JulNoWriMo

Ok, so I moved my blog in the anticipation it would be used more, and what do I do? I ignore it.

Moving on, it's almost July and the last month of freedom until I go back to Uni bright and early on August 2nd (Bright and early, literally - I have an 8am class on Mondays, ugh). Since completely my first semester, I have done pretty much nothing which is good and bad. Good because its relaxing and stress-free, but bad because that makes me anxious and increases my insomnia because I feel like my life is going nowhere, and its time I start actually trying to achieve things in my life, and I'm boring and useless and....bleh....

The point is, I've decided to undertake a project for the month of July this year, that will no doubt make me a frazzled, mumbling mess of craziness before its over.
I will be writing a 50 thousand word novel. In 31 days.
Before you ask - I don't know what I'm thinking.

For those not in the know, every year an event called National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo for short) takes place in November. Last year was my first year attempting this insanity, but due to the fact that I was graduating highschool in the last week of November and thus had to take scary exams that would determine my future for years to come, I only managed 5000 words before I quit.

Now, I'm bored and wanting to finally finish something I start writing, so I searched for any other events similar to NaNoWriMo that would be happening before then and came across JulNoWriMo. Pretty much the same except for the one extra day you have to reach your goal. And, of course, the lack of obstacles such as school.

I've decided to tie JulNoWriMo in with my lack of blog posts and video blogs, so for the month of July, I will be writing a blog post every week day and making weekly video blogs about the experience. My Youtube channel is here for those interested in possibly akward and insane ramblings.

Now I have to get back to world building, character notes and hopefully actually having a plot before Thursday roles around!

P.S Anyone interested in joining this nonsence that is bound to have longlasting affects of the negative kind on your sanity - enjoy

I made you a blog but I eated it...

So I recently decided to take more of a stand and more initiative when it comes to my online presence. Instead of whining about how no-one watches my videos on YouTube (despite the fact that I'm not exactly proud of them), I need to start advertising myself more (and making better videos) Instead of feeling alienated because I'm only on the outskirts of awesome web communities, I need to start participating more. Instead of not writing blog posts or tweeting because I feel self-conscious and no-one reads them/follows me, I need to keep it up while I make an effort to change that.

I had one user name for YouTube, another one for Twitter and yet another for my old blog. It seems that I feel the need to create a different "persona" each time I sign up to something new, but all that does is create massive obscurity. I want people I know from YouTube to be able to use all these sites to piece together who I was, who I am, and who I will become, just as I do with my favourite YouTube personalities.

Long story short, I'm compiling/compressing all of this and putting it all under ONE user name in an effort to allow my friends to keep up with me without having to remember a million user names.

So, like, welcome.