Blah, so much for trying to get in a post every day, huh? It's two in the morning right now, and while it's technically Sunday, I'm still counting this as my Saturday blog! Man, I meant to squeeze in a post earlier, but I ended up watching loads of anime with my sister, so that didn't go as planned, haha...

I'll still be participating in NaBloPoMo though... but just not officially. Blogging is something I've been trying to do every day anyway, mainly because it helps get all of my thoughts down somewhere. When I was younger, like around thirteen or so, I used to blog daily without breaking a sweat! I guess maybe because I had so much spare time? I don't know what happened, but somewhere along the line, I lost track of how to manage my time properly, and whenever I'm not pressed to do something, I just waste my time doing... well, nothing, really. So! Here are some things I should definitely be working hard on doing every day:

Blog: I know, I've just mentioned this, but blogging is good for the heart, mind, body, and soul! What's more therapeutic than getting your words down on paper (or on the Internet?). Besides, I like being able to have a nice chronicle of the little things that happen in my life, so one day, I can look back on my blog and say, "Oh wow, I remember when this happened..." just to see how I've grown over the years! Blogging's double-y good when you can interact with others, especially other writers, of course... Writing makes ya grow!

Write: This is totally separate from blogging, by the way! I've been slacking in the writing department, I'll admit, and this could be easily remedied if I just set a goal to write a little every day! it doesn't have to be a lot, all one has to do to get better at writing is find some time in your schedule to sit down and start writing! I already have tons of sites to yank prompts from (I think later in the week, I'll make a post of ways to swipe inspiration from sources on the web...) so being inspired shouldn't even be a problem! Plus, I have tons of things I want to write about written down in notebooks scattered about, and I still have Pridea to work on, so it's not like I don't have anything to work off of! I just need to get crackin' on doing it daily, instead of whenever the hell I feel like it.

Read: D'uh! This one's sort of an easy one, but to be honest, I have no idea when the last time I've been to a bookstore was. I don't have much to read around here - well, I do, I suppose, I've just got to dig around for them - but it'd be nice if I could get some fresh material in my room to read! There are so many books that I want to read, like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or The Perks of being a Wallflower, but I can't drive yet (pathethic, I know) and I don't have time to walk to the library and back, and then back to the library again to drop off the books in the two weeks that they'll be due. Maybe I can ask to go to Borders on my birthday? Meanwhile, there's gotta be something I can read in the house... Or maybe I'll make use of Project Gutenburg? Maybe make a list of the old books lying around my house that I should read?

Exercise: Gaaah, the hardest one of all! Well, not hard really, I guess - we have a treadmill downstairs, for god's sake, so I don't even need to leave the house or go to the gym to exercise, I just have to do it! I can even watch anime on my iPod touch while I'm exercising, since our treadmill has a hookup that I can plug into my iPod that lets sound come out of the treadmill's built in speakers. It's pretty cool, if I do say so myself! Ehh, I'm just so lazy - but exercising is something everyone should do daily, especially for me, since I don't want to put on any (more) weight! Plus, with someone with health as bad as mine - a bum knee, bad lungs - I could do with a bit of exercising...

Somehow, if I can squeeze in all of these things, I know that I'd probably feel a lot better about myself! I always feel so tired at the end of the day, but really, what have I done? I know it's not January, but that doesn't mean I can't set up any resolutions for myself, right?

Writing daily is probably the most important goal up there for me, though. Two years ago, I did my first NaNo and reached the 100K mark at the end of the month. I told myself I'd start editing the manuscript, but really, where have I started? I haven't done anything really remarkable since then, and i want to feel like I'm not just sitting around and wasting my youth away... In reality, I'm pretty busy, though. I don't know when I'm meeting my mentor again, and I have a lot of technical work I have to do for my internship with my Latin teacher, but I can't let little things stop me. You're not a writer if you can't even find any goddamn time to sit down and actually write!

I've been wondering about whether I should set a daily word count goal or not. I've looked around at some writing blogs, and people have found that word count goals are more detrimental rather than helpful, and they chose to just sit down for a given number of minutes and write for that period instead. Eh, I don't know if that would be the case for me, though - sometimes, I'll sit for quite some time and just go back and edit a sentence, or I'll get distracted and forget that I'm supposed to be writing at all. With a word count goal, I'll probably get more done. Maybe I can try writing a set amount of words every month, instead of just in November? I know I won't be participating in NaNo, but at least I'll be getting something done, which is still better than just being idle like I've been in the past... well, who knows how long I've been rusty?

I browsed around deviantArt today and found a ton of great communities to join (no, I'm not posting up links to them in this blog today... but maybe I will in another post) which makes me super excited, since everything I post in this journal will probably end up cross-posted over there as well. There are even some writing contests on deviantArt that pay the winners with subscriptions! God, that'd be so cool if I happened to win one, but I doubt that'd happen, since I'm really out of touch. Still, it's nice to dream though, right?

Alright, I think I've gone on long enough. My bed is looking really cozy right about now...