I'm glad it's NaNoWriMo time because it gives me something to do with my life. (: I'm actually going to start bringing mine to school because I'm starting to fall behind, & I wanted to be at 25,000 by the 15th, which is next Tuesday. I'm at 9,000 some odd words, & today's goal is 11,000 some odd words. But November is a slack month, I have no school tomorrow, no school Friday, & Thanksgiving break, so I think I'll be fine. I don't have to be at rehearsal every day now, which makes me glad, so I'm spending my time at home typing my heart out.
I have a friend who organizes the get together at the library I volunteer at, and she insists that there's no way one could have a social life, go to school, AND get 50,000 words in NaNoWriMo. I intend to prove her wrong, one way or another. And even if I have 49,999 words, I will edit the hell out of my novel to get there.
Mmmkay, so I haven't really told anyone except a handful of friends at school what my novel is about, so yeah. I'm kinda basing it off of the Percy Jackson series (which I just finished checking the whole series out yesterday, & the kiddies will have to wait till I finish NaNoWriMo) in the sense that there's kids with special abilities/powers, but they get taken to a camp (which is unnamed at the moment) at an earlier age. And then there's the enemy, who is working to take over the world by any means necessary, which is basically, since it's a technologically advanced society set in the future, taking down all technology: power, internet, anything and everything relevant to technology. The enemy is based off of an RP that a friend & I are working on (rather slowly), and the characters are from different countries, and they are rather fluent in their country's language. (Thank you, Google Translate, for teaching me other languages beyond Spanish & the miniscule amount of Russian that I know.) So yeah, that's my story in a nutshell.
I was on par with word count goals the first three or four days, but by day 5... you see, what had happened was... theatre. And the SAT, which I dread the scores for. But I will finish.