The Spete Blog

Heeeyoooo it's Friday! And a three day weekend. Bring on the excellence. Also, for some reason... I love this?!  exactly the way I drink milk. Always. Umm let's see. In other news, my cat is psycho? Nothing new there. Uhhhhh oh yes. NaNoBlog. The novel is going... not bad... so far. The plot is getting going, and I'm so sorry but as I'm typing this I can still see the gif up there and I really can't concentrate on anything because serious wtf is happening in that infomercial hahahaha. ANYWAY. My main character has met her Mentor, her First Love Interest, and is soon going to be dragged away from everything she knows into a strange and dangerous world *cue dramatic music?* Ummmmmmmmmmm I decided last night that I love Justin Long and that the main character's Second Love Interest should basically just look like Justin Long. True story, tried looking for Justin Long pictures on Google and all i got were JBiebs. Not what I wanted. ...

My cat and I could not handle the end of Daylight Savings this morning. (not a surprise). He woke up at 4am hungry for breakfast, I woke up either at 7 or 8 and I'm still not sure which one it was. In other news, we didn't get snow last night! Sure, it's November, this is Maine, and if it's anything like Minnesota in the early winter, it's going to snow in November. I should probably find my winter clothes...? Yeah, that's a good plan. Oh yes, NaNoWriMo! I'm slugging along, not doing too badly considering that I've been busy the first two days of the month. I really can't wait until the plot gets going but I'm close to that point! So close! so close. The grating protagonist is paragraphs away from meeting her Wise Mentor, who is named Phoebe. They don't like each other. Who am I kidding, Sin doesn't like anyone. Phoebe is still stuck in that post-college "wtf am I doing with my life" phase, and she meets Sin in...

Yo. Back again. So, question. Why do I only update my blog when I'm doing NaNoWriMo activities? ...actually, the answer just came to me. Because I'm procrastinating. If I can pretend that talking about writing will actually make me write more... then yes, yes I will talk about writing. So! Anyway! NaNo 2013 I spent October doing this NaNoWriMo "Warm-Up" where I "wrote" (why is wrote in quotes? I did actually write) 25,000 words. I didn't limit myself to one project/story and that helped make those 25,000 words happen. Around... the 24th?... I remembered that the ONE THING (perhaps the only thing) I learned from NaNo last year was that I should plan my novel before starting it. This started a panicked frenzy (I almost wrote prantic frenckzy? Makes sense) of me trying to come up with a plot and characters and all that good stuff. I was on the fence for a while about writing the YA Dystopia of my dreams or a Fractured Fairytale. Then, I remembe...