It's been two years since I've been enrolled in a college. I think up until this week I had forgotten about what an expert I am at procrastinating. I'm working on my NaNoWriMo novel and I am getting more reading of blogs and news articles done than I have in the past few months. It's not that I don't want to write. I am really enjoying the process of writing and the goal that I am working toward, but I just have a process of getting things done and it most definitely includes procrastination. Even writing here is another form of procrastination. In my last entry I presented the possibility that I may not blog much this month. I'm beginning to wonder if it's going to end up being the exact opposite. Maybe I will hit a record number of blog entries as I am working on procrastinating while writing my novel. No matter. Procrastination is a art that needs to be perfected. I plan on having it perfected by the end of this month.

An interesting phenomenon is happening this year as I write my novel. My main characters are never strangers to tragedy and sorrow. It's easy for me to write about bad things happening to my characters. I usually find some morbid release in it. This year, though, I really like my character. She's becoming my friend and I really hate the fact that I need tragedy to strike her life to get her to another country. I'm even finding myself picking up some of her confident personality characteristics. I find myself brooding over her life and her thoughts and plotting where I'm going to take her next as I fall asleep. Weird. I've never had a hard time making bad things happen to my characters before, but I'm actually dreading writing the scene and the scenes that will follow as she struggles to claw her way out of the hole of despair that she is going to fall into. It's such an unusual feeling to care about characters that I have created. I usually get attached to characters that other people create, but my own? That's never happened before. I'm looking forward to seeing where all this takes me.

NaNoWriMo Word Count: 11,398