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[eternalflame4]

I've decided to take part in NaNoWriMo. I think it'll help with the stress. I plan on buying one of those books to help me get started too. My english teacher would be so proud! Is anyone else doing it? (hence my new theme)

x-posted to lambda_iota_nu

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[subienkow.livejournal.com]

(insert perplexed image here)

NaNoWriMo? Pardon my ignorance, but what is that?

I checked out your page to try and figure it out from "your new theme", but that didn't help much, other than the quill & ink.

Aside from that, "Hi!"

[eternalflame4.livejournal.com]

Until a year ago I didn't know what it was either..so you're not ignorant at all. It is National Novel Writing Month, where for the month of November you have 30 days to write 50,000 words, a novel. I'm trying it out and I think I've gotten myself a theme which is a mix of my real life, and how I wish my life would turn out to be, and things that I wished would have happened.

[subienkow.livejournal.com]

ooooohhhhh.

My writing skills are a bit off-key, although, I do enjoy reading what others have to say. I'm kind of partial to reference books, mythology, ancient civilizations, legends, stuff like that.

I don't mind putting my thoughts down here, kind of like it actually.

I hope your "book" comes out alright, as I'm sure it will. If you've chosen "yourself" as a topic, here's your chance to live vicariously! Write about that trip to Aruba you haven't taken yet (or the real one, if you've been there).

So, I bid you good-night, and good luck on your dramatization of your life, the life you hope for, and the way things might have been.

A wise old fart once said, "You can say what if until your blue in the face, but you will never change what was." Sorry, I just like that. That and "You can wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which one fills up first!"

Right now, I'm giggling like a little kid because I said "crap". Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to squash your parts of how you wish things would have happened. We all wish that stuff. I just never get the chance to really use those quotes!

Good luck, and maybe (at your discretion) we'll get to read the magnum opus!

[subienkow.livejournal.com]

Side note.

As I re-read the reply, I noticed the word "vicariously". I know I don't have to tell you what it means, but think about the etymology of it. Does it mean you're living like a vicar?