absent

I haven't written on this blog for quite a while.

I have excuses.

Nanowrimo being the bigest.
I wrote 50,000 words.
Somehow I did it. I'm still not sure how.

I managed to crank out enough words in time, in the midst of all my extra things.
He's a point form list of what my November looked like:

• 6 public performances of a local youth theatre's Romeo and Juliet(I was neither Romeo, or Juliet, but I would like to think that I pulled off a pretty decent Sampson and that I bit my thumb with as much gusto as humanly possible).
• 3 toured perforamnces at various schools around the area.
• Sang in 2 choirs.
• Performed and rehearsed with a local glee club.
• Read and sang in a staged reading of an original play, written by a local playright/actor.
• Practiced for my flute, piano and voice lessons.
• Tried to keep up with my on-line math course.
• And of course, trying to survive a house full of younger siblings.

All in all... I wasn't that busy at all, what was I talking about.

I never had a plot line, or anything for my story, so each word and plot twist was an adventure, and I had no idea what was going to happen next.
Personally I think that's the best part of nanowrimo.
Besides, pre-planning is cheating.
But that's just me.

I didn't have much of a chance to read over the month, so I don't have too much to review right now.
But hopefully I'll get a few reviews up soon.

I'm currently reading The Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare.
Can I just say that I am LOVING it.

It's almost time...

Last year was my first year participating in the insanity of NaNoWriMo(national novel writing month).


The goal, 50,000 words in 30 days. Sounds terrifying?
It is.
But so worth it.

This craziness starts monday.  And I'm so ready!

Last year I didn't participate in any of my local write-ins, I didn't even know anyone else who would be tackling the insanity.
That's changing this year.
I'm planning on going to the kick-off party this Sunday.
And I actually know some one (around) my age who's going to be noveling as well.

I'm ridiculously busy already, I don't know what throwing a novel to write into the mix will do to me, but I guess we'll be finding out.

I might be posting some up-dates on how my noveling's going, but who knows.
Noveling takes priority all November.
That's just how it needs to be.



This cute little song pretty much sums up what this next month will be all about.