Camp NaNo Day 2

Today was the second day of the April session of Camp NaNo!
I got my words done yesterday before I went to bed, and today I finished too! I've written about 3,715 for Camp and my novel has a collective 13,750 words! It's going great so far, if I do say so myself. The best way to win is to get ahead in the beginning (and maybe have a plan, but I'm a pantser.)

Favorite line written today:
 

He dreamed he was a tree, plunging his roots into the ground and actually becoming what stabilizes the environment around him. As he stood before the fire, his skin hardened and browned-forming cracks which made bark. He grew taller and fatter, his feet digging into the ground to make roots. His arms raised, sticking out and making branches as he grew and grew. Leaves hung from him and he became something that seemed so insignificant, but so important at the same time.

ahh I loved this so much. 

I am gone, friends!

Camp NaNo Day 1

Today was day one of the April 2014 session of Camp NaNoWriMo. Last night, I stayed awake until roughly two o'clock. I got 1,232 words done before going to bed. At school I wrote about 300 (give or take) more.

Believe it or not, I am extremely tired. I am still a high school student, which means waking up in the wee hours of the morning (6:15) and going to prison (literally, everyone in my town hated my school when it was first built because it resembled a prison more-so than a school).

Favorite line written today:

Eris knelt down very low with her knee on Titan's back. Her lips were inches from his ear as she whispered the last line of the song: “And so, as it goes, it closed in on itself, never to see another star again.”

 I'm going to definitely write more later, but for now I need a nap.

 

 Total Words Written

1,532 (for NaNoWriMo)

 

Words Remaining

48,468  

Current Day

1

Days Left

30

 

Total Word Count 

11,312 (according to Wordcounter.net, counting words prev. to NaNoWriMo)

NaNoNews

I was actually about to go to bed, seeing as to how it's nearly 1AM, but I decided to blog.

Okay, so I've decided that I will do Camp NaNo. I am going to be working on a story I have brewing called The Wrong Devices. It's a sci-fi fantasy about this guy named Titan, who is turned into an Otro--a servant--to the government and has to kidnap the Veret--the queen, essentally.

I've already written some of it--roughly 8,000 words--but I'm gonna try to hold off until April. I'm shooting for around 60,000 words, give or take a couple thousand.

I am off.

(You can read more about my story in the Projects tab.)

Neglect, Updates, and Camp NaNo

Story time:

So awhile back, somewhere around July-August of last year, I made the acquaintance of this wonderful, artistic, singing girl over the internet. I helped her work up the confidence to actually finish and like her first song, I helped her put together a Bandcamp profile (click here!) and I even worked with her to make some album art. She's a great photographer, and here are some of the ones I made:

both pictures taken by her and edited by me

She has four songs on her Bandcamp at the moment: covers of Across the Universe by the Beatles, Eyes on Fire by Blue Foundation, and Brave as a Noun by Andrew Jihad. Her oldest song is an original, one that I am quite fond of.

Anyways, so why am I telling all of this? Because I was just editing her Bandcamp, and I remembered that I had a blog and that I should probably update it!

Anyways, I won NaNoWriMo 2013 by working on two stories. I got my original idea, which no longer exists in the word document due to immense hatred, and a co-write done. The co-write, which I absolutely had great amounts of fun writing and even cried a bit when it was done, will be available on Kindle soon! (Hopefully. I'm still a minor, so parental dictation and all that.)

Okay, so I completely forgot about NaNoWriMo. I've been writing somewhat a lot this year, but not much. I'm in a creative writing class, so that kind of helps. I'm not too sure if I'm up for this year's April session because school is so damn hard. I have, like, 3 Ds. We just started the last quarter and I have 3 Ds. (If it's any consolation, I also have 3 As and a B! ((Update: Just checked and saw I brought one of my Ds up to a pretty high C and that, in fact, one of my As disappeared. I am so confused.))

Anyways, that is all.

Update and Shit, Bro

So I kno;w I haven't been blogging lately; probably because I forgot that I even had a blog (And a Youtube channel). But I finished accomplishing a great feat this May. I entered a writing contest last year that's world-wide and accounts for over 1 billion (7th and 8th grade) entrants. I made it to the world competition, alogn with my friends Steven and Megan and my girlfriend Mackenzie. We were somewhere in the top 750 out of 1 billion.

After the 3 initial rounds of writing they called up the top 54 for each grade. Sadly I didn't make it there (omfg. a judge called my fantasy story unrealistic).

Anyways, I'm thinking about self-publishing my novel Night Watch with Lulu, on paperback and eBook (Although I really love hardback books).

So, anyways, I will be blogging regularly now.