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NaNoWriMo

Just wandered over the Hillbilly Sophisticate, and saw that S is going to be participating in NaNo this year. So head on over and give her some support! Of course, if she’s going to write 50k words in November, she might not have much time to read or respond to comments and e-mails.
Me, I’m going to do what I tried a couple years ago: I am going to try again to write every day. I’m going to pick up the story I dropped when my last bout of depression started (that’d be ~Jan 2006 for those keeping track) look at what needs revised, and then take it from there. I’d like to finish the story by the end of the year, but that’s a moving target rather than a hard goal.

After I finish that, I have a possible idea basis for the start of another story, from a very strange dream involving Victorian morals and dress, and rock concerts with electric guitars. (Kind of a twist on steampunk I suppose. But who can tell what my brain comes up with.)

So I’ll give you occasional updates, just to keep me honest. And feel free to heckle me if I don’t post any updates, because that probably means I’m slacking off.

(FWIW, I did some revisions on my story on the way to Florida. Gutted about half of the prologue, and started rewriting things that didn’t make as much sense as the could, in retrospect. Once the characters start living in my head again, I think I’ll be okay.)

2 Responses to “NaNoWriMo”

  1. S Says:

    Ah, shucks…thanks for the plug. And I’m glad you’re also joining in the frenzied month of writing. I think writing something each day is a more practical goal than trying to reach 50,000 — especially now that I’m starting to realize just how much 50,000 words really is. I was feeling pretty good and then discovered I’d only written about 300 words!

    Also, in the automated e-mail NaNoWriMo sends out when you register, it says: “Tell everyone you know that you’re writing a novel in November…The looming specter of personal humiliation is a very reliable muse.” So we’ve got that to fall back on when we start finding it hard to write every day ;)

  2. Michelle Says:

    Yeah, last time once I got in the habit of writing every day, I did a decent job sticking with it–until the giant fist of depression CRUSHED MY SPIRIT.

    Or something like that.

    So I’ll remember to keep checking up on you, and you can do the same for me. (Just to note, I finished revising through Chapter 2 this morning. So some progress.)

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