theyellowhobbit

I've written over 10k, and i'll do what I can today [though I still have all that ANTH stuff...]

Congratulations to Bre, who has written over 50K!
And Kressel, who has almost 25K! [More than twice what I have]

Almost 9000 words. I remember now that I have an anthro project write-up due wednesday. Nano ends wednesday night. So I have to decide...
I'm creative now, but maybe I should get the anthro over with, so I can seclude myself the rest of the time and write nanoness. but then again, I'm on a roll.

And I do need some sleep. Eventually.

My original goal was 50,000. My modified goal was 25,000. But lately I just haven't been able to write [and I can't help but wonder if a true story about me becoming frum at Penn is really worth reading].

So I don't know if I should just give up now and work on a sci-fi/fantasy piece for Pennumbra, or if I should try and get as many words for Nano in as I can, so I can at least have something...

Any thoughts?

4092 words, minus the footnotes [I have footnotes!]

that does include an epilogue, which i wrote now, rather than later, because it was easy and it gave me more words and i like it.


**edit: 4246, including footnotes, not including the epilogue, which is now in a separate document. W00t!**

I went to Pennumbra tonight, and we workshopped 2 really good stories. They said that I should write something. Of course, we only read sci-fi and fantasy, and my story clearly is neither of those. And I'm spending the month working on it. Steve said that I should turn my story into a sci-fi, but I couldn't do that without ruining it. It would offend Orthodox people if I wrote how G-d was really an alien satellite running the world, and I would annoy sci-fi readers with my over-religiousness. And it no longer would be a true story, or even a mostly true story. It's a much better idea to write 2 separate pieces.

So I thought I would put my BT story on the back-burner, but then I opened it up, and started writing more. I was actually in a good place, and now I'm up to over 2400 words. Granted, that includes the beginning of an epilogue [I came up with an idea that I really wanted to write down] and is still below quota, but I think I'm doing well. Though I might have arrived at one of those points-where-I-don't-want-to-write in the plot. It isn't writer's block, because I could easily skip it and write the next scene that's writeable. Since it's a true story, I don't have to worry about messing up the plot. But I also feel guilty when I do things like that. It would be one thing if I were jtersesk and had never experienced certain things [like a Saturday morning service]. But I've experienced everything in this story, for the most part.

Part of me wants to fictionalize it, to put in a romantic interest that ends up being my/fictional Rachel's bashert. But I think that would be selling out a bit. The point is to be real. G-d doesn't make things work out right away. If He did, I'd have nothing to write about. And I want people who don't have perfect faith to be able to relate to this. I personally don't always relate to the idea of prayer changing one's fate. G-d does whatever He wants, and He knows whether or not we will pray, and has already planned for it. There are people who become frum and don't have everything work out perfectly for them. I want to write for them, so they know they aren't the only ones who don't have what they want/need but still believe in Hashem.

Wow. I really do want to write this. But I need sleep. Or maybe I should eat because dinner consisted of a glass of water 5 hours ago and a cough drop 30 minutes ago.

So I didn't start my Nanowrimo novel yet. Nor did I study intensively for my environmental studies exam, which is approximately 1.5 hours. So should I write or should I study?