“Killing people is a great way to burn off word count.”
—Kennerley
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This past weekend, I worked my heart, soul, mind and fingers out until I finished my story. And guess what? I did it!!!!!!!! I finished writing 10,000 words (in general words, a novel) in one month. Yes folks, one month. I thought it wouldn’t be impossible, but I guess not. But now I kinda sad it’s over ‘til next November. My parents won’t be letting me stay up late on the weekends to write until April, which is NaNoWriMo’s Script Frenzy Month, where I’ll be writing a play in one month. I think everyone (yes, all of you readers who claim that “you can’t write”) should try to do NaNoWriMo next year. It’s a good lesson on never giving up… Plus you get to amaze everyone that you wrote a novel in a month. :) Well, salutations! :)
11/28/2009 | jen | Comment [2]
NanoWrimo
Word Count: 5907
29.54% of my word count goal
Time: 2:14 pm
11/21/2009 | jen | Comment [1]
Ahhhh!!!
Nanowrimo is over in almost 9 days and I’m only at 5468 words! I don’t know how I’m going to finish in time! I’ve been SO busy this past week with Drama Club I forgot all about NaNoWriMo! I guess now all I have to do is write. Write. WRITE!
Sesame Street Character
I’m coming out of blog retirement to post which Sesame Street character I am most like. i’m not sure they got it right though.
http://www.wyff4.com/entertainment/21438756/detail.html
11/10/2009 | michele | Comment [1]
NaNoWriMo
It’s November, and boy is it going to be busy! My dad found this cool website for writers, and told Ken and me about it. It’s NaNoWriMo. That stands for:
NAtional
NOvel
WRIting
MOnth
This is where writers will write an entire novel in the month of November. You start a story from scratch. No excerpts of a story already written. The goal is to write a novel in a month. Adults have to write a 50,000 word story. People in the Young Writers Program, like me, and choose a slightly smaller word count goal. I chose 10,000 words. So now, I’m writing a story I don’t know what it’s called, and currently at 2,765 words, that’s about 5,000 words less than where I want to be.
Well, wish me good luck!
11/08/2009 | jen | Comment [2]
Integrity
noun
1. the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness.
2. the state of being whole and undivided
*the condition of being unified, unimpaired, or sound in construction
* internal consistency or lack of corruption in electronic data.
That’s what the dictionary says integrity is. I never really understood what that word means. It looks like having integrity is one of the best qualities a person can have.
Gabby The Human Cat
Having been raised by people, our family have come to the conclusion that Gabby thinks she’s a human. Our proof? Gabby just had her first bath and instead of being frisky and squirming around like cats do when they’re wet, she acted mature and just laid down in my dad’s hand while my mom washed her. She knows we soak in water because she waits in front of the bathroom while we take showers and we come out wet. If I sit down at the table to have a snack, I’ll sometimes see her sitting in another chair, staring off into space. I wonder how she’ll react when she finds out she’s a cat, not a person.
Ups and Downs Of A Pet Cat
Pros
1. They’re absolutely cute!!!!!! Especially when they fall asleep in your lap. :)
2. They don’t want to play 24 7, unlike dogs who want to play with you every second.
3. You don’t have to walk them.
4. They’re happy with simple toys such as a string of yarn.
Cons
1. Litter- you have to clean it out and it smells!!
2. Cat food has the terrible stench of fish.
3. They scratch and bite.
4. They wake you up in the middle of night to bite your fingers off and purr loudly so you can’t fall back asleep even though you have school in the morning.
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The Roper Family's Adventure!... Fun...
As hinted in the title, we’ve had quite an adventure. And it’s not over yet. Great.
I’ll start at the beginning, from my point of view.
I woke up to a loud noise, similar to a vacuum. But it was WAY too loud to be a vacuum. Since I was half asleep, I just assumed my parents were cleaning the carpet, though there was no reason at all for them to be cleaning the carpet. Especially at 6:00 am. My alarm hadn’t gone off yet, so I just laid in my bed, listening to the hubbub of the mysterious machine. As my annoying alarm sounded off, my mom can into my room. (Note that the lights were still off.) “Jensen, the house flooded so we turned off the water. Don’t use any,” she exclaimed. She tapped her foot on the ground as she said this, and left the room. Still dreamy, I was confused and didn’t really think of what she said much. As I stepped down, icy cold water flushed around my feet. Oh great, I thought. Most of the house had about an inch of water on the floor.
That was the morning, every hectic, especially for a sleepy 12 year old girl. But it wasn’t half as frantic as it was going to be.
When I came home from school, the first thing I saw was a green truck in front of our house. The carpet and tile and hardwood floor had all been torn out and giant fans scattered around the house. Because of this, we had to stay at the La Quinta for a few days and then came back home.
Well, that’s our story. It’s not fun walking around in shoes in our concrete floor home. Sharing a room with Kennerley and Quinan. Soon we’ll have to get a suite in a hotel when workers come to fix the plumbing, and it’s going to be wild for a month or two.
The thing I’ll be looking forward to is sleep.