November 2, 2011

• Not November!

  Hey luvies, 

  It is after 4am and I'm a little giddy right now. I really should be sleeping, but my days and nights are so switched around that I'm generally getting up around 4 or 5pm every day. I hate it, but still can't seem to get back to normal. I can't do with less than 6 hours sleep or I literally start being ill, and taking sleeping pills just isn't working either... any suggestions? 

  I just found out the other day that both of my parents are ill and have been given a week off work. They are completely blaming me for making them sick, but considering they don't have the same bug as I do/did I don't think I'm directly to blame. Indirectly maybe since my coughing kept them up at night and a lack of sleep can lead to a compromised immune system or whatever. My dad has bronchitis and mum's doctor didn't really say what she had other than "a cough" (no friggen kidding genius!). 

  You may recall that a couple months ago I was doing some editing for an old high school classmate. She finally finished her revisions and gave them back to me. Unfortunately I couldn't do anything until I was well enough to actually get out of bed and could concentrate so now I have less than two weeks to edit over 80,000 words. If it normally takes me about 20-30 minutes per page and there are around 550 words per page that means I can edit approximately 1100 words per hour, so it will take me at least 75 hours to edit the manuscript. And if I do five hours a day -which is killer- that is still more than two weeks! 

  Oh and to be even more masochistic, I have decided to take part in NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month. The goal for this word-wide writing frenzy is to write 50,000 words in 30 days, essentially the minimum requirement for a novel. I had a story idea for a Chick Lit novel last month that I have a vague "outline" for that I might work with, yet I also really love my ya fantasy series that I've sporadically been working on. I have other works-in-progress saved on my computer, but unless I go back to look at them I don't even recall what they are!  

  Yep, that is how bad I am for starting and not finishing any of my ideas. Well, I did finish one script while I was in university and have been occasionally tweaking it ever since, but I really should just see if I can find an agent willing to peddle it to theatres or movie companies. I am hoping that this month I will actually finish a manuscript as I've always dreamed of being an author... That's right! If I get this sucker done I'm going to see if anyone is willing to publish it, so I can use all the encouragement I can get. 

   

  SUMR

   

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