Learning and Accomplishment

     Right now, I have a grade of 101 in Honors US History.  That's really good; I've apparently worked hard and learned a lot and studied more than adequately.  Except I haven't, really.  I know what hard work learning can be, and I've worked hard at learning.  Usually, it's with music, especially with playing the piano.  Memorizing and expressing music just right is really hard and something is learned other than just that particular piece.  So I know what that feels like, that hard work at a specific goal, learned just right and with a special something that makes it worthwhile to you.  But I don't feel that with History.

NaNoWriMo...

I gave up on NaNoWriMo.  When Hell Week was over (that would be the week leading up to the musical), I had lost my momentum and I didn't love the story I was working on anymore.  I had lost my train of thought, which is very important for me to have during NaNo.  Since I never plan my characters, storyline, sub-plots, or anything, once the idea was gone, the novel was gone.  Maybe I can resuscitate it in the future and work on it bit by bit.  For now, though, I have not and will not win NaNoWriMo this year.  Perhaps next year I will learn a lesson from this and plan out characters and plots and all of that.  Maybe I'll start soon.  Probably not.  I'm just going to have to steal my friends' WriMo novels and read them, and celebrate their wins with them.  It will be fun.  And maybe I'll succeed next year...

NaNoWriMo '12

     Anybody who has been reading my blog for a year (which must have been a mightily boring endeavor, so thank you) knows about NaNoWriMo.  This is an event that occupies many aspiring writers during November.  This is National Novel Writing Month, when you must write 50,000 words (or more, or less; whatever you put as your goal) in one month.  That's 1,667 words a day.  That's a lot.
     Last year, it didn't work.  I ended up putting up a whole load of nonsense about aliens (sasquatches) that looked like centaurs, except with squids instead of human torsos.  I liked it because it was so goofy, but it never really got off the ground.