So remember yesterday when I was all, "I'm going home to write like crazy,"????? Yea I didn't...I'm so ashamed: nothing was done yesterday *wince*. Sorry sorry sorry! So the word count is still the same. I'm gonna go grab some breakfast burritos from the Thetas who are selling them in DeWitt for Relay right now. Then, after the burritos it's writing time. Also, in my defense I got pretty sick yesterday. Weirdest thing ever. Alright, my dears, until tomorrow.
<3 katelyn
Friday, November 5, 2010
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Day 4
Seriously? It's been four days already? Wow, November is gonna fly by. As promised, I did quite a bit of writing last night to make up for my lack of writing Tuesday night. Word count is up to 5,079. I'm just sitting in the Keltz to update this really quick. Hopefully I'll get some writing done this afternoon! Let's go do this business. Peace, my dears!
<3 katelyn
<3 katelyn
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Day 3
Ok ok, I have a confession to make: I didn't do that much writing yesterday *winces*. SORRY! I did some this afternoon, though, and my word count is currently up to 3,517!! Yay! I just keep getting to points where I don't feel like much is going on so I lose the desire to keep writing. Right now I'm at the radio station doing my radio show and then I have a Panhel meeting but after that I will sit down and write for a few hours. Need to finish getting some homework done, too, though. And definitely need to get a decent amount of sleep tonight.
Here are some of the character names so far:
Lucy
Pete
Sean
Alicia
I know it doesn't tell you much....but that's the point. I'm terrible at showing anyone a work in progress. Blah. Ok need to focus on DJing now. Peace!
Here are some of the character names so far:
Lucy
Pete
Sean
Alicia
I know it doesn't tell you much....but that's the point. I'm terrible at showing anyone a work in progress. Blah. Ok need to focus on DJing now. Peace!
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Days 1 and 2
Well yesterday I moved into my new apartment....and started writing for NaNoWriMo. I accidentally slept through Hope's kick-off event (go me) and around 6:00pm I realized I should get some work done.
I have a plot....but I'm afraid to reveal it right now; didn't even tell John what it is. But yay! Plot! No idea where it's going but that's a good thing. Might just explode at the end but who knows. I do feel a bit better about this month, however, because Amanda is sitting across from me right now mumbling to herself about the sonnets she's writing. So there, at least I don't have to write anymore sonnets (which are the bane of my existence). I'm also happy because even though I didn't reach my goal of at least 3,000 words last night (I was exhausted, leave me alone), I did get to 2,546!! That's about 5 pages!
Unfortunately our new apartment doesn't have internet at this point. I tried to steal some last night but it wasn't working. This means I won't be able to update unless I drag myself to somewhere on campus or Lemonjello's. I will still be writing like crazy tonight! Alright, time to go to class. Peace!
I have a plot....but I'm afraid to reveal it right now; didn't even tell John what it is. But yay! Plot! No idea where it's going but that's a good thing. Might just explode at the end but who knows. I do feel a bit better about this month, however, because Amanda is sitting across from me right now mumbling to herself about the sonnets she's writing. So there, at least I don't have to write anymore sonnets (which are the bane of my existence). I'm also happy because even though I didn't reach my goal of at least 3,000 words last night (I was exhausted, leave me alone), I did get to 2,546!! That's about 5 pages!
Unfortunately our new apartment doesn't have internet at this point. I tried to steal some last night but it wasn't working. This means I won't be able to update unless I drag myself to somewhere on campus or Lemonjello's. I will still be writing like crazy tonight! Alright, time to go to class. Peace!
Saturday, October 30, 2010
almost time
Today is one of my last days of sanity. Ok so maybe I shouldn't be negative before this project even starts or else November is going to be one looooong month. For those of you who don't know exactly what I'm doing here it is:
National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.
Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.
That's straight from the website which is http://www.nanowrimo.org/ if you want to check it out! I'm looking forward to this project: it's my senior year as a creative writing major and I feel as though I haven't put out even half the amount of non-academic writing that I should have by this point. It's also a relief that the novel doesn't have to be a perfectly edited final draft, which could mean that I'll end up with 175 pages of nonsense but hey, it might be good nonsense that eventually develops into something sweet. I'm just trying to go into this with no expectations because then I'll just bum myself out.
Thankfully there are other students here at Hope doing NaNoWriMo with me and the English department is being incredibly supportive and helpful by hosting write-ins and having a facebook group where we can commiserate...I mean encourage each other.
Send positive thoughts my way during this month!!
<3 katelyn
National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.
Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.
That's straight from the website which is http://www.nanowrimo.org/ if you want to check it out! I'm looking forward to this project: it's my senior year as a creative writing major and I feel as though I haven't put out even half the amount of non-academic writing that I should have by this point. It's also a relief that the novel doesn't have to be a perfectly edited final draft, which could mean that I'll end up with 175 pages of nonsense but hey, it might be good nonsense that eventually develops into something sweet. I'm just trying to go into this with no expectations because then I'll just bum myself out.
Thankfully there are other students here at Hope doing NaNoWriMo with me and the English department is being incredibly supportive and helpful by hosting write-ins and having a facebook group where we can commiserate...I mean encourage each other.
Send positive thoughts my way during this month!!
<3 katelyn
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