Ugh

Well, putting off this research paper was, of course, a bad idea, but I'm so used to doing that by now it's just normal. I work better at the last minute I find, I focus better--though in sporadic intervals. However, I'm stuck at 318 words for a paper that needs to be at least 750, and I'm stuck and can't find resources or articles online that are good. The paper is about the Apollo mission and more specifically why we got to the moon first. It's to be combined with three others at some point, but yeah. It's due tomorrow--story of my life. Needless to say I'm going to be catching up on today's word count tomorrow because as soon as I crank out 500 more words for this essay I'm crashing only to wake up early tomorrow to print it out. -sigh- I suppose I should stop procrastinating again and go look for more articles in my never-ending quest for knowledge....
[why do I need to do this again? I'm a theatre major? meh, ah well...]

Small Update

I'm off to a rolling start! At least 1700 more words than my last NaNo attempt which admittedly was in the middle of November or slightly after is started and only got like 300 words... I'm currently up and running at 2107 words.
Here's a small random tidbit that helped me get to those words, an excerpt in other words. :)
Though not a particularly relevant/good/long/etc.. one....

"Well that's why I don't teach history. I couldn't stand the thought of the subject. No, I'm an English teacher. One of the best, I like to think. My students certainly enjoy my class. I'm regarded as the cool teacher, everyone requests me which is a pity because I only like to have about 15 people tops in my classes. I teach any number of English courses you can imagine, even one that only lasted two months and met every other night that focused on National Novel Writing Month. We spent half a month sort-of laying out a guide for the student's novels and then spent the whole month focusing on pounding out word counts, finally we spent the last two weeks looking over each others' and having a laugh and talking about revising stories. That's beside the point, however--You should know I simply teach English at the school and am probably the most popular teacher at the college...."

Hope there's at least someone out there enjoying this. 8D
Goodnight for now and hopefully I'll remember to post another update on things tomorrow...

First Day

Okay, so first day of NaNo and I've got not a single clue about my story. My idea has shifted from wanting a nerdy, librarian type to narrate a story, to a time traveling group, to a Robin Hood-esque story perhaps set in modern times, to my current love which has no plot or anything just me wanting to write from a villain's perspective. Remeniscient of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog in the sense that the villain is kind-of more of the good guy than the hero. I think I've decided to set it in some school setting. I do know the sort of idea, based on this quote that I love to death;
"Villains are so much more pro-active than heroes. Heroes, by their nature, are purely reactionary forces. You never get a hero just doing things by himself, he always reacts to an event pout in motion. The villain is in all ways and agent of change. A catalyst."

That covers the whole idea behind what will hopefully turn into my 50k+ words at the end of the month. I'm hoping to get at least 2,000 words written tonight before I retire and hopefully some will get typed out during my lunch break after my statistics exam. I'm completely excited because I can't wait to 'meet' this new character of mine that will be the focus, and perhaps narrator of the story. He feels like he's going to be very interesting. 8D

Oh and here's another calendar, well same as one of the others, but it has the 75k/100k word count instead of 50 and 100. Again, if anyone wants to request a calendar to be made I'd be more than happy to take it on. It'll be a distraction from homework and perhaps some of the troubles that may arise from my story.