Author: Bri

http://www.projectforawesome.com

http://www.lettersandlight.org/

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Two days late but STILL fabulous!

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” →