Sunday, November 30, 2008

Argh....

I have been a very bad person and not blogged until now. In my defense, it was NANOWRIMO and that was very stressful.
In hindsight, I should've blogged about nano at the beginning of the month instead of at the end.

Anways....NANOWRIMO is an annual "competition" in which aspiring writers attempt to write 50,000 words in the month of November. More info here: http://www.nanowrimo.org/

I "won" on Wednesday, but I was busy with other stuff until yesterday (when I crashed). Like last year, it was blood, sweat, and tears. This time, I was wiser and actually planned out what I was going to write, which made it easier-ish. Still, I'm glad it's over. It's fun, but it's insane. I plan to do it next year.


Christine wants me to make this funnier.
Well, laugh at my misery. I usually go to bed pretty early, but I ended up staying up every night frantically writing to make word count. For the first couple weeks, I tried to churn out 2000 words and then write my hw, but then I realized just how stupid that was. I think grades are more important; I can't be sure though. So I ended up doing my hw (and procrastinating...oops...) and then typing away. Every day, Jared, Bing, Kati, and I would compare word counts. Kati was ahead until the second week. Bing tried to murder me when she heard what my word count was. Fortunately, I'm still alive, and she finished as well.
It got to the point when I had to drag myself up every morning because I was so sleep deprived that I wanted to just collaspe.
In the words of a very dear friend, "Nanowrimo is the closest thing I came to having a life"
Dang, I suck at descriptions. Nanowrimo withdrawl. *Twitches*

~'Cilla

2 comments:

Reverend Wheet said...

Yay! NaNoWriMo!
What was your word count?
Mine was 54,918

Anonymous said...

Cool, congrats =)
I don't remember because I went back and edited it....