This morning I finished the NaNo section of my novel (i.e., the 50k part of it) and had to have a quick dance around the room with my arms up making that sotto voce “raaar” sound meant to indicate that large crowds of people are cheering for you. Hey, I know I’m a huge dorkasaurus, …
I haven’t posted much lately because I’ve been writing. Or not writing, depending on the day…my mileage varies. Currently I am at 36k words, and have worked out some of the plot kinks that were plaguing me. This morning I went to write a scene that I’d been excited about doing, as I could see …
Had some fun this morning writing the Unseelie masquerade ball scene for my #NaNoWriMo project, and managed to bring my total so far up to about 26 1/2 thousand words. Halfway there, hurrah! For reference material, I had looked up scenes from two of my favourite movies, Labyrinth and The Company of Wolves. Labyrinth for …
Yesterday I got up to 20,648 words. Today I have nothing. I’ve opened up Scrivener so many times, produce a few lines of rubbish and then close it. Since I am ahead of the targets that I had set, I think I may call this a vacation day and just do something else today. Tomorrow, …
The writing is going better now, I finally hit my stride and although I’m not trying for large numbers (usually just hitting right around my original 2k per day target) it seems to be flowing a lot more easily. Part of it is that I am taking the time to think about what I am …
I am the very queen of procrastination today. I’ll do my original goal of 2,000 words – I think I did most of that this morning. But the rest of the time that I spent sitting at my desk? Twitter. Twitter is the devil. NaNoWriMo site, going through forums. Because it’s part of NaNo, right? …
Yeah, I read all the posts and the writing books where real writers remind all of us wanna-be ones that writing is work. Hard work. Not all fairy farts and giggles and words just flying out of your head on sparkly wafts of inspiration. Perspiration would be more like it. I’m at 10,741 words today …
Sidetracked today. I got up early, did just under 2k, and then went to do end-of-season gardening for Phil’s grandparents. They have a big garden. Big. I am sooo tired right now. On a side note, nettles are evil and need to die by fire. His grandparents are lovely, though, so it’s all worth it. …
Big sigh of relief. I woke at 5:45 am this morning, went downstairs, fed the cats (which were all sitting around their dishes pointing their paws at their mouths like Simon’s Cat) and made breakfast. I normally don’t have anything other than cereal and coffee in the mornings, as proper food makes me feel ill, …
Firstly, I have to say that I have been jonesing like hell for gaming, and I haven’t done anything since my Warcraft account was cancelled. When you spend a portion of every evening and weekend doing something, the loss of that something leaves a gap. Even if (since I went casual and haven’t raided in …
