Happy Camping!

It's April! And apparently (as I discovered a few months ago), that means Camp NaNoWriMo time! So naturally, I'm doing it. My other story... "The Untitled Yet", from November... well... let's say she's kind of in a coma...

The feelings that were my driving force behind Pasqualina's story got lost when they went away out of me and I stopped experiencing them in my life.

I plan on getting to 4,009 (preferred word count as of the 13th) tonight before I go to bed. I have about 30 minutes after I go get my laundry and that's why this post is short.

This new one is completely not about anything in my life...but of course, we always write about what we know, don't we? And I will always fit something in somehow. I guess I already have.

My southern roots, the way I push my hair back... they're already in there... and fun.. fun with friends and close bonds with family and being able to relax no matter what with your friends.. Those are there in my story.

Today was Marathon Day. I guess it still is. :) Yay :3
I wrote 2,051 words in one sitting and now I'm up to 3,413 words out of my goal of 10k. You can do the math, if you'd like :). I don't have enough time. I should be writing elsewhere.

So...

Are you one of them? Are you a Jennifer?

Here's My Stats (and other info) for NaNoWriMo

Okay, so I know by the time I get these next two sentences finished, it's not going to be November anymore... but that's okay! I want to share with you all my official stats and stuff...
You can, of course, just go to this link in my previous post (here) to see it...but whatever. XD

Okay, so my final word count was 10,197 words
That made for:

an average of 339 words per day
with 939 words written today
and 10,197 words in total
out of the 50,000 target word count
and the target average words per day of 1,667.
At this rate, it seems, I will finish on March 27, 2013
so my goal is to finish BEFORE then.

TGIO NANOWRIMO!

:D I'm really actually proud of myself for the work I put into my novel for the National Novel Writing Month challenge that happens every year in November. :)
I put up a good fight, I think.
My final word count is 10,197 words :))
Yes, that's very very far away from the target of 50,000, but I do believe I was a bit lot too preoccupied being epic in my social and personal life and dealing with all of that stress to get to the target.

I am so so happy the new 9th grade English teacher was so insanely supportive of NaNoWriMo, and I plan to do it for many many more years.

Sooo...
TGIO!!!
Even though it IS over and I'm NOT done (as you can see here), I plan on finishing my novel in the early months of next year at the very latest.

Congrats to all who met the challenge and congrats to all those who didn't but tried!
The idea that I am brilliant for even trying is what has kept me going. And that the world isn't going to end just because I didn't finish, so I'll probably have enough time to finish.

I Will Be A Writer. I Will Write Books.

Say hi to my new mantra!
I'm waiting.
Seriously, go ahead and say it...

...

And if that's something that you would like to become true of you as well.. um there's this thing (THIS REALLY COOL THING, BTW) called National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo for short) and this really long linky here goes to their website (nanowrimo.org). Since it's the fifth, we're on the fifth day of writing so if you start now you may have a whole heck of a lot of catching up to do (about 8,800 words if you want to go by the clean-cut division that the NaNoWriMo peeps made of the 50,000 words in 30 days)... but you will be among friends in having a lot of catching up to do.

I, for one, have school that I have to o to and study for and do homework for. I have 5,000-something words, and as I previously mentioned, the "clean-cut" and ideal amount of words to have on the 5th of November is 8,000-something.
So.

That is okay.
You get pep talks from people in your NaNoMail .. and it's really really super nice because each and everyone of the pep talks so far has helped me.
I'll tell you what I liked best about each one later. Maybe this weekend or something when I have more time.

As for now, Happy Non-Daylight Savings Time!

Andnnndd.. I am proud to announce that my Cross Country team won our State meet on Saturday!! WE WON WE WON WE WON WE WON!!!!!
AND OH MY GOO IT WAS SO EXCITING!!!

And now I'm going to get the date, "2012" on the back of my jacket and we get rings. Guys! I'm going to get a RING of all things! For my cross country team!
Even though I've officially moved over to the bowling team, now that I am no longer doing cross country, I have this empty spot where it used to be.

As we were riding on the bus back from the meet, I looked around and suddenly had no idea what the heck I was going to do with myself after that.
I don't know what I'm going to do with myself anymore.
Cross Country, over time, became my life this year.

Oh, and I lost my iPad, which is probably the worst news.

I also saw Sherlock and Babb, which is probably the best news.

Other bad news is that I still haven't heard from Sir Some Guy (my boyfriend) and now we're going on 4 weeks.
As I said on my pinker ;) blog, I'm willing to start over with him, but I'm not going to wait forever for him to contact me.
This really is NOT COOL.
NOT COOL AT ALL.
And it's annoying the heck out of me.

However, I have homework that I need to be figuring out how to do.
Ugh.
So much homework.
At least it's only 9. It feels like 10. And that's probably because I'm not used to Non-Daylight Savings Time yet.

That's okay, though. I'll probably get used to it.

^_^ I'm getting back into the habit of blogging and it's really making me happy.
I might even (if I have time, which I probably won't) give my blog (yes, this one!) the makeover it's been silently screaming for since forever over the weekend.

So,
love/peaches/chicken greases/rock on,
Kitty