My year shall explode in a billion fireworks.

Is overwhelmtion a word..?
Ah well. It is now.
Just so you know, this year has:
-the starting of a new school. Nerve-wracking. Having to make new real friends and not just have imaginary ones.
-NaNoWriMo: the second attempt. Hopefully I'll at least beat last year's flimsy attempy.
I got to 1110 words.
-ScriptFrenzy. That'll be fun, I've always meant to write a script.
-FAWM. I must write an album in a month for my non-existant fans.
-Story-a-Day-in-May. Pretty self-explanatory.
-Camp NaNoWriMo
-ComicMonth: draw a comic every day in October.
-gain some popularity on the interweb world. Have some friends on there. Followers. Soldiers I can call to arms. you shall be...My army.
No that sounds creepy. Scrap that. SCRAP!


I should go now that I feel awkward talking.
See you once I've recovered.
Blade.

So, after a failed attempt at last year's NaNo(having reached only 1110 words), I decided it was because of lack of planning, outlining and character profiling.
So this year, I start early. I may not have a plot yet, but those character profiles are doing very well.
Here's to another crack at 50 big ones. (By big ones I mean, 50,000 words, not...not dollars)
Blade.

A long time writer's first NaNoWriMo.

So. I heard about NaNoWriMo back in...it must've been June.
No planning. Then suddenly it's November, and NaNoWriMo time.
Shit. I spend half of the first day trying to figure out WHAT exactly, should I write about? Many hours after deciding this were spent with writers block, wandering around the house, having too much frustrated energy, going outside to release some of said energy, then being locked out of the house (accidentally...) and finally writing more than a page.
Although, according to the NaNo website, at the rate I'm going, I'll be finished February 5th, 2012.
Oh dear.

About NaNoWriMo - If you didn't already know.

National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing on November 1. The goal is to write a 50,000 word, (approximately 175 page) novel by 11:59:59, November 30.

Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.

Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It’s all about quantity, not quality. This approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.

Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap. And that’s a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. To build without tearing down.

As you spend November writing, you can draw comfort from the fact that, all around the world, other National Novel Writing Month participants are going through the same joys and sorrows of producing the Great Frantic Novel. Wrimos meet throughout the month to offer encouragement, commiseration, and—when the thing is done—the kind of raucous celebrations that tend to frighten animals and small children.

In 2010, we had over 200,000 participants. More than 30,000 of them crossed the 50K finish line by the midnight deadline, entering into the annals of NaNoWriMo superstardom forever. They started the month as auto mechanics, out-of-work actors, and middle school English teachers. They walked away novelists.