Week One of NaNoWriMo has come and gone, and as I promised both you and myself, I look back at what I have accomplished this week, both with a sense of disappointment that I have not gone further, but with a sense of wonder and hope for the future. For this has been a week full of change, excitement, and renewed purpose.
On the first day, as I was writing, I had the extreme pleasure of meeting up with a creative writing teacher while I was substitute teaching. This teacher and I had met before last school year when I began writing reviews for Fantasy-Faction.com (I was working on my second review at the time), and at the time she had expressed interest in me coming in at some point to discuss writing with her students. Although that had never come to pass, this time around we got to talking about NaNoWriMo, my new method for writing (which has been working very well), and various programs that are available for writers to download for organization purposes (I will possibly discuss these in a later installment). This brought us to the topic of an online creative writing course that she teaches. She expressed distaste for the program, citing it was clunky and not very user-friendly. After seeing it for myself, I have to admit that she was right. To assist her and to also offer a new venue, I decided to start working on a forum for the students. Hopefully this forum will serve as a more inviting place for the students to work and interact. As for the time it will be up, expect a link in the next update.
By the end of the week, I have come to a bit of an epiphany as well, which may as well serve as the epilogue for this part: I have decided to look for a job in publishing in either the literary or gaming mediums. While I love teaching and my heart is still in the subject, I do not know if it is where my destiny lies right now. Things are changing too much for me right now, and I have to go where my heart tells me. I want to teach. I want to write. I want to design games. I want to do a million things, but I have to do what I feel is right, and what I want is to create. With any luck, this month and time will tell if that is what I can do.
So far, I think it is.
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