What I have been doing lately

What a long and busy time these last eight months have been for me! I wrote a novel in a month, sewwed a skirt, started playing my tuba in a new band, had friends from half way around the world come and stay at our house, went on a church youth retreat and saw God in a new and wonderful way, and made it into the youth Honor band. I have been naglecting my blog through it all and now feel compelled to do something about it.

For starters I think I will go a little more into the subject of my novel. Yes! I have writen a novel, and I did it in a month. November was National Novel Writing Month, which is shortend into NaNoWriMo. thousands of people are involved in NaNoWriMo every year and most of them use the NaNoWriMo website to talk to other NaNo writers and update their word count. They encourage each other and inspire each other to keep writing and not give up. Most people set their goal for 50,ooo words from the beginning of November to the end of November. 50,000 words is considered the size of a novel. That was my goal and I barely made it. I stayed up writing on the last day to midnight with my siblings and finished it as the clock chimed twelve. My word count added up to 50,006 words! But my novel needs alot of work still and it will take a lot, I mean A TON of editing! I am working on that now. My dream is to get it in publishing shape by the end of this year, but that is a bit of a high goal for a year. We'll see.

And that is the highlight of 2008 for me.