Tuesday, 3 November 2009

Three's a crowd? No way!

On the third day of our noveling marathon, I am still on the roll. Finishing at an official total of 20,216 words today, I am feeling ecstatic. I can't actually believe I've written 20K words of a novel in as little as 3 days. It doesn't sound like something that is physically possible - and additionally to this, I have procrastinated, revised a little bit of chemistry and had a 5-and-a-half hour shift of work.

Wow.

But don't let that number get you carried away. It's essential to realise that I HAVE done my extensive planning, and all I'm doing right now is going along with the plan. It's easy, especially since I've always had a fondness of explaining myself and going on tangents and elaborating and so on and so forth. It's easy for me to write extensive amounts of words.

Then again, I don't know how I'll do once school steps into the picture, again. Today seemed a good indication that I CAN balance intensive noveling and something else (which was work) fairly well, but then again, work ain't school - especially since I work at a movie theatre and it is physically impossible to take work home. And school, as I see it, is all about trying to less subtly infiltrate our lives and take over all our free time with that beastly phenomenon called HOMEWORK.

However, I have my exams coming up, so it seems logical that they wouldn't do that too much, trying to keep us revising instead of trying to keep us cramming new knowledge into our heads.

But, well, let's see how it goes!

On another note, I'm moved by how many people have been expressing interest in my rapidly expanding baby (haha, nice mental image there). Two co-workers of mine, another friend of mine... all these people. ,__,' It really makes me feel loved.

Okay, off to try to cram maybe one last thousand of words before sleeping!

1 comments:

  1. How the hell did your write so much already?!

    i swear i've got only 4000 words, and it's WAY LESS THAN THE DAILY GOAL.

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    /must not hyperventilate.

    anyhoo.

    good luck!

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