tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32097276938911767362024-03-05T21:07:52.051-05:00Alexander Bennett: WriterMy Overactive ImaginationAlexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209727693891176736.post-38767336687654915362012-11-02T22:41:00.001-04:002012-11-02T22:41:56.307-04:00Long Time No See...crickets. Yeah, I don't know where I've been either.<br />
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Seriously though, the reason I haven't blogged on here in so many months is that this is a writing blog, and I haven't been writing. My life is basically school, work, tennis, and all nineteen or whatever extracurriculars I'm involved in.<br />
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It's always an issue for me to write when it's NOT November. Maybe that means I'm not a real writer or whatever but I don't like it that much. I mean, writing is fun, but it's also hard and I feel like I do enough hard things in my life without adding another. But I am going to try NaNo this year, but I have so much going on in my life that I don't know if I'll win it this year, which is a shame since I have won it the past two years.<br />
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But those two manuscripts I wrote were so bad, and I haven't even attempted editing them. Maybe that means I'm not a real writer too.<br />
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I'm writing a contemporary teen romance this year, and I'll share more as the month goes on, but I'm honestly too tired right now. I wrote like 465 words today, and I hate all of them. It was all just INFO DUMP OF CRAP--all 465 words. I know what I want to be in the middle of my story, and I know exactly how I want it to end, but I'm having a hard time figuring out the beginning.<br />
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I'm behind 2869 words and it's only day two. Hope that's not an indication of how this month's going to go.<br />
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Bye. I'm going to sleep now. Thanks to all of you who have continued to follow this blog. I'm glad you're still reading, and I promise that not all of my posts will be this damn depressing and melancholy.<br />
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(See more of this angsty ranting on my twitter, @byAlexBennett)Alexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209727693891176736.post-42515637116923142252012-01-30T17:32:00.000-05:002012-01-30T17:32:02.401-05:00Cats Hate Water, But I Am Not a CatNot much to talk about today, since I haven't written anything new since last time (shame on me), but there are a few little things we can talk about.<br />
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First of all, do you notice anything different? No, I didn't get a haircut (though I need one, badly), this blog got a new design! Thanks to Lori of Imagination Designs for making it, it's really fun and cute and stuff. So, what do you all think?<br />
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Also, I just finished EXAM WEEK! Dun dun dun! I think I finished this semester with a 4.0, but my Spanish teacher still hasn't put his exam grades in, so there's no way for me to tell just yet. Now that hell week is over, I'll be able to do more things with my time. Like writing!Alexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209727693891176736.post-45976851629624223442012-01-17T18:02:00.001-05:002012-01-17T18:02:06.549-05:00Confused? Me Too.Good news, guys... I wrote today! Granted, I didn't write a lot, but I wrote, and that's what matters. Really, I only wrote like 600 words, and it's on something completely new. More about that in a minute. So, I'm back at it. What I started today is completely unlike that last thing I wrote (my NaNo book), and it's refreshing. I'm writing a dark contemporary. Think... Gone, Gone, Gone, by Hannah Moskowitz. Oh wait, that's not out yet. ANYWAY, think of what you imagine that to be. Except different. Confused? Me too.<br />
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So I decided I'm just not ready to edit my NaNo book. Maybe in a little while, but right now I just don't have the motivation to do it, so I'm going to write something new instead. Who knows, maybe I'll get a random push of motivation to start editing, tomorrow even. But until I get that push I need, I'm just going to dedicate my time to other things--namely, this new project.<br />
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Before I go, I'd just like to thank you for all of the awesome advice you guys gave me on last week's post! All of your insight really helped, and I greatly appreciate your awesomeness.<br />
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Oh, and did you notice that I'm back after only a week... and a day?! I told you I could do it.Alexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209727693891176736.post-71098899259419950222012-01-09T22:22:00.001-05:002012-01-09T22:29:10.446-05:00Am I the Only One?I'm doing terrible at posting here, aren't I? Well, I'm hoping that will change soon. Like I said last post, I want to blog here at least once a week. So look forward to that, will you?<br />
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Here's where I am in my writing process: I have the big scary NaNo book's first draft done (duh), and I have beta notes back from my beta reader. Basically, I'm going to have to do lots and lots of edits, probably a rewrite. I knew this was coming. And yet, I just can't motivate myself to just do it. It seems so ominous, editing. It's like a big scary world--a maze, that I could just get lost in.<br />
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Writing first drafts is pretty dang easy, I'd say. You just have to write whatever you want. Nothing has to be perfect, and you can't really do anything wrong. But edits and rewrites are hard. And that sucks. And maybe I'm just lazy or something, but I just don't want to do it. I wish I could just write perfect first drafts, but that's never gonna happen, obviously, so need to edit sometime if I want this dream to be a reality.<br />
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I don't even really feel like writing anything new. I have a few cool ideas for new projects, but I really, really want to polish up that NaNo book before I start anything new. And yet, I don't. Maybe I could do both at once?<br />
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So, writers out there, what do you do when the first draft is all done and you have to go into edits? Do you freak out as much as I do? Maybe I'm the only loser out there who doesn't want to do it. But then again, I've never really done it in the first place to know if I really hate it or not. Sure, I've done edit work for other books, but those aren't mine, and that somehow makes it easier for me. Am I a terrible person? I really just need to find the motivation to just... do it, eh?<br />
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I'm a rambling mess, and I'm sorry for that. I just don't know what to do.<br />
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In other news:<br />
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1) My friend Amanda Hocking's book, Switched, came out last Tuesday, and you should totally go buy it. If you don't know about Amanda's story, she basically wrote one of--if not <i>the </i>bestselling self-published book series, and now that series has been picked up and republished by St. Martin's Griffin, an imprint of Macmillan, and I am so stinking happy for her. So, go buy her book.<br />
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2) I've began to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I'm totally in love. I've watched the first six episodes so far and they're totally epic. It's like a mix between The Vampire Diaries, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Goosebumps. And I love it.<br />
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3) I also just watched Zero Day, a Blair Witch-style movie about two boys who document their lives from July to May 1, the day they go to school and shoot twelve people there. It was totally disturbing and I'm not sure if I loved it or hated it yet. But it seriously freaked me out.<br />
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So that's all, I guess. I <i>will</i> see you next week and will hopefully have started edits by then, and maybe a new project. We'll see.Alexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209727693891176736.post-65158229901399150122011-12-15T23:14:00.002-05:002011-12-15T23:14:53.764-05:00Two Weeks LaterIt's been two weeks since I last wrote here, and since then things have been pretty slow in the writing world over here. Right now the rough draft of the book I wrote for NaNo is with my critiquer, and I am waiting for her to get back to me before I do anything with that project.<br />
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I've been telling myself that I'll start working on something else for the past two weeks, but I keep putting it off. I was afraid this would happen. I can't let this happen; I need to write. And I will, I promise. I just need a little push.<br />
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But tonight something awesome happened. I won't share anything yet, but I will give you some information. 1) It is a book I am writing. 2) Leah Clifford. 3)Other authors. That's all I'll say right now, and I can tell you right now that it's probably not what you think, and that's okay. When things are more set in stone, I'll tell you more because I love you.<br />
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Also, regarding this blog... I think I'll try to get at least one post a week, maybe two. It just depends on how my writing goes in the future, but there should be at least one a week for the foreseeable future.Alexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209727693891176736.post-34174708221209174162011-11-30T21:49:00.000-05:002011-11-30T21:49:37.610-05:00NaNoWriMo: Day 30I did it. I did it! I won NaNoWriMo. Second year doing it, and my second win. This year, it was a challenge. I was ready go give up so many times but thanks to a very special supporter, I marched on and wrote. And you know what, it feels awesome.<br />
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It was really easy to get the words out today. Every day should be the last day of NaNo, because that made me just <i>want</i> to write in a way I usually don't. And now that I've won, it's so worth it.<br />
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So, now I just have to finish writing the book. Sure, I have those 50,000 words all written down on that nice Word doc, but now I have to write the ending. I am just about there too, just one more scene to go until Charmed (the title needs to be changed, also) is done.<br />
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So, what's next? Well, I am going to let the book sit for a month, like I said yesterday. And I'm going to keep writing. That's my number one priority right now, not waiting for NaNo again to write again. I want to write my middle grade book I started in October from December to probably February. Besides that, I want to write at least two more books next year, not including next year's NaNo. Can I do it? I don't know. But I am going to try.<br />
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Also, I got a critiquer tonight. It's that special supporter/cheerleader who made me want to finish NaNo this year, and I wouldn't want anyone else to help me with my writing than her. She's blunt and brutal, and kind and supportive. The perfect person to tell me what I need to fix, and what's perfect the way it is, in my opinion.<br />
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To all of those people who did NaNo this year, you rock. If you won, yay! We won! If you didn't, WRITE ALL OF THOSE WORDS TONIGHT. Seriously, do it. You'll feel so good about yourself if you do.<br />
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But looking back, I was ready to give up just a few days ago, when I was nearly 20000 words behind. But I didn't quit, thankfully, and now I am nearly all caught up. I'm still behind, but I will write those final words tomorrow, and I will win NaNoWriMo. And it will be an amazing feeling.<br />
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I don't think I'll be able to wrap up my NaNo in 50,000 words, it will probably be about 55,000, which is about how long my NaNo last year was. I am nearing the end of this first draft, though, and I am so ready to finish it.<br />
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My plan right now is to finish this book, let it sit for the month of December, while working on other stuff. One of the publishers I intern for is opening for submission the first day of December, and I will start working on another book in December, and will write that (at a slower pace than my NaNo book, of course).<br />
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Then in January, I will edit this NaNo. I am at a complete loss at what exactly editing a rough draft really <i>means</i>, and I am freaked out. I think that's a big problem with my book last year, was that I was too scared to edit. So, if anyone out there has edited a book, WHERE DO I BEGIN? And where do I go from there?<br />
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So, one more day. I am going to win NaNoWriMo tomorrow, and it feels amazing.<br />
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Words written today: 3339<br />
Total word count: 46696<br />
Recommended word count: 48333Alexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209727693891176736.post-14507325135673620762011-11-28T21:58:00.001-05:002011-11-28T22:01:11.318-05:00NaNoWriMo: Day 28Well, I wrote the 3333 words I needed to today, and then some. And let me tell you, it was almost as hard as writing my over 8500 words yesterday.<br />
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The thing is, I was super tired today. I felt like everything I wrote was crap, but I kept going anyway. I just <i>can't </i>lose. I need to just win NaNo, then make the book good. I know now that it will need lots of work, but I'm not going to give up on this one like I did with last year's NaNo.<br />
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Words written today: 3354<br />
Total word count: 43357<br />
Recommended word count: 46666Alexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209727693891176736.post-32271253941067729372011-11-27T20:42:00.001-05:002011-11-27T20:47:56.624-05:00NaNoWriMo: Day 27You guys will not believe what happened. I hit 40,000 words! This is pretty much the best thing ever. Even better, I wrote over 8750 words today so I could hit this goal. It was pretty ridiculous to sit here all freaking day, but I am so glad I did it.<br />
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I started thinking about possible endings today, and there are three or four I am tossing around in my mind. Most of them are pretty sad, but when I talked about this on Twitter, people said to choose the happy choice, but I seriously don't know. I feel like there are no YA books with depressing endings, and maybe I could spice it up by doing one.<br />
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So it looks like there are only three days left of NaNoWriMo. I'm excited for all this stress to be over, but I am also kind of dreading it. After NaNo last year, I sort of stopped writing until this December. I'm gonna need a little motivation to keep writing this year, but I will, <i>will</i> do it.<br />
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Words written today: 8752<br />
Total word count: 40003<br />
Recommended word count: 45000Alexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209727693891176736.post-68425501429562327652011-11-26T21:32:00.001-05:002011-11-26T22:07:48.237-05:00NaNoWriMo: Day 26So... yeah, I didn't do it. I had hoped to write 5000 words today, but I wrote about 4000 less than that. But I do have a valid excuse: I was out all day.<br />
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I woke up at 11 (I stayed up late last night), and read for a little bit, and then got a text from my friend telling me that a few of my friends were going downtown today. So I was all, "Yay, I want to go." And then I went, and didn't get home until 8.<br />
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But right when I got home, I sat down and wrote as much as I could while keeping my eyes open. I'm tired, and I want to sleep.<br />
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But, if I do not make plans tomorrow, rest assured that I will write those 4000 words I missed, plus more if I can manage. My real goal for tomorrow is 9000, but I don't know if I can handle that. Either way, I am winning NaNoWriMo this year.<br />
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There is no turning back after all this work.<br />
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Words written today: 944<br />
Total word count: 31011<br />
Recommended word count: 43333<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">UPDATE: You know what, no! I will not sleep until I get to 35000 tonight. That's my final word on that. So, I'm gonna go grab me some diet coke and get to work. Wish me luck!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">UPDATE #2: I couldn't do it. I wrote another 250 words, but I am so drained. </span><br />Alexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209727693891176736.post-8093682016602927612011-11-25T22:32:00.001-05:002011-11-25T22:35:41.933-05:00NaNoWriMo: Day 25I wrote the 3000 words I was hoping to today! Hooray! I wrote some pretty sad stuff, and almost cried writing it. What a baby I am! But yeah, I wrote what I wanted and feel good about it.<br />
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I wanted to write one or two thousand more words once I hit 3000, but didn't. I probably should have, but I felt like rewarding myself after a day of hard work. And so I did!<br />
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I was hoping to write 10000 words over tomorrow and Sunday, but I have plans for both days, so I don't know if that will happen. It would be great if it did, though.<br />
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Words written today: 3348<br />
Total word count: 30067<br />
Recommended word count: 41666Alexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209727693891176736.post-78898325987904455452011-11-24T20:29:00.001-05:002011-11-24T20:32:02.248-05:00NaNoWriMo: Day 24I did it, I did it, I did it, yay! I wrote over 2000 words today, so you don't get to punish me... yet. But tomorrow, if I don't write 3000 words, you can punish me again.<br />
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I'm trying to get really serious about this, because there is only six more days of writing, and I am way behind. I need to get my butt into gear, and work hard. I have tomorrow to myself, and I intend to use it to my advantage.<br />
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Words written today: 2018<br />
Total word count: 26719<br />
Recommended word count: 40000Alexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209727693891176736.post-70632726980261985072011-11-23T21:28:00.001-05:002011-11-23T21:31:23.382-05:00NaNoWriMo: Day 23Long story short, I had another wordless day. Here's the thing: right after school, I went shopping, and didn't get home for a few hours. I had stuff to do to get ready for Thansgiving, and I just finished that. I would stay up to write, but I took cough medicine and it is knocking me out. I'm finding it hard to stay awake just writing this.<br />
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I'm not that busy tomorrow. Thanksgiving with my family is being held at my house, and people will only be over for a few hours. I WILL WRITE tomorrow. At least 2000 words. If I don't, I'll let you guys choose a punishment I have to do and record.<br />
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Words written today: 0<br />
Total word count: 24701<br />
Recommended word count: 38333Alexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209727693891176736.post-1316070876160827742011-11-22T22:13:00.001-05:002011-11-22T22:13:48.982-05:00NaNoWriMo: Day 22So today I stayed after school for play practice, and then I had a choir concert. It didn't end until, like, five minutes ago, so I clearly didn't have time to write anything today. Bummer, right.<br />
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But thanks to a pep talk I got yesterday in the comments of my Day 21 post, I have decided not to give up. Tomorrow is a half day, and I am going to <i>try my hardest</i> to catch up with NaNoWriMo. I want to win this year, I really do. And I will try, I really will.<br />
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Words written today: 0<br />
Total word count: 24701<br />
Recommended word count: 35000Alexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209727693891176736.post-14747558528546142622011-11-21T21:24:00.001-05:002011-11-21T21:30:02.587-05:00NaNoWriMo: Day 21So at this rate, it doesn't look like I will be winning NaNoWriMo this year, which is a total bummer. I wish they would have a month-long break from school in November, so I could spend a few hours and write the right amount of words. I just... haven't been into it lately.<br />
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I lost momentum, which was my problem. Last year, I just went at it and didn't look back. Now, I'm trying to write something decent that I can actually work with. But I just can't get in the mood to write it. I'll sit down and get ready to write, then find a million other things to do on the internet before doing it. I don't even do productive things, just random stuff so I don't have to write. It's annoying. I'm annoyed with myself.<br />
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Is this what writer's block is? I hope not, because that sounds annoying. I seem like I'm in a bad mood, don't I? I don't know why... maybe because I'm tired. But that doesn't make much sense, because I got, like, nine hours of sleep last night. Hmm, who knows.<br />
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I'm thinking of crazy ideas for this NaNo book, and I can't wait to write them, really. But I just... I don't know. I like the story I'm writing with, but I'm worried that once I look it over I'll be terrified to do anything with it, because I will think it's crap. I don't know why I have this fear, since I am a pretty professional-ish book reviewer, and even do editing work for the publishers I intern for.<br />
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I'm clearly a mess.<br />
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Words written today: 690<br />
Total word count: 24701<br />
Recommended word count: 35000Alexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209727693891176736.post-20109503489578906292011-11-20T20:34:00.001-05:002011-11-20T20:39:15.448-05:00NaNoWriMo: Day 20I actually did write today, even though I didn't think I would. I had only a few hours to write, and was only able to write a few hundred words today. But it's... I don't know. I don't want to say it's okay, but I don''t really feel bad about it.<br />
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The thing is, I don't want to have to spend all of my free time writing. I want it to be something I can do, and dedicate time to, but not the thing that dominates everything else in my life. At least for now. I have <i>so many</i> things I do every single day, and writing can't just be... it.<br /><br />Should I feel this way? Am I not a real writer because I don't want to write every second of my free time? I feel like I'm wrong, that I'm doing it all wrong. I don't know.<br />
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Words written today: 387<br />
Total word count: 24011<br />
Recommended word count: 33333Alexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209727693891176736.post-19626414234752681492011-11-18T21:14:00.001-05:002011-11-18T21:17:21.377-05:00NaNoWriMo: Day 18A day of no writing. I don't really even feel like it was a fail today. I went from school straight to the movies, and then came home. And I didn't feel like reading. I have family coming up tonight, and I will be with them all weekend, away from home and unable to write.<br />
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I should have probably sprinted to try to get ahead so I won't be <i>way</i> behind, but I am already way behind. I think I'm in that I-can't-do-it phase. I don't remember going through it last year, but I am this year. And it sucks. But I have things to do. For example, the day I finished reading a book last was October 30. That is no coincidence.<br />
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Words written today: 0<br />
Total word count: 23624<br />
Suggested word count: 30000Alexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209727693891176736.post-41103270472855948872011-11-17T22:25:00.001-05:002011-11-17T22:43:47.046-05:00NaNoWriMo: Day 17So... yeah, today was a fail day. I just... didn't feel like writing. So I didn't write very much. That's the story, you know. It seems like I write a lot one day, then a little the next.<br />
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I wrote some words. A crazy plot twist came into play, so that was fun to write.<br />
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And that's about it.<br />
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Words written today: 570<br />Total word count: 23624Alexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209727693891176736.post-31252380523261127162011-11-16T22:41:00.001-05:002011-11-16T22:42:14.984-05:00NaNoWriMo: Day 16I accomplished things today! Hooray! I still didn't get the amount of
words I was hoping to but, wow did I improve my word count.<br />
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I invented a reward system to get things done. I had about two hours to
write, and for every five hundred words, I watched another part of A
Very Potter Musical. It worked really well!<br />
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I think what I wrote today was probably boring pretty boring, but who
knows. It seemed a bit like that to me, but I can fix that.<br />
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So no I am not at the point I'm supposed to be at, but I'm okay with that. I'm pretty sure I can catch up. So yeah.<br />
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Words written today: 2301<br />
Total word count: 23054Alexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209727693891176736.post-71837529079335240372011-11-15T22:40:00.001-05:002011-11-15T22:42:51.879-05:00NaNoWriMo: Day 15Hello everyone! Today marks the halfway mark of NaNoWriMo, so word counts should be to 25000. I know mine isn't that high, but it is pretty close. I didn't write as much as I was hoping to today, but that's okay. For the time I had, I am proud of what I accomplished.<br />
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So I got home, did some chores, and wrote a little bit. And then I had to go to a friend's house to work on an English project, and that took about two hours. I got back home, and wrote, wrote, wrote. I wrote a lot in a short amount of time, and I was surprised at how fast I was going.<br />
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So that's the story, short and sweet.<br />
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Words written today: 1890<br />Total word count: 20753Alexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209727693891176736.post-71855004816490770952011-11-14T22:54:00.001-05:002011-11-14T22:59:43.288-05:00NaNoWriMo: Day 14Well, poo! Here's the story of how I totally was going to write 2500 words today, but... didn't.<br />
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So I was cruising along, writing words and whatnot, writing backstory and building up to the end-of-the-first-part-climax-thing, and I am doing really well. I am writing words like it's no feat, and I start to get cocky.<br />
<br />"This is totally easy," I say to myself. "I can totally do this." So then I do other things, things that don't get words added onto my novel, and things that I really don't need to be doing. Like turning around, just looking at my bookshelf, or watching the Hunger Games trailer a few times.<br /><br />I'm doing nonsensical things, and then I'm all, "Well, I should write some more words now." So then I do that. And then after some words, I do other things. Like make food, and eat, and think about how I want to read Twilight again.<br />
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And then more words. And then procrastination, and nonsensical things. And now here I am. I'm a big advocate for getting a good night's sleep, and to have a working, regular sleep cycle, so I'm not going to stay up another hour to write. I'm about 1000 words short of what I wanted to write today, which was 2500, so I'll have to write 2750 words tomorrow-Friday. And I. Will. Do. It. I know I said the same thing yesterday, but it will be different tomorrow, I swear!<br />
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Words written today: 1354<br />
Total word count: 18863Alexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209727693891176736.post-39086322112998609302011-11-13T20:58:00.001-05:002011-11-13T21:02:13.610-05:00NaNoWriMo: Day 13Grr. I didn't write <b>anything </b>today. NaNo is so much harder this year than last. Somehow, I was able to write 25000 words in the first week last night, and it is now the second week of NaNo, and I am a few thousand words behind.<br />
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I did figure out that if I write 2500 words a day Monday-Friday this week, I will be caught up. So I will do that. I <b>will </b>do that. Even though I have a lot of stuff going on, and even though it will be hard. I have to, because I can't lose this. I can't let myself down.<br />
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Because when I win NaNo, that will inspire me. If the book isn't done by then, that will inspire me to finish it. When I finish it, that will inspire me to write something else for a month, and that will inspire me to edit my NaNo book in January. And after that, I don't know. Maybe I'll get an agent, and get published, and all that stuff. Maybe not. All I can do is work hard and cross my fingers.<br />
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Words written today: 0<br />
Total word count: 17518Alexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209727693891176736.post-13726102086627797272011-11-12T21:17:00.001-05:002011-11-12T21:21:31.800-05:00NaNoWriMo: Day 12I forgot to blog yesterday! Oh no! Anyway, I wrote 500-ish words yesterday, but then I went out and didn't get home until late.<br />
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So, on to today. I wrote more than 500 words, but not as many as I was hoping, and not enough to catch up. Which sucks. I am <i>still</i> hoping to get caught up tomorrow, but who knows what will really happen. Catching up is hard. Much harder than writing the 1667 words you should be writing everyday if you are doing NaNo.<br />
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Today, I wrote the big revelation scene, and now the story will really take a new direction. The crazy stuff can happen now, and that's going to be fun to write.<br />
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Words written yesterday & today: 2519<br />
Total word count: 17518Alexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209727693891176736.post-36976103117725665752011-11-10T19:50:00.001-05:002011-11-10T19:54:23.994-05:00NaNoWriMo: Day 10This post will be rushed, as The Vampire Diaries is on in nine minutes.<br />
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Though I am still not caught up with NaNo, I have made a plan which will enable me to be all caught up after tomorrow night's writing session. All I have to do is write about 3.5K tomorrow, which is what I did today, and I will be at the suggested word count goal for day 11.<br />
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I wrote a lot of words today, and am really getting into the thick of the plot. Evil character is really getting some spotlight, while hero guy is being pushed back a little. I think Charmed is pretty unique, even though it's a paranormal romance. I've read enough YA to know what works and what doesn't, and to know what is overdone. I'm trying to avoid the negatives, and bring uniqueness and stuff to this book.<br />
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I am still having doubts about it daily, but I feel like this could be something, with work.<br />
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Words written today: 3381<br />
Total word count: 14999Alexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209727693891176736.post-8819884367677431162011-11-09T21:43:00.002-05:002011-11-09T21:48:02.510-05:00NaNoWriMo: Day 9So. I didn't write anything today. I just wasn't feeling it today. I know, I know, I should do it anyway. But.... I didn't. So, yeah. I can totally catch up, though, because I have half days tomorrow and Friday. And then there's a weekend, so yeah! I can do this!<br />
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Words written today: 0<br />
Total word count: 11618Alexander Bennett: Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761391262766432430noreply@blogger.com0