5 posts tagged “nanowrimo”
Nano this year took place in perhaps my busiest day-job work and "part-time job" month of the year.
This revision pass is done, completed yesterday (Yay!), and I flew out of the house to the dentist because I broke my twenty-two year-old retainer. She can't fix it so, when I get money after paying off my usual bills and then the iPhone and macbook (gasp), I'll look into it. In the meantime, aren't I the happy pup to have a "back-up" invis-i-lin-ique style retainer? They're too flimsy for regular use but better than naught! Yay!
The novel needs more work; it's still not ready for prime-time but far uglier than it was! Yay!
for those who follow my creative tinkering blogger. It's invitation-only to protect first publication rights, as if.
My fingers hurt after practicing a total of just under 4 hours on Saturday. J said her fingers hurt, too, and that makes me feel less of a wuss cos she plays an hour each day.
I baked up a storm and skipped square dance class -- we had 3 different visits this weekend (1, 1, and 2 people respectively). Folks love-a da farm, particularly this time of year (deer season, turkey season & the holidays of Candy-Mas through Prezzie-Mas).
Nanowrimo Word Count: 18,096.
Nano word count: 8387
This AM, it was 3755. Saturday, it was 200. No, the novel's not scifi. My day job is killing me; good thing it pays.
A friend who is trying fiction for the first time (yay, Nanowrimo!) just told me, "I'll let you read my fight scene but I have to figure out how to spell catapult first." --I say use trebuchet.
That tickled me.
Suddenly, after the first big pile of work today, there was a lull. I grabbed up a partial thing that I tapped out earlier and built it up more...“with feeling.” Whether or not it works, it conveyed my feelings better in a short-form, non-purple (I do go on, don’t I?) way.
Speaking of which, NaNoWriMo is approaching quicker than you think.
I had an idea this summer and worked up some character sheets and the basic idea...log-line, back page copy, that kind of thing. I'm not so big on outlines. Oh, I know. I should be. I'm heartened by the many interviews I've listened to with authors who make a living writing (not day jobs) who do not outline. They may do a lot of character sheets or world-building but outlines? We don't need no stinking outlines. Yeah, man...
So, I did a short piece in the genre I'm dorking around with these days: memoir. I like to say they're 80-98% true. That cracks me up. I like my own jokes far too much.
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