Write for you.

Lately I keep seeing all of these things about how when you are writing, you need to think about the reader and what they would like to see.  Write for the reader, write to the reader, write what the reader will love.  Honestly, none of those are bad things- but in the articles I have been reading, that have had these as their main points- they always tend to forget that you need to remember to write, because you love it.  Because, I can guarantee, that if you don't love what you're writing, neither will your readers.
Reading novels, and short stories, poems, and drabbles- I enjoy when I am reading, and I can tell that the writer loved what they were writing.  They were passionate about what they were writing.  The words and sentences and pages I am turning, are a piece of the author who put those words on the pages.
And so please remember, to write because you love it- to write because your fingers itch for the pen, because your mind can't handle not putting the words onto the paper- because that one idea that keeps scratching at the back of your mind is just begging to be let out.  Love what you write, write what you love... write for you.

Camp NaNoWriMo is coming!!!!

http://campnanowrimo.org/

The nervousness and embarrassment of having a crush...

My heartbeat pounding in my ears
You standing there- so close, so near

Guilt of half an effort made
Tells me to hug you- so the guilt will fade

And so I do, where all can see
Because I care, of you and me

And then I stumble, I fall, we laugh
And then I fumble,
My heartbeat making, an unseemly graph

My cheeks still hot, I bid farewell
I step outside, and my spirits fail

But still I walk, my heartbeat pounds
Because I'm okay, yet I still feel down.

Update...

So, I finally went back and really looked at what I wrote this NaNoWriMo...  And though the statement, that I really like what I wrote, still stands- there's a half a million issues.  Which, it's a first draft, so this is okay!
With the plot I've gone with in this story, it's going to end up being around 40,000 (?) words.  I've been told this is much to long to be considered a short story, so I guess I'm going to have to go with novelette.  Moving on from word count though...
I basically, have a first draft actually.  A skeletal ghost of a story.  Plot needs work, characters need beefing up, backstories need gone more into, secondary characters need to be more rounded (flat secondary characters annoy me), and my love interest... Lol, well- my main character honestly knows nothing about him.  In turn, I don't either.

Basically, this is gonna be a whole lot of fun.  *sarcasm slightly intended*
I'm actually really excited though, to work on this and make it what it has the potential to be.  Lots of love you guys!
xx Kanaya

Green, black, centered title and description...

Changed the look completely, how do ya like it?
Sooo... the OCD in me kicked in, and the off center blog title and description was driving me absolutely nuts.  I hated it.  So, I looked up, 'how to center blog description and title in blogger', and came to this wonderful article that told me exactly how to do so!  I was a very happy person :D
Well, it's almost 2 in the am, in my universe.  Hope ya'll are doing great!
xx Kanaya

Soooo... Now that NaNoWriMo is over...

Now that NaNoWriMo 2015 is over, I'm going to continue blogging about writing (maybe give some tidbits that I wrote during NaNo?).  Sooo...  more blogging!  And, since my blog is very... NaNoWriMo oriented looking, I will be giving it a makeover :)  So, fun fun fun.  
We'll talk to you guys later!  
xx Kanaya

NaNoWriMo 2015 is officially over!

NaNoWriMo 2k15 has officially come to an end, and it was a good run :)  This was my first time participating in NaNoWriMo, and I loved it all. 

I finished with a grand total of 27,839 words!

I loved the atmosphere of the site and the forums, and all of the people that were a part.  I love what they're promoting, and I hope that everyone who held on till now loved their experience also.  

My story is far from 50,000 words, and far from completed.  But I plan on fixing that (:   Whether it be in the next few months that I finish the first draft, or during next summer, I do plan on continuing what I've started.

The hardest part of writing for me, is getting it out there, excepting it's absolute garbage, and moving on (until later).  That's where it all has to begin- because if you don't get the first draft out there, the final one will surely never come.  

I'm wishing you guys the best.

Lots of love,

    Kanaya x