So I haven't written in about a month. Whoops. It's not that there has been a lot going on. I've been working and going to school. Of course, the last week has been crazy because of the end of the term, but other than that I have just been going about my normal schedule.
There are some really awesome things coming up in the next month, though. Some of them require a lot of attention and are going to be really stressful and others are merely for fun. Either way, November is going to be an incredibly busy month for me.
First of all, my college applications are all due by the first and my Sterling Scholar application is due this week. Soon I'll have to make all of these big decisions that may affect me for the rest of my life. I took the ACT yesterday. I'll probably get my scores in November as well. Senior year has been crazy, so far. Everything is happening so fast and I have no idea where all this time is going.
The second thing is that it is once again time for NaNoWriMo. National Novel Writing Month. The month every year when I delude myself into thinking that this year I will have the time and the creative ability to write a 50,000 word novel in a month. This year I'm going about the adventure differently. I've started planning my novel for once. I have some characters and a little bit of a plot. I am fully aware that with the time constraint, half of what I write will probably be crap. I understand that if I become too worried about the story being crap, there is no way that I will ever finish.
I have also found a friend who I will be talking with and encouraging throughout the month as he encourages me and we both kick each others' butts until we hit that 50,000 word mark. I was on the NaNoWriMo forums, looking for local people to do writeins, where everyone gets together somewhere and writes for several hours, and I found Friff14. He told me to send him an email and we could start planning something. I emailed him after looking at his profile and discovering that he was a year older than me. Then, when he told me his name in his response I realized that I very likely knew this guy. I asked him if he went to Layton High and once he said that he did we realized that we did, in fact, know each other.
The awesome thing about having someone who I know and who lives nearby participating as well is that I will have just a little bit more reason to keep writing. It will give me an extra boost that I definitely need in order to finish this thing after two years of trying and failing. My life isn't so dramatic as it has been in the past... However, my car freaked out at me as I was driving to work yesterday and is currently sitting in the Boondocks parking lot because there is no one here who can fix it until later today.
The last excited thing going on this month is the unveiling of the school newspaper website that I have been working on since Spring. It is located here. I can't wait to see what people think about it. I'm hoping that more people will read and care about it than they do our print paper. I really would like to have a successful newspaper for once.
That's all for now. I'm going to go work on my plot some more and enjoy the peace and quiet of the house prior to everyone being up and about.
