It's 8:22 pm, and I'm getting realllllly excited! I'm sitting in front of the desktop computer in the office room, but I'm on my laptop, having just succcessfully installed Microsoft Office 2007. I spent an hour trying to find it and then like three hours of wheedling and begging to get my dad to help me install it onto the computer(: Now I'm fully ready for Nano! I really have no idea how I'm going to begin my story, but I'm just really excited for it all to begin. I'm probably going to give up in like three days...but for now, I can't wait. Yesterday I bought some candy and Coke, to keep me awake for 12:00 am and however long I stay up to write. I'm hoping to get in a good few thousand words before I go to bed and then a lot more in the morning to give me a little cushion in case I fall back later.
Yesterday when I was buying snacks, I also went to Michaels and bought a lot of string so I could make friendship bracelets. Last week, I was doing a project with a few people, one of whom was someone who was obsessed with friendship bracelets. When I was younger, I used to make them, so I decided to get more string so I could revisit the hobby again. It's actually really fun and relaxing to do while waiting for midnight, and I even l earned a few more designs or whatever. Yay!
And yes, my post is going all over the place, but right now I'm really annoyed at Nanowrimo (or the website at least). Obviously a lot of people are on the website right now because it's so close to midnight. I was on too. I was reading this really interesting topic and wanted to click page four to continue my lurking/stalkerish habits, but it said the site was down for maintenance. Gah!
....nevermind. I just clicked it again, and it worked. Now I feel stupid.
Anyhow. I was looking for more Nanowrimo stuff, and I found this one chart that had the dates Nov. 1-Nov. 30 where you could write down your progress and see how behind/ahead you were with your writing count, so I printed that out. I also printed out two of the Nano posters to tape in my room and planner in case I ever get thoughts of quitting. That way I can guilt myself into writing (: Andddd, I also printed out this cute calendar that someone customized for nano, with little notes and stuff. It's hard to explain, but it's really nice. And I'm too lazy to put the links up... :/ But it's cool.
I think that's it. My dad is yelling at me for hogging both computers, so I have to give him the laptop. Te he. Only four more hours, guys!
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Nano Preparation
I'm making a list of things to do before November 1st. I really can't wait. I should be sleeping right now, but all I can think about is my story and actually getting to write it. haha, what a dork I am(:
1. LEARN TO HAVE BETTER TIME MANAGEMENT
2. Buy a lot of coke/coffee and sugary snacks
3. Buy a bunch of microwavable food
4. Make some music playlists
5. Get to the know my characters better
6. Make a timeline of the story to help make the outline clearer
7. Write reminders about Nanowrimo everywhere to guilt myself into writing in case I want to quit
8. Reread some reference books like No Plot? No Problem!
9. Buy a writing totem or make one.
10. Make a book cover.
11. Find people that look like my characters and tape them on my wall in front of the computer
12. Install Microsoft 2007 onto my laptop so I don't have to be glued to the office computer
1. LEARN TO HAVE BETTER TIME MANAGEMENT
2. Buy a lot of coke/coffee and sugary snacks
3. Buy a bunch of microwavable food
4. Make some music playlists
5. Get to the know my characters better
6. Make a timeline of the story to help make the outline clearer
7. Write reminders about Nanowrimo everywhere to guilt myself into writing in case I want to quit
8. Reread some reference books like No Plot? No Problem!
9. Buy a writing totem or make one.
10. Make a book cover.
11. Find people that look like my characters and tape them on my wall in front of the computer
12. Install Microsoft 2007 onto my laptop so I don't have to be glued to the office computer
Three More Days!
For those of you who don't know what Nanowrimo is, it's called National Novel Writing Month in November where thousands of people across the world get together to achieve a goal of writing 50,000 words. It's amazing because there are so many people who are doing the same as you, so you're never alone because you can discuss your troubles, excitement, and frustration with people in who can empathize on the Nanowrimo forums, unlike your friends who probably think you're crazy. Just go to www.nanowrimo.org and sign up today! There's only three more days before November starts, and my fingers are already itching to start writing. In fact, I've done some loose planning on my story, but I don't have every little bit analyzed, so hopefully I'll surprise myself with thinking of some amazingly awesome plot twist or something of the sort instead of quitting due to writer's block. xD
This is my third year, but I tend to try and ignore the previous two because of the epic proportion of my failure to write 50K words. I think last year I got about... 8K? before I quit. Greatttt. But this year I'm determined to win, so I'm logging my progress on this blog which will hopefully motivate me to keep writing. Obviously I'm not setting any high hopes for my novel to be the next New York bestseller, but I just want to have a complete draft, however crappy it is, to work with. I'm not exactly looking forward to December because there will be a heck load of editing and banging my head on the table, but hey, it's a start. And I think it will be a great experience for me to actually win (or at least make a greater attempt than my previous years and get somewhat close to 50K) because hopefully I'll learn a thing or two about time management and writing. (:
I don't have my whole story planned out yet, but due to my extreme lack of creativity and good ideas, I'm, once again, writing a YA realistic fiction. All of my teen realistic fics pretty much have the same idea but with different main characters and setting (see what I mean about lack of creativity?). But this month, my goal is simply to get to 50K while juggling my mass amount of homework and swim practices and... other stuff without falling back on cheating methods, tehe (like writing the lyrics to an entire song multiple times in my novel or going into extreme detail about every little thing, etc.) This year, my main character is a seventeen (?) year old girl named Morgan Leigh Parker who basically goes through a lot of changes throughout the novel. Sort of like a Sarah Dessen-y book but with a lot less writing talent. She learns a lot about friendship and finds it in people who she would never have dreamed of while losing the close bond with others. I'm pretty sure I'm going to give her some family problems as well, specifically with her dad. She's mainly a disappointment, but he's also just really rough on her in general. They don't function like a "normal" family, whatever that would be; they don't communicate, they're hardly around each other, and the only person in her entire family that Morgan can relate to is her twin brother, Jake. And there's a boy, who she may or may not be attracted to, who keeps sticking his nose in her mysterious past (or not so past), causing unpleasant memories that Morgan's tried to suppress come to the surface again. Morgan is forced to face with the truth of it all too soon, and no one knows what will happen when the dust settles.
So. Pretty cliche but I'm hoping that it will turn into something... not cliche. Haha. I'm so excited to get started writing; I know I'll be staying up late on Halloween to wait for it to turn 12:00 am so I can start typing. I'm aiming to get a few thousand words in as a head start, and then when I wake up on Sunday I'll write a lot since I really have nothing to do anyway. That way I'll have a little cushion for the second and third week when my novel starts falling apart at the seams. (:
This is my third year, but I tend to try and ignore the previous two because of the epic proportion of my failure to write 50K words. I think last year I got about... 8K? before I quit. Greatttt. But this year I'm determined to win, so I'm logging my progress on this blog which will hopefully motivate me to keep writing. Obviously I'm not setting any high hopes for my novel to be the next New York bestseller, but I just want to have a complete draft, however crappy it is, to work with. I'm not exactly looking forward to December because there will be a heck load of editing and banging my head on the table, but hey, it's a start. And I think it will be a great experience for me to actually win (or at least make a greater attempt than my previous years and get somewhat close to 50K) because hopefully I'll learn a thing or two about time management and writing. (:
I don't have my whole story planned out yet, but due to my extreme lack of creativity and good ideas, I'm, once again, writing a YA realistic fiction. All of my teen realistic fics pretty much have the same idea but with different main characters and setting (see what I mean about lack of creativity?). But this month, my goal is simply to get to 50K while juggling my mass amount of homework and swim practices and... other stuff without falling back on cheating methods, tehe (like writing the lyrics to an entire song multiple times in my novel or going into extreme detail about every little thing, etc.) This year, my main character is a seventeen (?) year old girl named Morgan Leigh Parker who basically goes through a lot of changes throughout the novel. Sort of like a Sarah Dessen-y book but with a lot less writing talent. She learns a lot about friendship and finds it in people who she would never have dreamed of while losing the close bond with others. I'm pretty sure I'm going to give her some family problems as well, specifically with her dad. She's mainly a disappointment, but he's also just really rough on her in general. They don't function like a "normal" family, whatever that would be; they don't communicate, they're hardly around each other, and the only person in her entire family that Morgan can relate to is her twin brother, Jake. And there's a boy, who she may or may not be attracted to, who keeps sticking his nose in her mysterious past (or not so past), causing unpleasant memories that Morgan's tried to suppress come to the surface again. Morgan is forced to face with the truth of it all too soon, and no one knows what will happen when the dust settles.
So. Pretty cliche but I'm hoping that it will turn into something... not cliche. Haha. I'm so excited to get started writing; I know I'll be staying up late on Halloween to wait for it to turn 12:00 am so I can start typing. I'm aiming to get a few thousand words in as a head start, and then when I wake up on Sunday I'll write a lot since I really have nothing to do anyway. That way I'll have a little cushion for the second and third week when my novel starts falling apart at the seams. (:
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