022. Just A Random Update
So far, I have been staring at this page for a grand total of eighteen minutes, trying to figure out what I should be saying. It is almost a year later from when I last posted, and yet I can't find anything meaningful or worth while to say. I mean, a year? One would think there would be many things to blog about, yet I can not think of anything.
I'm wondering if I should blame it on the writer's block I have been experiencing. Hm, there's something.
Some of you will remember last year when
I blogged about
National Novel Writing Month. I participated in November, and I "won". I wrote a novel consisting of 50,849 words, complete with teenaged angst and all. It will definitely never make it past the depths of my laptop, since it's my worst piece of writing, but at the same time,
I wrote a novel.
Many others finished novels as well. A total of 9,768 recorded authors finished their novels last year, and I'm sure even more will complete them this coming November.
This year, I'll direct you to a new link provided on the website. NaNoWriMo (as it is called by participators), now has a blog! You can find it
here.
Anyway; I suppose I'll leave this post off with a quote. I think that Thomas Mann said it best:
"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
021. I Live... Still!
(All links for resources will be posted at the end of the entry)
Alright, so I have not updated in... a very, very long time. And I'm doubtful that anyone will really see this post! But who knows. I hope someone will, because I'm really, really, really excited about it!
Okay, so
someone has to be wondering what on Earth I'm doing updating this blog at eleven o'clock at night (I've been stranger and updated at 1am). Anyway! On with the post!
So, I'm not sure who has heard of this, but there is a National Novel Writing Month. Which is tomorrow -- November 1st. So, the insanity begins tonight at midnight!
NaNoWriMo, is what it's called for short, is a group of people all over the world writing 50,000 in 30 days! That's an average or 1,667 words per day! If you're awake for 8 hours, that's 208 words per hour! Most teenagers who are computer savvy type that in 5 minutes.
Now, most may be wondering 'so what? Why post it here?'.
I'm posting about it here because it is
amazing. People; men, women, boys, girls, people who are nine through ninety are writing this! They are attempting to make personal history for themselves so that they can say 'hey! I wrote a novel!', and know that they have something to show for 30 days of hard, hard work. Even if you don't have a computer! Or hate writing with a pen and paper! They have
laptop loaners! How cool is that?!
Still wondering why I'm writing about it?
Because it's a great tool to use in the classroom. It's a great creative release to use at home. And it's a fabulous time waster when you're supposed to be doing something completely different! It has forums to post to, a back story to read, a podcast to listen to (yes, I'm posting that here for Bud because I know about his love for podcasts), and resources for teachers so that they can bring NaNo to their classroom.
What I think would be cool? Bringing it to the classroom, then into
blogs. The students could blog their novel! That's what I did last year, and will be doing this year, too.
Celebrate creativity; take a look!
019. Meme's.
Well, the other day, Bud posted a meme in his main blog. He wanted to pass it on to the students, so I decided to do it. This should be fun ;)
First 5 Songs in Shuffle of Entire Music Library
1. Leaving Town - Dexter Freebish
2. Ashes - Pain of Salvation
3. Bed of Roses - Mindless Self Indulgence
4. Are There Angels? - Project 12:01
5. Beloved - VnV Nation
* Current Book You are Reading (or lightly leafing through)
I, like Bud, have a reading list I hope to tackle over the summer. But, I've been procrastinating, and have not yet bothered to write it. Once I do, though, I'd like to post it here. (If anyone has any recommendations, I'd love to hear from you)
* Last Movie Seen in a Theater and Where
Hm. I think the last movie I went to see was Beauty Shop at the Twin Peaks Mall, and before that it was Hitch (at the same place).
*Five People To Whom You’ll Pass This
The rest of the blogging class ;)
