Let's see. To start, it's the 14th day of Nanowrimo and I've only thought of it once or twice and never with regret.
I've been working hard on The Prophet. I got to another stopping point and i'm dying to dive back in but i know it's not time yet.
I tried to also force myself to find a third story in between Shade and Shadow and Letters, but i think it doesn't have to be there. i think the uncumbersomeness of the whole thing is better than weighing them down with what would just be something that is expressed i think well in Letters.
i printed out a copy of it for my grandparents. extra large print so grandpa doesn't have trouble reading it. he mentioned he might feel up to start reading his books again, after his long bout of eye pain, and i figure i can give him something a little shorter to read too.
i should probably send it to my dad too. i can't remember if he read the first one now... he must have.
anyhow. I've also figured out some mroe little nitpicky things within the Guide/Prophet connections and i've also been thinking a little bit about how to maybe work a bit of Daniel's pre-prophet years among the stories on the space ship.
She is the sword, he is the crown. i must remember this.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Yellow Notebook
I'm reaching the end of the yellow notebook that contains the rewrite of The Prophet. it's gonna be one of those good transitions... moving into the next notebook just as the third and final section begins.
Of course, having filled a five subject and being on the verge of cracking open another notebook, at least two sections of a three subject... well, that makes me worry about the other stories. they are not nearly that long...
does it matter?
i don't know.
I'm not doing nano this year. or rather, i think i'm gonna do national novel finish what you have month. nanofiwyoha. heehee...
so maybe i'll keep blogging. perhaps my goal can be to finish rewriting. it's not the same thing but it's still setting a goal.
goals are good.
Of course, having filled a five subject and being on the verge of cracking open another notebook, at least two sections of a three subject... well, that makes me worry about the other stories. they are not nearly that long...
does it matter?
i don't know.
I'm not doing nano this year. or rather, i think i'm gonna do national novel finish what you have month. nanofiwyoha. heehee...
so maybe i'll keep blogging. perhaps my goal can be to finish rewriting. it's not the same thing but it's still setting a goal.
goals are good.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Nano 2012??
She is standing with her back to the street, ignoring but not entirely immune to the out-of-date sounds of city life. No honking horns, no whoosh of the hover vehicles. Only horses hooves and creaky wooden axels and wheels on cobblestones.
She is staring up at the brick face of a industrial building puffing black smoke into the clear, bright sky. she knows her companion, her mandated protoge is impatiently waiting behind her. She uses all of her reserves to keep from turning around and snapping at him.
"He was here," she says, only partially to the one who stands behind her. "Twenty years ago, six weeks from now."
"How do you know?" he asks her.
She points toward the marking high up near the top of the building wall that has been faded by the weather in the past two decades. Without her he wouldn't have seen it. But she's been searching for these marks and others like them for 15 years. She knows how to find them, where they'll be, what they'll say.
"Come on," she says and stalks off, drawing glances from people on the street. Her appearance fits in just fine, but her attitude is off. She's frustrated and forgetful. "We missed him. Let's get back to Present."
She is staring up at the brick face of a industrial building puffing black smoke into the clear, bright sky. she knows her companion, her mandated protoge is impatiently waiting behind her. She uses all of her reserves to keep from turning around and snapping at him.
"He was here," she says, only partially to the one who stands behind her. "Twenty years ago, six weeks from now."
"How do you know?" he asks her.
She points toward the marking high up near the top of the building wall that has been faded by the weather in the past two decades. Without her he wouldn't have seen it. But she's been searching for these marks and others like them for 15 years. She knows how to find them, where they'll be, what they'll say.
"Come on," she says and stalks off, drawing glances from people on the street. Her appearance fits in just fine, but her attitude is off. She's frustrated and forgetful. "We missed him. Let's get back to Present."
Friday, April 6, 2012
Caterwauling
the story has gone caterwauling, bouncing off the walls of an empty room and i sit in the middle of the floor thinking to myself, "I don't feel like chasing you anymore."
that's the signal. it's time to move on. i really like the way i'm doing it now. working a little here, a little there, till something draws me away. it doesn't get forced.
but what do i want to work on next? The Pilot is the logical choice, it's the only one that hasn't been looked at yet. but i would also like to get both Shade and Shadow and Third Bed on Smashwords. and there's always the two past years of unfinished Nano stories. I'd love to see more of Darbin and Dax, but then again, i want to know what Vincent does with his books...
decisions, decisions.
that's the signal. it's time to move on. i really like the way i'm doing it now. working a little here, a little there, till something draws me away. it doesn't get forced.
but what do i want to work on next? The Pilot is the logical choice, it's the only one that hasn't been looked at yet. but i would also like to get both Shade and Shadow and Third Bed on Smashwords. and there's always the two past years of unfinished Nano stories. I'd love to see more of Darbin and Dax, but then again, i want to know what Vincent does with his books...
decisions, decisions.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Every Woman With a Six Month Old Cuts Her Hair
but i wonder, does every woman with a six month old and two jobs besides have this much energy and ambition for the writing (or other such crafty, personal pursuits)? maybe even more so than before there was the thought of a six or any other month old to factor into things...?
i wanna build a string timeline. Vincent built one in A Novel Idea (nano from 2011) but he did his out of some sort of desperation to change a story that was horrible and turned down by publishers over and over into something that they may like. i'm not so desperate to have publishers like my work, but the only timeline i have is skewed and wrong because it was done back in '07 when characters like Nesris, Solomon, Vietta and Dartia never existed. where do they fit in? things were happening all at once in some points and i'd love to see the visual that goes with that.
plus a string timeline could include political and bigger changes, not just the character events. not only will it be fun to make, but it's also less permanent. i make a mistake? i unclip and retie and boom, timeline's fixed. my old one is covered in scribbles and i can hardly read it.
everything i write is covered in scribbles and i can hardly read it.
makes me think of this: http://skylarkarts.com/2010/11/26/jane-austen%E2%80%99s-novels-were-written-by-a-man/
there's one article with the actual images of her work but i'm too lazy to find it right now and i'm supposed to be working... i looked at them and they're messy and crazy, but i find myself not sure how much i believe about what someone else had to do. because where are the second drafts?
i wanna build a string timeline. Vincent built one in A Novel Idea (nano from 2011) but he did his out of some sort of desperation to change a story that was horrible and turned down by publishers over and over into something that they may like. i'm not so desperate to have publishers like my work, but the only timeline i have is skewed and wrong because it was done back in '07 when characters like Nesris, Solomon, Vietta and Dartia never existed. where do they fit in? things were happening all at once in some points and i'd love to see the visual that goes with that.
plus a string timeline could include political and bigger changes, not just the character events. not only will it be fun to make, but it's also less permanent. i make a mistake? i unclip and retie and boom, timeline's fixed. my old one is covered in scribbles and i can hardly read it.
everything i write is covered in scribbles and i can hardly read it.
makes me think of this: http://skylarkarts.com/2010/11/26/jane-austen%E2%80%99s-novels-were-written-by-a-man/
there's one article with the actual images of her work but i'm too lazy to find it right now and i'm supposed to be working... i looked at them and they're messy and crazy, but i find myself not sure how much i believe about what someone else had to do. because where are the second drafts?
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Got It
Did i just have to blog about it twice? Did i dream it up? i don't know but today i knew how to make jo and sol meet.
and today i cut up the first three chapters of the connector (The Medium??) and put them back in the correct order. it was a nano story after all, and when I'm beginning one of those i'm not really sure what's going on yet. so now it's rearranged and places made for the first meeting and the changing of some conversations - it's all ready to go.
and as i was editing today i was changing it over to present tense. and i like it.
and today i cut up the first three chapters of the connector (The Medium??) and put them back in the correct order. it was a nano story after all, and when I'm beginning one of those i'm not really sure what's going on yet. so now it's rearranged and places made for the first meeting and the changing of some conversations - it's all ready to go.
and as i was editing today i was changing it over to present tense. and i like it.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
What if I can't find...
the part two notebook of the Connector (aka nanowrimo 2009) which i don't have typed all the way yet?
it could be in the box down in the storage unit, but i left the notebooks with stories not yet typed completely out of the box on purpose.
i think my head is going to 'splode.
it could be in the box down in the storage unit, but i left the notebooks with stories not yet typed completely out of the box on purpose.
i think my head is going to 'splode.
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Scrivner
Do you know how awesome Scrivner is? I bought it after thinking about it for one day and knowing that if i bought it that day i could get the discounted rate as a preorder. it was a whim, but i'd been working so much and had so much money that actually shelling out 36 dollars on a whim didn't hurt me in the least. two jobs does rock sometimes.
but i haven't really had a chance to use it and the first time i opened it up and started typing in my nano story i wasn't impressed.
but then yesterday! i opened it up pulled up the corkboard screen and i started putting up index cards witi character names. all the characters. even if they're only mentioned once or twice. i've always wanted to be able to do this because i never remember character names and sometimes i think i reuse them or create something that's too close to something else./
And then i was looking at it and i seperated all those index cards into seperate folders for the story specific characters. and hten i was looking at the index cards and i started making piles of related characters.
So now i have these folders, full of neat little piles of index cards and more folders that are full of even more piles of index cards and the thing is i don't have to have any index cards. or folders. or neat piles. cuz the lord knows there ain't none of them 'round these parts. neat piles. that's a joke, right?
Today i took the connector (nano 2009) to work today and started to edit what i have printed out of it. I'd like to print the rest but i'd have to type it first. man i hate typing my stories. anyway, i got to look at the connector and revisit Sol and Jo and i'm excited to get deep into it and ad the characters in Scrivner and seperate the chapters for easier movement of story pieces and pile it all in neat little folders with index cards. i call it the Ankaverse.
and i'd write more, but the baby's calling.
but i haven't really had a chance to use it and the first time i opened it up and started typing in my nano story i wasn't impressed.
but then yesterday! i opened it up pulled up the corkboard screen and i started putting up index cards witi character names. all the characters. even if they're only mentioned once or twice. i've always wanted to be able to do this because i never remember character names and sometimes i think i reuse them or create something that's too close to something else./
And then i was looking at it and i seperated all those index cards into seperate folders for the story specific characters. and hten i was looking at the index cards and i started making piles of related characters.
So now i have these folders, full of neat little piles of index cards and more folders that are full of even more piles of index cards and the thing is i don't have to have any index cards. or folders. or neat piles. cuz the lord knows there ain't none of them 'round these parts. neat piles. that's a joke, right?
Today i took the connector (nano 2009) to work today and started to edit what i have printed out of it. I'd like to print the rest but i'd have to type it first. man i hate typing my stories. anyway, i got to look at the connector and revisit Sol and Jo and i'm excited to get deep into it and ad the characters in Scrivner and seperate the chapters for easier movement of story pieces and pile it all in neat little folders with index cards. i call it the Ankaverse.
and i'd write more, but the baby's calling.
Friday, December 2, 2011
Nanowrimo 2011: The Wrap-up
i liked doing my stats last year, so here they are again:
final word count - 42,625
average words per day for the 19 days i actually wrote: 2,243
total word count if i'd been able to type it up and seperate my contractions like i usually do for wordcount padding purposes- 43,636 - still not a win :(
times used the running gag of main character looking for his glasses - 15
pens used - 2 and 1/2 including a transplant of ink well into pen with a better ball
cups of iced coffee - 18
total notebook use - 11 pages shy of a whole 3 subject notebook plus 2 pages of printer paper
highest daily word count - 2,910 on the 17th
lowest daily word count - 1,304 on the 21st
most amount of words written on one page - 305
total chapters - 16
plot related epiphanies - 3
books read: the second half of Little Women and the first half of Catch-22
continuity problems - 2, both relating to the fact that furniture was removed from the apartment, but Vincent still continues to use it.
final word count - 42,625
average words per day for the 19 days i actually wrote: 2,243
total word count if i'd been able to type it up and seperate my contractions like i usually do for wordcount padding purposes- 43,636 - still not a win :(
times used the running gag of main character looking for his glasses - 15
pens used - 2 and 1/2 including a transplant of ink well into pen with a better ball
cups of iced coffee - 18
total notebook use - 11 pages shy of a whole 3 subject notebook plus 2 pages of printer paper
highest daily word count - 2,910 on the 17th
lowest daily word count - 1,304 on the 21st
most amount of words written on one page - 305
total chapters - 16
plot related epiphanies - 3
books read: the second half of Little Women and the first half of Catch-22
continuity problems - 2, both relating to the fact that furniture was removed from the apartment, but Vincent still continues to use it.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Nanowrimo 2011: Day 30
Failure.
and i'm alright with that. i'm only about 7,000 words away from the goal but with no time nor motivation to finish. i did not run out of story, there's still plenty there to write and to figure out. i'm excited to finish it and i'm sure i will... finish writing it that is... finish it finish it? well, i haven't done that to a single story yet, so we'll just have to see.
tomorrow maybe i'll remember to come back and work out all the stats of things and stuffs like i did last year, but right now i gotta do some work.
and i'm alright with that. i'm only about 7,000 words away from the goal but with no time nor motivation to finish. i did not run out of story, there's still plenty there to write and to figure out. i'm excited to finish it and i'm sure i will... finish writing it that is... finish it finish it? well, i haven't done that to a single story yet, so we'll just have to see.
tomorrow maybe i'll remember to come back and work out all the stats of things and stuffs like i did last year, but right now i gotta do some work.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Nanowrimo 2011: Day 28
I think i'm looking at a failure this year.
I was supposed to write both today and yesterday just a little bit in order to finish, but i didn't. So now I have two days left and 7,375 words to write and only two days at work to write them.
And there's a good chance that i'm gonna call in sick tomorrow to work because i've got a cold and i'm pretty sure my scary red, puffy, runny, gross-ass face is what made the baby start crying just a little bit ago.
i'm crazy disappointed, but i'm also sorta whatever. i did just have a freaking baby and i'm not sure how i managed doing as many words as i did
then again. there are two more days left. anything could happen, really.
I was supposed to write both today and yesterday just a little bit in order to finish, but i didn't. So now I have two days left and 7,375 words to write and only two days at work to write them.
And there's a good chance that i'm gonna call in sick tomorrow to work because i've got a cold and i'm pretty sure my scary red, puffy, runny, gross-ass face is what made the baby start crying just a little bit ago.
i'm crazy disappointed, but i'm also sorta whatever. i did just have a freaking baby and i'm not sure how i managed doing as many words as i did
then again. there are two more days left. anything could happen, really.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Nanowrimo 2011: Day 21
I did a small bit of writing with a free cuz i filled up my coffee card white chocolate mocha with mint at the coffee shop. only 1300 words and i'm still way behind. can i rally and come out a winner for the fourth year in a row? maybe.
or maybe not, cuz now the baby gator is crying and i can't even finish this blog post the way i wanted to. gotta go feed the little sweetheart.
or maybe not, cuz now the baby gator is crying and i can't even finish this blog post the way i wanted to. gotta go feed the little sweetheart.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Nanowrimo 2011: Day 16
I have fallen tragically behind. so much so that today when i entered my word count (2416) i didn't even manage to reach the line which i have never actually fallen below, only just met up with on my weekends off.
well, i took a sick day yesterday and stayed home with the baby and the second job and that video game i got for my birthday that i never get to play so i didn't write anything. i'm now an extra 2200 words behind and that means i have to make it up every day from here on out.
can i do it? sure, cuz i haven't yet run out of story. there's still a ton of good stuff waiting to happen.
also, i decided i might kill gracie today. which is sad. but i don't want to have him decide between gracie and sydney, and i might just kill the new one off so he goes back to the old one. cuz syd's just so sad!!
but who knows. we still have some time left to find things out.
well, i took a sick day yesterday and stayed home with the baby and the second job and that video game i got for my birthday that i never get to play so i didn't write anything. i'm now an extra 2200 words behind and that means i have to make it up every day from here on out.
can i do it? sure, cuz i haven't yet run out of story. there's still a ton of good stuff waiting to happen.
also, i decided i might kill gracie today. which is sad. but i don't want to have him decide between gracie and sydney, and i might just kill the new one off so he goes back to the old one. cuz syd's just so sad!!
but who knows. we still have some time left to find things out.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Nanowrimo 2011: Day 10
Oh, its only the second week and it's getting harder. maybe it just seems to be national talk on the phone if you're deaf week and i've been really busy at work so it takes longer to write my 2200 words and i go bat shit crazy trying to hold onto a sentence through 20 some minutes of craptacular babbling.
But actually, on tuesday i wrote the most in one day that i had so far. 2449 words. then yesterday i was so freaking exhausted because of baby related things and i didn't even write anything when i was at work. i had to do it at the laundromat and then i only managed to do 1830 words. which is still more than the nano suggested daily word count, but still not enough for me.
and then today i beat tuesdays record with 2489. yeah, it's only 40 extra words but hey, a record's a record, right?
the story is getting good too. vincent is getting head aches and nose bleeds and tomorrow will be confronted by a disheveled and worried Charleston who demands that he finishes the books or gives them back...
But actually, on tuesday i wrote the most in one day that i had so far. 2449 words. then yesterday i was so freaking exhausted because of baby related things and i didn't even write anything when i was at work. i had to do it at the laundromat and then i only managed to do 1830 words. which is still more than the nano suggested daily word count, but still not enough for me.
and then today i beat tuesdays record with 2489. yeah, it's only 40 extra words but hey, a record's a record, right?
the story is getting good too. vincent is getting head aches and nose bleeds and tomorrow will be confronted by a disheveled and worried Charleston who demands that he finishes the books or gives them back...
Friday, November 4, 2011
Nanowrimo 2011: Day 4
What the heck is going on here? Not only have I been writing crazy fast (surpassing my 2272 personal daily word goal the first three days) but i've also had time to browse through the Nano forums which i've always wanted to be part of, but never have. And this is all happening while i have two jobs plus small baby child to deal with.
Its like the days got longer or something.
anyway. the things i'm finding in the forums! There's this: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/restlesslyrandom my profile page for Smashwords where i can get PAID for things i write and post if people buy them. And do i really want to be paid? no, i just want people to read my shit. Maybe it's because of Little Women... Jo's success that's got me all fired up to get things done and out there. cuz they need to be. the first thing i really wanna publish is A Study of Shade and Shadow. i just love that one so much.
Also, there's this which makes me weepy with delight: http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php Software that you can use to sort and resort and fix long documents. Something i've been wishing existed because the prequel and the monstrocity are basicly a disaster. i would love to just put all the pages i have printed and scribbled and reordered onto a very large bonfire and laugh. Laugy a crazy lady laugh as i watch it all burn.
(Thank you Blogger for autosaving my posts! i almost lost this one!)
The story is running along nicely, i think. a character i didn't know existed when the book started showed up at a party i didn't intend for her to be in. I'm wondering if there's more to her than i originally thought. it would explain her restless and intrusive spirit. she really tripped me up today, which is why i wrote less than i intended. i'll get over it though. because i'm almost to the important discussion between Vincent and Charleston that i've been plotting for weeks. this is where the story starts to take shape. everything up until now has been setting the scene. i'm ready to move forward!!
Its like the days got longer or something.
anyway. the things i'm finding in the forums! There's this: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/restlesslyrandom my profile page for Smashwords where i can get PAID for things i write and post if people buy them. And do i really want to be paid? no, i just want people to read my shit. Maybe it's because of Little Women... Jo's success that's got me all fired up to get things done and out there. cuz they need to be. the first thing i really wanna publish is A Study of Shade and Shadow. i just love that one so much.
Also, there's this which makes me weepy with delight: http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php Software that you can use to sort and resort and fix long documents. Something i've been wishing existed because the prequel and the monstrocity are basicly a disaster. i would love to just put all the pages i have printed and scribbled and reordered onto a very large bonfire and laugh. Laugy a crazy lady laugh as i watch it all burn.
(Thank you Blogger for autosaving my posts! i almost lost this one!)
The story is running along nicely, i think. a character i didn't know existed when the book started showed up at a party i didn't intend for her to be in. I'm wondering if there's more to her than i originally thought. it would explain her restless and intrusive spirit. she really tripped me up today, which is why i wrote less than i intended. i'll get over it though. because i'm almost to the important discussion between Vincent and Charleston that i've been plotting for weeks. this is where the story starts to take shape. everything up until now has been setting the scene. i'm ready to move forward!!
Saturday, October 29, 2011
zomg!
2 days, 4 hours.
i'm not ready.
thats a lie. i have a new 3 subject notebook, i have a box of my favorite bics, i have 2 pages of notes, and i have the whole first section worked out.
but its nanowrimo and im never actually ready.
i'm not ready.
thats a lie. i have a new 3 subject notebook, i have a box of my favorite bics, i have 2 pages of notes, and i have the whole first section worked out.
but its nanowrimo and im never actually ready.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Accomplishing stuff
I've been getting writing related things done, and that makes me happy. Whenever the baby is asleep next to me on the couch and i have a free moment i open up the prequel rewrite and add a little to it.
my brother had a dream and told me all about it and it will be the premise of my Nanowrimo 2011 story. he called it a rip off of the movie Limitless with <3Bradley Cooper <3 which i've never seen and decided to not see it until after i've finished my story. There is a similarity and i want to keep my nano story free of any limitless plots.
And this whole week i've had story bits and pieces swirling around in my head at work. i'm gonna take one binder or another with me today and see what i can do about working on something.
I've been reading one of my favorite trilogies and that always gives me a bit of inspiration.
my brother had a dream and told me all about it and it will be the premise of my Nanowrimo 2011 story. he called it a rip off of the movie Limitless with <3Bradley Cooper <3 which i've never seen and decided to not see it until after i've finished my story. There is a similarity and i want to keep my nano story free of any limitless plots.
And this whole week i've had story bits and pieces swirling around in my head at work. i'm gonna take one binder or another with me today and see what i can do about working on something.
I've been reading one of my favorite trilogies and that always gives me a bit of inspiration.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Jo & Sol
I have been thinking about Jo and Sol a lot lately and I have really wanted to work on editing my Nanowrimo story from 2009. It turns out i don't have all of it typed up yet... boo. But i'm on chapter 29 of probably 34 or 35 - enough to get a start.
So its printing right now. I have a binder prepared to hold it and i'm so ready to get back into the writing that i've put off, and ignored and missed so very much.
but i do have to go down to the storage unit and dig through the box of writing to pull out the chapters i didn't get typed. luckily i just cleaned the unit and i know exactly where it is. Then comes the tedious job of typing it all up, but i've got stuff to work on for some time before i need to really get that far...
So its printing right now. I have a binder prepared to hold it and i'm so ready to get back into the writing that i've put off, and ignored and missed so very much.
but i do have to go down to the storage unit and dig through the box of writing to pull out the chapters i didn't get typed. luckily i just cleaned the unit and i know exactly where it is. Then comes the tedious job of typing it all up, but i've got stuff to work on for some time before i need to really get that far...
Monday, December 6, 2010
Nanowrimo: The Wrap-up
It has been nearly a week since november ended. I haven't thought about Dax or Darbin or Martella or any of those fools. Pretty much as soon as I pulled up my word count last wednesday and saw that I had passed the 50k mark haven't thought about them.
So, instead of writing I knitted all week at work and that made the time fly. Not fast enough. I took many hours off. I hate my job.
For the past few months i've been thinking more and more about the Nano story from 2009. Even though I'm supposed to be thinking about the Prequel and writing all these damned stories in order, but I suppose I really don't have to. I have to go check to see if the thing is completely typed up (Because i know the spaceship story certianly isn't) and then maybe i print it out and then take it to work and read it and edit it and put in the little things i've come up with to make the story better.
And when I get sick of it I'll move on to the next story. and sometime in the far flung future I will finish the entire ridiculous thing... I just have to do it one piece oat a time.
So, instead of writing I knitted all week at work and that made the time fly. Not fast enough. I took many hours off. I hate my job.
For the past few months i've been thinking more and more about the Nano story from 2009. Even though I'm supposed to be thinking about the Prequel and writing all these damned stories in order, but I suppose I really don't have to. I have to go check to see if the thing is completely typed up (Because i know the spaceship story certianly isn't) and then maybe i print it out and then take it to work and read it and edit it and put in the little things i've come up with to make the story better.
And when I get sick of it I'll move on to the next story. and sometime in the far flung future I will finish the entire ridiculous thing... I just have to do it one piece oat a time.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Nanowrimo Day 1
I have not written here in so long, but neither have i written anything else. What with all the sock monkeys I've been making. I've had a cold, and ran errands with a friend, and had a halloween costume to make on all of my days off. besides i've been allowing my writing guts to rest before Nano. but now since i will be writing every day, i will try to write here every day as well... or at least as often i as i do write since i do take days off...
I was not nearly excited as i have been in the 2 previous years, but still ready to do it. I actually started at midnight while i was at work at the end of my shift last night. I wrote two pages.
I got to the coffee place this morning and read those two pages and started over. that's against the rules - i think - but it was all midnight-been-at-work-for-9-hours gibberish and i couldn't figure out how to continue out of the garbage to something new.
But whatever. It is a good story already. I wish i knew more 9 year olds so i would have something to base my very young hero after... I'm planning on rereading the Lemony Snicket books in this next few weeks because i really like the narration style and the narration is going to be a big part of the story...
Even though i'm a few hundred words behind for the day i am not worried. Its just the first day and i'm barely through first introductions.
Best moment of Day One: The wind whipped thunderstorm of a mother, and a peanut butter cookie.
I was not nearly excited as i have been in the 2 previous years, but still ready to do it. I actually started at midnight while i was at work at the end of my shift last night. I wrote two pages.
I got to the coffee place this morning and read those two pages and started over. that's against the rules - i think - but it was all midnight-been-at-work-for-9-hours gibberish and i couldn't figure out how to continue out of the garbage to something new.
But whatever. It is a good story already. I wish i knew more 9 year olds so i would have something to base my very young hero after... I'm planning on rereading the Lemony Snicket books in this next few weeks because i really like the narration style and the narration is going to be a big part of the story...
Even though i'm a few hundred words behind for the day i am not worried. Its just the first day and i'm barely through first introductions.
Best moment of Day One: The wind whipped thunderstorm of a mother, and a peanut butter cookie.
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