Showing posts with label NaNoWriMo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NaNoWriMo. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
NaNoWriMo: this scene plays into the novel for at least 1000 words
Yeah, I know. For some reason, this stuck with me.
Even though during my last NaNoWriMo I had already seen this. For some reason, it comes up now. (And I'm about 4000 words behind. Ack)
Saturday, November 7, 2009
National Novel Writing Month [Its That Time Of Year Again]
I wrote a ton about this last year, mostly because I had the time to both keep up with a blog and write a partially crappy novel.
With the full time job, though, neither of these things has been done properly. Although I'm succeeding partially at NanoWriMo, keeping right on pace. So that's going okay, but mostly because I'm getting a good thousand words in during my lunch breaks.
In other NaNo news, someone is apparently writing a comic strip while participating:
[EDIT: OMG for some reason the format was off. The cute comic and others like it can be found at the web address below. I can't figure out why its broken, I have a word count to catch up on!]
[Found here]
Apparently she's also created a hashtag for those behind in their word counts, called #nanopanic. Pretty awesome.
And now back to writing.
With the full time job, though, neither of these things has been done properly. Although I'm succeeding partially at NanoWriMo, keeping right on pace. So that's going okay, but mostly because I'm getting a good thousand words in during my lunch breaks.
In other NaNo news, someone is apparently writing a comic strip while participating:
[EDIT: OMG for some reason the format was off. The cute comic and others like it can be found at the web address below. I can't figure out why its broken, I have a word count to catch up on!]
[Found here]
Apparently she's also created a hashtag for those behind in their word counts, called #nanopanic. Pretty awesome.
And now back to writing.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Rewrites and other business I attend to
Okay, so I wrote a novel type thing back in November. Awesome, right? After not writing any kind of fiction for more than half a decade, I bite the bullet and go all out.
And then it sits. And sits. Nothing gets done to this novel. It sits in Google Docs, with, untampered with. I had novel guilt -- the guilt that goes with an un-rewritten novel that is mediocre.
Until yesterday. Yesterday I opened a new Google Doc. Began typing. A new beginning to a story that already has two beginnings. Clearly not what I was supposed to do, but the main characters were intact, at a party with loud music. There were no parties in the original novel. There are no cupcakes in this new beginning (or any other beginning).
I don't know how to feel about this. I am still not looking at the massive text I wrote in November, yet this feels like progress. Maybe there will be more progress.
In other news, quitting the apartment building job has been great. Last night I went to sleep at 9:30 and woke up feeling well rested.
And tomorrow is my birthday! Excellent for me.
And then it sits. And sits. Nothing gets done to this novel. It sits in Google Docs, with, untampered with. I had novel guilt -- the guilt that goes with an un-rewritten novel that is mediocre.
Until yesterday. Yesterday I opened a new Google Doc. Began typing. A new beginning to a story that already has two beginnings. Clearly not what I was supposed to do, but the main characters were intact, at a party with loud music. There were no parties in the original novel. There are no cupcakes in this new beginning (or any other beginning).
I don't know how to feel about this. I am still not looking at the massive text I wrote in November, yet this feels like progress. Maybe there will be more progress.
In other news, quitting the apartment building job has been great. Last night I went to sleep at 9:30 and woke up feeling well rested.
And tomorrow is my birthday! Excellent for me.
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