Sisters In Christ, Check This Out!

Hey there!

I’m blogging to tell you all about something I’m super duper excited about:

The Dear Sister In Christ Project (DSICP)!

This is a project that a friend of mine thought up, and I volunteered to help with. So our project fell into place

Here’s a little bit about the project, taken from its website:

To put it simply, the main goal of the Dear Sister In Christ Project (DSICP) is to provide an opportunity for Christian women of all ages to encourage and support today’s tween and teen girls by sharing their faith through letters. … We wish to encourage our readers to look to God for help during hardships as well as the trying teenage years. DSICP letters are not advice letters, but rather testimonial letters. We do not wish to offer the solutions to specific issues, but point the way towards the one and only, ultimate solution—Jesus.

This reminds me a little bit of Project Inspired, an awesome Christian website for teen and tween girls (that you should check out!) started by a model, only instead of articles written by the staff, The DSIC Project uses letters written by the readers.

The DSICP also has a blog on which there will be monthly Faith Challenges, portions of scripture, and who knows what else we’ll wind up posting! The letters on the site are written by readers for the purpose of encouraging today’s teens and tweens and will cover anything from self-image to relationships to peer pressure to anything in between.

All you female readers, you should take some time to check it out! I am super excited about this project and have been since my friend and I started plotting

In case that hyperlink didn’t work, our (possibly temporary, meaning that we may get a URL that people can actually remember eventually) site is http://home.comcast.net/~webso/site/?/home/

God bless,

I WON!

I am super, super, uber excited.

Why?

I WON NANOWRIMO!

In other words, I met my word count goal.

True, I changed my goal from 50k to 20k. But I wrote 20,o00 words in a month! 20,001 if you ask the NaNo website, 20,070 if you ask our version of Microsoft Word.

I am incredibly proud of myself. Not only did I survive, but I actually wrote 20,000 words that (hopefully) someday will be good enough for people to actually read!

As is, it needs editing. I realize this.

But that can’t stop my optimism for long.

In case you’re wondering, no, I didn’t finish my novel. Far from it. I barely started Part Two. But I did meet my goal. And that’s pretty awesome too!

This is definitely the most planning and work I have EVER put into a story. Or, like, anything else.

In any case, I can now tell people that I won NaNoWriMo.

This has been a crazy month. I can’t wait to rest a bit. And keep writing. And editing. Hmm.

Over and out,

Paperclip101

10k at Long Last!!!

Well, this is pretty self-explanatory based off of the title. Ah, well.

I finally have 10,000 words!!!

I am quite proud of myself

That means I have 40,000 more words to do in the next 17 days or so.

That’s about (according to the NaNoWriMo website stats) 2,353 words a day.

Think I can do it?

I think I just might be able to pull this off!

(Yes, this is short. I want to get back to writing. But I had to update my blog about this momentous occasion!!!)

Over and out,

<3 Paperclip101

A Celebratory Post (As Well as More Procrastination!)

 Hello, my faithful blog readers!

I have big news!

1. I now have 6 followers!

and…

2. Today, I beat my record for most views. 27 views of my blog today!

Yes! I consider both of these big accomplishments. If you look at my archives, you will see that I have only had my blog since August. So really, this is huge to me I remember how excited I was to get my first follower. Well, now I have 6!

(I know. These numbers really don’t sound that big, for those of you who get, like, 5 million views a day and have like 30 followers. But guess what? It means that I’m starting to have a name in the blogging community! I’m quite proud of myself.)

So thanks a ton, you guys. I love you all

Also, my NaNoWriMo novel is coming along okay. Although I am currently procrastinating on it by writing a celebratory blog post. Also, I am more behind than I realized that I was. I still need 9,587 words to reach today’s goal.

But, I’m not as frustrated right now. I overcame my writer’s block a bit. Now I just need to overcome my horrible procrastination habits.

Over and out,

<3 Paperclip101