So, two and a half hours to go. That's REALLY NOT THAT MUCH TIME. I'm freaking out. I'm having flashbacks to freshman year (my first NaNo) when I couldn't sit still and I had so much energy that I just wanted to run up and down the hall and yell and make a ruckus. I also had major butterflies (a combo of nervous and excited) and I actually felt ( Read more... )

It's tomorrow. And by tomorrow, I mean later tonight. Fourteen hours and twenty-nine minutes. OHGOD ( Read more... )

So it really doesn't feel like NaNo is in THREE DAYS. On the one hand, time has been crawling over the past couple weeks, and it seems like NaNo will never get here. Then, on the other hand, there was so much I told myself I would get done before NaNo, and I haven't done any of it. So, three days suddenly seems like NOT ALL THAT MUCH TIME ( Read more... )

So, Saturday. I had promised myself I would get somewhere on at least one of the three papers I have to write, considering all of them are due during November. I thought it would be nice to get ahead so I wouldn't have to juggle schoolwork and novel all at once ( Read more... )

So, because I am so stubborn as to not give up this whole "write two 75k-word novels" idea, I decided I would find a way to make it happen ( Read more... )

I think I have made a decision. I have tentatively resolved the quandary discussed in this postI WILL BE WRITING TWO 75,000-WORD NOVELS. BECAUSE I AM INSANE, OKAY ( Read more... )

I just received an e-mail from the Illustrious Chris Baty that, as a winner of NaNoWriMo 2007, I am entitled to a prize. What is this prize? A free paperback copy of my 2007 NaNo from CreateSpace, an On-Demand Self-Publisher affiliated with Amazon.com. The offer is good for six months from today ( Read more... )

No, seriously. Let me tell you a story. I've been planning all along to write 100,000 words of novel this November. Actually, no, that's a lie. At first, I set my goal at 75,000 because I knew I would be having a busy semester, and I was prepared to dive in with no plot. Then, once my novel began to flesh itself out, I pushed my personal goal back ( Read more... )

So, I just got back from a long weekend at home. I feel all refreshed, because I was able to relax and just sit around doing NOTHING. Except, see, I wasn't just doing NOTHING. I was working on The Unraveler, that poor shriveled up novel that has been crying out for love and attention since, oh, February. Since I was in the living room with my ( Read more... )

Okay, so something very exciting has happened. My NaNo 08 SOUNDTRACK finally came together! This is something that I've missed for a while. For my first NaNo, I made a soundtrack for each novel and really enjoyed doing it. NaNo 2006 didn't have a soundtrack, and then for 2007 I just chose a song for each of the three main characters, then had a ( Read more... )