Tumbling Over NaNoWriMo and Poisoned Apples

My blog titles are really clever.

I have a tumblr now. Started it a few days ago. Really addicting the first day. I love that, unlike blogger, it's mainly about quick blogging. Like twitter yet more literate for some reason :) There I'll post random photos taken with my crappy camera. Like sunflowers. I have too many photos of sunflowers. And bubbles.

Also, a few days ago, Elizabeth May's blog reminded me of National Novel Writing Month coming up next month. My account is Dancing-Riceball. I actually joined back in 2007, via a blog post on TOKYOPOP. I thought it was a cool idea but didn't post anything. They deleted my account from being inactive so I rejoined last year. My story, called Graffiti, clocked in at a little over 50,000. It was and still is unfinished but I learned a lot from working on it. Stuff such as the word "graffiti" only doubles with the f's and not the t's or the i's. But I also learned about pacing or structure. I'm not sure, but I think that story only had three chapters. Which is just awful. It made me realize that either I have slow pacing or I'm too wordy (or both). I think for fun I'll re-read it.

One of the prizes for finishing NaNoWriMo is a free proof copy of your story via Amazon's Create Space thingamajig. I wanted one, but I was embarrassed at the idea of people reading over my shitty story. Which is funny because I don't think that they do proof-read when you go to self-publish. Anyways, I like NaNo and don't want them to delete my account so I'm going to upload some words from one of (many) unfinished manuscripts. I won't upload all of it because I don't want to cheat. November will be spent trying to finish up my current story, which I don't think that I'll meet the deadline.

But now that I think about it, I really want to do NaNo again. This is bad, I'm supposed to be working on The Poisoned Apple, not starting another story. But I love a challenge! But I need to focus. I'll think about it...

On the same note, I can't remember where but I heard about this website called "One Page Per Day" which is about... writing one page a day. I haven't tried it yet, but if I do start another story with NaNo- which I'm really, really, really, thinking about doing -I think I might use it.

Ciao.