NaNoWriMo and other Novemberish happenings.

It's been long enough. Right now I'm on a mental guilt trip for being so inconsistent with posting. I mean, it's a blog. It's like a diary. How hard can it be to keep up with? (That was rhetorical, and I already know the answer.) And I left my poor sub-blog withering in the cold, all alone... Gosh, I'm such a terrible person.

So, I've got good news, and I've got bad news. The bad news is the same as always. I'm pretty much a wreck, both emotionally and physically. The latter is the hardest to deal with and the most dominant, but the former has been getting worse as of late. This is around the same time I was first crippled by depression last year, according to my mom; I only really noticed it between late December and early January. I'm learning to deal with this, to take it all in stride. Things don't bother me to the extent that they used to, but I still get overwhelmed. I have whatever's going on in my own mind and body, accompanied by the added pressures of certain people around me and the everday stress of family, school, etc. Actually, because certain people rely on me, and certain people bother me, I have been recently overcome by misanthropy. How this is possible, I do not know. But if it keeps these people away from me then so be it.

The good news: I'm writing a novel! Woo!
50,000 words in 30 days!... Say what?!

Yes. November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). And I'm crazy for doing it, but I have taken the challenge. One whole month of creative genius and insanity. To complete it at a good pace, you have to average close to 1,667 words per day. Sounds easy when broken down that way, but imagine my surprise when I found out it's quite difficult to keep up with.

A friend of mine put me up to it, actually. We are motivating each other, feeding our Muses, sharing thoughts, exchanging scenes, keeping each other up at 2am. It's quite fun. And I'm so glad he made me do it, because I need something like this. And he's just awesome like that.

And I want you to be awesome, too! Please (pleasepleaseplease) help motivate me! Believe me, I need it. I'm already below par in my first week. I need some drive here. Tweet me, send an email, chat with me in the wee hours of the morning... whatever you can do. And I love being taken by surprise, so get me on a random day with something witty or cute or poetic. Always works.

Some extra info: I'm using the romance novels of Eva Ibbotson as my inspiration. In case you don't know, Eva Ibbotson is a BRILLIANTLY AMAZING writer and my favourite author. I love her so much that I have 4 out of 5 of her romances, and I underline and write out my favourite quotes and make a list of themes and allusions that I've found therein. Yes, she's that amazing. Hopefully by the end of these four weeks or so I will have a novel that is a fraction as good as Miss Ibbotson's.

Well, TTFN. I'll be back here soon. No, really, I will.