Oh, geez. What did I get myself into? Why couldn’t I have taken that calm little PowerPoint presentation project instead of going for NANOWRIMO?!

I mean, I have a great plot that I really REALLY want to write about, but still. NaNoWriMo means I have to write almost two thousand words a day, A.K.A. at least TWO HOURS OF WRITING A DAY. We IB students have barely half an hour to spare each day, let alone TWO WHOLE HOURS OR MORE!

Okay, yes, we get fifty minutes of class time each day to work on NaNoWriMo, but when you include the whole settling down in front of the computer and packing up at the end of class time, that only leaves you with forty minutes to write. Then you have to manage to squeeze out about an hour and a half at home to dedicate to writing.

Mr. Stanton says to pass with an A, you only need thirty thousand words, but if I don’t beat NaNoWriMo, it’s going to haunt me until the next year I do NaNoWriMo, which probably won’t happen until after college. So, I have to write fifty thousand words.

Although, I do admit, I was happy that Mr. Stanton and most of the Creative Writing class knew about NaNoWriMo. Not at first, because I was all, “Oh noes! I can’t do fifty thousand words while I’m in IB!” but after I signed a contract (I’m a minor, which means I can’t enter a contract, but oh well. It’s school, and exceptions to rules are a common thing) and said I would commit myself, I felt better. Not as good as I felt after I finally thought of a good plot to write about, but I felt good enough.

As of now, I’ve got the outline of the first four chapters done, so I know what I’m going to write about tomorrow.

WARD VS. WHITE:

Ward, as part of his revenge, has decided to counter back in a way similar to the incident when White toilet papered his classroom. This time, however, he’s taking it to the extreme — remember that mechanical tarantula? Well, he also wants to make a gigantic sticky web for it. And guess where that web’s going to be? Yup, Ms White’s room. It’s going to span all along her walls and maybe even her desk. Not the students’ desks, though — that would be too drastic. He’s got it planned pretty well, and a good portion of the class is backing him up.

I can’t wait to see Ms White’s reaction.

Ward loves to insult White, too, saying she’s the oldest, most scariest person that ever lived. He incorporates biology in his rants, saying that no bacteria or skin mites are living on her because she’s so ugly and scary, and that she was around way before the dinosaurs lived, yet she can’t tell us humans any specific details about prehistoric life because her memory is horrible.

It’s a hilarious thing, watching those two bicker and fight each other constantly. It makes the torturous IB life so much more bearable.