Ah, the month of October. Fall leaves crunch underfoot, frost graces the windows in the early mornings, snow cakes into the holes that developed in your snowboots during the summer, leaving an unpleasant dampness that lasts all day. Lovely.
Halloween is almost over and the entire campus mourns its death. I am sitting at home watching a Korean horror movie with a group of friends that also happen to be the members of my creative writing club. Yes, the end of October ushers in the beginning of November (in exactly 35 minutes). Not only are we celebrating Halloween with this badly-translated film; we are also celebrating the beginning of NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month. Any person interested in creative writing must understand this momentous occasion. During the month of November, writers are challenged to write 50,000 words toward a novel, ideally finishing the novel by midnight on November 30th. Being a college student, it’s difficult enough to read a novel outside of class, let alone write one. So why not take on the challenge!
Homework, a job, friends, exercise, family, and now a burgeoning writing career? Yes, I am a sucker for my own painful sleep deprivation. But college really is the time to explore who and what you are, what you like to do, what you’re going to be for the rest of your life. Take this time to explore all you interests. Not only will you refine valuable skills (believe me, writing is valuable for almost any career you could possibly yearn for), you will also form wonderful friendships. Being a member of creative writing club gives me a chance to distress from engineering calculations. And who knows, this might be my award-winning novel!
So yes, I have to go to work at nine in the morning. And yes, I have an economics midterm on Wednesday. But in seven minutes, I will begin working on my novel. I might actually finish this time.
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