Declaration of Intent to NaNo

All the notebooks I'm going to fill this summer!

Fellow writers (and readers), I've decided to join your ranks starting this week!

Although I've missed the boat for the official Camp National Novel Writing Month, I've decided that I'm going to make the effort to write 100,000 words over the next two months (or, at latest, by the time I return to school). Crazy, you say? Ah, but perhaps it's so crazy it just might work!

In between my interviewing adventures and exploring the city of Dhaka, my unstructured time has been given over to reading and writing in this all too creatively stimulating environment - so I thought, why not make a project out of it? Dreaming big (at least with writing) has never actually steered me wrong. Today is the starting line.

If you're curious to see what my novel may be like, check out my fiction.

CED Round-Up: Writing My Novel

This week's CED Round-up will be pretty short, due to the fact that I have consolidated most (if not all) of my creative energies on writing (all 16,946 words I have so far) of my novel for Camp National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). To contradict that last statement, here are two things I worked on this week that were not related to the novel - a VoteBot comic for the Washington Bus blog and a business card:

(click for the larger versions.)

Anyway, back to the writing.

CED Round-Up: Summer Writing Camp

This week was all about writing and on-site photography. This week I began writing a novel for Camp National Novel Writing Month, the summer version of November's amazing race to 50,000 words. It is totally nerve-wracking, but what makes it even scarier is that Camp NaNoWriMo goes on for two months! That means that I'll be writing 100,000 words over the course of two months, and I hope to do it all for the same story, so that in and of itself is absolutely terrifying. But I really want to top myself out this summer, so I am going for it. As a result, however, I have suspended work on my serial fiction The Observer until further notice. In the meantime, enjoy the miniature updates about my novel coming at you in the CED posts!
On the other side of things, I got to attend some stellar events this week - namely, Seattle Zombie Walk and the 4th of July at Gasworks Park! Pictures abound.

This is my poor attempt at being a menacing zombie for Seattle Zombie Walk.

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