Housekeeping, because it’s SO MUCH FUN. Also I have a bit of time left before I have to get ready for class and I don’t feel like writing yet.
Speaking of writing, that brings me to HOUSEKEEPING TOPIC #1: I am attempting NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). If you’re not familiar with it, basically it’s when you try and write/plan a 50,000 word novel in one month using daily word goals and such. I sort of cheated because I wasn’t expecting to attempt this because it’s effing CRAZY, so I actually started writing on October 14th. But I think it counts anyways because as of two days ago I had the same number of words I should have had if I was doing NaNoWriMo, so I thought, why not?
Essentially
, what you’re seeing in this lovely picture is my word goal for each day (in red) and my actual word count at the end of it (in black). As you can see, I’m about 400 words over at the moment.*
The only reason I’ve been able to do this is because a. I don’t have a debate tournament until December (last one of the semester!), b. I don’t have an essay due for a while, c. I don’t have a test for another week or two, and d. for an FYS project I vowed to only use websites for new content. (ex. Only getting on Facebook when I have a new notification, only watching YouTube videos that are new and not browsing to waste time). Because of this project, I’ve had a TON of extra time. So… yay.
But onto my second piece of housekeeping: Website updating. I realize that in the past week I have posted 3 actual VlogVember videos (see Housekeeping #3), 1 regular ish video (which had sound issues so I have to reupload. Sorry. Forgot), a blog about kissing, a blog about the environment, a blog about Doctor Who (omg read it I’m so proud of it), 1 Eugenia update, and, today, the prologue of my new book, Dawned. So it’s been a bit random, and I apologize. I think I’m going to try and get back to my M-Th-F-Su posting schedule**, it’s just been a bit off with VlogVember.
Housekeeping #3: VlogVember. So VlogVember kind of failed. Maybe I’ll try again next year (or do VEDA in April) and actually make edited vlogs every day, because that way I’m assured their uploading, but I dunno. My iPhone’s internet is sketchy anyways, and the school’s internet service is less than spectacular. So the videos that I tried to upload failed. But not to fear! I’ll have a new, edited video on Thursday. Tomorrow. Right. I have a couple that I’ve been sitting on for a while.
I think that’s all for housekeeping. It’s just been a weird week and I wanted to assure you that I’m getting back to my regular schedule. Oh. I also want to brag for a second. Dawned, which I started 3 weeks ago, is already 46 pages long. BAM. And my outline just keeps getting longer, which is opposite of what usually happens. I’m excited. I love these characters. Even if they have potty mouths.
See you tomorrow with a new video!
*actually, that’s a lie. I realized after I finished the nice list that I was actually calculating everything a day behind, so I’ll end the month with 48,343 words or something silly like that. But I figure I’ll just go hog wild one day and write a crap ton and make up the difference.
**I already have blogs scheduled until the 22nd, because I keep getting ideas. The only reason Doctor Who and the state of the world was posted off schedule was because after I wrote it I realized that I absolutely loved it and couldn’t wait for it to come out. So. Yay.
