I'm in. :]

College of my choice accepted me about a week ago so HURRAY! My NaNo is a fail but at least I now have a chance for higher education. xP

And tomorrow at noon... it's THANKSGIVING BREAK!!!!!

PS: Fleet Foxes rock. And redheads, too.

Gray rain, gray mist, gray mountain town, gray crowds of ghosts yet watching; and pulsing softly 'twixt the sheets, my gray heart slowly stopping.

Dang, I could just write a whole freaking depressing poem at the moment. It's been 40 degrees and pouring rain for 2 days. This just happens to be right when some of my favorite people in the world leave to go home to California. And I have like five bajillion things to do for school. And I have to finish my dumb college app that I'm way too lazy to do.

*sigh*

I can't wait until spring break.

I am so amazingly excited. I had the strangest revelation last night at 1:30 while trying to fall asleep. I suddenly realized what my whole story is about. It was a lovely, simple, and surprising thought that came just in the nick of time! (Or is it "knick?" Whatwhat?)

ANYWHOOO, I am staying up until midnight tonight to begin my noveling with a BANG and I invite all other wrimos who happen to read this journal to participate in a group WORD WAR starting at 12:00 and ending at 12:30. If you aren't as crazy as me, then you can just do it tomorrow morning or afternoon or whenever you happen to have time for some mild insanity as long as you go for just 30 minutes. I will be updating this journal with my results from my first word war run of the year, and anyone who feels inclined to do a mini word war can comment on this journal with their own results too. Let's all be crazy writer artists (or is it artist writers?) together!

It would also be lovely if everyone who participated (or even if you don't) would post the first sentence of their novel here. I'd love to read all of them. It doesn't have to teh pwnsomest thang evr, fyi. If a couple of your first few sentences works better, then you can do that, too. I'm just eager to hear what everyone will be writing about this November!

EDIT: I was able to squeeze out 948 words. Not bad, but not my best, either. Overall, I got 1,638 words in that first hour, so I'm well on my way to having a [definitely not] best-selling novel! ^^


_{Random PS: I'm kinda mad that the little blanks for what you're watching, reading etc. don't accept Japanese characters. Because 時をかける少女 looks much cooler than "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time." :[ At least the coding for signatures allows for the more obscure Greek characters to appear.}

Just another one of those emo days. I won't even bother writing a rant because they all sound the same at this point. There's so much stuff I should be doing but I can't seem to do anything but cry my eyes out at the moment.

FAIL.

It's that time of year again. Well, almost.

All you writers should know what I'm talking about: National Novel Writing Month. The month of delicious insanity where thousands upon thousands of crazy people do their best to compose a novel of at least 50,000 words. Simply wonderful.

Last year, I came pretty close, ending up about 8,000 words shy, a fact I blame on my parents since they banned me from writing over Thanksgiving break (which happened to be pretty much my only free time in the entire month of November). This year, I'm back with a vengeance. I'm going to avenge my poor little NaNoNovel from last year, which made it so far only to fail at the last second. I'm going to churn out an absolutely insane novel with 50,000 words at the least, though it will probably be more. (I'm saying this confidently and resolutely now, but I know in about two weeks I'll be greatly regretting it.) The storyline I'm using is Finding Antarctica, the first plot I proposed for my summer writing challenge that ended up falling flat on its face. Finally, this odd little plot will get a chance to shine, or, in the very least, progress beyond chapter three.

Now, at the same time I'll be polishing up my senior thesis, which I'm virtually done drafting as of yesterday, but of course there is still a lot of work left in it. Add that to NaNoWriMo and my normal school load and you've got a delightful little recipe for disaster, but I'm willing to bet that this year's disaster could not be any worse than last year's (which was turning in a paper worth half my grade a week late) so I'm not too worried. You might be asking "Why? Honestly, why go to all this trouble to write 50,000 words of useless trash? You don't get a reward and nobody cares whether you win or lose." Well, it just so happens that I am the sort of nerd who enjoys writing an awful lot, perhaps more than I should, and having the motivation to sit down and write a couple thousand words every day for a month is just an enchanting prospect, even if it means a lot of extra work. The fact that I have over 30 other people as NaNo friends helps keep me accountable and makes the affair much more exciting (I mean, have you ever met a group of people who got really hyped up over writing a novel? It's really refreshing to the odd man out such as myself). Plus it helps to break up the monotony of schoolwork and the boring, predictable manner in which my life runs itself (I say runs itself because it's so planned and uninspiring that I take very little interest in running it myself). It gives me something to think about when I'm sitting in class hearing the teacher tell me something I already know for the hundredth time, and helps me procrastinate on schoolwork when I need it most. Really, for that many benefits I'm quite eager to sacrifice a few hours of sleep for a month.

Any other aspiring NaNo novelists out there? Let's talk noveling, shall we? (You can find my NaNoWriMo profile here: [link])