(Excuse my language.) I usually get all prepped for nanwrimo every year! I guess it's because I
1) got a job this year 2) am in grade 12...wow. 3) am drowning in scholarship applications (they do take as much time as they say...)
Anyways, I will start. I know exactly what I'm going to write. And by that...I mean, I know more of my plot than I usually do (since I started 4 years ago.) Gail Carson Levine (author of Ella Enchanted....a book that truly did inspire me. And no, not just because of the name although that's what drove me to pick it up in the first place) e-mail'd us what she's going to do for this writers-fest of a month and I guess it'll sort of relate to me except for the fact that I actually have to go out for school.
But she's genius. And she has inspired me once again to get going and start this novel already. Like a cheetah ;)
"I dug a shallow grave in the backyard and buried my print thesaurus (starting tomorrow, the first word I think of is good enough, even if I use it seven times on every page), dictionary (who cares how ophthalmologist is spelled anyway?), usage books (I can figure out the difference between lie and lay later), encyclopedia, atlas, and my beloved books about writing. I taped blackout curtains over my windows. My techy friend spent hours tinkering with my computer. She's assured me that it will combust if I try to reestablish connections to the internet and email. The single thing I'm keeping is my cell phone in case I start to go into cardiac arrest, but the keys are smeared with battery acid, except the 9, the 1, and send. My family and friends and Meals-on-Wheels have sworn to deliver food to my door, which will be kept closed to protect the world from my intensifying body odor. "
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