I'm Starting To Wake With The Night

But being as most of the world doesn't, this might be a bad thing.



30.000 words.
Wow.
Only 20.000 left.
I might actually do this.

Now There's No Turning Back

The road ahead is either paved with adventure and celebration, or disappointment and failure. But I have to walk it anyway. Otherwise, nothing exists.

I am past 26,000 words right now. I killed last year's record two days ago, and I passed the halfway mark yesterday. Now onward to 30,000, hopefully by Monday.


I can do it. I have to try. It's worthless to get this far and give up now.

What Would You Do?

If I did what you did? Would you be me? Or would there be two yous?


I wrote 3000+ words yesterday. In the past 25 hours, I've written roughly 5000 words.

I'm at 21730 words.

I broke the 20k mark.

Only a few more until I break last year's record.



And still, nothing has happened in my novel. GAH.

My Eyes Are As Heavy

As the thoughts on my brain. Which will fall first?

Novel is going well. 16,700+ words. And no class tomorrow. w00t. Once I have internet, I can update this more often. My characters are being agreeable so far. Let's hope that holds. Still haven't gotten into any kind of plot. Oops. It'll happen. Class now though, I should probably listen... (:

Stay Safe, Stay Strong

And I'm trying, but I can't let you know if I'll be here when you are gone.


So I'm falling behind. And I'm sleepy. And I have a paper proposal to write. Ah, life :/

When It Rains

It pours, and words like rain fall from the Heavens.

Hello all, to the first wonderful installment of my life as a WriMo, during NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month. It is here that my insanity begins to rise, and the sanity needed to make these words and sentences coherent becomes lacking. Also, you might notice the word padding in these entries as well as my novel. Well, you see, I’ve decided upon the “Use Every Single Word You Write In November Toward Your Word Count” approach. So these journal entries will double as the journal entries for my main character’s main character. You see, the main character is a writer as well. And she is writing a story about me. So she writes my words, and I write her words. So she uses what I write here in her own story, to more fully develop her character, and I use that aspect of the story to more fully develop my own word count. Is it not a fabulous idea?

So about this Main Character. Does she have a name yet? Nope. I’ve gone through… Let me check…. 5 typed, single spaced pages in Times New Roman font, size 12 (see what I mean about word padding?), without giving the poor lass a name. Currently she is referred to as “the girl,” “the young girl,” and “she.” It definitely is not the most descriptive, but it could be seen as a plot device by future generations, am I right? Right? I’m also obsessively checking my word count, both in my novel and in this paragraph. Ha ha. Anything to kill that word count dead. Kill it dead.

So my Main Character. MC. Girl. The Young Girl. YG. She. We have described her looks in detail. We haven’t much seen into her brain. We know what the majority of her house looks like. We haven’t seen the kitchen, her father’s room, her dead sister’s room (wow, I JUST decided she has a dead sister. Huh.), or the barn. We have met her dog though. Cahm. It is a play on Charlie’s name. Char to Cham to Cham, all by a mistyping. Aren’t computers wonderful?

So I really do need to come up with a name for my main character. I’m hoping she introduces herself by the end of her first journal entry. Yipes.

Also, I miss my blogspot. My spotty internet is fighting the website, and I really like my layout on there. It’s so much more fun to type in the little box and make sure the format is right.

Not that I don’t love you, Microsoft Word.

Anyway, I’m not sure where this story is going to go. I am just going to let it do its own thing. I just hope it lasts until November 30th, or at least 50,000 words. If not, I have the writer aspect already. I’ll just change the story and start over. Huzzah!

Alright, I should actually write the real story now. Maybe I will check back in after I get to 5000! Wish me luck! Ganbarimasu!


PS I just realized that I titled this file on my computer “Nov 3.” It isn’t even Nov 3 yet. It’s only 11:58 on Nov 2. Bah.


PPS I really wish I had some kind of reliable internet. This is getting to be all kinds of ridiculous.


PPS Okay, so I forgot to say this much. I’m also going for the omniscient third person narrator… But only kind of. The narrator doesn’t know everything. The narrator has to discover things. And the narrator doesn’t always follow the main character. And the narrator is a “we” and an “us.” I am kind of stealing this, rather, borrowing this idea from Haruki Murakami. And I never meant to. It just… kind of happened. But it seems to be working well.