Well, tomorrow's November. A lot of you are probably happy. One month closer to the holidays. Some might be sad, lots of snow coming. Me? Freaking out. I'm about to give up my social life for a whole month, what are your plans?
Some of you might've heard of it, or not unless you have a friend who just dragged you into it this summer (like me). Nanowrimo...Na(tional) No(vermber) Wr(iting) Mo(nth). Prounced Naahh no! wri (as in write..wri...not ree) mo (not moo). Nanowrimo is where you try to write a 50k novel in exactly one month --start's at midnight (tonight..or tomorrow...whatever) and ends the 30th at 11:59 pm.
Anyways, my friend who dragged me into this and I are going to try to finish our wages. Which include eating dog food, no Facebook for a week (TORTURE), ect. Stuff to make us WANT to finish our goal.
But frankly, I'm freaking out. To achieve 50,000 words in 30 days...you have to write 1666.6666666667 words a day. Yeah...this summer I tried writing 1,000 a day and got bored. And my story line's not all the way done, either. I mean, I have the basics. But not characters, their names, appearance, or if I'm adding prologues/epilogues and HOW I'm going to start it. Gah. I dragged my cousin into it after my friend got me to agree (we're all writers) so I won't be the ONLY big anti-social caterpillar. (yep, creative huh? Social little butterfly...cheesy I know.)
Any other fellow Nano's? If so, comment and give my tips. This is my first year. AH!
There's something called Script Frenzy in April too, which is the same organization but you write a 100 page script in the month of April. I'm thinking (if my novel turns out alright) to turn that into a script. Then, out of the scripts done in our little group of writing buddies) we can choose one to make a small movie about. Yeah. We're nerds.
Anyways, I better get started on preparing for it. *sigh* I'm freaking out, if I haven't meantioned. See you on the other side! (hopefully)
~Jae
P.S.- I'll probably get distracted and write frustrated blogs on here. Or I'll try to stay away for the whole month. So either way....later!
P.P.S.-Just realized I put Mo(uth) instead of Mo(nth) ...that's embarrassing.
P.P.P.S.-Wow I was freaking out to much. Forgot to mention HAPPY HALLOWEEN! I've grown out of trick or treating, but I'll dress up! Our school didn't let us dress up !! For the first time ever! D: OUTRAGE!
National Novel Writing Month. It even SOUNDS intimidating. Jeez... How will we *survive*?
ReplyDeleteI've decided to split up my daily writing into two 834 word segments- one for the morning, one for the night. And even though I've hit my morning quota with 933 words, I still feel the overwhelming, freaked out feeling of "I SHOULD BE WRITING!!" I'm considering bringing my laptop to psychology tomorrow. And I'm going to try desperately to convince my friend to participate.
Anyway. I'm glad to be a new follower! And good luck on your novel. ^_^
thanks!!
ReplyDeleteyep, well one day down. 29 left.
My first day was successful with reaching the quota, and i like how it's coming along!
Hope it stays that way!
I can't get up early enough to do it in the morning, so I do it throughout school on a piece of paper and type out in the afternoon:)