Like a boss
This month is National November Writer's Month or NaNoWriMo, and that means time to be masochistic. I have decided that while I may not get to 50,000 words, I should definitely rekindle my romantic feelings for all that is novel writing.
This means I have to REALLY get into writer mode and motivate myself. I used to write sickeningly long poems, essay stories, reunion stories, romance/teen drama stories, and animal hyperbolic stories. In junior high, I was selected two years in a row to read my poems in front of the whole school at Poetry Night, won the English award and Emily Dickinson's poems from my favorite English teacher, and won a grant award that would be put towards my choice of high school.
I USED to be cool. I need to reconnect with that Ashley.
I will take this moment to quote Walk the Line:
"If you was hit by a truck and you was lying out there in that gutter dying, and you had time to [write] *one* [story]. One [story] that people would remember before you're dirt. One [story] that would let God know how you felt about your time here on Earth...that would sum you up. You tellin' me that's the [story you'd write]? That same [story] we [read from Candace Bushnell and Danielle Steel], about your [girl] within, and how it's [hot], and how you're gonna [own it and p'wn men]? Or... would you [write] somethin' different. Somethin' real. Somethin' *you* felt. Cause I'm telling you right now, that's the kind of [story] people want to hear. That's the kind of [story] that truly saves people. It ain't got nothin to do with believin' in God, [Ashley Carpenter]. It has to do with believin' in yourself."
Whatever, it's time to show NanoWrimo who's boss!
This means I have to REALLY get into writer mode and motivate myself. I used to write sickeningly long poems, essay stories, reunion stories, romance/teen drama stories, and animal hyperbolic stories. In junior high, I was selected two years in a row to read my poems in front of the whole school at Poetry Night, won the English award and Emily Dickinson's poems from my favorite English teacher, and won a grant award that would be put towards my choice of high school.
I USED to be cool. I need to reconnect with that Ashley.
I will take this moment to quote Walk the Line:
"If you was hit by a truck and you was lying out there in that gutter dying, and you had time to [write] *one* [story]. One [story] that people would remember before you're dirt. One [story] that would let God know how you felt about your time here on Earth...that would sum you up. You tellin' me that's the [story you'd write]? That same [story] we [read from Candace Bushnell and Danielle Steel], about your [girl] within, and how it's [hot], and how you're gonna [own it and p'wn men]? Or... would you [write] somethin' different. Somethin' real. Somethin' *you* felt. Cause I'm telling you right now, that's the kind of [story] people want to hear. That's the kind of [story] that truly saves people. It ain't got nothin to do with believin' in God, [Ashley Carpenter]. It has to do with believin' in yourself."
Whatever, it's time to show NanoWrimo who's boss!