Donut Make My Brown Eyes Blue

I need your help with my EsNoWriMo playlist. What are the best break-up songs?

Name Change Suggestion, Snack Savvy, and "WTF It's Almost Here!"

I can't even believe this. In FORTY EIGHT HOURS we will be embarking on that wonderful, booze-fueled, and straight-up utterly macabre month of noveling. I want to start now.

As long as I can remember, I have only really known one thing: how to snack. Yes, I am planning on following Indigo's footsteps and pursuing post-graduate studies in the prestigious snacking school at McGill. Since I have so much wisdom to bestow on the uninitiated, I feel that it is my duty to share with you my NaNoWriMo-specific snacking guidelines. First, avoid sticky foods. including anything that is sugar-coated. A sticky keyboard means fewer words per minute, which is definitely not what we are going for here. Second, embrace your new friend: the spoon. As I have discovered, almost anything can be eaten with a spoon. My most pleasant surprise was Smartfood. No more cheese powder hands for me! And finally, I have two words for you: tiny tongs.

To conclude, I would like to make a suggestion to all of you. Technically, we are not participating in National Novel Writing Month, since that month is actually November. I think that we should change the name to EzNoWriMo, or Esmonde Novel Writing Month. And yes, I am aware that some people who weren't lucky to be born Esmonde participate, but come on, they're all wannabes anyway. What do we think?

Tomorrow I will be making my playlist, and on Wednesday I will be picking up the snackskies that follow my three golden rules. Eeee!!!!!

Seventy-Three Hours, People. This Is Not a Drill.

I can't believe it's so soon. How are we all feeling, fellow NaNoWriMo-ers??

I feel like a NaNoWriMo veteran; I know that I can do this since I've done it twice. I'm feeling cocky.

My Book, In Ten Questions Or Less

I know that we aren't supposed to plan until a week before NaNoWriMo, but since I am a two-time winner, I think that I can write my own rules. Additionally, I actually have time to do some planning right now since I am not working and the World Cup isn't on.

So here is my main character, Sadie Desman, in ten questions or less:

1. How old are they?
I think that it will cover my main character between her 20th and 21st year of life

2. What is their gender?
Female

3. What do they do for work?
My main character is a student a Wellesley in Boston, so she mostly does that. In the summer, she will work at a candy shoppe that is yet to be named.

4. Who are their friends, family, and love interests?
Most important to the plot is her love interest, Brett. He plays soccer at Harvard, is in business, is cocky, kind of a d-bag, and emotionally withholding. They will date for a long time, and the book is exploring how she deals with the break-up. There will be many other love interests throughout the book that she dates after Brett, and they will all be horrifying.
Friends: I don't really feel like dealing with this, I know that she will have roommates who will play a big role in her getting over Brett through their sage advice, but that is about it.
Family won't really play a role

5. What is their living space like?
A small apartment in Boston, with two roommates. No, they will not be Haley and Manta. Perhaps one of them will have a pink housecoat with frogs on it, though.

6. What are their hobbies?
Sadie loves watching football, and yes, she is a Liverpool fan. Brett is a Chelsea fan, which is how they will meet. I'm not really sure what she likes to do other than that. I looked up common hobbies on Wikipedia, and they were all really lame (things like scale modeling, dioramas, fishkeeping) so I don't think that my character should have many hobbies.

7. What were they doing a year ago? Five years ago?
A year ago, Sadie was helping Hillary Clinton campaign in the democratic primary. Five years ago she was in high school. I don't really want to talk about what she was up to in high school.

8. What are their values and politics?
Sadie is a feminist, but at the same time has some traditional values that she has trouble reconciling. Love is a big priority in her life.

England National Team Goes on Safari and Has a Great Time

Yes, it's that time again where all I think/want to talk about is football. Friday. This is it.

In other news, I have decided that I want my book to be funny in addition to sad. We always have to remember that the most important thing about NaNoWriMo is to have fun, and enjoy what you are writing. Writing 50,000 words of misery will probably not be the fun that I am envisioning. Perhaps my character, Sadie Desman, will try to get over her breakup by attending the all-male review at the Boo!-bie Mansion. How many times can I fit Gordon into my novel?

Just like Shawn Desman's hair, my book doesn't need to be perfect. It's always hard to remember that!

(31) Days of NaNoWriMo

Last night while sitting in my new apartment by myself, I re-watched '(500) Days of Summer.' What an amazing movie. It is always what I knew that I wanted my next novel to be. No title as of yet, but I hope to be struck by inspiration soon. I particularly liked the nonlinear narrative style, which is what I plan on doing.

Do you guys have any books or movies that have inspired you in your novels for this summer?

"Look, I know you think she was the one, but I don't. Now, I think you're just remembering the good stuff. Next time you look back, I, uh, I really think you should look again."