Did you guys know that it is also NaBloWriMo this month? Yes, that stands for what you guessed it stands for: National Blog Writing Month. Just like its sister challenge (I'm not going to type that one out again), the goal is to complete a blog entry every day for the whole month. I do post almost every day, but tend to take a day off here and there. I think I took a day off already this month, in fact, but I didn't yet know about NaBloWriMo. Now that I know, I will try to post every day until the end of the month. And it may not all be in this blog. I may do a post or two in the book blog. I just finished reading a young adult novel today that I would like to write about, so there may be a post by weekend's end.
And speaking of YA novels, as I am writing one, I am making sure that I also read some of them this month. In addition to the novel I finished today, Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher, I am also listening to Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. I subscribed to E-books for awhile and that was one of my downloads. I actually started listening to the book during my class last year, and made it about halfway through and then got too busy with actual reading. Now I'm going to finish it. It's a great book and I highly recommend it. That's all I will say for now as I'm sure this one will get a blog entry when I'm done with it. I really do prefer reading books to listening to them, but audio books are great for when I'm drawing or at my cleaning job.
Oh, and I'm sure you're just waiting with bated breath to hear about the progress on my writing project. Well, here are my stats: this morning I wrote 1631 words. That brings my grand total to 6607 words. I actually have to go back and add my words from the first day for real. I did three separate documents for that day and just added the totals in my head, so I only estimated for that day. Math hurts my head. Anyway, I plan on trying to get about 1600 more in before I go to bed tonight. So, what about the quality? Well, I have written some bits that I like. There is some stuff that I'm sure is awful and some so-so. It is helping a lot that I have the book framed by the project the girl is working on as each chapter starts with a fact about the subject that she has chosen. That way I can link what is going on her life with the information she is learning about her subject. I think it makes it all a bit easier.
I just saw a trailer on t.v. for the movie The Road. As I read the book and really liked it, I am a bit uneasy about the movie. I guess I'll have to wait and see what is written about it, not that I always trust critics' opinions.
As for the little elephant, I drew him earlier as I was listening to my audio book. I have already told him that I'm sorry for messing up his eye. It looks like it might hurt.
edited to add that I could only muster 580 more words tonight, but I went back and did a real count of the writing that I did on the first night and now my grand total is 7457. I was hoping to write more tonight as I know tomorrow is going to be busy, but oh well, at least I had more than I thought I had.
1 comment:
I heart the elephant and thanks for letting me know about NaBloWriMo! Now that's a WriMo goal I think I might be able to keep up with. Sounds to me like you are doing well on your NaNoWriMo as well and so double duty for you. Keep up the good work!
As for The Road, well, I tried to read the book and found it a bit too disturbing when I saw the trailer for the movie I found that even more disturbing. But it is well written book, yes it is, the subject matter is a bit too heavy for me.
And now, I have to clean. But maybe I best blog first, I've got my priorities and NaBloWriMo has just risen to the top of the list.
Mr. Ed is a horse. Didn't I mention that : )
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