NaNo Updates (will use same post for the whole month)
One the 1st day of NaNo I sat down & wrote -- 3 pages of crap & a patridge in a pear tree *sings to tune of Twelve Days Of Christmas)
Yep -- I'm off and writing -- it's all bad but at the same time it's good to sit down and have a solid two hours to myself and to put something on paper after all these months/years of doing precious little with the ideas/characters in my head. It was really great to actually achieve a goal too *smiles* My therapist has me setting mini-goals to try and convince myself I'm not a total waste of space *shrugs* I struggle to find things that I want do to (apparently getting out of bed & going to work don't count - go figure) but NaNo is proving very helpful in that regard *smiles*
Over the next three days of NaNo I sat down and wrote 15 pages of crap giving me a totaly of 18 pages & approximate 3600 words. I've figured out that each page of my long hand is 200 words, give or take twenty, so I need to write 250 pages to complete NaNo *minds boggles* which is like 8-10 pages per day depending on whether I just want to hit or surpass my daily goal of 1700 words *shakes head* I should be on 40 pages maximum instead of my current 18 but this is nearly double what I managed last year & I've not gone back over any of it to edit it *takes bow* I'm more pleased with that than anything else *smiles* I'm not sure how many pages I'm gonna get done today between work and tonight's social gathering but *shrug* it all adds up in the end.
Between work & socialising today yeilded a big fat egg! Yep that's right I didn't write a single word yesterday *sigh* So much for 10 pages a day... I'm now 30 pages behind but I'm hoping tomorrow's write in at AFK Cafe will help me crank out some much needed pages... I'm also hoping that I get get past whatever it is that's making me feel so shitty today & do some damage to my word count tonight *crosses fingers*
Another bloody goose egg! I had a such a shit day yesterday with *shrugs* I don't even know what that I just couldn't bring myself to put pen to paper for fear I'd kill off my heroine and truly piss my muse off -- he gets pissy when I kill things *shrugs* I'm not quite sure if I'm brave enough to go to the write-in tonight with my pissy 3600 works when I know the bulk of these guys are seasoned NaNo'ers & writers & will have well ovre 10K to their novels. I think I'll just buy some icecream & wallow
I've barely glanced an my Nano over the past week. I was sick for most of last week (yay for dizzy spells *snort*) and to be honest, I'm feeling WAY less confident about my story than I was previously so I'm really struggling to make myself sit down and add to it. I still have the overwhelming urge to kill/severly maim my heroine which she is of course less than thrilled about; the anti-hero is in a snit because he doesn't like being painted as a heartless bastard (umm hello, you're a demon!) and I've had a new character show up out of the blue!! *shakes head* I'll attempt to create these scenes today & see what happens from here *shrugs*
Ok so the pen wasn't actually picked up. I took myself to the movies instead & watched Rogue Assassin. I really quite liked it. It was kinda strange watching an action movie with a semi-decent plot & no gratuitous romance. The only down side was that Jason Statham kept all his clothes on *pouts* I am determined to do some writing this afternoon/this evening however and have worked out a way to include the newest addition & the anti-hero has gotten over his little snit for now at any rate so hopefully things will flow a little better. The urge to kill/maim the heroine hasn't gone away but I can make it work, sorta, with the newest addition so *shrugs* we'll see what happens I guess
So yeah still have added to my word count but as soon as I've finished this I'm write the scenes that have been occupying my mind over the last few days and see if that gets things rolling. I still feel a bit crappy & I'm not too happy with the dribble that's been put to paper so far but *shrugs* I've hit the half way mark & I still have 46040 words to write. Ah well, there's always next year *shrugs*
Wow, I'm not so good with this whole keeping up to date thing... Mind you I'm not so good at the sitting down & writing thing either *pulls face* Did sweet FA until day 19 when my muse screamed at me & I was able to sit down & churn out 3000 words. Unfortunately I also went back & did a re-read & it's all f*cking dreadful! So far I'm managing to resist the temptation to scrap it all but we'll see how I end up after Thursday's write-in *crosses fingers*
So I've done way more than any other year with my NaNo but it's complete & utter tripe so on the 26th day of NaNo I sat down & tore up my 7000 words of tripe *grimace* and there's no way I can write 50 000 words in 4 days so I'm retiring less than gracefully from this year's NaNo competition. I don't think I'll bother doing it next year.
Yep -- I'm off and writing -- it's all bad but at the same time it's good to sit down and have a solid two hours to myself and to put something on paper after all these months/years of doing precious little with the ideas/characters in my head. It was really great to actually achieve a goal too *smiles* My therapist has me setting mini-goals to try and convince myself I'm not a total waste of space *shrugs* I struggle to find things that I want do to (apparently getting out of bed & going to work don't count - go figure) but NaNo is proving very helpful in that regard *smiles*
Over the next three days of NaNo I sat down and wrote 15 pages of crap giving me a totaly of 18 pages & approximate 3600 words. I've figured out that each page of my long hand is 200 words, give or take twenty, so I need to write 250 pages to complete NaNo *minds boggles* which is like 8-10 pages per day depending on whether I just want to hit or surpass my daily goal of 1700 words *shakes head* I should be on 40 pages maximum instead of my current 18 but this is nearly double what I managed last year & I've not gone back over any of it to edit it *takes bow* I'm more pleased with that than anything else *smiles* I'm not sure how many pages I'm gonna get done today between work and tonight's social gathering but *shrug* it all adds up in the end.
Between work & socialising today yeilded a big fat egg! Yep that's right I didn't write a single word yesterday *sigh* So much for 10 pages a day... I'm now 30 pages behind but I'm hoping tomorrow's write in at AFK Cafe will help me crank out some much needed pages... I'm also hoping that I get get past whatever it is that's making me feel so shitty today & do some damage to my word count tonight *crosses fingers*
Another bloody goose egg! I had a such a shit day yesterday with *shrugs* I don't even know what that I just couldn't bring myself to put pen to paper for fear I'd kill off my heroine and truly piss my muse off -- he gets pissy when I kill things *shrugs* I'm not quite sure if I'm brave enough to go to the write-in tonight with my pissy 3600 works when I know the bulk of these guys are seasoned NaNo'ers & writers & will have well ovre 10K to their novels. I think I'll just buy some icecream & wallow
I've barely glanced an my Nano over the past week. I was sick for most of last week (yay for dizzy spells *snort*) and to be honest, I'm feeling WAY less confident about my story than I was previously so I'm really struggling to make myself sit down and add to it. I still have the overwhelming urge to kill/severly maim my heroine which she is of course less than thrilled about; the anti-hero is in a snit because he doesn't like being painted as a heartless bastard (umm hello, you're a demon!) and I've had a new character show up out of the blue!! *shakes head* I'll attempt to create these scenes today & see what happens from here *shrugs*
Ok so the pen wasn't actually picked up. I took myself to the movies instead & watched Rogue Assassin. I really quite liked it. It was kinda strange watching an action movie with a semi-decent plot & no gratuitous romance. The only down side was that Jason Statham kept all his clothes on *pouts* I am determined to do some writing this afternoon/this evening however and have worked out a way to include the newest addition & the anti-hero has gotten over his little snit for now at any rate so hopefully things will flow a little better. The urge to kill/maim the heroine hasn't gone away but I can make it work, sorta, with the newest addition so *shrugs* we'll see what happens I guess
So yeah still have added to my word count but as soon as I've finished this I'm write the scenes that have been occupying my mind over the last few days and see if that gets things rolling. I still feel a bit crappy & I'm not too happy with the dribble that's been put to paper so far but *shrugs* I've hit the half way mark & I still have 46040 words to write. Ah well, there's always next year *shrugs*
Wow, I'm not so good with this whole keeping up to date thing... Mind you I'm not so good at the sitting down & writing thing either *pulls face* Did sweet FA until day 19 when my muse screamed at me & I was able to sit down & churn out 3000 words. Unfortunately I also went back & did a re-read & it's all f*cking dreadful! So far I'm managing to resist the temptation to scrap it all but we'll see how I end up after Thursday's write-in *crosses fingers*
So I've done way more than any other year with my NaNo but it's complete & utter tripe so on the 26th day of NaNo I sat down & tore up my 7000 words of tripe *grimace* and there's no way I can write 50 000 words in 4 days so I'm retiring less than gracefully from this year's NaNo competition. I don't think I'll bother doing it next year.