little wiggle room, and you should be fine.

Okay, the plan's pretty flexible. Admittedly, it'll probably take me longer to get the Encyclopedia ready than it would to actually write the book (in theory, anyway... that's not scheduling in writer's blocks and me just not giving a damn about anything....) but as long as I get it done before Oct, I'll be fine. I mainly want to participate in NaNoWriMo not so much for the actual challenge, but for the networking that comes with that month. It's a time when writers band together like they never will again in any time of the month, so it's really important that I join, especially since this year will be my first 'debuting' on the writing scene. You know, the actual writing scene, not fucken devART or amateur  LJ/DW writing communities. The more connections I amass that can help me through this, the better.

If for some reason I don't finish Pridea before November (which I really hope doesn't happen - I'll work my hardest to make sure it doesn't) then... I'm not sure what I'll do. I won't be able to get a sketch out for another novel (will I?) so I'd probably have to skip it, unless, somehow, I can find the time to sketch out a mini-ish novel just for kicks (probably starring one of the many characters I have locked away the corners of my mind) just so I can have fun with the whole thing. It really can be super fun, and I really want to join it again.

Okay, good work, you've actually got a plan laid out! But can you follow it? Work hard!