Bluebirds and Birch trees

Dream big, because even if your dreams might be too big for one person, that's what you have your friends for. That's what you have your family for. My dreams are larger than life most days. But that shouldn't stop me. Soon, I'll be able to clear a good amount of stuff out of my room, and get going. I plan on not holding back the moment I graduate. Dreams, here I come. Not to say I don't chase them now, oh heavens no! I chase them the best I can with everything else right now, and true it's hard. But I'm not stopping. I can do so much, but with the help of others, I can do so much more. Look forward to this not simply being a lonely blog of a girl who doesn't know what to say, but one with a definite dream. One that I'm chasing with all of my heart. Step one, clean the room so that dreams can begin to take form. Step two, clean the mind at the same time. Step three, we'll see what we feel like doing after steps one and two. True I expect life t...

Completion. Complete. Whole. Full. Total. Finished. Done. Without a doubt.   50 thousand words!!!! I finished NaNoWriMo today. Quite honestly I have almost no clue what to do now. I say almost because I have only vaguest sense of the kind of idea I want to have in order to continue. Many would be horrified at these next words of--I'm no longer going to work without an outline. This doesn't mean that I won't have long times where I just write whatever I want without a plan, but for a full blown novel, I'm not going to work on one without have at least a very basic and bare bones idea of what I'm doing here. I used an outline, a very basic and weird, and altogether not very well written outline for Camp NaNoWriMo this past July. But what happened? I wrote 35 thousand words and finished ahead of schedule. With this in mind, I have no doubt that with how crazy my brilliant mind can be, with all of it's messy thoughts running around, all unruly and without...

Sometimes you just need a piece of sweet whimsy in your day. Turtles and Elephants and Whales oh my! Found these lovelies a little while ago! I love pastels, and I love these animals, so a win-win! That, and I found an old picture of a leaf I found a while back when they started to change colour. Just Loverly!

 I can literally do anything, and I have no desire to let anyone tell me anything different. Because I've proven again and again to people who've said, "You cant do that," or "You cant handle that." You know what I did? I did it. And I handled it. Sometimes better than the person who said I couldn't do it. Though more often than not the person telling me that, is myself. But no longer. Even yesterday... gosh. I was insane yesterday. I have a strange sense of proving myself to people who think I cant handle something. Like eating a Ghost Pepper Chip anybody? One of my friends at youthgroup offered me one, she really liked them, another one of my friends tried one without knowing what they were. The two guys there as well refused to try them. I, knowing what they were, promptly broke off a piece and ate it. I tell ya, that had to be one of the most hilarious times from yesterday. Aside from having a lot of fun over on one of the NaNoWriMo forums. But gosh,...

 Spritz. I don't know why but I simply love the way the word sounds when I say it out loud. And then I'll end up going along a whole long list of words that I've made up to rhyme with it, something like this.  Spritz-witz-brits-nits-slits-skits-sits-lits-knits-bits-tritz-mits-nits-pits-bits-fitz-snits-wits-fits-rits-lits-brits-nits-swits-snits. All of that I said in my head as I was typing it out so there it a number of repititions in there! But still, it's all fun! Spritz. I bothered to look it up because the moment I actually said it, I went blank for a moment on what the word actually meant. Though I'd known for ages. Just one of those things you know? :)   Spritz: squirt or spray something at or onto something in quick short bursts.

 Write. Right. Wright? I have made the mistake of writing wright more than once, if I am correct. (please tell me you expected the word right at the end of that sentence.) There is no wrong way to write, so if writing is the only right way to write, that shouldn't it just be wright? I don't now, I've had a fair amount of caffeine today, which also explains my rather explosive word count this morning.  I have surpassed myself in the word war world (try saying that 5 times fast) of my own goal to try and get more words in each time than I did previously. Well, this morning I did. When during a 15 minute word war I pumped out a grand 1,050 words.  That's 70 words a minute.    From a girl who does 58-60. Lets just say I was stunned until just recently. I feel rather ahead of myself, despite the story itself not really going anywhere. But, whether or not it works, doesn't matter, as because I am the writer I may elect to ignore any piece of it I don't think wo...

Burnout? I didn't think I would be saying that word so soon this month. So I decided that I haven't, not out loud anyways. I don't think...  But who cares, burnout is just the temporary writers block for NaNoWriMo and I really  don't expect ANY of this to make sense but frankly I don't care.  I feel pretty today and right now, so that has upped my mood. And a very long and very good phone conversation happened today so I am actually feeling GREAT. :D Lots of emoji's in the future with this post because of raisins. (Note: I say raisins out loud a lot instead of reasons so I figured I'd just start typing it)  Also.. I need to close the blinds, as it has gotten dark out and I want to turn on lamps. So in the meantime, writing. Is not probably going to be getting done, or if it does than it will most likely be nonsense! :D Isn't that great! Also, a good way to help your NaNoWriMo word count (if you are truly and completely out of ideas and exhaustedly ...

 So yesterday, and technically this morning I was writing for NaNoWriMo. And tell you what,  I got a better start than last year, for multiple reasons. However, one reason is far more important than the rest when it comes to physically writing the story because--   I've already written it. Don't yell at me yet, or at all mind you. I wrote draft one of this story about four to five years ago, and now, due to that and that four-ish years of planning and story building, I managed to get a running start of 4,531 words. Compared to last years it's not a whole lot larger of a leap, maybe 1.5k or so. But for me, that was a brilliant start. Not to mention, I completely plan on winning this year.  I finished last year with just under 29k. However I stopped writing 20 days into it. In July I wrote over 35k words, and because I reached the 35k goal, I stopped writing on day 17. This time will be different. Because I will continue to write on this story until it is finished...