Woot!!!!!

Well I just finished my NaNo for this year! I have to say this year was way more difficult than last year. this year I had to find time to write, do calculus homework and apply to colleges. But after all the toiling, the sweating and the cramped up fingers, it feels good…

Halfway through the month, the “v” key on my keyboard stopped working. I have to hit it really hard to get it to work. I found myself avoiding words or names that contained the dreaded letter “v.”

I was realyl worried that I woudl run out of plot before I reached 50k. And I did. So I had to improise. The plot of Airheart was over, I;d reached the final scene with the final lines my mai character said adn I still had 10k left to fill. So I had to improvise. I wrote a series fo short stories, little things I had thoguth of some time ago that were pertinent to the main story but were also superfluous. I called them Incidents. There’s six of them. They all tell a short story covering an adventure of Daica and Cryseeh or Evan and Angela. There’s even one for a minor character, Adam.

Now that NaNo is over I can blow away the dust from this poor blog and begin to write for it again.

Goodbye monster NaNo, see ya next year like always.  Now, let me get out my red pen and edit Airheart…

Coinflip

I can’t wait until November. It is sucha  great month: there’s NaNoWriMo, my birthday, it’s the beginning of the rainy season, the best time to have tangerines… the list is just endless.

For this year’s Nano, I’m writing fiction, but i’m not sure I i will do fantasy again or if I will go for mainstream fiction. Before, I’d decided to expand on a flash fiction prompt I answered on this blog (Hidden Under Your Nose). But during Worldbuilding Month, I got really Exited about the stories of Agarithia. I really want to add more to The Lion’s Head (last year’s NaNo). Aww man!

Ok the only fair way to decide this is trhough a con flip. Let me look for a quarter in my backpack… *rumages through bag* Aha! here’s one. It’s a New York quarter. Heads: Add to The Lion’s Head; Tails: Do Hidden Under Your Nose. 50-50 shot.

Drum roll please!

Heads! The Lion’s Head it is. Cool now I have something to write about. Now I need to start managing my schedule so I can write and get all my homework done.

College Essays

I just finished writing my first drafts of the UC admissions essays. I think those were the hardest papers I’ve ever written. Well the first drafts are done! I basically sat down in front of the computer, read the prompt and began to type. THat’s what my teacher told our class. Just type, don’t stop. This way your true self will come through. The hardest part was thinking about what to write.

Now I’m going to step away from them for a couple of days. Forget about them, and then come back with a fresh mind. I know that next time I look at them, I’ll say: “Did I really write this? This is horrible!”