Updates + Impending Panic

Well. It has been an interesting last two weeks for me. It’s also that time of the year again when I begin to enter panic mode. (Which I will get to in just a moment.)

But first!

My birthday happened two weeks ago. I’m now officially a quarter of a century. Some days, I feel so old and wonder what in the world am I doing with my life. (Which is still a struggle.) Other days, I still feel like such a baby because many of my friends are a good 2-3 years older than me, so they’re obviously much further along professionally, and in life. (It doesn’t help that I went back to school for another degree and had to start all over.)

And because it was my birthday, I – of course – asked for more books. As if I didn’t already have a large stack of unread books waiting for me. In the end, I got to add five more to my collection. Here’s what I’m dealing with:

I have a problem. I will admit it.

I’ve also been reading CARVE THE MARK by Veronica Roth for the past three and a half weeks. Unfortunately, I’m only 275/468 pages into it (which equals to roughly 58.8% complete). I’ve certainly been slacking. And I’ve already accepted the fact that I probably won’t surpass nineteen books by the end of the year. Roth’s novel is only book number fifteen. I can’t imagine reading another five books in the next two months because…

NaNoWriMo officially starts tomorrow.

Good-bye, sleep. It was nice knowing you.

Like I mentioned in my last post, I still don’t have a plan of action for this year’s NaNoWriMo. I figured that I’ll just wing it and see where it takes me.

It should be good for my creativity, though. It gives me a chance to play around with ideas. I just hope something sticks at some point, so I’m not spending the entire month scrambling for something to write every day.

All I know is that I’m determined to win for the fourth year in a row. (Although, this is now my seventh year participating.)

Also! Just like last year, I plan to be absent from this blog for the entire month of November. All of my free time will be dedicated to marathon writing.

Therefore, see you in December with whatever’s left of my sanity!



P.S. Happy Halloween!

That pumpkin on the right will be me by the end of November, haha.