Propelling myself across the river, pen in my hands

[delirieuse]

It's almost NaNo time again, and I'm getting twitchy. I have lots of good ideas

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[chn_breathmint]

I'm not very ambitious. I'm just going to write a big fat Inception fanfic for NaNo involving Eames and Arthur enacting a roaring rampage of revenge across Russia. (:

- Mel

[delirieuse]

Sounds like fun! I am slowly and finally rediscovering the fun in writing, thank god.

[cupiscent]

I seem to be writing a trilogy? Not for NaNo, though. But we should totally reinstitute writing days, or maybe evenings, or at least sessions, and you should second-draft Shadow Boys, because that needs to see the light of a glorious day.

[delirieuse]

Yay!

Let's totally. Jess also wants to get together for some workshopping sessions. But I deeply love sitting down at computers and large amount of snacks with friends and pulling overnighters and all communally going crazy together, and getting words on page. You know how insanely slow I am at writing, and yet at one of the first NaNo sessions I organised, back in uni with Nat Rolfe and Liam, I wrote 4000 words in the space of one night.

We could have a Not the National Novel Writing Month series (or NoNaNoWriMo, if you prefer) in November where we pull some of that? Not the actual overnighting, but certainly some novelish late nights (I write better at night as the critic goes to sleep, I think). We could take turns hosting, if you fancy, so people can crash afterwards. There is a futon in our music room, and also a dining table where we can set up.

WRITING. I WANTS TO DO IT.

[cupiscent]

On the one hand, I am highly in favour of this in a words-on-the-page way. On the other hand, I'm a little wibbly about something carving a large chunk out of my weekend seeing-theMale-time. (I am frowning a little critically at this, because it feels like it's a since-fulltime-work thing and yet I am not actually seeing LESS of him than I did before I started fulltime, because he was always fulltime, wtf brain?)

Short version, I am theoretically up for this.

[delirieuse]

We could do it on a Friday night, of the post-Hellfire morris sort (which is generally done by 7.30). Saturday then = pancakes, and you going and spending the weekend with the male.

Details can, of course, be rearranged & organised, and poked until they behave.

Y/N?

(Almost a shame we're both working full time, because otherwise we could do it while The Male was at work. Or if you were here, we could do it alternating Friday afternoons. :)

[sols_light]

Just because you're not trying top win NaNo doesn't mean there's no reason to use it as an excuse to get writing. That's what I intend to do with it.

[delirieuse]

Of course not. But I currently have a couple of friends at work who are holding me accountable and ensuring that I write every week already. I'm already actually writing; I just like the impossible task of NaNo. But now that I'm a) working full-time and b) not at uni, I can't realistically throw myself into it the way I used to. Oh, and c) already having most of my spare time eaten up by my other hobbies and commitments.

[sols_light]

Ah, I see. I thought you were trying to get back into the habit of writing after a long break, which is what I'm thinking of using NaNo for, now it makes much more sense.

[delirieuse]

Nope, this is step 2 of starting to write again after a long break; starting having lots of ideas of things to write, but not yet having the infrastructure in place that ensures you do. :)