Well then.

So, I know it's been ages since i posted.
So much for once a day, eh? That lasted about a week.


Here's a run down on my first ever NaNoWriMo Experience.
The first few days before it, I was becoming petrified. I was nervous beyond anything.
But I found that I did in fact, have this. So i wrote and i wrote. After about the second week, i fell behind and had trouble catching up, even though i was doing all kinds of word sprints.
Over thanksgiving weekend, i ended up writing an average of about 5k words per day and was able to finish early. I hit the 50k word mark on November 26th at around 8:30 pm. My 50,000th word was lips. 
I'd have to extend a giant thanks to all my sprinting buddies, and everyone in the NaNoWriMo page on facebook - all 24,900 of you. - for keeping me going with stories and mini-competitions.
It was fun, and i seriously recommend you all do it.
If you're a year round writer, feel free to join this page. It's called "WriMore International" and the people are just brilliant. I post from time to time, and plenty of us are still going on with our NaNo projects, as well as other things.
Feel free to join us. We don't bite.


well. Most of us don't.




~Lisa Stevens
i'll keep posting here. don't worry.

Oof

Ohhai guys.
i swear i didn't forget about you.
i just. was writing. and catching up with school work and what not.
How's your guys' novels going?
i just broke 22k words, and like. i found that Word Sprints are very effective. If you find yourself lacking, COMPETE IN THOSE!
Yes, compete. not participate.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.  But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.  ~Samuel Lover, Handy Andy, 1842

Le Word Count Is A Struggling.

Yeah yesterday i only wrote like. 607 words. but i took my SAT so... /excuse.
i'm going back to school tomorrow, so my posts will be either really early in the morning, or sometime after school.
Fun fun fun. i'm gonna do my chemistry packet then go and write moar.


post another one later tonight.




Writing let's me be what reality denies me. ~Lisa Stevens 


Yeah, i just quoted myself. But 66 people retweeted this on twitter, including NaNoWriMo themselves.

Another Day In Paradise

I think i took a wrong exit. Today was so far from Paradise it's not even funny. Woke up at 5:10. Left the house at 6:30. Took a wee little road trip to Bamberg Germany to take my SAT.


Where someone thought my name was Lindsey. This is someone i have History with. ._.
Well, it's a step up from that time in Spanish class in my freshman year. They called me Sarah for months. Atleast this chick got the first two letters right.


Took my SAT. was incredibly bored during it.
Went home at about 1 pm. Got home around 2.
Way behind on my word count.
Killed a spider.
Ripped holes in my wall.
Am dying of Bronchitis.
Not really, it just sucks alot.




You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.  ~Saul Bellow

A Penny For Your Thoughts?

I'm sick and i'm stressed. I've got my first ever SAT tomorrow morning in a place that's an hour away, and i'm not even sure of WHERE the freaking testing site is. I'm behind on my word count for today, even though i've passed tomorrow's mark. 
I don't want to sit in a crowded room for four hours tomorrow morning at 8. I can hardly breathe, my throat is killing me, and my coughing makes me sound like an old man.
I want to sleep, so so badly. But if i sleep now, i won't wake up till the middle of the night, where i'll be exhausted by the time i leave for my test.
Someone spare me? 




Writer's block is a disease for which there is no cure, only respite.  ~Terri Guillemets

2126 words later.

That's how much i've written today, and it's only 2:14. I want to hit 8k words total by the end of the day, so only about 700 more words are needed. I've totally got this. 

I've got a doctors appointment later on today since i missed the entire week of school. Le sigh. 

SATs this weekend. Kinda nervous. Kinda very nervous.

So far, i'm holding up though. Had my first writer's block of this novel yesterday. I was stumped for like, four hours before my sister and best friend were able to help drag me out of it.

Writing Quote of the Day: The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.  ~Vladimir Nabakov

I'll check in with you guys later :]


- Lisa Stevens. 

NaNo Day Two Summary

Oye. To carry on with what i was talking about earlier, my Writer's Block seriously beat the crap out of me today..


i pulled through though, and wrote a butt-ton more from my last post. And if i weren't so tired, and if my eyes werent losing focus every ten minutes, i'd write 300 or so more words so that i can hit an even 3k words today. But, i'm fine with what i've got.
How're your novels going so far? Any advice?

i'm out for the night - i'll welcome you with another post tomorrow morning. Add me if you'd like!