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[ceitean]

So, uh. I signed up for NaNoWriMo.

I always wanted to write when I was a kid. In my middle school year book, three different teachers wrote that I was, "Most Likely To Become a Published Author," which really did some amazing things to my thirteen year old ego, let me tell you.

But then I moved to South Florida, where upon I became very bitter and unhappy. I started to see writing as just one more thing I had left behind, part of a life I couldn't get back. I got very involved in Guard, so much so that it ate up my entire life for three whole years. If I wasn't practicing, then I was sleeping or going to class (where I slept some more).

Then there was college, and it was a struggle to even find time to sleep when I wasn't writing 20 page research papers on how, despite modern disdain, the practice of alchemy in early modern Europe was an integral part of scientific history that ushered in the Enlightenment; or learning how the structural differences of the corpus callosum and the anterior commissure between the sexes may possibly affect gender differences and/or sexual orientation (answer: no one has a freaking clue if they really do either of those things at all. thank you, physiological psychology.)

And now here I am- out of college, back at home, and putting off taking the LSAT so I can finally take a break from life. For the next year or two I want to figure out what I really want to do, what makes me happy- because at this point, I'm not really sure I know. I've grown a lot, but sometimes I think I may be happier if I just go back to my roots, back to being the quiet nerd who likes to read while walking through hallways and who always has a notebook to scribble in when an idea strikes.

So, I'll do NaNo. I'll get back in the habit of writing every day and maybe I can relight the proverbial spark.

I work best under pressure, anyway. XD

Comments

[trickyfrog.livejournal.com]

Good luck!! <333

[ceitean.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :D

Also - HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY!! ♥

[trickyfrog.livejournal.com]

Thank you. <3

[raelynae.livejournal.com]

Isn't the deadline for that relatively soon? Good luck! That's a lot of writing in a really short time period!

[ceitean.livejournal.com]

We start writing on November 1st and stop writing thirty days later. You have to write at least 50,000 words during that month, which averages out to around 1,667 words a day. And that's not really all that hard to do, but the challenge is doing it every single day.

Like I said, good practice. XD And thank you! ♥