November in review

November is over. It's been over for a week. I did do NaNoWriMo, and I wrote over 50000 words! But I didn't finish the novel. So I have been slowly picking away at it as I set a deadline of January 1 2011 to finish it. Then I'll have to set anouther deadline for revisions.

In October I was looking for an idea to write about during NaNoWriMo. I did eventually find the idea that I would write about. What amazed me was how different the idea I wrote in November was from previous ideas I had for things I have written. The one thing that was similar to previous things I have written is that the main character is gay. But other than that, the story line and the characters were so much different. For one thing, one of the minor characters who is also gay was married to a man for several years before coming out and breaking off their marriage. Anouther thing that is so different is the fact that these characters have let me into their thoughts and feelings by letting me see their journals.

October leads to November

October means that November is right around the corner. Wait a moment! It's the end of October!!! Whatever happened to this month??? That means I have less than a week to prepare for nanowrimo (www.nanowrimo.org). Crap. I have no idea what I'm writing this year. I don't have any characters. I don't even have a hint of a plot. All I have is me, myself, and I, my laptop, and an abundance of time next month. I'm a little freaked out that November is approaching quickly. I'm despretly trying to fnd a plot and characters to write about. I just read the first e-mail from my ML. And there was a great line in it that I wish both made me laugh, and also gave me a good idea for a novel to write next month. Instead the line only made me smile. This particular line goes as follows "...clown-fearing ninja and his unfortanate escapades through France in pursit of the Queens underpants.". Too bad my brain isn't in creative mode. Otherwise I could turn that line into a full novel. I think I'll go back to my brainstorming now.

It's September

I know I know. I haven't posted ANYTHING is several months. Depressing? Yes. Sad? I don't really know. What I do know is that I've been busy working for the Great Lakes Loons chasing down the next paycheck, working my arse off for little to no pay, and getting more and more frusterated with the work and some (I SAID SOME NOT ALL) of the staff I work with/for. Right now the Loons are in the midst of the playoffs. At least the playoffs won't take too much longer. Now on to the other going ons of my life at the moment, or maybe of the summer. I'm still working in the church nursery. Sounds fun right? It could be if we got more kids than we did this summer. Typically we only had one to two kids on any given sunday morning. I went to Wisconsin for the family reunion. That was fun. I met my mom's cousin, David, and his partner Andrew. It was fun meeting them. It was also fun seeing my aunts, uncles, and cousins.

I'm definatly looking forwards to November and Nanowrimo. The only problem is I really want to start writing right now. But it's not November yet!

There's so much, yet so few words...

There's been a lot going on in my life latley. But I just don't have the energy to write about it all. And there's been even more on my mind. So I've been praying a ton, which has proboly been the reason I've had the energy to keep chasing kids everywhere.

Continuing on with Nanowrimo

So during November 2009 I spent way too much time working on writing a novel for national novel writing month. And now I am on the cusp of starting Scriptfrenzy, 30 days to write a hundred page screenplay. And what am I doing besides preparing for script frenzy? I'm also preparing to begin writing a series of novels that techincally could be read on their own, but each focusing on a single character's life from my first ever nanowrimo novel. A little scary to think that I could come up with four to five books about the same family.
I shal try to keep you updated on how things go, although knowing how busy I tend to be, it might be hard to do. But I will try to keep up with it all.

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The Donate Buton explination (AKA raising money to record my first album)

As you may notice, if you are a regular visitor to my blog, you'll notice that I added a donate button. Now to explain why I added this donation button, and what that's all about. Since the middle of last week I have been debating weather or not to record a solo album. I did some research, and there is a recording studio in Saginaw that I can do the recording at. And so I had to do some research into how much time and money it would cost me to record the album. I ended up figuring between five and 30 hours to actually record it; which comes out to between 200 and 1200 dollars just for the recording sessions. After that I'm guess up to 150 dollars on CD's, CD cases, and the insert to go with a CD depending on how many CD's I can sell.

Here's where the donation button comes in--
To record I need money, and to make copies of it I need money. And in all honesty I have no money right now since I just payed my tuition today (a grand total of 1294.70 dollars). So if you click on the donate button, you can donate any amount of money you feel like you want to donate so I can record and put out the album. Also, if you are like me and completley broke another way you can help me out is by going to the following link:
http://whyarentyouholdingme.blogspot.com/
and commenting on your favorite set of lyrics so I know which songs are the most popular and should turn up on the CD.
So go donate and help me pick out which songs to include.

Life is too short. Do something fun today.