This is the Beginning

Hi everyone,

My name is Helen and this is my writing blog. I'm 20 years old, live in Canada and am currently working towards an English degree with a concentration on creative writing. Right now, I'm working on my project: "Scarlett," which I am really excited about.

This is it. This is the beginning. This blog is going to be my way of documenting my journey as a writer. I used to have a blog that was dedicated to the books I was reading, but I found that I lost passion for updating it. I don't know why, but it happened. However, I still found myself wanting to write down a lot of things that I was doing, they just weren't about the books that I was reading. Instead, they seemed to be heavily focused on the books that I'm writing.

If I know myself the way that I like to think I do, then this blog won't strictly be about my writing. It will be a main focus of it, but it won't be the only thing that I talk about. The title of this blog is That Nerdy Writer for a reason, and I intend to explain it to everyone who reads this, but at a slower pace so that I don't overload you with information.

Right now, if you don't know already, Camp NaNoWriMo is going on! Every April and July the lovely people who host NaNoWriMo in November host the camp version of it, which is basically the same thing but much more laid back as you get to decide your own word goal for the month. At the last minute, I decided that I was going to join in the fun. Of course, this is a terrible month to do so, as I just finished my last two weeks of classes for the semester which means that I had a whole bunch of papers due, and now I have an entire week of exams with very little time to study for them. This is why I personally set my goal at only 20,000 words for the month.

I didn't really get to start writing until yesterday, but I managed to have a pretty good writing day. I wrote just over 3500 words! I'm just about to try and get some writing done for tonight, and I'm hoping to bring my total up by about 2000 more words by the end of this session. I'm working on revisions for this Camp, so I find that it takes me a lot longer to write than it did for my last three NaNo's where I was writing first drafts and could just type everything out really quickly without needing to worry about if it was all good or all made sense. Now I have to fix those mistakes and it literally takes FOREVER.

There is a reason that revisions are my absolute least favorite part of writing, but they are necessary so here I am.

Let me know if any of you are taking part in Camp NaNoWriMo this year! If not, have you ever taken part in it, or the regular one hosted in November? I'm so excited to start having conversations with you, so please don't be shy about leaving comments.

I shall update again soon,

Helen.