NaNoWriMo Day 24: Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers!

Here’s a list of things I’m thankful for:

• Salvation
• Family
• Food
• Family who sends me pictures of food
• Friends
• Friends with food
• Skyrim
• The Paradigm’s readers
• NaNoWriMo
• My love of writing
• Books
• Written in Silence
• Superman
• Batman
• Spider-Man
• Stargate
• Stargate: SG-1
• Stargate: Atlantis
• Stargate: Universe
• Smallville
• Star Trek
• Star Wars
• Tom Hanks
• My job
• Your job
• The infinity symbol
• Ugly people
• Pretty people
• People in general
• My roommates
• The Nostalgia Critic
• The Secret of NIMH
• Harry Potter
• The Eight Dimensions Trilogy
• Epic battles to the death
• That one guy on the bus you never seem to ever want to talk to…or even make eye contact with, but you end up doing both
• Movies
• Any movie made by J.J. Abrams, Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, or Chris Nolan
• Pumpkin pie
• My Wrimo friends
• The Muppets
• The Chipmunks
• Nostalgic kids movies from the 80′s and 90′s
• iPhone
• The Ronziphone™
• Love

I’m thankful for a lot more things as well, but that’s a good list to start with.  I may not do any writing tomorrow, as it will be a day off for me.  I will be playing Skyrim!

Current word count for Written in Silence: 62,350/50,000

Until my day off is over,

Andrew Ronzino, A Thankful Man

NaNoWriMo Day 24: The Beginning of the End

Well, there are only a few more days of NaNoWriMo left, and Lizzy and we have begun to write the ending of our story.  And I must say, I’m both relieved and sad at this.

I’m relieved because this month has been long, a bit stressful, and most of all, mentally draining.  I found myself on edge and snapping at friends because my mind is tired and needs a rest.  Writing 50,000+ words in 30 days is not easy, even with a co-author.  So, I’m relieved that the month is almost over, and I’ll be able to give my brain a rest.

On the other hand, I’m sad because I believe this month has been a lot of fun and has helped me, even if it was just a little, to become a better writer.  I have a better understanding of writing to a deadline, as well as pushing though even when I don’t feel like writing.  It also helped my creativity skills because I had to think of things on the fly sometimes.  It’s been an all around awesome experience.  Something that I think I would like to do again next year.

But that’s a while away, and this November isn’t over yet.  I still have five more days!  I’m happy for the break tomorrow because of Thanksgiving!

Current word count for The Pharaoh: 58,207/50,000

Until next time,

Andrew Ronzino, A Man Who’s Going To Eat a Lot Tomorrow