30 Days of Madness

With the arrival of November comes National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo. I've attempted (though not always succeeded) every year since 2008. At this point, it's basically the only fiction writing I do anymore.

If you're also doing NaNo, you can find me at the website (handle: Kokoba) to keep track of my word count, read more about my novel, and maybe even read some excerpts (if I put any up). If you haven't done it before, give it a shot! It's fun and you can meet some fantastic people. It's especially useful for anyone who dreams of being a writer, because no matter how sensitive and gifted you are (or think you are), what writing really comes down to is sitting down to do it every day, no matter what. Doing it for a month is a good practice.

Participating in NaNo is one of my 101 in 1001 events; there's one more over the course of my list and that will be another item I've accomplished. For more updates on that list, click past the jump.




Completed

I finally visited Secret Caverns! (3 - 2) A review is forthcoming, but it was everything I hoped it would be.

In Progress

I started this year's NaNoWriMo. (5 - 11)

I also had a bit of a Facebook purge and now have under 250 "friends." That's a good limit, I think. I simply don't understand people who have over 1,000 listed friends. How...? (8 - 2)

Failed

Unfortunately, I never made it to Atlantic City or Penn's Cave (3 - 1) (3 - 7). The chances I'll be back in the states with the time to go to those places is highly unlikely, so I'm counting them as failed.

1. Self Reliance and Actualization
1. Finish 101 list (16 / 25)
2. Revise every 6 months (1 / 5) (Next one due: 1 January, 2014)
3. Post weekly updates (46 / 143)
4. Learn 500 Korean words (285 / 500)
5. Finish Talk to Me in Korean up to at least level 4 (30 / 40)
6. Read one chapter of "Doktor Glas" in Swedish.

0 / 6


2. Earthly Delights and the Root of All Evil
1. Finish Project Rae
2. Finish Project Rae-inspired bracelet
3. Make at least one new piece of jewelry every month (27 / 33)
4. Finish 3 books I've owned for over a year but haven't read yet (3 / 3)
5. Close account at Shinhan bank
6. Collect pension
7. Wire money home
8. Get jeans hemmed
9. Acquire three new "nice" tops. (3 / 3)
10. Find a replacement for my brown palazzo pants.
11. Finish 5 books I've owned for over a year but haven't read yet. (4 / 5)

9 / 11

3. Local Places and Ideas
1. Go to Penn's Cave
2. Go to Secret Caverns
3. Read everything off the TIME Top 100 Novels list (75 / 100)
4. Go on a Uijeongbu photo safari
5. Go to Jeju
6. Go to Gwangju
7. Go to Atlantic City
8. Go to Suwon Fortress

5 / 8

4. Family
1. Find out Tess's maiden name
2. Email Mom-mom (4 / 12)

1 / 2


5. Entertainment and Creativity
1. Clean out music library
2. Organize music library
3. Watch the IMDB Top 100 Movies (fetched in October of 2009) (60 / 100)
4. Catch up on Community (18 / 18)
5. Finish IT Crowd (8 / 8)
6. Watch every MST3K episode (107 / 198)
7. Finish outlining screenplay
8. Write at least 45 pages of the screenplay (20 / 45)
9. Finish outlining novel
10. Write at least 25,000 words of the novel (20,000 / 25,000)
11. Participate in all available NaNoWriMos (2 / 3)
12. Watch every Star Trek TOS episode (44 / 80)
13. Watch every extant episode of the first two Doctors (26 / ?)

3 / 13

6. Health
1. Finish C25K
2. Weight train 2x a week (1 week)
3. Weight train 2x a week (2 weeks)
4. Weight train 2x a week (4 weeks)
5. Brush teeth every day (1 week)
6. Brush teeth every day (2 weeks)
7. Brush teeth every day (4 weeks)
8. Go to the dentist
9. Eat fresh produce every day (1 week)
10. Eat fresh produce every day (2 weeks)
11. Eat fresh produce every day (4 weeks)
12. Do morning calisthenics every day (1 week)
13. Do morning calisthenics every day (2 weeks)
14. Do morning calisthenics every day (4 weeks)

5 / 14

7. Relationships
1. Email Rudolfo
2. Give feedback on "Pug in a Slingshot"
3. Give feedback on Bryan's newest script.
4. Comment on one other Mission 101 blog per week (49 / 143)
5. Give feedback to Kat on "Familiar."

2 / 5

8. (Cleaning Out) Heavy Stuff
1. Private! (1 / 3)
2. FB purges (2 / 3)
3. Write my will

0 / 3

9. Broadening Horizons
1. Go to Cambodia/Philippines/Thailand (just one)
2. One non-fiction book a month (16 / 33)
3. Outline thesis argument
4. Find one good thesis source
5. One foreign movie a month (16 / 33)
6. One documentary a month (11 / 33)

0 / 6

10. Professionalism
1. Make Etsy about page
2. Get a FB page photo
3. Update FB daily 1 week
4. Update FB daily 2 weeks
5. Update FB daily 4 weeks
6. Blog 3x a week 1 week
7. Blog 3x a week 2 weeks
8. Blog 3x a week 4 weeks
9. Register a proper domain name
10. List a new item on Etsy daily 1 week
11. List a new item on Etsy daily 2 weeks
12. List a new item on Etsy daily 4 weeks
13. Get a blog header
14. Write 3 articles a day, once.
15. Write 5 articles for What Culture (3 / 5)

5 / 15

11. Politicking
1. Vote in one local election (if possible)
2. Vote in one presidential election

0 / 2

12. A Helping Hand
1. Donate cast-off Korea clothing to Isaac's House.
2. Finish volunteer stint at the Great Vision school with only five or fewer absences.
3. Donate $100 in microloans ($79 / 100)
4. Donate $2 to a literacy charity for every unread book on the TIME Top 100 List
5. Donate $2 to the OLL for every unwatched movie on the IMDB Top 100 List
6. 30,000 more grains on FreeRice (30,000 / 30,000)
7. 70,000 grains on FreeRice (53,000 / 70,000)

3 / 7


92 / 101 written, 9 undecided.

31 / 101 finished!

5 / 101 failed!