Friday, November 1, 2013

Gap Years and NaNoWriMo

It's NaNoWriMo again. Already. You can imagine my shock when I woke up this morning realizing that it was actually November 1st. Already.

I am currently taking a gap year, kind of like a break between high school and college, and the year seemed to go by faster than usual. Like... is this what life is like for people not in school? It's just so weird to have almost a whole year without any school. Considering the past thirteen years of my life have been nothing BUT school (and the next four and maybe six years of my life will once again be school). So where did the year go?
I woke up on November 1st with a limited plot and no general background on my characters (so bad that I don't even know the hair color of my main character bad right?). And I was planning on making NaNoWriMo 2013 the year I plan desperately. But other things got in the way... Like finding a job to take up most of my time and to save money, studying for the ACTs and signing up for the ACTs, looking up important dates, figuring out when I'm actually leaving Japan (yes, the ACT thing I should have done in my junior year, but when you have a year off it's just kind of better to do it then). But anyway, this year is probably the least unprepared I've been since my first year two years ago, when I found out like a week after it started. So this year is just all on instinct and just very spontaneous. It's going to be an interesting month.

Wish all of you NaNoWriMo participants a good luck on completing for 50,000 word novel!

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