My Writing Plan: Junior Year

AHHH, PEOPLES. SCHOOL IS STARTING VERY SOON. AHHHH. 

DID I MENTION, AHHHHHH? 

Yeah, thought so. 

Ahem. 

My Junior year is completely booked to the maximum for school. Not kidding. I have 8 full-time (non-elective) classes (not including athletics). I expect them to be rigorous and I will enjoy them, despite the work. But with all that school, where's writing going to fit in? I wasn't ready to throw the baby out with the bathwater, despite my messy novel. I'm continuing to finish the 1st draft, no matter how long it takes me. I started with a wonderful idea and I'm going to see it through to the very end. 

I came up with a few techniques to ensure that I get something written. 

1. The 100 Words writing technique. I created a google docs spreadsheet to track my progress over the course of 15 weeks. I plan to write 100 words a day. Even if I don't get all the words written every single day, it'll be good to try to make some progress. That in itself is success, in my view.
Anywho, this'll help set me up for a successful November... Which brings me to my next idea.

2. NaNoWriMo. I think we're all pretty familiar with this idea, so I'm just going to leave it at that.

3. Accountability. I have great writing friends and I've already asked them to help keep me accountable. School will be hard this year, but that doesn't excuse me from writing when I can. They're in this with me - to help me succeed.

4. School comes first. Sorry, guys... School is always going to come first for me. It's too important to neglect. I haven't lived with this schedule ever before, so this is going to be a test-run. I'm going to try my absolute best to be an author and a student at the same time. But I'm not going to let authoring dreams kill the student in me, because being a student is my full-time job right now.

5. Google drive. Because it saves everything by itself. I don't even have to remind. So on the night when I forget to remind it and shut down my computer, my writing won't disappear and crush my heart.

6. Free time is brainstorming time. If I'm in the car - on my way to cross country practice, most likely - and I have my homework done, the rest of that car-ride becomes fair-game for my novel. Not writing, but thinking about it and jotting things down.
Don't worry, people, I probably won't do this if I'm driving.

7. All-nighters are not going to happen. Now I'm not bashing people who pull of all nighters (actually, this is an admiration thing), I think they're amazing. But I can't run on no sleep. I've tried before. I end up with a killer migraine and I crash no matter where I am or what I'm doing. I seriously think that I've fallen asleep at a youthgroup thing before (like dozed off and then jerked awake, not full-out napping during games).

8. I'm becoming a hermit, aside from sports. I'm completely serious. I really doubt that I'll be doing youthgroup (which is honestly fine with me, because I'm an introvert and I don't really like my youthgroup). I've always been homeschooled, so this won't be that much different from years past. But this year I have an excuse to stay home, mauahahahaha.

9. Progress is important, but so is my sanity. Hey, if I go a month without writing, but manage to maintain school and sports and my mental state, I'll be pleased. I really reallyyyy want to write throughout this school year, but it's not the end of the world if it doesn't happen.

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Another ramble-y post for y'all! I hope you enjoyed it!

Best wishes for this coming school year!