Day 11...

It is nearing the end of Day 11 of NaNoWriMo. As you can see from the little bar in the top corner of this page, I'm not doing too badly. Whilst to NaNo's count I am almost halfway there....

as you can tell from up there, I'm not. In order to reach 75,000 words I should've been writing 3k words a day. So, by the end of the today I should be on 33k.

Nah, I'm gonna be halfway through 24k.

BUT! My plan!

To write 3.5k words a day. It is a giant push and somehow, as well as pumping out the words, I am ahead on Uni work too. *woop woop*

So.  I'm going to be doing my best to steam roll through this story (Yeah can't talk about it yet. Super super super secret!)

How are the rest of you folks doing?

Happy Writing!

Illness

Illness

It may start with a cough

Or even with a wheeze

Maybe it's the rough

that twists your stomach with a squeeze.

Sudden or gradually

It'll come to us all

Nobody is immune completely

to everything. We all take a fall.

For some it's a simple remedy.

For others years of tests.

You may ask when are they ready

to give you a result, yet...

Never is it pleasant

or simple.

At the end a triumphant 

cheer. Or away they slip.

Sometimes it is the last straw

that drags a person away.

With a single final draw

of breath, they've crossed

the land of the dead.

Voice

I want to talk about voice... again.

Voice is a difficult 'thing' to grasp. It is how the narrator speaks, how the characters think and how they speak. But every voice is different and this is what makes our jobs, as writers, harder.

By all means, have a narrator who is completely detached - by this I mean imagine a camera following the character and they report what they see.

But it isn't easy to write a voice and stick to it.

At the moment I'm writing in the voice of a character. First person past tense is not easy. I'm a third person kind of girl and writing in first person, for an entire story, is difficult and brain racking. Add into that I decided my character would be American. Do you know what that means? Using American terms and spellings: closet, drapes, customized, color, judgment, pasteurized. Being an English person who is trying to write with American spellings and terminology...

It's killing the editor inside of me. I still don't know if I should use 'cup' or 'mug' and I won't know for a while.

But first person texts are where voice is more important. It is one of the most important things. With a poor voice, your story falls apart. Keeping up the consistent voice, is even harder.

But it is doable.

Happy Writing.

15k

I have finally hit 15k! :D And I am still ahead of NaNo's word count. But behind on mine by 12,000 words!

EEP!

Ah well. I'm doing my best to write 3k a day *cries*

How's it going for everybody else?

Morning

Morning

A cusp of light

breaches the horizon.

Brightens the sky

and opens the day.

Sleepy eyes awake

and push out the dust

that the sandman 

sprinkled last night.

In a daze people walk

the sun still bright

blinding them

for a few moments

Until the day is opened

and the beauty revealed.

Update

NaNoWriMo is going.... okay. I guess. I told you how I'd set myself the crazy goal of 75,000 words by the end of November right? I'm sure I did.

Well that means 3,000 words each day. Doesn't sound so bad does it? So I should be at 21,000 by the end of today....

12,835 so far.

Yeah.

I'm ahead on the 'normal' word count. Way ahead. But WAY behind on my own word count.

So I got some big catching up to do. *cries*

How's your story coming along? Let me know with a small comment or two.

Happy Writing.

Letters

Letters

Put them together

and they make a word.

String a lot of them

and they make a sentence.

They hold meaning.

One letter

is the difference

between dead

and dread.

They make the language

create it 

invent it

and shape it.

Let them stand like soldiers

or let them slouch

like drunkards on a

Saturday night.

Small or big.

Squished or spaced.

Tall or short.

Clumped or separate.

Letters

make the foundation

of any word

of any sentence

of any story.

This month...

...I will try my best with regular posting, including those 30 second poems, but I may not post as normal. Why you ask?

For many reasons:

1) NaNoWriMo. Yeah. I'm attempting this. Way behind on my own personal word count so far.

2) I have two essays due this month. They take priority over anything. Especially if I wish a good grade.

3) Life. I need a life too. 

But I want to thank you guys who are visiting and who are reading. Comments are always welcome and I shall do my best.

In the mean time, have a few poems I made some time ago:

Run away

Let us run away

Let us never look back now

Don't, let them find us.

Silent

Alone and cornered,

Segregated from the pack

The silent tears fall.

Happy Writing.