Wacky Wrino · By Eason Paini
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Three maniacal English geniuses - Brett, Janice, and Bri - came together one day and thought, ‘Hey, why don't we subject the students to the hell that we writers do every year, but easier so we don't get sued?’ And that's how Wrino Month was born - a spin-off of NaNoWriMo - where students have to write 200 words or more a day for all of November until they have a manuscript where they can become fully published authors. If the reward was the lure, then I took the bait with the bonus of scamming Janice into giving us 837 dollars worth of her products at the end. Now, Janice, if you are reading this one, please don't go back on your promise… and two, if you are wondering about the calculations, it's 31 (the number of students) multiplied by your cheapest student planner ($27) - unless you want to give us a more expensive one, then please go ahead.
Wrino Month is very interesting. Now, if anyone's wondering why I say this, it is because they decided to extend it to see us suffer more, I mean, to edit our manuscripts. So technically, it is not Wrino ‘Month’. After a little bit of rebranding, our online student community was renamed as The Young Writer's Room - just saying, it lacks class. Now then, back on topic. Wrino is very interesting. You need to make sure it's at the top of your priorities, or else Brett will come and murder you in February if you are not done (although he will say otherwise). Just a little heads up. Other than that, it will revolutionise your writing. Practice makes perfect, and practicing every day sure will help!
More benefits of Wrino are that time management and discipline will be drilled into you. You see, schools are too lenient, saying that you need to develop those skills or you will fail class - which everyone takes to heart by sleeping at 3AM. However, Wrino makes it simpler. You can die in an endless loop of writing and get no sleep, and only the strongest survive. I'm not the best example since I'm currently slacking to write this, but do concentrate on the above.
If you are ever burnt out by Wrino, there is this amazing Google Classroom with all its participants. Now, I’d rather have a Discord server because chatting is easier, and there can be pinned messages and a read-only channel for tips (instead of scrolling through a million posts trying to find that one vocabulary list you need). However, even with its liabilities, the Google Classroom is full of vibrant energetic people who are very good to socialise with (just ignore the ‘Rick Rolls’ and the little cult they made of worshipping cheese).
Now sadly, the Google Classroom is also Wrino's achilles' heel because you will find your self-esteem crashing faster than the stock market in the Great Depression - especially now that everyone is sending each other their writing. The structure goes like this: You see someone's work and you are like, ‘This is good!’ Then you think to yourself, ‘Hey, my work is just as good, right?’ before quitting and getting mad at why you are so bad at writing, until you are like, ‘This must have been written by someone older. Yeah...’ until you realise it was written by a year three kid and you become depressed. As someone going into year 9, everything I felt that I knew about English came crashing down.
Sadly, I have to cut this short because Janice is going to try to poison me after she sees that I'm doing a reflection on Wrino before her. A 9/10 for sure, and I will do it next year, but please nerf the children.
