Anyone doing anything exciting today/tonight (besides getting ready for NaNoWriMo ;) )?
I usually make plans to eat a ton of candy and snacks and watch some brilliant horror movies... but of course that never seems to work out.
Because, either:
I can't find any good scary movies.
or (the most common and usually the real reason):
I get distracted by the shinyshiny internet.
oh, internet, you! you'll be the death of me :)
Happy Halloween, everyone!
- k.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
it's creeping closer...!
No, not Halloween (but oh how I miss trick-or-treating! I'll have to buy several bags of candy for myself because, I mean, who doesn't secretly do that??).
NaNoWriMo is almost upon us. I'm assuming approximately 99.654% of the people (or robots? cyborgs?) reading this already know what NaNoWriMo is. But if you're part of that 00.346%, fear not! NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and occurs in November. For the entire month crazy-pants people attempt to write a novel (or at least 50,000 words). Pretty straightforward, no?
Last year was the first time I participated and I have to say, it was so insane and so much fun! I'm so glad I did it. Here's why: it actually got me to finish a novel. For the first time. I had had several in the works, but before NaNoWriMo I hadn't ever completed a MS (and by completed I only mean the first/rough draft). Now, almost a year later, I've finished one... two... three... four?? I think? novels. Not all of them I went on to revise and polish, but still, that's around 200,000 words I've written since last year -- 200,000 words that have made me a better writer.
NaNoWriMo jump-started my desire to write, and to write a lot. I found out I was capable of completing something, and writing a couple thousand words a day became almost second nature -- really, it made the 500 words I previously struggled to get to every couple days seem like nothing.
If you haven't tried NaNoWriMo, I strongly recommend giving it a shot.
For those of you who have, what's your fave thing about it?
Mine? Probably the all-nighters I pulled, as well as seeing the progression of other writers' novels. Their steadily increasing word counts motivated me to keep writing, writing, writing.
Hmm... now I'm craving Kit Kats.
Have a lovely day, everyone!
- k.
NaNoWriMo is almost upon us. I'm assuming approximately 99.654% of the people (or robots? cyborgs?) reading this already know what NaNoWriMo is. But if you're part of that 00.346%, fear not! NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and occurs in November. For the entire month crazy-pants people attempt to write a novel (or at least 50,000 words). Pretty straightforward, no?
Last year was the first time I participated and I have to say, it was so insane and so much fun! I'm so glad I did it. Here's why: it actually got me to finish a novel. For the first time. I had had several in the works, but before NaNoWriMo I hadn't ever completed a MS (and by completed I only mean the first/rough draft). Now, almost a year later, I've finished one... two... three... four?? I think? novels. Not all of them I went on to revise and polish, but still, that's around 200,000 words I've written since last year -- 200,000 words that have made me a better writer.
NaNoWriMo jump-started my desire to write, and to write a lot. I found out I was capable of completing something, and writing a couple thousand words a day became almost second nature -- really, it made the 500 words I previously struggled to get to every couple days seem like nothing.
If you haven't tried NaNoWriMo, I strongly recommend giving it a shot.
For those of you who have, what's your fave thing about it?
Mine? Probably the all-nighters I pulled, as well as seeing the progression of other writers' novels. Their steadily increasing word counts motivated me to keep writing, writing, writing.
Hmm... now I'm craving Kit Kats.
Have a lovely day, everyone!
- k.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
just getting the (awkward) mandatory first post out of the way
so! not making any promises this blog will be entertaining or informative, and... now that I think of it, why are you even here?
but if you haven't disappeared, I've got twelve words for you:
sit back, relax, and try not to laugh at me too much
(now that that's over with… how many of you actually counted to see if that was twelve words?)
have a lovely day!
:)
- k.
but if you haven't disappeared, I've got twelve words for you:
sit back, relax, and try not to laugh at me too much
(now that that's over with… how many of you actually counted to see if that was twelve words?)
have a lovely day!
:)
- k.
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