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That NaNo that you do
Nov. 13th, 2012 01:07 pmI wanted to be farther along after this weekend, actually. I went to Midtown and they were having a booksale, which was cool. Plus the couple that own the store, the wife was doing NaNo herself and was letting us use space. Next year will probably be the same. And it's a cool old store that had been renovated from something eles and they have a ton of used/old books.
But due to the weather doing a turnabout to 60 degrees, I developed this huge migraine from the barometric pressure. So any concentration to be done was nil. I just did the minimum count and called it a night. It wasn't so bad yesterday but I could still feel it. But it didn't feel like my head was going to explode. I still only did minimum. *sigh* I want to get at least 10k ahead so that when my word count drops while I'm visiting the West Coast for family things, it won't put me so far behind that I'm trying to write 20k within 3 days because I'm coming back the morning of the 28th. I think it's an 11 hour flight out and a 13 one back, but during the night so I might wind up dozing between San Francisco and Chicago.
I need to keep to the word wars and just plug in the earphones to get that far ahead.
Doing a little secret santa thing with some of the MLs and I realized that I spelled recipient (I used receipient.) wrong when I sent out the PMs. *face palm* My internal spell check failed on that one.
NaNo Status
Nov. 2nd, 2012 11:14 pmSo far, so good. For not really feeling solid on the plot I managed to churn out over 3k in something. Not sure what it is, but it's something. Maybe things will pick up when I move the two MCs together. Granted, yes I should start with that but this is NaNo right now and I don't think I want to throw away 3k in words right now to fix the slow beginning. Though I did find a cool site that has scanned copies of old maps. I found an 1859 map for the area that I'm basing my story in. Map Archive.
Word Count: 3,361 / 50,000
Morale: Okay
Snippet:
“You are in my dream. Telling me I’m going to get visitors?” Okay, if this was someone’s idea of a joke, Brigette was going to punch them in the face. It wasn’t very funny.
“They aren’t just ordinary visitors. I will remind you to keep your eyes open. Things aren’t always as they appear.”
“That makes no sense. Why are you telling me nonsense?” Brigette pinched the bridge of her nose. “I really need to stop having coffee before bed.”
Word Count: 3,361 / 50,000
Morale: Okay
Snippet:
“You are in my dream. Telling me I’m going to get visitors?” Okay, if this was someone’s idea of a joke, Brigette was going to punch them in the face. It wasn’t very funny.
“They aren’t just ordinary visitors. I will remind you to keep your eyes open. Things aren’t always as they appear.”
“That makes no sense. Why are you telling me nonsense?” Brigette pinched the bridge of her nose. “I really need to stop having coffee before bed.”
November Goals
Oct. 31st, 2012 10:47 pmLast week I had the fun of seeing Henry Rollins in one of his spoken word engagements. If you’ve never heard of Henry Rollins, check out his website here. He’s been a rocker, an actor, a rights activist, a traveler. He’s only fifty-one and he still tours around like no one’s business. In his earlier spoken word CDs, he drops a lot of F-bombs. He’s apparently mellowed a bit as he’s aged as he hardly swore at all. It was a fun show and my friends and I were amazed that he talked for two and a half hours without taking a drink of water. That and he held the mic like he was ready to belt out a tune. He talks about a lot of things from politics to how he grew up and experienced to what he is planning on doing in the future. If you have a chance to see him, I would suggest that you do so. He is entertaining. He might use a bit of salty language but then there are few people that don’t these days.
So, it’s two hours away but is looming like a monolith. NaNoWriMo starts up tonight at midnight but considering how I’m feeling sleepy, I don’t think I’ll stay up very long even to write 100 words. They’ll get done, when they get done and we’ll see if this story has staying power. BAH! I’m a pantser so it’s always a ‘will I get it done this year’ moment. I do have to say that if you are having problems getting words down, find a sprint partner or a chat that has word sprints. You would be surprised how fast those 100-200 word sprints add up by the time you are done for the night. That’s how I passed 50k last year. I wouldn’t say finished as there is a LOT if fixing that I need to do.
And what is taking NaNo by the horns than signing up for something else, such as #writemotivation. One of my fellow MLs, Rebekah speaks of #writemotivation and how it has helped her a lot so I’ll give it a go and see how I do with it. I had seemed to have kept up with it at the beginning of the year with writing daily and then I don’t know what happened. I just seemed to have ‘died’. I was very meh about writing and I need to at least do something every day, even if I later throw it out because it is more utter crap than my other utter crap.
I need to do a goal list so:
1: Keep up with NaNo and use the blog to keep track, maybe even give a six sentence snippet with each post.
2: Work more on expanding the world that I’m basing my story on. (Most people would do this as prep, you know before NaNo. Not me, OH No!).
3: On top of NaNo, keep up with the flash fiction contests all week.
4. Actually pulling out my older NaNos and work on editing them, even if it is a page at a time.
So, on top of NaNo going on this month, I’ll be flying out West to visit my family for Thanksgiving so I’ll be taking my Livescribe pen and notebook to get writing done because I’m not sure that I’ll have a lot of computer access except at night. I’m not sure if I’ll be staying at my sister’s or my mom’s yet. Plus the things that we’ll be doing.
Come December, yeah, I’ll be ready for a long nap.
So, it’s two hours away but is looming like a monolith. NaNoWriMo starts up tonight at midnight but considering how I’m feeling sleepy, I don’t think I’ll stay up very long even to write 100 words. They’ll get done, when they get done and we’ll see if this story has staying power. BAH! I’m a pantser so it’s always a ‘will I get it done this year’ moment. I do have to say that if you are having problems getting words down, find a sprint partner or a chat that has word sprints. You would be surprised how fast those 100-200 word sprints add up by the time you are done for the night. That’s how I passed 50k last year. I wouldn’t say finished as there is a LOT if fixing that I need to do.
And what is taking NaNo by the horns than signing up for something else, such as #writemotivation. One of my fellow MLs, Rebekah speaks of #writemotivation and how it has helped her a lot so I’ll give it a go and see how I do with it. I had seemed to have kept up with it at the beginning of the year with writing daily and then I don’t know what happened. I just seemed to have ‘died’. I was very meh about writing and I need to at least do something every day, even if I later throw it out because it is more utter crap than my other utter crap.
I need to do a goal list so:
1: Keep up with NaNo and use the blog to keep track, maybe even give a six sentence snippet with each post.
2: Work more on expanding the world that I’m basing my story on. (Most people would do this as prep, you know before NaNo. Not me, OH No!).
3: On top of NaNo, keep up with the flash fiction contests all week.
4. Actually pulling out my older NaNos and work on editing them, even if it is a page at a time.
So, on top of NaNo going on this month, I’ll be flying out West to visit my family for Thanksgiving so I’ll be taking my Livescribe pen and notebook to get writing done because I’m not sure that I’ll have a lot of computer access except at night. I’m not sure if I’ll be staying at my sister’s or my mom’s yet. Plus the things that we’ll be doing.
Come December, yeah, I’ll be ready for a long nap.
Weather is Strange
Oct. 18th, 2012 11:57 pmWell, it seems that Summer doesn't QUITE want to give up the ghost yet as we just had an interesting thunderstorm pull in. Some nice lightning and the rain has been off and all for the past 2-3 hours. Now the back of my head feels like it wants to slide off. THAT is always fun to feel. Of course, with the rain messing with the dish signal, I didn't get to see Elementary. So it's the pilot and this episode that I'll need to catch online.
Finished two more profiles for NaNo. Still not feeling rock solid on it but I'll figure something out. I'll probably do this month's bingo as drabbles to feel everyone else and get an idea of what exactly I am going to do. I need to do some research yet on the land area and then put in my own things.
I was planning to do some writing before bed but it's late now and all I want to do is sleep. Thankfully tomorrow is Friday and then I don't have much on the books for doing anything. Of course, now the cats decide to run around like nuts. As they are prone to do.
And I remembered to order more tea tonight because I'm almost out of my Loki blend. That has pretty much become my morning cup. I was never a big green tea person but this one has grown on me. I'm also getting Mycroft because it really sounds yummy. Not to mention that I will eventually get the Phil, Son of Coul one.
Finished two more profiles for NaNo. Still not feeling rock solid on it but I'll figure something out. I'll probably do this month's bingo as drabbles to feel everyone else and get an idea of what exactly I am going to do. I need to do some research yet on the land area and then put in my own things.
I was planning to do some writing before bed but it's late now and all I want to do is sleep. Thankfully tomorrow is Friday and then I don't have much on the books for doing anything. Of course, now the cats decide to run around like nuts. As they are prone to do.
And I remembered to order more tea tonight because I'm almost out of my Loki blend. That has pretty much become my morning cup. I was never a big green tea person but this one has grown on me. I'm also getting Mycroft because it really sounds yummy. Not to mention that I will eventually get the Phil, Son of Coul one.
Three Weeks to Go
Oct. 10th, 2012 10:09 am(I had originally posted this on my writing journal.)
I’m going to have to settle down to a posting pattern. Perhaps three days a week, a M/W/F rotation. I think what happened is that when I tried to keep writing every day I was getting burned out because I wasn’t used to doing it all the time. If I go at a decent schedule, I have time to think of something and then post about it without feeling pressured or that I’m falling back on something and leaving things hanging until I don’t post at all and then this site sits fallow.
I need to get into the pattern again, same with regular writing. There are times when I get depressed and think what I write is crap. Happens to everyone, I suppose. The key is to keep writing and keep getting critiqued and get better. I’m out of practice. I actually submitted my first piece in a while to my writing group. And I’m thinking of joining another one but I’m not sure if I should or just keep to one. The extra eyes would help and it would actually get me out to seeing different people as well. A different set of eyes might catch something that was other wise missed. I’m still thinking about it.
Anyway, NaNo. Three weeks left. There have been new faces coming out and hopefully they’ll come to the write ins. Last year, it was sort of quiet and if I got one person to show up, it was a blessing. Maybe that’s why I’m feeling very blah about it this year. I’m trying to get fired up. Trying to get some interaction of the people, trying to get people talking. I’m a severely introverted person so this is a push for myself as well, getting out there and trying to get writers together. I’m not much of a talker but I try to conquer it during NaNo.
I try to think of things that might pull people out and actually, there have been some things that came up during a chat with some other fellow NaNoers from an LJ com I’m in that maybe will help, both for Panters and Plotters alike.
I’m going to have to settle down to a posting pattern. Perhaps three days a week, a M/W/F rotation. I think what happened is that when I tried to keep writing every day I was getting burned out because I wasn’t used to doing it all the time. If I go at a decent schedule, I have time to think of something and then post about it without feeling pressured or that I’m falling back on something and leaving things hanging until I don’t post at all and then this site sits fallow.
I need to get into the pattern again, same with regular writing. There are times when I get depressed and think what I write is crap. Happens to everyone, I suppose. The key is to keep writing and keep getting critiqued and get better. I’m out of practice. I actually submitted my first piece in a while to my writing group. And I’m thinking of joining another one but I’m not sure if I should or just keep to one. The extra eyes would help and it would actually get me out to seeing different people as well. A different set of eyes might catch something that was other wise missed. I’m still thinking about it.
Anyway, NaNo. Three weeks left. There have been new faces coming out and hopefully they’ll come to the write ins. Last year, it was sort of quiet and if I got one person to show up, it was a blessing. Maybe that’s why I’m feeling very blah about it this year. I’m trying to get fired up. Trying to get some interaction of the people, trying to get people talking. I’m a severely introverted person so this is a push for myself as well, getting out there and trying to get writers together. I’m not much of a talker but I try to conquer it during NaNo.
I try to think of things that might pull people out and actually, there have been some things that came up during a chat with some other fellow NaNoers from an LJ com I’m in that maybe will help, both for Panters and Plotters alike.
