NaNoWriMo 2012: Updates.

First: OMG I WON NANO.

I think winning had something to do with the fact that this year, I decided to try and be a bit more social and go to write ins. It's thanks to this that I have discovered that during the day, I write best in coffee shops and out of the house in general.

My NaNo was a YA scifi/fantasy called Paragon Academy, which is about a group of teenage superheroes who discover that bad, very bad things are happening, in their boarding school, and try and figure out what's going on. Oh, and loads of shit happens after that and there's a lot of romantic things going on as well.

I'm also doing this as my university thesis as well!

Even though I hit 50K in November, I still haven't finished the novel. I have to do some things to help me continue and hopefully figure out what the end word count of the first draft should be - I'm hoping that it will be less than 100K - and then I shall continue writing. I'm hoping to be finished by the end of this month, preferably by Christmas, and then I shall start editing it at the end of January or early February.

Music Mondays should be coming back next week.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012!!

Happy new year! In this post I will be updating my progress and revealing my targets for the year. Music Mondays will be returning next week.

Firstly, what I have been doing since my last post.

I have been working on two things:

• An untitled Harry Potter fanfiction, which is on hold at the moment


• Sticks and Stones, a boy/boy retelling of Beauty and the Beast, whuch is my current project

The Final Stroke has been abandoned. Now for my targets for the year, as of now, complete with dates.

1. Finish the first draft of Sticks and Stones (Febuary 29th)


2. Prepare to write a screenplay for Script Frenzy (March)


3. Do Script Frenzy (April)


4. Write the second draft of Sticks and Stones (June 5th - my 20th birthday!)


5. Send Sticks and Stones out to betas (June)


6. Prepare to write my projects for Camp Wrimo (June)


7. Do Camp Wrimo (July and August)


8. Edit the first of my Camp Wrimo projects (September 30th)


9. Prepare to do NaNoWriMo (October)


10. Do NaNoWriMo (November)


11. Edit the second of my Camp WriMo projects (December 31st)

Here's hoping I can do it!

NaNo Update

Okay, so I've given up on NaNo. Because it was too much stress, what with uni and everything. So.. here are my new plans.

1. Finish the first draft of Suns and Stars by New Year
2. Finish the first draft of Fall by New Year
3. Start thinking about my next novel.