NaNoWriMo: Week Two Review!

Hello!
So, the second week of this crazy month is coming to a close. It's felt like an extremely long week that just kept stretching on and on. Last Saturday, I went to the football championships with my school band, Wednesday my parents took my family on a day trip to a nearby city which was pretty cool.
Writing wise, it's been getting better. During the first week of NaNoWriMo, I literally hated every single thing about my story. Writing it was something that I had to force myself to do, and the only reason that I kept going was because this is my fifth year of doing NaNo and I don't want to break my winning streak. This week has definitely improved.
While I'm still struggling to get excited about writing this story, there are definitely scenes that I've written that are pretty fun. My characters are cooperating for the most part, and the slowness of the beginning has faded for the most part. I can totally work with this.
Despite my writing going a lot more smoothly, I'm just barely on track. So I'm going to cut this short and try my best to reach halfway a day early.
Until next time!
~Teri

NaNoWriMo: Week One Review

Okay, I totally get that it's only been six days and that the first week of November isn't technically over yet. I get it. But I'm going to be out of the house basically all of tomorrow, so I figured that it'd be better to write this today.

So... I suppose that I should start off by introducing the story that I've been writing and hope to finish by the end of the month (my goal is more to finish the story than to reach the goal of 50,000 words).

Boy of My Imagination
When in a nasty car crash, Penny fell into a coma. When she wakes, her life becomes a storm of doctor's appointments, visits from friends, family, and people who claim to be relatives that she's never seen before, and trying to find time to get a job so that she'll be able to afford to return to college the next year. 

To add onto things, every time that Penny leaves her house, she seems to run into a boy - someone she's never seen before, yet someone who looks so familiar. But when she points him out to her friend, Penny realizes that she's the only one who can see him. Afraid to be sent to a therapist by her parents for seeing hallucinations, Penny keeps him as her secret, but she's determined to figure out who he is and why nobody else can see him before she returns to college in the fall.

Before November, I had been pretty excited to start. I'd felt so ready to begin writing that I hadn't thought about whether this would actually be a good novel to write during NaNoWriMo. And I'm learning that it probably isn't the best.

See, the novel starts out a bit slow and picks up. Only, trying to dive into the slow parts and get through them has really slowed me down. Yes, I am ahead of schedule, but a lot of that is because I need to write more on the weekends so that I don't fall behind during the week. So I could still easily screw this month up. 

So my excitement for the novel is down, and it's been just... not a good week. I just need to get to a better scene and have the novel actually begin to pick up. Hopefully my regret for not choosing a different novel will fade away as I get deeper and deeper into the story.

-Teri

NaNoWriMo: Year 5

Hello!
There are going to be two people looking at this blog post (you know, if I ever get people to actually look at my blog posts): those who look at the title and know exactly what I'm talking about, and those who look at the title and wonder whether I slapped my hands on the keyboard or if 'NaNoWriMo' actually means something.
To the latter, NaNoWriMo stands for 'National Novel Writing Month'. It's this crazy, intense event every November where hundreds of thousands of writers all try to accomplish a fantastic and insane task: writing a novel (or 50,000 words of a novel) in 30 days. Sound crazy? It is.
It's also how I've spent the last four Novembers, and how I see myself spending the rest of my Novembers. It's stressful, intense, and a lot of hard work, but it's fun and in the end totally worth all of the blood, sweat, and tears.
For those I haven't scared off, the main website (13+) can be found here, and the website for those 17 and younger, the Young Writer's Program is basically the same thing as NaNo, but you can adjust your word count goal for the month to make it more realistic.
Okay, so... NaNoWriMo starts in a few days and I am currently a mix of excitement and terror. Even though this is my fifth year doing NaNo, there are going to be a lot of little struggles that I'm going to have to overcome this next month. The first of which is that I'm busy. I'm taking multiple AP courses this year, I have a couple band concerts at the start of the month, I'm working towards applying for colleges and making sure that I get all of my stuff in on time, and just a lot of little things that really eat up a lot of time next month.
Also, this month I'm writing a sort of YA/mystery type novel, which is something that I've never attempted before. So even though I'm excited to get started, I'm also terrified because I have no clue how this is going to go down. We'll have to wait until November and see.
For those trying to scramble and get everything together before the 1st, good luck! And to those of us who have prepared as much as we can, let's try not to lose it.
Oh, and for those who think we're crazy for trying... uh... have a nice Halloween?
I'll see you soon!
-Teri

Introduction!

Wow, it's weird to be starting over. Blank slate.
See, I used to run a different writing blog, but something somewhere messed up and long story short, I no longer have access to that account. The thought that my horrible, cringey writing quality from middle school and early high school being permanently stuck on the internet where I can't take it down is less than comforting, but I'm just going to do my best to move on and pretend it never existed.
Anyways, I'm Teri! I'm a senior in high school who doesn't know what exactly she's going to be doing with her life at this point. It'll probably have something to do with writing.
Writing is basically the reason I created this blog. The blog that follows more of my regular life will be here. This is dedicated to just talking about what projects I'm working on, any advice that I can offer, and just... writing stuff. Lots of writing stuff.
Now, I used to blog so I know from experience that I kind of suck at remaining consistent with uploading stuff. I'm hoping that I may be able to change, as enough time's passed and I'm a bit more responsible than I used to be, but I can't promise that this blog will be updated regularly.
We'll see how it goes.
I'll see you soon!
-Teri