Amy... Has a Plan.

First off....  Greetings, NaNo-ers!!!  Tired of writing yet?  XD

I woke up this morning and said to myself (no, I'm not crazy), "It's the first of November!  A new month!!"  Then....   "GASP.  It's the first of November."

*dramatic pause*

"NaNo."  *cue ominous music*

I really wanted to do NaNo.  Like, desperately.  I figured it was the only way I'd get Nikki and Alec's story done.  But....  *sigh*  Ever heard of this thing called Life?  (Don't think that's excuse enough?  Check this out.)  *repeats sigh*

But then, lo and behold, in my daily perusal of blogs, I found out that Amy had come up with a plan.  (A brilliant plan, mind you.)

World, say hello to...

Half NaNo!!

Virtually self-explanatory.  25k words in a month.  (You stay sane and get some writing done!  How cool is that?!)  Within literally seconds - seeing the gorgeous bloggy button that Amy made helped a little, lol - I was hooked.

I think this is going to be a piece of cake for me because I did about two thirds of my Camp NaNo/The June Crusade (same goal, except in June) writing in the last two weeks.  (I think I seriously did about 37k words in two weeks.  No joke.  The reason why is a long story.)  But I won't say that because, heehee, pride goes before destruction and all that.

So.  My new writing goal this month has been set.

WARNING - There will be an abundance of writing posts this month.  Literally an abundance.  I probably won't get to any of the posts I had planned for this month, but I'll try to do some of them.  : )

I'll also probably do a few writing tips posts if any of my writing blog-readers (all three of you) are interested!  What say you?

Half NaNo-ers, UNITE!!!

~Eowyn~

Five Reasons Why I'm Not Doing NaNo....

I've finally decided not to do NaNo this year....

 

Here are the five main reasons.

 

1) School.  Need I say more?  That, plus the fact that I'm a Senior (WOOT!), does not equal lots of free time to do NaNo this year.

 

2) I have no earthly clue as to which of my many novels to write.  It'd be waaay too hard to pick between all of them, anyway.....

 

3) Time and my lack of it.  (See #1.)  Also, I'm doing a lot of university orchestra concerts - and a violin studio concert - at the end of November.  Literally seven in two weeks.  No joke.  (Here's a heads up - there will be a scarcity of posting in those two weeks.  Like now....  Heehee....)  Also, I'm doing a big piano competition in January that I really need to get ready for.  I got to State last year - yahoo! - and I would dearly love to see how far I could get this year.

 

4) I did Camp NaNo back in June and started late because of the SAT the Saturday after it started.  I'm taking the SAT on December first this year - at the end of November.  It'd be crazy for me to have SAT stuff, plus writing again.  Not to mention weird and Déjà vu!!

 

5) I want to stay sane.

 

These are my reasons for not doing NaNo.  It does not mean that I won't be working on my June Crusade novel - at least.  I'm so close to the end I can smell it.  Really sad, but I'm looking forward to writing the big surprise climax at the end!  (Well, that... and a little surprise I have for you guys.)

 

What about you guys?  Am I the only writer on the planet who isn't doing NaNo?  If there's one person who isn't doing NaNo, please comment.  We'll stay sane together.  (And get school done along the way, thus not be ix-nayed from our parents' wills.  And....  Yeah.)

 

~Eowyn~