Writing a death scene puts me in a lousy mood. I wrote a lot of great stuff in creative writing classes back in high school but I never had much time to write independently before now. I started about a dozen projects back then that I'm only getting around to working on now. So I guess this is my first real story I'm writing outside of school too :)

I just started school and have been so busy, haven't been on subeta for an entire week. Because I'm taking a Creative Writing course, I have been able to write at least a poem a day (see my tumblr if interested) but I haven't mustered the motivation to get into a college essay. :P Poopy me.

- I think they make the prompts for those essays dull and difficult to write on purpose. I'm not sure how such contrived responses are useful to anyone looking through them, but oh well! Good luck mustering the effort to get it done!

Also, your tumblr shows up as a completely blank white page on my browser.

It seems I'm a very naughty monkey as I've barely written in the past two weeks... Feel free to shoot me or something >< I'll just keep my goal the same till it is complete xD

- Check in time! How did everybody do? Hopefully the silence means everyone is working on writing. D=

I got my introduction hammered out! It's not perfect, but it has a strategy and a ton of citations, which is more than half of the battle. How did everyone else do?

I hardly had time for Subeta yesterday =P Congrats on reaching your goal! I somehow miss writing essays lol but then again not that much.

I managed to finish my prologue late on Sunday night :) I'm going to have to revise it over a million times before I'm actually satisfied with it but I'm honestly just tired of working on it for now. So I'll start on the rest of the story this week and try to put in 2.5k words.

I had a busy week so I fell very short of my goal. I finally started the story I was commissioned but I'm having a Johnny Depp from Secret Window moment. "No bad writing..."

I'll probably keep my goal the same though, if I can write 1500 words a day for NaNoWriMo then I can do it in a week.

- I can't believe I used to write 1500 words a day for nano! I feel like such a failure! I got like... 200 words last week. And I think my goal was only 1000 >.<

Well 200 is a good place to start, maybe I should make a more ambitious goal this week, maybe I'll be more inspired. Lets say 2000 this week. It really shouldn't be that hard!

Tell me about it! I was working full time then too and managed to do it. Insanity!

- Yeah, and I was taking a full course load and writing two midterms a week all through november! (mind you last year I failed my nano, only got 35k, but the previous two years same deal and I managed to win)

I've been drinking this week, let's use that as my excuse :p

I've decided to try and actually write something for the first time in what must be months, so I'd like to set a goal for 2k words for the rest of this week. I'm hoping to amass at least 17k, but I'm not sure if that will happen. Might as well start small~

edit: Err, I've just hit 2k words so I'll be changing that to 5k.

Do you think if you don't get to 5k by the end of the week that counts as a fail or a pass? Or maybe you should get both prize and forfeit? Haha

Haha, I think it would definitely be a fail!

That is insane. My first year I missed the last deadline by 30 minutes! I was not pleased, especially because I hated the story and I was happy to be at 50k just to be done with it. It was a bitter disappointment. I managed to finish ahead of schedule this last year though.

- Where are the monkeys hiding? Let everyone know how you did with your goals. It's ok if you didn't write anything--we can always try next time!

, -- good effort! Hopefully we can succeed in setting aside some time to write. I just realized I forgot to set a goal for this week. I hope to finish my 2-page progress report for my committee meeting.

Yeah I was thinking the exact same thing. Where are all the monkeys at? =(

- Awww that sucks a lot!! I woldn't have made it the second year if I hadn't gone to the over night write-in for my community. I'm really glad I did, not only did I write about 8k words in one night, I also met a ton of cool people.

- bad monkey! :P

- shamed by failure! lol.

- I can't stop watching that watermelon explode. lol.

I'm sorry! Should I get the Master of my College to tell me off for being a bad monkey?

I've always wanted to go to a write in but I'm so disabling shy and awkward IRL that I save myself the stress and not go. That and it was an hour drive to get there. lol. I'll probably end up going to one in my new area this year because I don't have any friends here yet and am sure I can find other writers to be awkward with.