The NaNoWriMo Cookbook (and a quick story of how it almost didn’t come into being)

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The name is Satoshileigh DM. I'm also called D-cha. Or Mikuru. Or Starr. Or Edward Cullen. I'm sixteen. I'm originally from Atlanta, spent some time in Asheville, North Carolina, and now residing in Greenville, South Carolina. I'm surprisingly a girl. I have one sibling -- my sister Jennifer, fifteen years my senior, and sadly, living in Atlanta. ._. I'm everybody's girlfriend. I'm a member of Mystery, Inc (Daphne, to be exact) I run Linux and understand it. I have adverse allergic reactions to Windows computers. I watch Jim Cramer religiously. I also watch iCarly, The Soup, Hannah Montana, The Simpsons, That 70s Show, Total Drama Island, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Family Guy, Important Things with Demitri Martin, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Wizards of Waverly Place, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Wild 'n Out, Kath and Kim (the American version), SpongeBob, Fairly Odd Parents, and random crap on E!. I listen to Family Force 5, andy hunterº, Morning Musume, Hirano Aya, eleventyseven, Bon Jovi, Kym Huynh, Tsuchiya Anna, Tiesto, Relient K, Pink Floyd, Sanctus Real, Natasha Bedingfield, Selena Gomez ([/fail]), Hannah Montana ([/epicfail]), Audio Adrenaline, and essentially anything with a beat. As I write this, I'm belting out the words to Morning Musume's "Happy Summer Wedding." Do I know what I'm singing? Nope. 80% of my dreams end up in various stories If I'm not writing, I'm making graphics If I'm not making graphics, I'm singing out loud to You Are a Pirate. I can speak English, Japanese, Spanish, French, and Latin. Only two are fluently, sry2say. (I'll let you guess which ones) I use the terms "sry2say," "trufax" and "srs bsns" far more than I'm supposed to. I said "for srs" one time in real life, and my mom was like "...FOR SERIOUS?" When I was five, I wanted to be a tapdancing, firefighting, ballerina princess. When I was six, I wanted to be veterinarian. When I was seven, I wanted to be a firefighter, minus the tapdancing, ballet and monarchy. When I was twelve, I officially realised my destiny in life was to be a graphics maker. When I was fourteen, I officially realised my destiny in life was to be a Family Force 5 groupie that followed them around in an old, beatup VW van while making graphics. I name my electronics. My offline computer is Josh (after Josh[ua] Olds), my Linux computer is Solomon (after *Solomon* Olds), my MP3 player is Matt (for the two in Relient K), my television is Shirtless Smitty (if you need to ask, you don't deserve to know). I work forNeoLodge, the third best website on the interblag. (First is obvious, second...the world may never know) My mom and I enjoy watching movies meant for teenagers that say "like" after every three words: Mean Girls, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (movie was better than the book), High School Musical, Bring it On, et cetera. I have a crush on the following guys: David Henrie, Jerry Trainor, Mikey Day, Taran Killam, Joel McHale, Hugh Laurie and Kakashi Hatake. I've been Rickrolled so many times I lost count. Worst one was when I got Rickrolled by a Family Guy commercial. I chew on my pens. I get wordy, if it's not obvious. Read 37 articles by DM