NaNoWriMo, March Madness edition!

I have officially decided that since my NaNoWriMo coming up IN TWO DAYS isn't the actual Nano, since it's not in November, it needs a name. Something to set it apart from the normal, November Nano.

Enter March Madness. I think the term actually refers to something basketball related. Whatever. It's a sweet name and I just stole it for my NaNo noveling foray.

I'm totally psyched for this. Like, I want Sunday to come SO BADLY right now. Also, I'm planning on going to the National Zoo/a museum (depending on the weather) with Heather (best friend) and my family on Sunday. Yet another thing to look forward to.

Ah, the creative high. Nothing else like it. Possibly because I don't do drugs, but whatever. I'll take this any day of the week. Or year for that matter.

Oh, and I'm also disrupting the flow of my friends' lives with my absurd personal ambitions! Just like every aspiring novelist/world dictator should. ^_^

• My mother has committed to NaNo with me, not entirely sure if she'll follow through for real though. I'm gonna try and make a bet with her for her inspiration/pocket money for me if she phails.
• I got my friend Ryan to agree today. I finished reading the pre-Nano section of No Plot and loaned it to him for the weekend. We talked about his story idea today and I have really high hopes for his finishing. It'd be really cool to do this with him.
• I also just convinced my online friend Zekey (the Zebra) to join me. I am now disrupting the lives of people in Florida too. YAY ME! (World domination gets closer with every step).
  
• I'm putting off all my non-mandatory obligations aside. This will mean neglecting my family, non-writing friends, personal higene, possibly sleep, and my other artistic pursuits.
• I've also recruited about a half dozen people to smack me if I don't write every day. I'm so lucky to have people who love me enough to cause me physical harm to help me pursue my dreams.

That's all for now! I'm going to try and limit my forays online to updating this blog. Aren't you, invisible/nonexistent reader, special?

Write on til next time,
Kia

NaNoWriMo here I come!

Ah, insanity. Such a wonderful thing.

It sets upon you without a moment's notice... then, before you're quite aware of the fact, you have succumbed and have no more chances of survival. Except.... it's rather nice. You struggle at first and fight back with the flimsy sword of 'logic'. Then, just when you seem to be driving it back, you realize that you don't really want to win the fight. You immediately cast aside your silly logic and embrace insanity.

Which happens to be a very good hugger.

I had such an episode today. You see, yesterday I went out to dinner with my dad before my piano lesson, just like every other Wednesday. On the way, I noted a used book store in Manassas that I hadn't been to before. My inner bibliophile (which is not buried deep) called and we immediately made a U-turn. Once there, I immediately vanished into the isles, finding cheap copies of Orson Scott Card books and and Asimov title I almost bought.

But I didn't. I had this feeling; my intuition was telling me that today was not a day for pleasure book buying. I wasn't exactly sure why, but I listened. My dad was calling for me to go, we still hadn't eaten dinner, but I went to the front counter anyway and asked where they kept books on writing fiction.

Aisle 5, target lock, fire. There, on the cheap plywood shelves found in most used book stores, was a small section on fiction writing. I quickly browsed the dozen available titles, I had little time left. My eye alighted on "No Plot? No Problem!"

The handbook for National Novel Writers Month

This is when insanity strolled and stumbled onto the battlefield and pretended not to be challenging me. I bought it for $8 and left. I hadn't actually been planning on doing NaNo. No plans to do so. I'd bought the book because I opened it randomly and it was talking about non-edible writing supplies.

But today, as I was reading in class, insanity jumped me from behind and started beating against my logic. It was a quick fight; I wasn't really resisting. I had lost the battle before lunch and made a promise to myself in the midst of. Before lunch had ended I had enthusiastically approached 3 different acquaintances, telling them about NaNoWriMo and asking them if they were interested. I'm going to try and win another over tomorrow, but I'm essentially going it alone.

"But NaNo is officially in November," you're saying. Yes. I know. But I can't wait.

I'm starting MINE in three days. March 1st - March 31st, 2009.

I've been doing worldbuilding, chara-sketching, and other endless prewriting stuff for about two months now. If left to my own devices, I could be building Quaeth (the world in which my novel is set) for the next year.

HA! Not anymore! I'm gonna finish a 50,000 word first draft of TheNovelInQuaethThatIsUnnamedAsOfYet by midnight, EST, March 31st, 2009.

I'm starting in three days! I got my mother on board with me (she's been thinking about writing a novel too, not sure if she'll follow through) and 2 people willing to do me some bodily harm for motivation.

I may plan something forever, but once I commit to something like this I'm unstoppable. Watch out, I'm coming!

First Post... here I go

Hey, it's Kia here! Welcome, nonexistent reader, to my blog with a tentative name.

This is where I will attempt to post regularly about anything that comes to mind. I'll probably talk about my creative ideas and my novel(s) in progress quite a bit. There'll be some book reviews thrown in as well, because I spend quite a bit of time reading. I might have other craft type things that I do, such as braiding paracord or wood carving, but they'll probably be far less frequent. I might even post some drawings that I'm particularly proud of. Oh, and junk about my personal life will also pop up occasionally, whenever I just need to vent and tell the invisible people (this would be you) about my life.

Currently, I'm going to see how this goes before I tell anyone I started a blog. If I abandon it and it falls flat, then so be it. Then no one has to know.

I don't have much more to say, just putting something up so I can see what it looks like mostly.