Middle of novelling, sorry if I haven't been around

I figured that since I was online today and reading Athena's (now private) blog, I should probably make a post myself. I feel like I've been doing relatively nothing since I got out here but eating and not really sleeping (don't fall asleep until 3, wake up at 5:30, fall back asleep and wake up at 9). However, I did start my newest novel yesterday (I have already written one that I need to revise and half of one that I compressed into a short story). I think my parents think that my priorities are f*cked up. Maybe. I don't have a job, but this novel is going to get finished.

This new one is a mystery novel. It's meant to be the first in a series but right now I need to just focus in on this one. I have scheduled it out so that it can be done on July 14 (yes, precisely, I am a Virgo afterall). I write by word count, so I make a goal for so many words every day and then I have an overall must-be-to-this-count daily total. If I fall short of my daily goal, I have to be almost to my here by this date goal. My goal pretty much every day for the next month and a half (I have given myself Athena's wedding day and 2 days over the 4th of July off) is to write at least 1220 words. Not very many. Yesterday I made it all of the way to 2022. I was glad to see that I overshot my goal though because I have decided to write this novel by hand in paper and pencil (wooden pencil, not mechanical, my favorites are the Dixon Ticonderoga Woodgrains) and then type up my progress as I go along. I will not count the handwritten pages and I add stuff when I type it anyway, so the official word count is on the Word document.

I think my parents are both impressed and afraid of encouraging me on something that they think is destined to fail. They haven't allowed themselves to hope yet. I have. This novel is going to rock: the character is fun to write and the story is interesting. After I finish writing this one I will revise the other novel. While I'm polishing this novel for submission, I will be shopping out my other novel and writing short stories and poetry. I don't care if I'm not the best, I'm still awesome and my writing is worth selling.

P.S. This is my 150th post. Yay me!