Month: November 2012

I reached 30,000 words today on my NaNo novel this morning. I was on a freaking ROLL, and I think all of the words today except for one section are new words. What I mean is that because a lot of this book is based on real experiences, sometimes I can get away with using old blog posts and poems instead of actually writing new stuff. I justify it because it’s still MY writing and also at least 70% of this book is new stuff so yeah. Anyways, most of the 3,389 words I wrote today were new as of today.

What I really like about the format in which I am writing this book is that I only have to write my favorite things: internal and external dialog. Internal dialog is done via her blog posts, external is done via IM, text, emails, FB messages, etc. It’s like playwriting but better because playwriting makes it hard to include internal stuff. And that’s my favorite stuff! Continue reading “Hoodie and NaNo” →

“I am in the business of losing best friends.” That’s the sentence I started a poem with a few weeks ago. I was starting to dwell on the whole Craig and Bart thing and it was beginning to reinforce my belief that I was not a worthwhile best friend to anyone but Rachel. And when I realized I needed to blog for today, that’s what I wanted to write about- my best friends. Continue reading “I am in the business of losing best friends” →

As of writing this blog I’m up to 17,976 words on my thesis! It’s already come further than I expected, so WOO! I’ll be at Linfield for a speech tournament until Sunday but I wanted to give you a blog, so, yeah. Continue reading “NaNo Day 9” →

Tomorrow morning my speech coach wants me to give a presentation to his interpersonal communication class about my senior thesis novel, because they’re talking about the role of technology in modern relationships and that’s basically the entire premise of my thesis. This is terrifying to me on a couple of levels, because I’m not even a senior yet and I’m only 11,000 words into the project so far, but it is also very exciting because it means that it’s real. Continue reading “Is This What It Feels Like To Grow Up?” →

So our local theater is currently putting on The Rocky Horror Picture Show (play version) which my RA Chris and my roommate Dion are in, and for Halloween they had a special midnight show. Ellen, French exchange student Robin, Chinese exchange student Yu Chun, and I decided to go (me still dressed in my pseudo-slutty vampire slayer costume). The show was great, albeit very sexually graphic. You’d think that would be the end of my night. You’d be wrong. Continue reading “NaNoWriMo 2012, Day 1!” →