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oceantheorem ([personal profile] oceantheorem) wrote2007-10-27 02:41 am
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NaNoWriMo

I really, really, really wanted to do NaNoWriMo last year. I heard about it several years ago and have always thought it would be a lot of fun. Last year I promised myself that if I dropped out of graduate school, I'd do NaNoWriMo this year.

Well, obviously I haven't dropped out of graduate school (yet. hehe. *nervous laughter*). But I will be done with qualifying on the 9th (*more nervous laughter*). And I'll take the following week off. After that, yeah, I'll have to get back to lab and actually get some work done. And during that week off I'll probably do nothing but sleep, and maybe go to Maine with Ann. BUT.

I really, really, really want to do NaNoWriMo. I used to write a lot. I wrote tons of stories in middle school and high school, and even one or two in college. I always wanted to write a novel. Damnit, I want to write a novel! I have no idea what it would be about, but I know there's a novel inside me! There are probably fifteen novels inside me, and they're all running around, bumping into each other, and screaming to be written, and here I am in graduate school.

Well, crap. Should I make the attempt?

EDIT: Nothing ventured, nothing gained! Naysayers be damned.

EDIT 2: I dunno how this is gonna work, with school and climbing and knitting and reading (non-science) and having a social life and WoW. Oh well. If it fails, it fails. I will have made the attempt.
And damnit, if I drop out of graduate school, then next year I promise to make it all the way to 50000.

[identity profile] bananasofdeath.livejournal.com 2007-10-30 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
You totally should, but try not to kill yourself, okay?

[identity profile] oceantheorem.livejournal.com 2007-10-31 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Awesome. I promise not to kill myself over it. It's something I want to do, but I'm not wed to the 50,000 mark.
Thanks. :-)

...Also, I have half a note for you. It's one side of a clean sheet of paper (I didn't have any scratch paper when I started writing) and it's currently getting wrinkled and trodden upon in my room. But there might be another half to it IF QUALIFYING EVER ENDS.
Anyway.

[identity profile] bananasofdeath.livejournal.com 2007-11-01 06:56 am (UTC)(link)
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Yay! A note! And I took like six months to get back to you so if you finish it by December I think you're still ahead of me.

[identity profile] oceantheorem.livejournal.com 2007-11-01 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah... I just... wish I knew what I'd done with your note... so I could reply to it....

[identity profile] bananasofdeath.livejournal.com 2007-11-04 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I wish I had fewer midterms/homework assignments so that I could answer your comments on lj.... God this next week seems awful. Hope your work's coming along.... you're almost there.

[identity profile] bannanachild.livejournal.com 2007-11-01 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
You should at least try.
I'm giving up all computer games (Which means only one, Sims 2) For the Month of November so I can have more time to write. Maybe you can devote all WoW time to NaNoWrimo

[identity profile] oceantheorem.livejournal.com 2007-11-01 07:09 am (UTC)(link)
Hmmm. You raise an interesting point. I guess we'll see how it goes after qualifying! I've been writing these crazy proposals, so I might take a week off from writing before I start NaNoWriMo, and kind of fudge the dates and actually write halfway into December.
Like I said, I'm not really wed to the 50,000 mark; I really just kind of want an excuse to start writing a novel.