So, it has been a challenging past couple of months. Things are just so different this year than they were last year and it's almost too much change at once. Clearly, change and I are two things that do not go very well together. I hate change, it terrifies me. Anyways, school is just way weird, I don't have any of my favorite teachers, two of them even changed schools, which devastated me. I barely have any lunches with my best friend, there are quite a few classes that I don't have any friends in. On top of all of that, my history class sucks, epicly. I can feel the flame that I worked so hard to burn slowly die, but I won't let it go without a fight, it's not worth it. Just because I don't like what were doing in history this year, doesn't mean that I have to let my passion die. I'll just have to read more books and watch some tv. On the bright side, there's just 10 1/2 months until what I presume will be one of the best years of my life; my senior year. I'm so excited for grade 12 to start that I can't even put it into words. I'm not planning on taking any maths or sciences, just two history classes, a politics class, a sociology/psychology class, writer's craft and of course, english lit. And then, there's my trip to Europe, which will be in march of that year. So I just know that if I can get through this year, one day, one week, one month at a time I'll be ok.
Moving on, I entered a contest type thing the other week and I really felt the need to share it here because I think it'll greatly change me as a writer. I entered NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month.). The task at hand? To write a 50 000 word novel in 30 days! Holy crap, I know. I have no freaking idea how I'm gonna do it. There'll be a lot of late nights, early mornings and classroom disruptions to be able to make this deadline. In all honesty, I'm not looking to win anything, I'm in the for the experience. Because I'm what is known as a procrastinator and that in no way changes when I write. So I'm hoping that by only giving myself a limit of 30 days I'll be able to accomplish so much and use that as a guide for anything and everything that I write, and maybe, just maybe it'll help me get a grip on the procrastination problem that's consistent in my life. I'm super excited to get started on this and I think that the experience is going to be amazing! Wish me luck, and if I have time I will keep updating. If I don't have time, I promise I'll make one huge post about my experience with the link to my story sometime after November 30th.
