NaNoCrazy, Lancing, Whedon does Shakespeare

Part One: WANT. NOW.

Simon from Firefly. (Sean Maher)
Amy Acker.
Alexis Denisof.
In my favorite Shakespeare play.
That's just . . . .:melt:

Part Two: Please come to my funeral.

The Editors-in-Chief of The Lance (my school paper) are about to kill me because they feel that I haven't been trying as hard as I could in Newspaper. I am, but they don't think so.

In their defense, I admit that my work has basically been crap for the past two issues, but that is because I am stretched to my limits in everything I do and do not have the time nor the inclination to work harder on Newspaper than anything else. Writing for the paper was my favorite class last year, and I was good at it, and because I don't care enough to put The Lance above everything else this year The Editors and rather angry with me.

After being bitched out by them TWICE yesterday, being ignored at late night, and being followed to band for the sole purpose of being bitched out, I have decided to quit Newspaper next semester. The Editors will probably be happy that I will no longer be around to burst the bubble of perfect they want for the paper. But Howe, our adviser, is probably going to take offense with it.

Also, if The Editors do end up killing me, please come to my funeral. If I end up killing them, please come to my sentencing trial.

Part Three: I only have three days. 

Three days until NaNoWriMo 2011 begins. NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and (in short) it entails writing a 50,000-word original novel between 12:00:01 on Tuesday November first and 11:59:59 on Nov 30th. Basically, its the greatest writing experience of my life. I won last year and am really excited to write again this year, even though there is a ton of crap going on in my life.

The kick-off party with Omaha Writers' League is tomorrow night. I have never gone before but I have wrangled a few friends into coming along so I won't feel as awkward. Maybe then I'll feel less like a creepy internet stalker when I actually meet them. (Then again, that same theory didn't apply to Lincoln Tumblr Sam, so I don't have much hope.)

The first question Non-Wrimos always ask when I mention NaNo is "what's your story about?" I never want to tell them because [a] my NaNoNovel never gets any more planning than a one sentence synopsis (maybe) and characters names; and [b] because I feel if I tell 500 people my plot before I actually write anything, then by the time I actually start writing I no longer have faith in it. So, no you will not get to know anything about NaNo besides the title and MC's name. You should be more than happy with that because that's about 75% of the planning I have done.

Official countdown is 3 days, 13 hours.

Wish me luck!

Sami

P.S. Have you ever attempted NaNo? I challenge you to try this year, even if your goal is only 5,000 words for the month (that's only 167 words/day), it's better than nothing.

Extra P.S. My MC's name is Katia.

Why I've disappeared off of the internet

So the two followers (hi! I love you) of my blog as well as the one person who I know has an RSS feed of the posts (hey Tony) have probably noticed that I have disappeared for about the last month. There is a really long answer to why this is but if I were to write a detailed explanation about that, well, it would no longer be a blog post, it would be a memoir.

The short (and slightly disingenuous) answer is that I have been really busy with school.

I have been out of school since Thursday due to parent-teacher conferences and it was a lovely four days of relaxation and solitude. Unfortunately, I have to return to school and all of its probably tomorrow and I'm not looking forward to it. With any luck, tomorrow will be the day that my sanity completely breaks and I get sent home. (Which, you know, would technically be a negative thing, but, for me, insanity is more calming that school.)

In sincerity, this blog post does not serve a purpose, but I felt a little bad for vanishing for so long and wanted to post something. I solemnly swear to post a proper pre-NaNo post by the by the end of the week.

Until then my lovelies,
Sam

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I am loathe to admit that I have not done any serious planning for my NaNoNovel this year. All that I am going to go off of is my working title. Which is (clichéd drumroll please) . . . . . . . .


LETTERS FROM A TEENAGE INSOMNIAC

It's going to be realistic fiction I think, which is not my usual genre, so we'll see how it goes.
Only 8 days and a little under 4 hours until the craziness begins!!!!!

I have captured the bunnies!

Specifically speaking, I have captured my plot bunnies for this years NaNoWriMo (which starts in 57 days!!).

I was originally planning to write the sequel to my 2010 NaNoNovel but after careful discussion my my brother I have thus decided to completely write my NaNoNovel 2011 using a compilation of four random generators:

One for genre

One for setting, plot, characterization device, hero, villain

One for first words

One for title

As an example:

Genre: Renaissance Mutant Action/Adventure

Setting:Ocean Punk

Plot:Rags To Royalty

Narrative Device:Overly Long Gag

Hero:Plucky Girl

Villain:Lesbian Vampire

Character As Device:Stoic Woobie

Characterization Device:Living Forever Is Awesome

First words: There be dragons here. . .

Title: Swiftly Smiling


This isn't what I'm going to use for my NaNoWriMo but you get the idea.


Thankfully, now that I have decided to write NaNo this year I can spend the next 57 days NOT outlining for NaNo and instead do that homework that is due.

Speaking of NaNo have you seen the badge I got for completing last year?

It's pretty. And look! the monkeys!