Jacquelyn's Space

Damn! I am up to my 588 post or so…that is what WordPress tells me. I seem to be on a writing kick– I have written over 4400 (about 11 single-spaced pages) words over the past 12 hours. I hate to go to sleep and lose this writing fire. Maybe I am starting to perk up. I hope I can keep this up through November. I have to try to write about 1670 words a day or 11670 a week to finish a novel in a month– if it is only going to be 50,000 words long. I think 50,000 words is rather a short novel. I don’t know…

All I know is I want to keep writing and I hope this transfers over to writing my papers for school.

November is National Novel Writing Month– writers aspiring writers attempt to write a novel (50, 000 words– about 1700 a day) in a month. The Writing Center at my school is doing a couple of events and I want to be involved so I was thinking hard on what kind of novel could I write in a month. Something fairly easy that would not require a lot of research. I do have an awesome idea for a novel I thought of months ago (and have done a little work on) but it would require too much research and take longer than a month to write– have to save that one for later.

I was racking my brain at work last night and finally I came up with another idea– a cross between three recent bestselling novels:

Fifty Shades of Twilight Games 

Ha! A hybrid of Fifty Shades of Grey, Twilight, and The Hunger Games. It will be a best seller in no time! Maybe at the adult bookstore, he hee!! If only I could work in Harry Potter somehow…just kidding!

But I really did come up with an idea I think will work. I was talking with a customer (she had been reading a book while she waited for her food, LOL) about NaNoWriMo and I told her I had only written short stories but I was going to attempt a novel if I could come up with an idea that would work. She gave me that old advice, “Write what you know.” Good, solid advice but when I hear that I immediately think of memoir and creative non-fiction. If I write what I know I am going to write about my life and all the BS I have been through; that isn’t a fictional novel and doesn’t really fit with NaNoWriMo. Then a light bulb went off over my head– I could expand on a short story I wrote for a creative writing class a couple of years ago and turn it into a novel! I wrote it from a story prompt but with some tweaking it should work. I was really proud of that story because it kind of read like the first chapter of a book and I wrote it in one day, all 5200 words of it.

So now I have lots of the story planned out (thanks to a slow night), some characterization done, and a small list of easy research to do. I think it will be a pretty good story with strong characters. Nothing to it but to do it! I just hope I have time in November to work it in.

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I published my blog post and quotes pop up to the side once its posted. This is the one I got:

“My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.” ~ Anais Nin

So true!

This morning I am feeling a little less stressed. The Tigers are going to the World Series, YAY! Got to look forward to that.

I spent the most awesome time with my husband last night. That was the best stress relief, ha! Now if I could only busta move on my homework so I can devote even more time to my husband tonight…and tomorrow.

I don’t know what it is– okay, I kind of know some of what it is– but this fall has really sucked for me so far. I have been really tired, really super ache-y — I haven’t  felt this bad in a long time. All I want to do is stay home. I am in hibernation mode already and that isn’t good. I don’t even want to go to school, I just want to be left alone. Well, I just want to be with my husband and that is all. It sucks because I can’t be doing this right now, I can’t afford to feel this way. Too much to do with school, work, and family issues– right when I need to be on top of my game it seems all the stress is catching up to me. I am just too stressed to break free of wanting to hibernate and even sleep isn’t satisfying.

I have been having vivid dreams– not exactly nightmares but not pleasant dreams either. I had a dream that I was yelling at the sociopath my brother made children with because she wouldn’t leave my family alone. It was not fun and in the dream she was even more rotten than in person. Then I had a dream I was having an affair (Oh yeah– I had a dream a few nights before that my husband was having sex with another woman). Oh I enjoyed the affair, I was so in love with this man; don’t know who he was but I felt for him what I feel for my husband. I kept feeling bad in the dream because I didn’t want to hurt my husband. The dreams seem so real, so colorful but they are disturbing; in them I am really stressed so when I wake up I don’t feel rested and I don’t even really feel awake for a long time. It sucks big time.

So tonight I am going to say a big F U to home work and spend some quality time with my husband. Then in five days I will have my little affair– the movie “Magic Mike” comes out on DVD and I am going to spend some time watching it (maybe in bed!) since I didn’t catch it in theaters, LOL.