So want to know a fun fact? My counts total this at the end of the first seven days
Total Words Written: 17,064
Words to Go: 32,963
Finish Date: 11/25/2011
My very first nano, it took me the full 30 days to write as much as I have in one week. My first nano was my pathetic attempt at Harry Potter Fan Fiction. I was desperate for the next book, so impatient that I decided to write my own instead of wait for it to come out. I planned each word very carefully, though my sentences and paragraphs through. It was the first book type of thing I had ever wrote outside of a school assignment. I am, to this day, proud of it despite how terrible it is.
Maybe today is a good day to kind of go into my history as a writer =)
I won my first award for writing when I was 5 years old. I wrote a story in my kindergarten class, I told it out loud while my teacher typed it out. I won the Gamma Kappa Delta and had my picture in the paper. True story. Maybe when I get home I'll scan my picture in the paper. Anyway, that's how I knew that I should probably look into story telling as a career. I thought about writing more seriously when I was about 11 years old and a friend of mine introduced me to role playing games online, where you write out the actions of your character. I took refuged in these while also completing my first nano. I won another short story competition in high school, my sophomore year. Again, another publication for a grade. Nothing huge happened until my freshman year of college. I was introduced to a group of English teachers working on publishing a text book, where three of my essays now lie for people to read as examples. (I looked into it, they are good examples)
My plans for the future? Do what I love, make people happy, and stay sane =)
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