Writing is Amazing!

Even though I can't finish my novel before tommorow, I'm still going to work on it. I'll be able to get a lot more done once Science Fair is over. So far, I have 14,547 words. I have just started Chapter Eleven. Yay!!!
Something else wonderful happened last night, too! For school, there is a sight called Go My Access that you sometimes do writing assignments on. For English, we had to write a story about going back in time in a time machine. Instantly after you turn in the paper (you can do this multiple times for revised drafts btw), it gives you a score for each of the six traits of writing. 4 is proficient, 5 five is advanced proficient and 6 is the best score. Earlier in the year when we had to write about the happiest time in our life, I struggled through multiple drafts trying to get all fours. I eventually got 5 4's and a 3.9. But this proves that I really have a thing for fantasy. When I turned in my first draft last night, I got 2 6's, and the rest were above 5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so happy!!!!!!!!!! And it was only a rough draft!!!!! I love writing!!!!!!

Tag

I don't know if I was actually tagged and had to do this or not, but it looked fun! My brother Daniel and sister-in-law Stephanie did it. You go to your pictures, click on the fourth folder and then the fourth picture. Then you post it! I sort of bent the rules for mine because otherwise it would have been a boring personless picture from Iraq.
In this picture, I am doing a third-grade project on a product for selling. I did Dazzling Dusters, little dusting thingys. So yeah, that's the picture.

A Not So Boring After A While Thanksgiving

Due to the fact that my mom had to work on Thanksgiving, my family and I already had our Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday while we watched the football game. So yesterday, we didn't really have anything to do. I couldn't think of anything to do with my dad that would entertain the both of us while Mom was gone, so I prettymuch stayed upstairs the whole morning and afternoon watching tv and checking my email. I didn't want to call my friends because they were most likely busy anyway. I got sooooo bored that I recorded myself talking to the computer for about twenty minutes. It's actually pretty fun. You can spill your guts to it.
Thankfully, around 5:00, my sister Michele and her daughter Shelby came and saved me from my torment. Michele did stuff on the computer downstairs while Shelby watched Dora. I started working on a fort for the two of us, very entertaining to do it for her than just to entertain myself. It actually ended up being a massively long tunnel thing covered with blankets! There was even a room at the end that had the pillows from the couch to relax on! It was so much fun, and it had a lot of room to crawl in! Here are some pics! Sorry, a few are blurry.





















After we had had fun playing around in it, I felt like I wanted to do something else. I tried to think of something interesting. Then I remembered something in a magazine about using old cereal boxes and using them to build rooms and stuff like that. I took the cereal boxes we had in the cold storage and was going to make a room, except we didn't have nearly enough to do that. So instead, I made statues!





I was sad when Michele and Shelby left, but when my mom got home, we watched Home Alone on TV since I'd never seen it before. There was another show on at 9:00 on the same channel, and my mom wanted to either watch that or Pride and Prejudice. Can you believe that?! My mom wanting to start a two hour movie at 9 pm?! It was like a dream come true! So we watched Pride and Prejudice. It's such a great show! I love it! Even Code-Red, Doc G. and Professor Tall should watch it some time in their life, or at least know the story.
I know, I know, I should work on one thing at a time, but I couldn't help it! I got inspiration. It's sort of a cheesy love story/science fictiony yet not science fictiony. I'll tell you about it some time. Here is a cartoon version of the main character. I'm not the best with bodies, but I think my head and faces have improved. I've started doing the whole circle, lines detailed thing. But I don't know what to name her! I need some ideas!





So that's what's been going on. Leave some comments!! Love ya!

End Of November

November is coming to an end, and that means that my fun with Nanowrimo will be done for the year. And the sad thing is, I desperately need to get working. Other things have been getting in the way lately, and earlier I was just plain lazy. I'm gonna need a lot of encouragement to finish my book before the end of November. I so far have about 13,000 words and I need 50,000. It's not that I don't have enough information to fit into the story, it's more that I don't have enough time to write a novel in a month while going to school. But even if I don't make it in time, I am going to finish this book. I don't think I could have even gotten this far in one of my books without the help of Nanowrimo sight. At least now I'm a lot better off. Sometime soon, or maybe once I edit it, I'll send you some of my story!
Love you guys!