Epic April

Guess what? It looks like I'm not the only one who wanted to declare this a novel writing month. It's called Camp Nanowrimo!

https://campnanowrimo.org/sign_in

I'll still think of it as my personal novel writing month, but I'm totally registered in the camp. Yesterday, I was able to write a grand total of (ta-da) 812 words. Yeah, it's not my 2,000 that I was shooting for, but given that I only had 45 minutes to write yesterday, I'd say that's not bad. I've manipulated my schedule a little for today and tomorrow, so I think (I hope anyway) that I can hit my target word count.

It was kind of funny last night as I was trying to write. For a minute or two I just stared at the page and thought, why the heck am I not typing? Then I remembered that I needed to do my routine! I have to do what I call a free write before I begin story writing.  It's like a massive word dump. The only rules are that I can't stop typing (it has to be as fast as I can) and I can't use the backspace. It helps me get out anything that might be stopping me from writing, and it helps the editor in me relax and have fun.

Also, I saw Divergent yesterday, and I have to say that I enjoyed the movie much better than the book. It was very well adapted for the screen. The characters had better development, and the story flowed better together. I approve!

And, one last announcement: NATHAN FILLION IS COMING TO COMIC CON!!!! I bought my tickets a couple of months ago for Comic Con, the fan experience in Salt Lake City coming up this month. I found out just last night that Nathan Fillion (for all of you Firefly, Dr. Horrible, and Castle fans out there) will be there!! I have to get a picture. April is pretty much going to be the best month ever. Two concerts (Christina Perri & Birdy, and Ingrid Michaelson), Comic Con, and my graduation!! Oh, and I'm also shooting for finishing a novel! How about that.

The Calm Before the Storm

Here I am, the night before Bethany's Novel Writing Month begins. I still haven't thought of a cooler name for that. Shouldn't I be preparing more? Eh, probably. I was going to get a head start on the rest of my homework this weekend so that I would be free to do all of this writing, and then I got a stupid crick in my shoulder/neck area. Why on earth do we get those?

I've basically just been relaxing. What a buzzkill those cricks can be. But I'm not going to let it stop me! I probably won't be posting on here every day, letting you know how many words I've got, but I think I need to write about 2,000 words a day. I'll try to do it often enough, but I'll at least post every Saturday with the updated word count.

On another note, today is the last day in March, which means that in about 25 days and 1.5 hours, I will be graduating! Haha, finally!

Oh, and other news--General Conference is this weekend. I'll be going to the Sunday afternoon session. And I'm going to a Christina Perri concert (Birdy will be there too, which is pretty much why I'm going). It's a packed week! Or weekend, rather.

Oh, and I'm going to see Divergent tomorrow night. I have a feeling that I'll enjoy the film better than the book.

That's all folks! Good night, and happy April Fool's Day tomorrow. By the way, let me know if any of you do some epic April Fool's jokes. I always love a good story.

Hear Ye!

I've been wishing for another Nanowrimo because I feel like my Novembers are always super packed with nasty school business. Needless to say, I didn't make it very far in my attempt to write a novel in a month.

But now . . . I find myself suddenly with time to spare. I do this thing though, where I get super busy (like the first couple of months of the semester) and my days are seriously packed! Saturdays were pretty much my only day to do grocery shopping, homework, and laundry. I got tired of getting up at 6:30am to go to the grocery store on my Saturday. Once I get past that initial busy streak (or drop an unnecessary class) I have some spare time and want to spend that relaxing. So then I get into this mode of relaxing in all of this spare time because my body and my mind don't want to get that busy and stressed again.

Well, I think I've done enough relaxing, and now I'm looking at the upcoming WIFYR and thinking about how much I just don't have written. I'm ahead on my assignments, and the last day of school is just 3 weeks away! It would seem that the timing is just right, except it's not November.

I was thinking of calling April "Bethany's Novel Writing Month" so it would be Benowrimo. Yeah, maybe I'll try to think of something cooler to call it, but I am declaring it my novel writing month! And I would really love to do the same in May! I mean, when else am I going to be just graduated from school with a lot of free time?

Also, I just came up a plan B for NYC as I was talking about things with some people in my building. Here's the deal: If things don't go well at all in NYC, I will buy a motorcycle, shave my head, and bike all the way to Seattle where I will start new! I don't know that I'd shave my whole head. Maybe I'd do that half-shaved look. I don't know how to describe it, but it looks better than just plain shaved. I'll make a documentary. How does that sound? You know, it's kind of exciting. I guess it's good to have a plan B that's pretty cool.