I hate to spam my one follower by putting up another post so soon, but I'm not sure how I can do NaNo while living with the people in my dorm hall.
My high school calculus teacher was right in that the weekend starts on Thursday in college. Come Thursday night, I have a bunch of drunk people gathering outside my door and talking really loud. Just tonight one of them brought out a foldable table from his room and now they're playing "water"-pong (how much you want to bet that it's really vodka pong?). They even managed to get a bunch of cups from the dining hall for it. And I mean stacks upon stacks of them.
That aside, I don't know how long I can go on before I snap. There's this one girl who screams all the time. And not in a sexual way either (that seems to be the only problem that I don't have). I'll just be minding my own business in my room when I suddenly hear, "NICK RARARRIIGJJFJFJJ!!!!!!! AAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" And then I don't know if she's screaming for help or not and then I get scared that I'll be one of those people who didn't call the cops when someone was being visciously attacked and look like a bitch who couldn't even be bothered to pick up a phone and press three numbers.
Anyway, do any of you remember Tourette's Guy? If not, open another tab and look him up on Youtube. I'll wait.
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Welcome back. Well, there's a guy on my floor who can imitate him perfectly. In a really loud voice. For no reason at all.
I was once kept up until 3 in the morning because everyone would not stop partying with the loud music and everything. It was to be expected since it was the first real weekend sice college started, but I had to get up at 5am to preform at the football game. They were all lucky that there's wasn't anything sharp within my reach throughout the day.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
It's the final countdown!!
Well it's snowing outside, I just finished all of my midterms, and I finally have my Halloween costume together. It must be the last week of October!
Ah, the final week of October. The week when people are finishing up with their planning and begin to hover on the NaNo site eagerly waiting for the clock to tick over to November. It gets me really excited to look down at the little counter at the bottom of the page and see that nearly 50,000 users are on the website at the same time as me.
Normally I would be among many sitting at their computers on Halloween night with cans of Mountain Dew piled up next to them while waiting for the race to begin on midnight. Unfortunately, Halloween is on a Monday this year, and I have a class at 8am on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. So I either really stock up on the coffee over the weekend, or I just write it the next morning during the lecture. Since I usually sleep in that class anyway, I don't see how it would affect me beyond that.
Even then, I'm super excited for NaNoWriMo this year. Right when I came to college, I immediately began making friends who will also be doing it! Though my high school was huge, I seemed to be the only one in it that was doing NaNo. But now I get to do the word wars and writing sessions that everyone's always talking about. After a bit of snooping, I discovered that there will be several writing sessions at my school's cafe, which means that I'll be meeting even more people who understand my writing plight!
Which reminds me, this is also my first time doing NaNo without my parents or siblings around. My younger brother seemed to be the only one who understood the thrill of writing, and even tried to participate alongside me one year (bless his little nine-year-old heart). My sister didn't get it, but she was supportive of me in past years, even giving me a congratulations when I won last year. My parents, however, seemed to have gotten it in their heads that all NaNo does is kill grades. Even though my grades never changed at all in past years, they seemed to think that I had so much homework that I couldn't possibly have time for anything else. This weekend, I'll probably get a few texts from my mom reminding me not to participate in NaNoWriMo this year because I'm in college so I have no free time.
We'll see about that.
Ah, the final week of October. The week when people are finishing up with their planning and begin to hover on the NaNo site eagerly waiting for the clock to tick over to November. It gets me really excited to look down at the little counter at the bottom of the page and see that nearly 50,000 users are on the website at the same time as me.
Normally I would be among many sitting at their computers on Halloween night with cans of Mountain Dew piled up next to them while waiting for the race to begin on midnight. Unfortunately, Halloween is on a Monday this year, and I have a class at 8am on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. So I either really stock up on the coffee over the weekend, or I just write it the next morning during the lecture. Since I usually sleep in that class anyway, I don't see how it would affect me beyond that.
Even then, I'm super excited for NaNoWriMo this year. Right when I came to college, I immediately began making friends who will also be doing it! Though my high school was huge, I seemed to be the only one in it that was doing NaNo. But now I get to do the word wars and writing sessions that everyone's always talking about. After a bit of snooping, I discovered that there will be several writing sessions at my school's cafe, which means that I'll be meeting even more people who understand my writing plight!
Which reminds me, this is also my first time doing NaNo without my parents or siblings around. My younger brother seemed to be the only one who understood the thrill of writing, and even tried to participate alongside me one year (bless his little nine-year-old heart). My sister didn't get it, but she was supportive of me in past years, even giving me a congratulations when I won last year. My parents, however, seemed to have gotten it in their heads that all NaNo does is kill grades. Even though my grades never changed at all in past years, they seemed to think that I had so much homework that I couldn't possibly have time for anything else. This weekend, I'll probably get a few texts from my mom reminding me not to participate in NaNoWriMo this year because I'm in college so I have no free time.
We'll see about that.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Planning and Research
Alright, it's October again, which means that it's time for novel planning! This year, I'm planning to hit NaNoWriMo with a full outline in hand. Every year before, I just pansted all the way and I'm not happy with the results. So I have an outline all written out on the back of my school planner. Though I did make a couple of changes way back, so I'll have to go back and edit that.
Also, world maps! My favorite tactic is just pouring a bit of water onto a flat surface and press a piece of paper onto it and now you have a pretty, new continent! My English teacher doesn't seem happy with me, though.
I was also thinking of writing out a quick short story to get a feel of my characters before a jump in and write, a prequel of sorts. But my characters kidnapped the prequel, declaring it to be a part of the main story now, so I can't write about it.
What else is there to do? Right, research loads of different forms of monarchies to see which one I'm going to base my fantasy country's government off of. Then again, I never really liked going through politics, and it's not even going to be a big part of the story.
This is bad. I need to do some planning before my brain decides to just write the novel inside my head. In fact, I can see the words coming in already. NO! I don't want to see the words yet, just give me two and a half more weeks!
And we'll be seeing a lot more of this kind of thing as we delve deeper into November.
Also, world maps! My favorite tactic is just pouring a bit of water onto a flat surface and press a piece of paper onto it and now you have a pretty, new continent! My English teacher doesn't seem happy with me, though.
I was also thinking of writing out a quick short story to get a feel of my characters before a jump in and write, a prequel of sorts. But my characters kidnapped the prequel, declaring it to be a part of the main story now, so I can't write about it.
What else is there to do? Right, research loads of different forms of monarchies to see which one I'm going to base my fantasy country's government off of. Then again, I never really liked going through politics, and it's not even going to be a big part of the story.
This is bad. I need to do some planning before my brain decides to just write the novel inside my head. In fact, I can see the words coming in already. NO! I don't want to see the words yet, just give me two and a half more weeks!
And we'll be seeing a lot more of this kind of thing as we delve deeper into November.
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