i can't be the only busy person crazy enough to take this on. Share your misery with me here!
Things I've got lined up and should be doing, except I've got this awesome novel in my head -
1. College coursework
2. Internet serial novel (and I'm almost out of pre-written chapters, so I'll be doubling up starting next week! *gulp*)
3. Book reviews and author/editor/publisher interviews - at least three lined up so far
4. Submissions for various short story magazines/anthologies
5. Flash fiction contests
6. Exercise
7. Attempting to sustain a social life.
Still, here I am, writing away. I'm going slower than I did last year and the year before, but I'm still making the daily deadlines. I'm way behind on the podcasts I subscribe to, so at least I'll have a bit of audio to keep me company while I'm working.
I'd better get used to staying up all night.
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http://jessicarbrown.blogspot.com
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nov. 2, 2009 - 16 03
You go girl!
I already warned friends and family I will be a little preoccupied during November, so they know chances are I have to decline any social invites. It's only 7 and I want to go to sleep. This new job is kind of kicking my clock in the butt.
t.
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nov. 2, 2009 - 20 08
-College coursework. It's killing me as it is, before nanowrimo. I read at least 2 novels a week and write at least 1 paper a week. Urgh.
-Work, 8 hrs/week
-Exercise
-Again at the attempted social life thing.
Bah. Why are we all so crazy busy!?
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nov. 3, 2009 - 11 53
-Cleaning the house
-Work
-Taking hot soaky baths
OK - honestly, I have the time. I also have a flu right now, so I am reeeaally slow minded!
----------"Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders." Desiderius Erasmus
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nov. 3, 2009 - 12 11
Haha, do you really wanna know what I should be doing right now?
1. make up work from the 1 1/2 month worth of Japanese classes I missed
----------2. tomorrow's Japanese homework
3. reading the readings for tomorrow's Zen class
4. reading about 100 missed pages of the novel for my Seminar in Comp
5. reading the readings for the class that starts in an hour
6. working on my Nano (need at least 10,000 words by the end of today, 12,000 preferable! >.< )
7. footwork for kendo
Dreamer of Inescapable Nightmares -- Vu
ぜつぼうした！
And I will look at these scars and shove my despair aside, and forthwidth shall come a grand total of 100,000 words!
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nov. 3, 2009 - 12 24
1. Homework
2. Studying for tests I missed
3. Mourning
4. Getting ready for work.
5. Doing more nanowrimo writing ^_^;;
6. Packing
What I AM doing:
1. some nanowrimo writing
2. sleeping
3. talking
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nov. 6, 2009 - 11 05
Hoooray, a vent thread! Boy, could I go on for hours...
1. Work 40+ hours a week, if you count travel time during which I can't write because I'm stuck in 10mph traffic on the parkway and it's pay attention or get rear-ended. Wheeeee!
2. Sleep. I need more of it. I've been exhausted to the point of not wanting to get out of bed at all this week, and that means that I'm running on negative energy reserves by the time I get to the computer in the evenings. Not good for the writing, let me tell you...
3. Housecleaning. It just ain't gettin' done, really... but since my fiance cooks, he expects me to wash dishes, do the laundry, clean the litterboxes (he does them every other week or so), and otherwise keep things tidy!
4. Puppy. That word on its own should say enough... walks, play time, distractions from when she's in her crate and whining her tail off... ugh. I feel bad for the poor puppy, but she's in need of constant supervision so puppy out = no writing.
5. Paperwork. This kinda goes along with work, but it's unpaid, on my own time and usually ends up being put off till the weekends... all 6-7 hours of it that needs doing. Ugh.
6. Visits with relatives. Fiance's grandma just moved closer to us, so she's a half-hour drive away and all this week we've been going out and visiting with her after I get off work. that's great, but I don't have a laptop and he doesn't bring his with most of the time, so I'm out of luck writing, and am usually too tired when we come home. :(
Hopefully next week will smooth itself out a little bit, but this week has been horrible for my writing and I'm getting way behind!
----------Year 7 of NaNo... 6 years of avoiding the end results!
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nov. 7, 2009 - 11 55
1. Make plushy Octopi for the craft show I'm doing in two weeks (I still need to buy polyfil)
2. Make fairy wings (day job)
3. Figure out what to do with all those beets I just bought before they go bad
4. Figure out if I am in a band or not
5. Read those books I checked out from the library
6. Make sure I don't miss the first chapter of The Drowned World on Radio 7
7. Figure out how to get to the Morning Glory Coffee House so I don't miss Starless and Bible Black on Monday.
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nov. 7, 2009 - 16 53
Eeeps! I totally forgot to add working on my boyfriend's Christmas present >.< I'm making him a quilt. Cutting out all these squares is taking forever and a day!
----------Dreamer of Inescapable Nightmares -- Vu
ぜつぼうした！
And I will look at these scars and shove my despair aside, and forthwidth shall come a grand total of 100,000 words!
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nov. 7, 2009 - 18 14
1. Studying for my Art History midterm on Monday... eek.
2. Writing an Annotated Bibliography due Monday for my 12-15 page research paper due at the end of the month... yeah...
3. Writing my 8-10 Art History paper due at the end of the month
4. Writing a 2 page single-spaced journal entry about Emare for Monday
5. Correcting 17 poems for my Writing Poetry Class for Tuesday
6. Reading the book The Master for Tuesday
7. Writing my Neovictorian Lit paper due in two weeks.
8. Having a social life.
Well... that covers it... for today, at least. Mwhaha!
----------Hello
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nov. 11, 2009 - 11 57
Oh, I've got a good one...
GRAD SCHOOL APPS! Grrr, I'm so stressed out about them, but I have to do it! My word count is suffering but I'll just have to catch up later in the month. I do have a few plane rides, so that'll be about 10 hours between me and my notebook. Still. Grrrrrr.
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nov. 13, 2009 - 12 20
Things I should be doing (or doing more of), but am not:
* Putting down laminate flooring in my bedroom
* Reassembling my computer desk
* Unpacking boxes so I can have a basement again
* Knitting gift scarves for my family
* Getting out and walking once in a while
* Cleaning my house
...and I don't even have a decent word count to show for it. Oy.
----------NaNoWriMo: Because sleep and sanity are for wimps!
"Don't tell me the sky's the limit, when there are footprints on the moon." ~ Unknown
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nov. 14, 2009 - 22 41
*studying for business exam
*studying for java
*working on next page of the comic before the fans get mean
*praciticng guitar
*getting my damn fingerprinting done so I can prove that I"m not a crim
*ordering my nursing school uniforms
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nov. 17, 2009 - 18 01
1. Learning Python
2. Writing a philosophy paper
3. Writing research papers for cognitive psych
4. Revising my submission(s) for another literary contest (deadline is Nov 30th. Figures)
5. Searching for grad schools
6. Making Christmas gifts
7. Studying for exams
8. Attending club meetings/maintaining something of a social life
Good luck at the staying up all night thing! I could never do that. I know, I know, I'm a terrible college student.
----------2009: Bounded
2008: Make Me Fat! (won)
2007: Cream Cracker Tinker Knacker (won)
2006: Love Thy Sister, Love Thy Home (won)
"Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." - Gene Fowler