Friday, August 27, 2010

Blech. That's All

So, school has started again. First year at college, first year to mess up, first year to freak out, and, hopefully, first year to be epic. Because I'm crazy, I decided to go into business. This means facing the Evil. Yes, accounting. Have I ever told you how much I hate accounting? The government has their fingers in everything. It's not just numbers and formulas. It's numbers, formulas, and government laws. Yes, I hate it.

Another topic, NaNoWriMo. What? You have no idea what that is? Well... It's part of the Office of Letters and Light's Young Writers program. This is a program that encourages writing in schools. clicky here. NaNoWriMo is a worldwide challenge every November. It stands for National Novel Writing Month. Yes, writing a novel in a month, of at least 50,000 words. The only rule? No editing. No touching what you wrote. None of that. You just write, and leave it as is. Then you finish a novel, start to finish, and don't leave it in the middle.

On this note, I have no idea what I want to do this year for my novel. I tried doing a romance, but that didn't go too well. Then I tried a horror novel. That didn't go too well. School got in the way. This year, I want to finish something and have it readable. I'm thinking of possibly a fantasy story. Yes, a romance again. Or possibly an adventure story. There's still time to think though.

This year, I would love to go to the Night of Dangerous Writing. It's on November 21, in San Fransisco. It costs 200 dollars. This 200 dollars is a donation to the Office of Letters and Light, not to me. Donate here.