Holy NaNo, Batman!

So, it's that time of the year again: NaNoWriMo

I've decided to go a completely different route from years past. That is, not modern in the slightest. I'm going to do Historical Fiction.

This November will be remembered as: The Untitled Pirate Project Book 1

The theory being that I will one day write another book, more of a companion than a sequel, and then write the book that brings the two together. Hopefully.

TUPPB1 is centered around a young Irish woman named Anne O'Donoghue. She becomes a pirate. That's about as much plot as I've got figured out, besides the name of her future love interest. I started plotting this project before Nano '07, so I'm doing some serious revisions here. I just hope I've got enough of a plot/research done before November 1st.

My real goal for Nano is not so much the 50K designated in the rules, but just to finish the book. If I achieve that, it will have been successful.

WIPS List

I need to make a list of what I'm working on...I can't even remember! I am also vowing not to start any new projects until some of these get done.*

1. The Plague Project
2. Lleynn
3. Rose/Scorpius 100
4. SXU
5. Runaway
6. Orrie

*I'm not including school work for obvious reasons.

Time Flies

So I haven't been able to update for a while, seeing as I was without Internet access for 5 Weeks. I was also unable to write much in that time span. But I my horizons have widened to include plays, so hopefully this year I will be able to focus on a new playwriting project I deem: The Plague Project. This allows me to combine both my medieval history geekdom with my theatre nerdiness.

I think I am also going to try my hand at some short stories and/or flash fiction. I just can't seem to get anything finished. Maybe some serial stuff. I don't know yet, seeing as for the rest of the calender year I should be focusing on college applications (which may or may not boost my wordcount...except that there is no way I'm going to make my goal of 150K). Wish me luck!

So, WriYe is probably not going to be won for me this year, but I will try my darndest next year. We'll probably keep the same goal.

I have also been toying around with creating some workshops. Granted, I have no knowledge in any area, so perhaps I'll start planning them out now and actually write them later when I know what I'm talking about.

Moon in June

Wowza. I am so bad at this keeping stuff up nonsense.

June 7th, there was another full moon, and I actually succeeded! a bit over 3K for a 3K goal. Yay me!

I'm leaving for all of July soon, and I'm sure I'm not going to catch up till August (or later...). Ah well. I'm hoping to reorganize myself at the very least.

Starting a new YA Romance/Coming of Age/Deepish story today. I'll update when I really know what's going on with it.

EDIT: I did a "Random Word Count Challenge" for 390. I managed to hit that exactly. I'll probably do another one before the day is out.

Catch Up

My, my, my. How the time flies. I suppose I'd better give a little update on my writing progress for this year.

Screnzy: I won with 106 pages! Huzzah! I haven't actually finished the script yet, but I'm so proud of myself. Because this is another thing to check off of my BFS list!

Wri Ye: It was Full Moon Madness last Saturday, and I failed dismally at my goal of 5K. I got about 1,200 which was enough to get me back on track to reach 150K by December 31st. 

Right now I'm at 56,251 words which is 5 days ahead. It feels good.

Projects for May:

-SXU

-Lleynn

-Rose/Scorpius

-School Work

Holy Moon!

It's a full moon tonight, so you know what that means: FULL MOON MADNESS

I signed up for 5K this go around. That's right. 4K more than my usual, but I'm on spring break and though why not?

I got that plus 64 words. I feel so accomplished right now. I am also on page 82 for SXU not even counting the PDF boost. 18 more pages! I am so close to winning I know I'm going to make it there by Easter, and then I won't have to worry at all about it for the rest of the month. 

The only set back it that I am only at point 12 out of 19 (I have been writing chronologically, but not well. I'm going to need to edit this thing with a hacksaw). There is no way I'm going to get past point 13 when I hit the 100 page mark. Now I know there is no rule saying I can't keep going, I just feel like I will run out of two things: steam and time. But whatever, I will have finally won, which will cross off one of the things on my BFS List.

Speaking of which: I got my ACT scores back today (finally! everyone else got them like a week ago). I am proud to say that, without studying mind you, I got a fabulous score. I am also signed up to take it again in June, so hopefully I can get an even better one. SAT's in May, and who knows how that will go (the Saturday before APs! Why am I so dumb?). Also winging that one, except that I do the SAT question of the day everyday, which may or may not count as preparation. 

WriDay #2

Yesterday was the second WriDay over at WriYe. I signed up for 5K, not only because it was the smalest amount I could sign up for but also because I was wickedly behind on SXU, my Screnzy project. 

I managed to get caught up on SXU sometime in the middle of the afternoon, but I was still about 2K behind for WriDay. I then had tickets to go see a musical so I couldn't just keep working and didn't get home until eleven.  

So I wrote like I had no idea how to spell or type or anything and managed to hit 5,157 one minute before midnight. 

I'm planning on doing some homework and then writing as much as I can today and the rest of the week (I have vacation this week). I'm hoping to finish Screnzy this week so I can concentrate on my work. I should be able to, considering I wrote 20 pages yesterday alone (giving me a total of 25).