Change of Plans: the NaNoWriMo Edition

Okay, I originally planned on doing a fan fiction of Silent Hill, but after trying to plan it out, I felt my mind go towards two different projects that I want to finish by year's end.

So after doing the Ben Franklin method (as my mom calls it), listing the pros and cons of doing the new project or finishing the other two as part of NaNo this year, it was an easy decision to make. So yes, I'll be finishing Dolls (I talked about it on and off here) and then the sequel to Blues, known already on here as City.

I'm a little bummed about not doing the initial idea, but things happen and I must follow where my heart is at this time. And right now, it wants me to finish these two projects.

It is what it is. *Kanye shrug*

Whoa, never mind...

Okay, I ain't going to write 3k a day for my NaNoWriMo. That's going to be too effing much. Change of plans. 2k a day for that, 2k for my other novel project, and then 1k for a short story idea I had.

Whoa. Ouch.

A word on grad school

After giving it some thought over the last few months (and the stress I've been dealing with lately didn't help much), I have decided that I will not apply for grad school next year.

I'm not in the best financial situation right now and since I'm in the process of finding new employment, I'm not going to stress over it at this time. I would rather get a full-time gig, make some good money, find a nice place to live, hone my writing skills with vocational classes, and get published a few more times. Just for now, at least. I'm sure once I'm financially secure (well, the best I can be in this economy), I'll decide if grad school is right for me.

I'm not sure if I want to get an MFA just to write better, or become a teacher of sorts, or even change my focus to something else like women's studies or a specific branch of literature (I'm thinking Japanese literature) or library science. Hell, I was considering going overseas to teach English, but it feels imperialistic, so I'll likely pass on this. Or I'll just say "eff this" and do one of those low-residency MFA programs.

Honestly, I have no effing clue if I'll further my studies.

I got an idea. Lemme get an effing job first. After that, I'll go from there...

After some thinking...

I have decided to finally make a second blog, which will be for the reviews. I feel that Musings... should stay as a personal blog and not much more than that. If I want to review anything, it should be more accessible and a little more professional than here. Nothing wrong with what I've done before, but it's time to make a change. I already created it (it's gonna be over at Wordpress) and I haven't done much to it. I'll open it up for business sometime this year.

And yes, I'll transfer all the previous reviews I've done here (and maybe spruce them up a bit). I may not delete them from here but yeah, the pull-down menu will go bye-bye. That and I may look into a new layout for the blog. It's almost its fifth anniversary after all...

So coming soon to a blogosphere near you: Jupiter_Nova's Reviews!