Clare

So, y'all, I really was planning on staying clean. I even saw all those posts on my reading page and shook my head a little. Not this year I said to myself. You won't fool me again.

I was wrong.

So it looks like, come November 1st, I'll be joining the hustle and bustle of the NaNo lifestyle once more. Because the exam period isn't stressful enough as it is. Caitlin, I blame you.

No, quite honestly, I love doing NaNo. I love writing a lot, but I'm a lazy sod so it takes me a kick in the pants like NaNo to actually get me churning words out onto the paper. My plot for this year has been developed over the course of a single afternoon, which is not ideal, but it's something to work with. I've just finished naming all the main characters, which is satisfying.

Let the novelling commence!

Right. First thing first. I'm getting pretty slack about writing my Nano, and haven't been writing 2k a day, but I think I'm still more or less where I should be, and I plan to have hit the halfway mark by tonight or tomorrow (it should be tonight, but I'm going out and I'll probably be too tired to write then). My character has just undergone a very messy breakup, and hopped on a plane to Italy.

I think from here on is the easy bit; mostly it'll just be an amalgamation of my memories and what-could-have-beens, and there's oodles of describing stuff to do, which will just eat up that pesky word count.

In life stuff, I went to the A&P show, which is like THE event in my city, with a guy I met at Hadee's party last Saturday. We had a really good time and we get on really well, and I accidentally stole his phone, but we're going to a movie together tonight so I'll give it back then. I feel a bit like Alannah, actually; a whole date and we haven't even made out! We've barely held hands! But then I did a fortune-telling app on Facebook and it said, "You will receive the kiss you've been waiting for," except in Italian, so that's made me pretty cheerful.

Not that I believe in that stuff.

Though I totally do.

Anyway, I think that's all of interest to add here. Will update later with news of my date, and see whether my Facebook a[[ is right!

Kinda forgot about DW. Sorry. Will try harder in future.

Anyway, not much going on in my life. I'm working at a cafe, and at a law firm, and at a wedding venue, so at least I've got a bit of variety going on in my life.

I'm still working on my university application, but I've got a place in a Hall of Residence, which is a start.

Sunday is the beginning of November, and therefore the beginning of NaNoWriMo, in which I'll be participating. I have a strong idea for a story and I've already made a start (ok, technically that's cheating, but w/e), so let's see where that ends up. I don't expect I'll get a lot done on the first, because I'm going to a Halloween party on Sat (as Daisy Duke, if you care), and will probably be too hungover to write on Sunday. Oh well. Hopefully it'll be worth it.