The One where I ramble about writerly things

WARNING: This is just me thinking how the hell I'm going to achieve all my goals by the end of 2010.

If I want draft #1 to be complete by the 4th of September, I need to write 500 words minimum everyday. But it'd be better if I wrote 600 everyday. (600 words everyday day for 88 days=52 800 words; that plus what I already have equals 83 670 words, which equals, hopefully, a complete novel.)

Can I do it? I have no idea.

Sure, lately I've been writing a lot, but it's tiring and it hurts my back and my right wrist. A lot. If I keep this up, I'm going to end up in the hospital.

Sunday 445
Monday 388
Tuesday 812
Wednesday 1177
Thursday 680
Friday 962

Maybe I should give myself until the 31st of December this year. That way I'll have the Christmas holidays to write. And I just realized something: NaNoWriMo.

If I want to complete this novel, and draft 2 of Kenna's Choice AND outline my NaNo novel and write it in November, I need to become superwoman. Hmm. Even if I finish draft 1 of PwD and draft 2 of K'sC and manage to outline the NaNo novel all before the 1st of November, I will be dead by the time I start writing the NaNo novel.

Hmm, what if I give myself until the 1st of October to do everything and during October I don't write anything, I just keep preparing for NaNoWriMo? BUT next school year will be hell, how can I write 1666 words a day during November on top of school and homework?

I've said it many times before and I'll say it again: school gets in the way of my writing.

Welcome to Kayleigh's Kaleidoscope

So my laziness wasn't enough to prevent me from making a blog on this site. I already have a blog on Wordpress and before that I blogged on Livejournal.

My decision for finally creating a Blogger blog is to reach more people. (10 minutes ago I read that more people use Blogger and now I have a blog here.)

I'm trying to import my blog posts from Wordpress, but it isn't working...

Right, who am I?

My name is Kayleigh and I'm a 16 year old writer who lives in the south of France. Christmas 2010 will mark the 3-year anniversary of when I started writing seriously. Apart from reading and writing, I love watching movies and have seen, I kid you not, 761 movies.

In 7500 words, I will be halfway through my current novel, "Playing with Darts." When I say "halfway through" I mean that my goal 75 000 words and in 7500 I will have reached half of that. Why am I elaborating? Because I now know that half of my goal of 75 000 words will NOT be half of my novel. It's turning into a monster of a novel: 50 character, a dozen plot lines, half a dozen points of view. I honestly don't know how I'm managing to write it.

I am also currently writing the second draft of my first every completed novel, "Kenna's Choice." I'm working on chapter 2 with the help of Angela, my critique partner who blogs here.

As for the title of this blog, let me explain: a kaleidoscope shows you different colors and shapes, right? Well my blog is about different things, not just writing. (My mother came up with it for me.)

If you're reading this, how did you get here? My twitter? One of my blogs? A friend told you about it? Google? And are you a new reader, who'd never heard of me before? And, final question, I promise, are you a writer?