NaNoWriMo Update 3

*VICTORY DANCE*

Yes, my friends, I traveled the seven seas and made it back and wrote a magnificent 50 000 words in 30 days! My novel is not yet done but 50 000 words is pretty amazing! So now I'm quite happy with myself and I am going to partake in NaNoFiMo - National Novel Finishing Month! And just in case you don't believe me, my username on nanowrimo.org is paperdollx - go look at that purple bar that says Winner on it and weep bitches!

NaBloPoMo ends today also, however for me it doesn't because I started on 2nd November, my month finishes on the 2nd December. So You will have another two posts for me until that challenge is complete too and I have no doubt I'll succeed, I've made it that far haven't I?

I'm not going to post an exerpt, for the simple fact is I don't want to spoil it for you. To be honest, I am not even a big fan of it myself, I do plan to edit it to hell before I even consider a publisher. So it'll be in the New Year before you see anything from me, though I will indeed, keep you updated.

I'm off now, to unpack, have some tea and relax, the pressure is off!

*Skips off merrily*

Household

The thing I've noticed recently about my housemates and I is that we've come together more as a household. It was mainly last week, we all helped at the party, we all tidied up and we all went together to the disciplinary and we all told the same story and paid the price for our actions. I liked the fact that we were grouping together for once. Instead of people running off here, there and everywhere.

The good thing is that it has proceeded into this week. Tonight, we all had dinner together and we helped cook and clean. Then my other friend came over and we had yet another water fight, which was fun but we soaked my friend who then had to run off to a romantic double dinner date with his boyfriend and another couple.

We are currently all sitting typing our fingers off, they have an assignment due and I have nanowrimo to keep me occupied until someone attacks me with a highlighter or more water. Hopefully they won't though, I already have the cold!

NaNoWriMo Update 2

I made 25 000 words last night and I have to admit, I'm pretty pleased with myself, that's the halfway mark! I know I should have reached it a week or so ago, but regardless, I've reached it and I'm halfway there! (Not living on a prayer though!)

I know this time next week Nanowrimo will be over and we will be either celebrating or saying 'Maybe next year'. Regardless, you have to give us serious brownie points for trying. I have fair hope that I will make it to 50 000 words, as I plan to have serious sprints throughout the week, starting tonight. 5k at a time!

Once you are on a roll, it isn't hard to get the words flowing and especially if you have a plan in mind. You still got to let the characters tell the story their own way though, but you'll get there eventually.

So for now, wish me luck and this blog next week will let you know whether I am a surefire Nanowrimo winner or not.

Alone Together.

Today, I went to a NaNoWriMo meet and met some people from Northern Ireland. It was pretty fun and it got me thinking.

The reason for us all coming together is because we are all writing a novel, not a challenge many people undertake. The fact is, if it weren't for NaNoWriMo we'd all be pretty alone in our novel-writing undertaking and I don't think we'd all make it to 50 000 words if we weren't trying to make it as part of a challenge. By being with other people, we push ourselves to beat them, or match them, or to 'win'.

It's good to know that there are other people who are pushing themselves too, who need encouragement and support to make it and keep those fingers typing. By us all doing the same task, we might be alone, but at least we are together in that. This reminds me of a quote from one of my favourite movie that says;

"So now, alone or not, you've got a walk ahead. Thing to remember is if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too."

So next time you are feeling alone, just remember, there are probably other people who are lonely too and even if you don't know them, you aren't alone because you are together in your loneliness.

Still Lacking In Motivation

I know my posts are really unexciting as of late, but I'm tied between doing coursework, keeping up with a social life and nanowrimoing my brain out.

So today, instead of boring you with tales of nothingness and coursework and instead you can have a quote, rather appropriately, from someone named Swamiji Paramahamsa Nithyananda. I found the quote here. So here, it is:

Don’t keep thinking of what happened yesterday and what is going to happen tomorrow. Live in the moment and every situation will seem like the time of your life.

Today, I Lack Motivation.

I've just spent several hundred hours staring at my computer screen, hoping some form of essay about Pride and Prejudice will form itself in my word document, without me really having to think about it. Unfortunately, magic documents like that don't exist and I have to type them all myself.

I have absolutely no motivation for doing any form of essay at all today. All I really want to do is write a few thousand more words in my nanowrimo novel. I'm not allowing myself to even open the document though until I get some form of essay taking shape.

I'm quite thankful that Bebo isn't working for me right now otherwise I'd be creeping on your uncle's brother's monkey's turtle by now and then having a realisation that I've no clue who this person is and what the hell am I doing on their page.

So, if you see me online, you might want to tell me to stop posting blogs, stalking NaNoWriMo profiles and get on with my essay, or do it for me. Either way, it would be useful :P

November = Challenge Time!

So, I know it's been a while and I am an awfully bad blogger for not posting regularly. I hope you all had a good Halloween, I know I did and I will be posting about those events in the not too distant future.

For now though, exciting news! November appears to be the month of creativity and writing challenges. So, here we go. This month I have decided to try two challenges.

The first one is called NaNoWriMo. This stands for National Novel Writing Month. The basic idea is that you have from the 1st November to the 30th November to see if you can write a 50, 000 word novel. At the end, you get the satisfaction of having written a novel (it doesn't have to end at 50, 000 words) and you get a certificate to say that you have participated and past, that is if you submit your novel for word count verification. I have always been interested in writing my own novel and have had several failed attempts due to lifes constant interuptions, so this month, with the Nanowrimo counter and support of other Wrimos hopefully I'll get somewhere! Wish me luck! If you are also participating then let me know and we can help to motivate each other! If you're interested in participating go, here.

The other Challenge this month my friends is called, NaBloPoMo. This stands for National Blog Posting Month. The idea for this being, that you make a post on your blog everyday for a month, including weekends. I thought this would be a good challenge for me to undertake as I keep neglecting my blog. Since I only started this challenge today, my Blog Posting Month will end on the 2nd December. I sincerely hope I find some interesting stories to tell you lot during this month and I hope I can up my readership by the constant blogging. Yes, this post does count as my first one, because I say it does so ner :P. If you are also a blogger and would be interested in this challenge you can go here for more information!

Well Wrimos and Pomos, I wish you all the best of luck this month! Perhaps we can all go celebrate if we acheieve our goals, yes? Drinks on you!