Oh, I'm so glad this is bloody done. I've had some things really discouraging me lately. I'm watching all these Phantom films, and they're so wonderful that I feel like I'm just not being a good enough writer... At first Robert and Charles were inspiring me to write HT, and then gradually I just wanted to draw and write for THEM because they rocked so hard. I even have a fanfic idea, a CROSSOVER for God's sake, since Rob and Charles are such different phantoms, I thought they'd be hilarious having an argument about who's going to use Box 5 or something, although it's probably going a bit against Rob's character to make him fight so much with Charles, because... well if you've seen the movie... if he suddenly feels he's having an issue with someone else, they don't live much longer. *snort* I don't know why, I love Charles, but the idea of Rob lunging at him with a candlestick makes me laugh hard.

I came across this stupid quiz that doesn't even have all the phantoms and for some reason I really want to know what kind of results you guys will get, so if you have time: Which Phantom would you get it on with? Ignoring the typos, some of the answers were hilarious. "Kidnapping you, trying to rape you, killing your boyfriend and his police goons, and even when you try to escape 100 years into the future"... Well when you put it that way... Oh, and the reference to Charles: What kind of flowers would he give you? - "Flowers?! Baby, he's got his own forest." But somehow it came up with Lon Chaney. NO THANK YOU.

But anyway, another thing that's put me off is that HT is now 200 pages long and about 100,000 words (holy moly!), and this chapter was the last bit of the pretentiously titled "Part 1" of this book, but my planning for Part 2 and feeling ready to stop writing foreplay has made finishing it kind of boring in comparison to what I could be writing, so that's why I'm mainly thrilled. Part 2 is beginning now! There may not be a Chapter 31 by Sunday, I'm giving myself the excuse to be sporadic here, in order to have this website up before or by midnight of December 31. I'm trying~~~

21405 / 50000 words. 43% done!

I added Chapter 30 AND Chapter 24 to this, even though I wrote it a couple months before NanoWrimo. It sums up what I've completed for this whole year for the story.

( Chapter 30 - Goodbye to 2006 )

Favorite Quote(s)

I know you've heard all about this, but just try to put it into perspective... you know a guy for three months and the most time you've spent with him is an hour and a half, on a generous day. In retrospect, half of those three months you were probably arguing, and a couple weeks were just sending scraps of paper to each other.

I could have sworn the universe was trying to tell me we were not meant to be - that we were urging two magnets of the same polarity together.

"What did he say?"

I was too embarrassed to bring up the comment about my eyes. If you hadn't been there, it'd sound like an awfully bad pick-up line.

"Well... A mixture of weird things and compliments... as per usual..."

"...Is there a point in lying to me about all this?-" She looked at me like I was going crazy. "Oh, yeah... he's... trying to be Erik..."

"I'm not even egging."

Progress
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He's There (writing)
Pages (57/100)
Planning for Part 2
Chapter 30

He's There (website)
Promo Poster
Profiles (70%)
Illustrations (Still deciding how many I really want to do... for now let's say 50%)
Layout (50%)

Crystal Palace 3
Part 11 (35%)

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