National Novel Writing Month

Gosh, I wish I was able to participate in the actual National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo for short: http://www.nanowrimo.org). Write a 50,000-word novel in just 30 days?!

My word count on VE is a little over 50,000, but I've been working on it since 2007. In actual writing time, though, I guess I've just been working on it for a few months or so.

The NaNoWriMo challenge sounds ridiculously hard, but it's really only about 1,600 words a day, as long as you can stick to it. Maybe I'll do it next year. Anyone ever tried it?

Speaking of next year, I'm hoping to be doing a semester in London next fall, taking drama writing among other things. I anticipate it will be a fun place to write.

I imagine a bright future where I can crank out a novel every month. That doesn't seem possible. Maybe every other month.

Twitter poem

I wrote this poem a couple weeks ago by taking messages (tweets) posted by my friends (and me) on Twitter and organizing them into the most coherent poem that I could. Twitter fascinates me. You might not realize that a well-crafted 140-character message takes thought and talent.

#worthnoting

Searching for good place on campus to write my poem. Suggestions welcome.
Two steps forward. Three steps back.
just finished preserving democracy
The cold is piercing in lexington, virginia
have you stopped being a poser yet?
wait what you think I'm beautiful?

i think i'm in love with a puppy.
What the heck is going on? Thursday afternoon and the streets are littered with townies with their kids all dressed up.
Well I hear Alabama fans suck
is kind of amused by irony
There is another one of those really creepy bugs in the kitchen. I should get rid of it, but I may hyperventilate and die.
Suddenly it's Sunday...
So technically today's a 25 hour day, right?
it's to jimmy eat world and those nights in my car when the first star you see may not be a star.



Tweets stolen from @kayteerob, @scarletmills, @shardsofun, @tildatildetilda, @rebeccaadele, @fowlovescarlet, @skythrock, and @allisonchopin
(Order of names does not correspond to order of poem)

Finally back to novel writing

Well, I'm off of school and I'm home for the week, so I'm finally working on the novel again. It's pretty disappointing that I've hardly worked on it all semester, but I'm happy to be finally doing something. Tonight I managed to get past the tricky plot point I've been struggling with, too. I'm way past the deadline I gave myself, but I'm hoping to have a draft done by the first of the year.

I'm really happy when I'm writing, but I'm also great at procrastinating and coming up with reasons not to do it. I hear most writers struggle with that. I just wish I could be more dedicated when I'm at school. It would help if I never had any homework to do, of course.

In the meantime, I have been writing poetry, so it's not like I'm completely worthless, right?

I plan to write every day for the rest of week, and maybe I'll be able to get a lot done.

November is National Novel Writing Month. There are so many reasons to write!