Insane Random Ramblings

And just guess which things got left off of my list? Of all of the things to leave off, it was my writing and my spa day! I really need to get both done too. I have some ideas that I really need to write down. I don’t know why I keep procrastinating either. The longer I wait, the more diluted the ideas will be. I need to write them down while they’re fresh in my mind. I know this yet I still don’t do it. Hopefully I’ll get some writing done this week.

I don’t even know why I skipped my spa day. I really do need to exfoliate my skin and that seems like a nice relaxing way to spend the day. I’ll probably do it this weekend. Who knows, I have off on Thursday and I don’t have any plans. Maybe I’ll do it then.

NaNoWriMo that is. I just can’t do it this year. I had plans on trying to do half of it since I missed the beginning of the month. Then I went to class yesterday and my professor decided that we weren’t going to have a final exam. Yeah great news. Except….he decided to replace it with a 8-10 page research paper.

Considering the paper is 35% of my grade and my writing was just for fun, I guess you know which one is getting cut out. Maybe next year I’ll try again. At least I won’t be in school.

I haven’t been able to write at all. First I had a mid-term that was on the 3rd. I figured I would catch up during the rest of the week. Then I found out my Mom was sick and I couldn’t concentrate to write at all. Today is the 11th and I haven’t written a thing.

I could wait until next year and try again but I think I have a solution for me. November is 30 days long. I’ll wait until the 15th and start writing for the last 15 days of the month. Instead of the 50,000 word goal, I’ll strive for 25,000 words. I like to talk and I’m long-winded so the word count shouldn’t be a problem. But I often write 2 or more stories at one time so focusing on just one story might be a little hard for me.

I plan on trying it and seeing where I end up.

I’ve started my short stories again. It’s really hard to get started again though. I have all of these ideas but they come faster than I can write or type them down. I’m especially frustrated because I lost a ton of work that I had already done. When my computer crashed, I lost 3 partially completed stories. 1 was 1/4 of the way done and the other 2 were coming along nicely.

You can best believe I’m saving everything on my flash drive this time.

Are you participating in NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) or NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)? I’m wasn’t formally participating in either one. I say formally because I try to update this blog daily anyway.

So of course I decide to write every day in November and I messed up yesterday. I posted late at night close to midnight. However the time stamp is off on my blog so it posted for the 15th instead of the 14th.

I didn’t think November would be a good month for me for this challenge anyway. With  2 U.S. holidays I figured I would miss some days anyway. Oh well, back to the drawing board.