Hello there. Thank you for your attention and time. I know it's not easy to actually take some time to look at blocks of text instead of scrolling through short videos filled with cute people.
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I will go for the name of Yume. Or Yui. See, I am not Japanese, but decided to make up a Japanese pen-name for the NaNoWriMo of this year. I found the kanji for dream, 夢, but it apparently has, among others, these two readings. I can't decide on one of them, though. Perhaps someone better at Japanese could help me decide? Anyway, for now you can either call me Yume or Yui. Both are alright.
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I created this account (along with a Reddit account) so I could post my project for the November writing project for this year, as I said before. Also, I wanted to talk to people not just about writing, but also about other things. I have a couple interests that I will be talking more about in the next entries, and I'm sure that we'll have plenty to talk about. As for the project, I have a very simple aim. I want to write around 2000 words a day, and doing so I hope to create a buffer of sorts for the days I am unable to write. NaNoWriMo projects are 50000 words long, so 2000 words a day will leave me with a word surplus if I stick to this number.
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I have story ideas since I was a kid. But I never could do much to give them shape, at least not the shapes one would expect, like books or comics or whatever. I used to make up lots of tabletop RPG systems though, so I guess it kind of counts? My family and friends used them with me for a long time, so I like to think that I was successful. I tried many times to write books, though, but always ended up ditching the texts. I cringed when I read them after a while, because every single one of them seemed horrible to me. I have no special talent for writing, so seeing what I could do after so much work and thought hurt me. Is that really all I can do?, went my inner monologue, and I eventually "grew out of it". Which basically means I stopped trying. But the wish to write and the ideas never quite left me, and I even had new ones. So, last year I discovered NaNoWriMo, but failed to finish the project. This year, however, I plan on doing so.
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Many things can get on the way. I sort of have a life that needs to be attended to, and I am almost certainly ADHD, so I always struggled with focusing, keeping at one project until the end, expressing myself, and so on.
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What do I want with it? I want, first and foremost, to write out at least one of my ideas, so I won't regret not doing so in the future. I've always wanted to put my story ideas on paper, analyse them thoroughly and share them with the people who would like them, but as I said, I never got around to doing it. So that's my first wish, to take one of my ideas and make it visible. Making it reach the ones who would want to read it.
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Second... remember I said I struggled with self-expression? So, it's true, painfully true, and so bad that I can't even express myself to myself, if it makes any sense. So by writing, I hope to understand myself and show parts of myself that I usually don't show.
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And the third one sounds a bit silly, but I think you would understand it if you try being nice and look into your own heart. I want my stories, my brainchildren to be known. Famous, I'd dare to say. And by extension being myself known, too. I think most of us want to be well-known, at least a bit. I at least feel this way.
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So if you plan on helping me by staying around and reading me, I have to warn one thing. English is not my first language, and I learned it by myself, in a way that many people would think to be no good. So I will probably use bad grammar and weird word choices now and then. If you want to point out where I erred, please do so. I will be grateful! Just try being nice about it, okay?
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Well, the app says this jumbled mess will take you four minutes to read. Not believing I have any right of demanding more than that from your time, I'll part ways with you for now.
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Goodbye and take care. So long!
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