Written Whispers

First things first: I just hit the 42,000 word mark for the NaNoWriMo!

This year is nothing like last year. Last year while I wrote pretty darn fast it was still a gradual assent and I was only done like a day or two ahead of time, right now I only have about 8,000 left to go. I’m thinking it’s because my sister is doing it with me. Having another writer in the house is a great way to help focus and bring out my more competitive nature. :D

I’ve been thinking, since my story will be far from over by the time I hit to 50K mark that I’m going to aim for 100K instead. After all, if I can do this much in such a short time who’s to say what else I can’t accomplish if I set my mind to it?

On the first I went up to Borders and to my everlasting excitement I was able to meet a handful of writers from the area! :D It was wonderful, given, we didn’t get a whole lot of writing done but together with did do a lot of brainstorming and I found a few more recruits for my just after January writer’s group.

Today I went back up to Borders, got significantly more writing done than the first time I went and Kei and I got to spend some more time with another fellow writer. It’s so wonderful. I almost feel like I’m going to a job I love and these are coworkers that I get along with.

On other, non-writing related stuff- yeah, I was surprised to discover that there are non-writing related things in the world too- I voted for the first time ever the other day. The lines were short but it was a pretty nerve racking experience just because I didn’t know if I needed my state ID (which is missing) and because since I registered to vote I’ve had my name changed and then there was the whole fact of the matter that I’d never been in the building before- that always makes me a bit more than a bit twitching but in the end it all went over very smoothly. The ballot was easier to understand than I thought it would be and my Hunny came to vote too!

For me the best part of the experience wasn’t about helping to pick the next leader of my country but about doing that for the very first time with my Husband. It felt… kind of special for lack of better words. On the other hand of things though if someone were to walk up and ask me if I felt I’d made a difference I would have said no. It’s not that I’m one of those people who thinks my vote doesn’t matter or that it’ll just get canceled out by another person’s vote (that’s stupid) because even I know that the desert is made up of all those tiny grains of sand but if I really look deep down inside myself and feel what I feel- for some reason I just don’t feel like I… I don’t feel like- I feel I should considering my knowledge on the electoral system but this is all another one of those topics that I don’t want to delve too far into.

I consider myself fairly educated when it comes to U.S. politics but when it comes to discussing them… I don’t. It’s something I keep inside my head, only expressing my opinion on the matter when I know it will do some good otherwise it feels like one bit constant complaint. Anytime I hear people talk about it, even the good stuff, it still feels that way so I’m just going to stop right now.

I wonder how many words are in this entire blog.
I wonder how many pages.
I wonder how many people have come here and read something that they just had to share with another.
I wonder how many people have come here and read something that made a difference in their lives.

Just some curious thoughts.

Ohh, other stuff! I have ‘another’ new blog created for procrastination and nothing more that is fondly dedicated to the characters of my current story “Kat’s Tail”. You can find it at http://written-whispers.com/katstailblog/ . It’s basically a place where have the characters do the writing for me. They sound a bit more than a bit spazzier than they are in my story but it’s an exercise into exploring my characters and freeing myself from certain constraints so I’m not too worried. If some of you could stop by some time and let me know what you think I would absolutely love it. I’ll install an OpenID thingy to the comment thingy soon.

I’m tired. Not tired from crap going on in my life for once though that is always happening (a fact I’m thankful for no matter how much of it isn’t all that great) but tired from expressing. I’m contently tired.

To reword it, I’ve been pouring myself into my creative talents so fully lately that when I finally stop at the end of the night I sleep well. When I lie down my brain doesn’t keep running in circles but instead turns once or twice like a cat and then settles right on down. Last night I didn’t write much, I was procrastinating and it was the first night since the first that I didn’t do more than 2K. When I laid down to go to sleep my brain kept me awake the entire night and I think I might have only gotten three hour or so of sleep so tonight I’m going to pour a tiny bit of my soul into my work in hopes that this pattern will prove true and I can just fall into unconsciousness as soon as my head hits the pillow.

I’d like to say thank you to someone real quick but I want them to notice so I think I’ll put it in another, much shorter, post.

So tired… maybe a nap is in order before I do any more work today. Hmm. We’ll see.

I found this awesome song last night. I think I might have to share it with you.

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