Happy Halloween everyone!
Lynn is so excited, and not just for Halloween. Guess what starts tonight at midnight? NANOWRIMO! It's seemed like an eternity, waiting for NaNo to role around, but it's finally almost here!
In regards to the short horror story we had to write for english, it went decently, I suppose. The teacher ended up giving us a 5-page maximum requirement, so I had to cut a lot of stuff out. But hey, you know what the writing worlds says. You have to "murder your babies" I would post it on here, but I think after pollishing it up, I'll submit it to see if I can't get it in some literary magazine in the near future.
And as far as NaNo goes, I'm wanting to double the insanity this year. The requirement for NaNo is 50,000 in 30 days. This year, only my second year, I want to do 100,000. This is because the main story I intend to work on should be done in about another 75,000 words. In adition to that, I was just struck a week or two ago with a fabulous idea and I want to get as far into that in one shot as humanly possible, hence the 100,000 word goal this year. Though the extra 25,000 of the new story is not that big of a deal, I do intend to finish See It Through by the end of November. I have the ending perfectly planned out, which has never happened to me before, and I want to take full advantage of that. Plus Lynn has to write things in chronological order, so she can't just skip ahead and write the end now. I have to get to know my characters way more before I can hope to portray them perfectly in the exact situation I plan to end the story with.
But yeah, I'll be fidgiting all night long as I sit around the fire with my folks handing out candy and waiting for midnight to roll around. And tomorrow, before the playoff game, my two NaNo friends and I are having our own little "write in" at our local Starbucks. Mom's even letting me hijack her laptop, so I should be able to get a lot done, both with the laptop and dangerous amounts of coffee and Halloween candy.
In closing, happy Halloween again and wish me luck when the clock strickes 12:00:01!
~Lynn
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