First Month Completed!

And so I somehow was able to make approximately the last 10,000 words appear on the final two days of writing. I'm really proud with myself that I actually completed this goal and doing this once honestly gives me a lot of faith that I can make it again next month. Just to remind everyone, I also made my goal this month with about one week taken out but with a little bit of a head start on the story (I didn't start this month at 0 words because I started writing the book at the beginning, so I thought they counted. That and I wanted to be fair to myself in giving myself a month, head start for the words.). And if anyone is really curious, the words that put me at 40,000 was "on." I know, I thought it was going to be more exciting too but sometimes these things happen.

As far as the next chapter goes, the last time I checked it was already 7,000 words. Honestly I'm really surprised because I didn't think I had written that much already. I have approximately 3 more things I want to write into the chapter (and on average a "thing" ranges from 1,000 to 3,000 more words) so for my faithful friends who are hopefully enjoying the story, this chapter is going to take a little longer. Also, just for their information, I kind of want a little bit of a break for now so that I can recoup my thoughts. Writing 10,000 words in two nights is wonderful for making headway into the story, but it doesn't give me a whole lot of time to think about all the things I want to say. Sure I get some as I go along, but the stuff people will remember this story for always seems to come when I've had time to think a little bit ahead.

Also, I'm going to get a poll for my blog to figure out what else I'd like to add. When that will happen, to be announced at a later time. Trying to come up with a wonderful first question first.

Words for the Month: 40,043 / 40,000
Total Words: 40,043
Months Successful: 1 / 1

Final Day of the Month

Today is the final day I can write for my book, and in less than twenty four hours I will have finished the first month with my book. I'm not done yet with this month though, I still have a few thousand words to write before I can call it achieved. I thought it just needed to be said that I am almost there and I've almost achieved something for the first time.

A little bit more than 3,000 words to go and I have a lot of stuff I want to write about. This should be easy.

I'll post again when I finish...

Words for the Month: 36,829 / 40,000
Total Words: 36,829

The Great Disappearance

Oh my god, I just completely let this blog slip for a few days. If anyone wants to know why, I would start by blaming Laurel. Anyway, whenever I last left this blog I had this big plan to just write a whole bunch and get all caught up and make everyone happy. That never happened. Instead, I went off and apartment shopped with my friend (of which we found absolutely no apartments that were under $5 per month so I could afford it. Screw you world...) and then while I was up in Boulder I decided to go see a few of my friends (like Laurel). We saw a movie and ate dinner and hung out and it definitely was [underline]NOT[/underline] a date. Seriously, we had another friend with us the whole time who just made the whole situation weirder. And yes, I know that the underline did not work there, but I felt it was important to make that note very much apparent.

Then I went and stayed at a different town in a different house all by my awesome self. It was wonderfully quiet and I probably could have written thousands of words there. Except there were a few problems. For one, I had a very large television in front of me and it was very distracting with all the 1080p high definition glory. Oh yes, I very much played video games on it and was very happy because of all the things I could see. Also, there was internet, so I played my very new video game which is for my computer.

All and all, I was distracted for the last two days or so and was completely unable to write anything. I was so distracted that for a while there my pleasure gland inside my brain said "no, don't do work, that's lame! Instead, play video games and watch awesome television and make cupcakes" (no cupcakes were ever made). It was wonderful and relaxing. It also put me VERY VERY far behind schedule. So new plan, get the F%@$caught up to date and complete this on time before I have to make weird rules and exceptions that no one will like except me. And for once I don't want to do that! SO I'm not done writing tonight (especially since its like four AM almost and tomorrow is free bagel friday. Oh I love you bagels) and I am going to try and kick out AT LEAST another 2,000 words. And by the way, that's after you see the massive amount of words I magically was able to perform tonight. Something happened, I don't know what, and it triggered a lot of writing. For instance, this ridiculously long update where I tell you absolutely nothing of interest. Hmm... maybe I'll do that now.

More plot developments, more hints and hints of hints, more stuff happens, and *gasp* someone does die... sorta... Also, I magically finished chapter 3 (unedited) and am now moving onto chapter 4 (holy cr@p my hands are failing me as I try to type all of this). Wish me good luck, though I already have some awesome and amazing stuff planned. Seriously, was going to bed last night (which was two nights ago now) when I suddenly came up with a BRILLIANT idea for what to do. Wrote it down that's how good the idea was, fans will be amazed for generations.

Also, look at how awesome the number of words I stopped at is...

Words for the Month: 34,443 / 40,000
Total Words: 34,443
Total Pages: 47

Weird Dream

So today I woke up at eight in the morning and tried typing some more for my story, but found that rather difficult with my little brother near. He won't stop talking to me. I decided that the best course of action was to go back to sleep.

I did, and I had possibly one of the strangest dreams to date. It started off simple enough, because I was in Illinois helping my parents take care of my grandparents. It was for the most part cleaning stuff and making sure their house was secure. Well, my Dad was there and he dropped the key to their house on the ground, so I picked it up and called him to tell him he did that. He told me to keep it and that it was no problem, which I thought was weird.

Then my mom finally arrived in Illinois, oddly a day after my Dad had been there. She brought a cat with her to my Grandparent's house and we were all talking while the cat played at our feet. My Mom saw I had been working on keeping the house clean and also locked-up tight, especially after I told her what my Dad had did, so apparently the Cat was my reward. That and I would have to wash all of my Grandma's cloths, which is something I never want to do.

Instead I ended up finding out a piece of information that my older brother was at a hearing by the Colorado State Courts today to solve some great mystery. Being the awesome brother that I am I did not want to go, but my Mom said it would probably be for the better if I went. So I did.

The place where the hearing was being held was a few stories up from the ground, all standing on massive steel poles. I took an elevator in the middle of the poles up to the top of the stadium thing and started wandering down rows of seats to try and find my brother. I spotted him sitting in the very first row (which was scary because we were several stories up from the ground) and he was just looking out. Now, as a reminder there were hundreds of people filling the seats behind him. So I started to wander through the crowd trying to find a seat for myself when I suddenly spotted several friends from several different parts of my life. Just to throw some names out there: Wyatt, Vicki, Kara, and then there were two other people but I can't remember who they were.

So I went over to Wyatt, Vicki, and Kara and they all had these blow-up dolls that looked slightly different from one another, but also looked very similar to me. So I started whispering to Wyatt and Vicki and they showed me a CD case big package for the blow-up doll that said Average Angry Stand-up Comedian. I laughed a little at this.

Then something happened that made me want to get closer to my brother so I could talk to him. I ended up flipping over the seats and snapping the head off of Kara's blow-up me and went down to one of the other people I know. Kara, wanting revenge decided she also wanted to get closer. Well I started to talk to this friend about Kara and my brother's relationship and then how Kara was married. It was also very weird. Then a person sitting behind us yelled at us for making a racket. Also, at the same time Vicki had plugged in an old vinyl record (plugged in by putting it on a record player attached to the seat... don't ask cause I don't know) and she had it on speaker by accident. So that started play loudly and everyone was yelling at her to turn it off, so she gave me this look that said OH MY GOD and at the same time she plugged in her headphones and switched it to personal.

Then the jury decided without a doubt that by proof of my older brother's responses that I had been telling the truth and they decided we were both A.D.D. kids that should not be contacted by the courts. So now we're on the do-not-call list for courts because we were listed for Attention Deficit Disorder.

Then I woke up. Weird dream, right?

Anyway, life gets more complicated and I'm trying to catch-up still. Hopefully I do catch-up because I feel so close to actually succeeding. Maybe start making a checklist of months I've done successfully after this?

Words for the Month: 28,580 / 40,000
Total Words: 28,580

Damn

Well, that did not go as planned. On the good side, I'm no more behind schedule than I was, I was able to break past the part that was giving me trouble, and I now have some more direction to where I'm writing. On the bad side, I'm no further caught up then I should be, I am tired as hell and lost half my day to sleep, and there is too much noise around me to write right now.

So was last night successful? Maybe, I'm not sure how to look at success right now. What I do know is I have  a lot of stuff on my mind of what I want to write which means the next few pages will go pretty quick. That should also make my friend happy because they get it a little faster too.

Words for the Month: 26,353 / 40,000
Total Words: 26,353

Gotta play catch-up

I'm having something between writers block right now and just a complete unattached feeling with the story. Its not help and I really don't need it especially in these final days of the month. But I'm going to try and work through it to play some catch-up with my story, hopefully hitting the next mark soon. To get caught up with my schedule I will need to write 4,000 words minimum. Lets see if I can pull it off.

Words for the Month: 24,267 / 40,000
Total Words: 24,267

And the Characters Continue

I'll admit that today I was extremely bugged and tired and as a result, not much writing was done. I'm hoping that a newly quieted house will help with really kicking out some more words, but no promises there. Life is strange and mysterious.

Speaking of words, I just realized that I'm coming up to the most words I've ever written in a single story. Originally this record was set by a story I started writing back some time ago, the title of that story being R.E.D. I have friends (of which all are reading this story and mad that I am taking so long...) that read what I wrote for that story and they are upset that I stopped writing that story a while ago. I do plan on some day going back to R.E.D. because it is such an interesting idea, one told with colors and images, but at the current time I am strictly sticking to my current story. Maybe when I finish this one I will revisit R.E.D. and get that re-written into a masterpiece of its own.

So I guess what I'm trying to say with all this blabber that it is really interesting to see myself actually coming up to and passing the farthest point I've ever made in a story. It's not a goal and I don't consider it an accomplishment, but it is something that kind of helps motivate me to write more. In a way, setting the record as far as possible will make writing even more fun.

Back to the current story, I am happy to announce that another interesting character has been added to the mix. Now I don't want people to think I'm going to go crazy with characters (not that right now it matters, I think I have a total of 5, maybe 6 available) and for the most part the other characters will drop off for some time to reappear. However, this character might stick around for a while. I'm not sure yet, but his personality really does offer a lot for me to play with. We'll see, the individual is now on the table. To the people who are currently reading my novel, I wonder how they will react to this guy. He is of course as unique as any of the individuals I create.

Words for the Month: 24,204 / 40,000
Total Words: 24,204
Total Pages: 33 (single spaced)

Ah Yes, the Fun of the English Language

Just to be clear on my retarded sleep schedule, I woke up at three in the afternoon today. I have slept every night on time, yet for some reason my special internal clock said that last night I should not go to sleep until after five thirty in the morning. So I didn't. Then I do get some rest and BAM, out forever.

I woke up tired (because sleeping for long periods of time, like lets say ten hours, tends to do that) and wanted to just take a nap. Instead I forced myself to get up and wonder where the hell everyone in my house was. I managed to eat something, then went back to my room and worked on email or something. About four or four thirty I found my brother and called my parents. Made dinner. Fun. Then time passed with me playing my new arcade game. (I recommend it, it's called Limbo and only available on the Xbox. Though it was short, which disappointed me.)

Well, got into the spirit of writing a little bit later (after everyone was asleep and I could focus better) and decided to write because my friend had just gotten online. She was reading the second chapter, unedited and barely finished, and I was started the next chapter. She gave me some advice, to which I gladly too most of it and made some quick changes, and then we talked about the book for a bit. That's what friends are for.

So where am I going with this ridiculous story. Well look at the time now, four in the morning and I am not tired at all. Curse you insomnia for giving me the ability to live in a 28 hour day instead of our 24.

Okay, back to what this completely strange, I-don't-know where it's going sort of blog is going. I'm going along, writing my book, when I suddenly realized that the English Language sucks. Who the hell made words that sound like other words but are spelled differently. Seriously, that stuff pisses me off and we as people should have made them different long ago. Nothing is equal, not even people, so why are words so damn hard to spell. And now I lost sight of what this blog is about.

Lets just talk about the story since I'm going off onto to many random tangents. The plot thickens, people do stuff, things happen, characters are awesome, more characters are weird, even more are evil, and then less actually turn out to be evil. There you go, update for today completed. Now I'm gonna just go back to writing because that world makes sense to me right now, even if my writing doesn't.

Words for the Month: 23,176 / 40,000
Total Words: 23,176

Well that didn't go as planned

So I was trying to get my second chapter all finished up for my friend on time, except that things kept getting in the way. For instance, I told her I would have the second chapter (unedited) ready for her by the time she was done with school today. Well, it turns out that kinda got washed out when I decided to go to bed last night. Then I was woken up this morning to do some work gardening, which included building the garden and the garden's wall, for my parents. This took forever. Long story short, I was more tired then ever and my friend did not get the chapter.

So now, feeling a little guilty, I'm up into the early morning hours just to finish up the unedited version of the second chapter. For the record, that's done. Except then I looked at my word count. 20,000 words approximately and 10 days. Perfect. At two thousand words averaged in the last few days, I just have to continue like this and I'll make my goal. hurray, I made a goal.

All I can say is I hope my friend is happy, cause I'm still tired after all that manual labor. I hate gardens.

Words for the Month: 21,391 / 40,000
Total Words: 21,391

More Problems

So besides having my little brother here to talk to me and annoy me as I try and type stuff, I have had a pretty distracted and problematic day. (Proof - my brother just called me an asshole.) Anyway, went and saw Inception today. I actually recommend the film not because it is too hard to figure out, but rather because I enjoyed thinking about it afterward. I don't want to give it away, but I'd want to see it again.

Anyway, the problematic part came in when I talked to my Dad. He's super pissed off at me for no reason (for once I actually am innocent) and I keep telling him he's going crazy and he keeps getting madder and madder at me. So he yells at me, I get upset, and then I don't feel like writing because I'm not in the mood. I haven't done anything all day now. Gotta love family, right?

Hopefully tomorrow will be better and more writing will prosper. Also, I feel bad because I promised my friend that I would have the second chapter done by now so she would stop annoying me, but that's not happening so fast. Reason why, because I discovered that last night (or would that be two nights ago now?) was the last night for my beta video game. Now I don't have that game to play with my friend for a week (which might actually help with the production of more chapter 2 stuffz). Anyway, gonna get back to work and slap my friend via instant messages.

Words for the Month: 18,863 / 40,000
Total Words: 18,863

Oh, just remembered that I also have more books to read, so that might be my new distraction for the next week. Hurray! More distractions to annoy people wanting to read what I write with!

Distractions

Short update: I'm too easily distracted. That's about all I have to say.

Okay, if you are really curious then I guess I can say that I've been playing a game online with one of my old roommates. It's just the beta for the game, but the real thing comes out in less than ten days. I'm trying not to play it too much though, cause I do take this task seriously.

Yet somehow I managed to not writing as much as I had intended last night...

Words for the Month: 16,648 / 40,000
Total Words: 16,648

Characters

Whenever I make a character that I find interesting, just the way they talk or how they act, I get really excited. I become even more so when I am the one that came up with that person. They usually feel a little bit more real, their reactions a little more unpredictable, and it makes for a fun read. Well, just finished making a character like that.

I think what I like about making characters that I tend to find interesting, not exactly the lovable type always though, is that my friends who do read these stories end up liking them as well. Its just a mysterious flavor I guess, but I seem to be good at making people that seem real, yet different from one another.

I'm trying not to give anything away with this, and from what I'm saying I've probably created more confusion than anything. Perfectly. I'd rather have an audience confused about what the hell I'm talking about then an audience who can see and understand where I might be going with this. It gives me a little bit more room to work, I personally think.

As far as writing goes, I've been feeling great these last couple of days and sort of experimenting my way through the words. There is a lot of description in trying to describe stuff (no really?) and so the details come as if out of nowhere. I guess the harshest part about describing a place I'm not sure the character will revisit is putting all this effort into making it feel real only to have in vanish into the fog of the past. On the other hand, making it feel real takes words, gets the reader more interested in the strange things I personally pick to describe, and makes it easier for a movie to be made based on the original idea I had in my head. Of course, I honestly don't plan on movies being made from my stuff (because in all cases I tend to stop writing after a week. Its a surprise I've made it more than 10 days now. I have a post a day and this is my eleventh post I think?)

Also, at the rate I am going I will be able to accomplish my monthly goal and maybe then some. I've been writing more words a day then I need to (and I keep planning on doing this, its a safety cushion). 

Words for the Month: 15,515 / 40,000
Total Words: 15,515

Much to do about interesting people.

I already like the character I made, and I feel so sad that I can't tell anyone about this person. Interesting background too, or at least there will be a well written one coming up ;)

The story seemed to be going easier now that I've found my creativity again. Seemed to have misplaced it in a shoebox under the bed, the damnedest of places. So I've been writing fairly quickly now and I have not been going back to revise. I suspect once I lose my creativity again I will return back a few pages and start re-reading to add the crucial details that make the story sound right. Not much more to say about that.

Words for the Month: 13,504 / 40,000
Total Words: 13,504

Tired

Besides staying up late for insomnia, I've also been sleeping through the day. This leaves me, of course, tired all day long when I actually do stay awake. In some ways this sort of sleep pattern is great, because I hate hot and that's what my room is. So I sleep through it.

Well today I couldn't do that, because I had to go to the bank to get my finances set up for the next period of time. That took forever, which I think should be every banks slogan now. "We'll make sure its right by taking the whole day to do something." Anyway, then I had to go out and find some flip-flops because mine exploded on me a few days ago. Yes, exploded is the correct term to use there.

Well now I'm more than tired, I haven't written what I need to for today or yesterday, and I am falling behind again. This is just so natural of me. On the bright side, I actually have very well planned what I want to write and I know where the story is going. So hopefully the next batch of words will come out fast and easier than when I am in a blocked zone.

Words for the Month: 11,047 / 40,000
Total Words: 11,047

Small Goal Met

So I set a goal that yesterday I would at least get to 10,000 words for today. After re-reading the last few pages I wrote and then writing some more new material, I was able to pass this small point. Unfortunately I am still far behind on getting this story done on time and I now realize that this will not be the first or last of the many catch-up days I will be using to get it done on time.

On another note, I finished the first chapter's rough first writing. Most of it has also received much of the needed editing I had originally wanted for it. I am also happy to say that after re-reading the entire thing from start to most of the way through (I still had not written part of it), it reads very smoothly and gives the reader a sense of flow. The details are all in place and they really help the reader understand the situation, but more importantly I think there are enough to really bring people into wanting to read more of the book. That is usually the goal of the first chapter, so success (hopefully)!

Now moving on to the second chapter. Hopefully I can kick out another ton today, though insomnia is making writing very... interesting...

Words for the Month: 10,061 / 40,000
Total Words: 10,061

Playing Catch-up

So Today I'm probably going to be playing a little bit of catch-up. Although yesterday's work on my story was for a very long period of time and we were able to add some words to the count, it didn't really meet the daily required goal to getting this done before the end of the month.

What we did manage to make yesterday was a much more smooth story with a nicely flow. What a lot of people seem to overlook is how flow in story matters. On the one hand you have the too few details sort of person, which makes for a fast pace book. This is wonderful if you write kid's books, because the pace is at the speed for them to keep interest. The other way is to have too many details, which makes the book drag on in tedious steps. This is wonderful for catching a nerd audience. However, since I'm not either a nerd or a child I need to hit the third option, which of course is to his a pace that is right in between.

And don't get me wrong, this is a very important matter. It was basically what we were working on yesterday, making sure there weren't too many details bunched together or too few details spread far apart. In this manner we were able to add words, but it also means in some instances we got rid of words. And more importantly, I had to run it by my friend while doing so to make sure that I wasn't going over something or if I was a little unsure of how to solve things she would figure it out. Also, we fixed the double word problem (the same word appearing twice in three or less sentences). The thesaurus just doesn't compare to a human.

Anyway, today will be a major writing day, hopefully to get me to 10,000 words at least.

Words for the Month: 7,608 / 40,000
Total Words: 7,608

Re-reading

So I'm sitting down with my friend/wife/husband's wife/food giver and we're going over what I've written so far, working out a few kinks and getting rid of some awful word choices. Well, the wonderful thing about doing this is we are both rolling on the floor with laughter as we read some of the more ridiculous thing I write.

But one portion that I still proclaim is ever so important is that I keep wanting to use a word that is not in the dictionary, or at least not in the manner I want to use it. To wasp, a new verb I say. It doesn't mean anything to deal with the damn animal we all hate, but rather is more an associate of the very wimpy counter-parts of to wisp or to whisk. Yet every time I go to use the word, she laughs at me and the computer thinks I'm a retard.

So just let it be known, I'm demanding that to wasp (or as I use it in my writing, wasping) be added to the damn dictionary. Here are my reasons:

1. it adds yet another way to briskly say the wind rustled the trees
2. it sounds cool, yet scary because of the animal regularly associated with word
3. It makes her want to read my blog because I go off on random tangents on wasping

As you can see, these reason alone provide without a doubt that the word should fucking exist in the dictionary. Seriously, if I can use it in common conversation, it should be something I can use in Microsoft Word without the program getting upset with me.

On another note, the writing goes well. We are currently working on making stuff work, which as you can tell from this sentence, it probably needs a lot of work. I just said work twice, that pisses me off. Six hours of sleep for the record.

Words for the Month: 7,379 / 40,000
Total Words: 7,379

No Post?

To explain the lack of a post yesterday, I just want to remind everyone that I was over at my friends for some delicious spaghetti. So I did not have time to post anything because I was on a fairly busy schedule right around the time I felt like I was going to post. That and I usually make a post after I finish writing for the night, which never came because I rolled over dead from spaghetti absorption. And yes, that is possible

As far as my story goes, I feel like I'm finally getting to the end of the first chapter (hurray) and so I want to just go back and re-read everything to make sure that the details all make sense or are in place. I might do that with one of my friends listening today to get her opinion on it as well, but I'm not sure yet.

Words for the Month: 7,088 / 40,000
Total Words: 7,088

Going to Spaghetti Sunday

So back while I was in school at Boulder, a group of friends and I started holding a bi-weekly meal meeting where we would go to my friend's how on Sunday and have spaghetti. It's not hard to understand why we would do such a thing, spaghetti is cheap and it was a convenient way for us all to get together and talk about random stuff going on in our lives. Well, since summer has started we've all been busy with our own things and the whole idea of the every other week spaghetti Sunday party has kind of been put on the line. That is, until tomorrow when we've planned to all meet again and have some more food and talk. Just kind of saying I'm just a little excited to finally have someone who's not my family to talk to in person again.

On concerning my writing I've got this to say, I was up late again last night (insomnia I suspect) when my friend started messaging me back. I asked her to be one of the verifiers for when I finish a chapter and ship it off to her and she agreed. We'll probably be seeing her comments soon, seeing as I can already see the perfect place to end the first chapter and start the next one coming up. However, the importance of why I talking to her is relevant to this comes from the fact that I realized that even in getting bored of the original plot-line I will be following there will be other ways to keep me going. Through the use of the random characters the protagonist will meet throughout the story, I am able to tell not one story but rather several. So if I ever get bored telling his story, I can kind of venture off onto one of these other characters and give them more depth.

Which leads to the next thing, if I do something like that then this would be best as a series. I know I could develop several characters in a single novel, but I think it would be better if I could have more space to write out what happens to these people as well. And more importantly, it just gives me more room to continue out and make a cast that are very vivid and interesting in their own aspects. I kind of think of it like this, imagine a 3 hour long movie versus a trilogy. In the trilogy of films you feel like you get to see the different characters grow, but in a movie you really only have that one film to see what changes happen. In my opinion, books will work the same way: where one book feels like the character was meant to make that singular change, but having more than one expresses deeper thought to each person.

As always though, we'll have to see where each month leads me. Not done writing for today, but I just felt like I wanted to get all of that out...

Words for the Month: 5,688 / 40,000
Total Words: 5,688

Am I getting Sick?

I know that the previous night I had insomnia, something that most people would classify as a disease, but for me it has become something more of second nature. I don't mind having insomnia and it barely torments my mind to think I'm not sleeping at the right hours (not that I don't get a little upset after a while of no sleep). So I don't usually pay much attention to the fact that I stayed up one night and slept through the next or that I've slept a good portion of the sunlit part of my day away. So don't think of that as a disease for me, but rather just my natural body motions when I talk about it.

However, I have noticed that although my sleeping is random and all over the place, that I've been sleeping a lot more than I should be. Like yesterday, the last entry to my blog was made early in the morning. At about seven AM my time (mountain, for those that don't know), I found myself back in bed going to sleep finally. I did not wake up until dinner that night. I had the meal, then went straight back to sleep. This is abnormal for me and it has been happening a lot recently. So I'm starting to wonder if I might be getting a little sick.

On another note, I am not letting this stop me from continuing my goal for the month, for I am already continuing on writing and hopefully I will get a lot done today. I will of course give the update as to what I am at now, but I just thought I would post this out there that I might fall asleep and get less done then expected.

What I also wanted to say is that although no one has read what I've written yet, for I am still working hard on finishing up a first chapter that is sure to grab the reader and bring them into wanting to read more (as I am told I am good at this), I have noticed something very peculiar about this novel in comparison to my many other ones. You see, I'm only about seven pages into writing it (All of which are formatted to be approximately 600-900 words a page... not your average amount for those who don't know) and I've noticed that the story plays out through what the character finds and not completely through the character. This means that my readers should very much expect that the book will consist of mountains of letters, poems, notes, and other assortments of writings that the protagonist will use to continue his journey and the first chapter will very much make this clear to whomever reads. So hopefully these side-portions of the book will be as interesting as the main characters adventure, drawing the reader to want to put them together as well as they dive into other people's lives.

One last note, my family continues to show me just how annoying they can really be...

Words for this Month: 4,678 / 40,000
Total Words: 4,678

Insomnia, a great way to start

So every now and again I fall into a small problem where I have insomnia and instead of sleeping I spend the whole night awake. It leaves me tired, bored, and mostly hungry. However, over the past few years I've developed sort of my own way for dealing with the disease. Instead of going to bed and laying there for hours, nothing getting done, I have developed a strange love to actually just stay up and work on stuff. In the end I feel a little bit more accomplished and I don't worry as much the next day when I sleep during the hours I normally would be awake.

So this is how I spent my night, awake and doing the best I can to be productive in some sort of way. For the most part, this was a failed attempt though. I think I spent a total of two hours writing and in that time did not manage to harbor as many words as I would have preferred. Why? Because I can't seem to find the words to describe the event that I want to happen and so I end up sitting there half dead and half asleep.

Ironically, it is usually through a state of insomnia that I find my way through even the hardest portions of a story, finding the clue I needed to get past a point that was trivial and acting against me. This is also what happened tonight, for although early on I have already found a portion of the book where I did not know what to write to persuade my reader into understanding that stuff was happening. Well, the insomnia kicked in and I knew exactly how to write it. It seems to be a combination of tired and bored come together to form the idea of how I should proceed.

Yet there is a catch to me finding my way through the harder parts of the novel if I do it through insomnia. The number of errors that I tend to write while in this half dead state is increase by approximately 50% (and for the most part, it is probably higher... I'm being generous to myself). Well, to counter this entire factor that I am currently out of my mind, I'm going to have to re-read everything I've written just to insure that the error rate drops and more details to really describe but I initially meant by that part are there. Usually this has proven to include complete rephrasing.

So is insomnia (which honestly was not planned for the first night) really a good thing? It is hard to say. Catch you all after some Zs.

Words for the Month: 3,634 / 40,000
Total Words: 3,634

Getting Started

So I've decided that my life needs a goal, because up until now it has been unfulfillable to both myself and the world around me. I don't do much all day, I sit around watching television and reading books, and in turn I am slowly watching as my funds dwindle down to their last amounts in my back account. I hate me for who I am and I hate me for my unaccomplished dreams. That's why I started this blog, because I'm sick of feeling so alone and unaccomplished. I figured, I might as well write a blog that's about achievement and goals, things that seem impossible but are really just right within my reach. All I have to do is actually try for them and see what happens.

The challenge: To write 40,000 words a month in a single story and continue this each month until I have a full novel produced. And although I don't plan to post any of the story up on here, I might give it to friends to confirm that for sure I have completed this challenge every month. So at the bottom of each post I will put the total number of words I have accomplished so far in the month and you can watch as I strive to do a simple goal such as this. I mean, honestly it shouldn't be that hard considering I've got no job to hold me back. The rules are as such:

1. There are no roll over words, all words written in the previous month stay in that month. So even if I accomplish more than 40,000 words in that month, at the beginning of the next month I'm back to 0 on the counter.
2. Titles, Chapters, and any other headers still count towards the overall word goal since they do provide more space in the page. However, notes that I've written to remind me of things do not count.
3. All words added to the count have to be from the single story, no other stories get to be added to the word count and no other writings (including this blog) count either.
4. Friends may read the story, but only upon chapter finishes. They can then post comments at the end of some of these blogs to tell how many words were in the chapter as well as if I'm meeting the goal.

The point of this blog is not only to maybe create a product that people might want to read, something I can sell and make money off of to keep myself going, but also to finally complete something that I start. I'm sick of disappointing my friends with all the stories I start, all the ones that they want to keep reading but I shut them out as soon as I finish. I want to be able to show the world my hard work and all my thoughts as well, to show them my creativity in a way that hasn't been produced before. So here we go.

Words for the Month: 1,963 / 40,000
Total Words: 1,963