[x-posted] NaNoWriMo 2009
It is November! Before Christmas comes, NaNoWriMo arrives. And it's on like Donkey Kong!
It's the same game - 50,000 words in 30 days. Last year's NaNo was finished 8 days shy from the deadline. I wonder if I can be as lucky this year. I'm not too optimistic, given the prevailing circumstances.
But in any which way, it's always nice to try, right? On my first day yesterday, I got 6,067 words done. But of course, the question remains - can 50K be done by end of month? That remains to be seen.
This year's NaNoWriMo is a rehash-slash-rewrite of Unforgiven, one of my first original works. I think I started on it when I was 12 or 13 years old and it has remained unfinished until now. *facepalm* So if you think you procrastinate a lot, think again. Bwahahahaha.
One of the reasons why I'm choosing this is because of the length of time this story has remained unfinished. It has to happen soon, and NaNo may just catapult it to near-finished status. Another reason why I've chosen this is because I have a plot - a defined beginning, middle and end. This is crucial, cause Arcadia seriously lacked a middle part. (I remember how excruciating it was to write the middle, but that's another story) The last, and probably the most practical reason for choosing this is the amount of writing and rewriting spent on this story for the past 10 years will be a great stepping stone for this year's effort. Most of the originals have been teared up (when I wrote them on paper) or deleted (when done in the PC). The only stuff that remain are side stories, which of course, are useless without the main storyline and are scattered safely across the Internet. LOLZ.
So, having all that said, I present my weapons of warfare:
The Ideapad S10. Not mine (unfortunately), but will be semi-mine once I make the move to Canlubang. Since the upstairs PC died a few months back and the downstairs PC is almost always occupied, I have resorted to the portable. LOLZ. The S10 is what I now use to write Arcadia, and also the one I used for After Dark.
Theodor, my trusty hard drive and container of everything grim that I can unleash on Earth, goes hand in hand with the S10. =D
Okay, that's it for my NaNo 2009 primer! It's great that I'm finally in my turf when it comes to writing (fanfic is so not me) but I wonder how all this will turn out.
50K BY NOVEMBER 30! AJJA!
It's the same game - 50,000 words in 30 days. Last year's NaNo was finished 8 days shy from the deadline. I wonder if I can be as lucky this year. I'm not too optimistic, given the prevailing circumstances.
But in any which way, it's always nice to try, right? On my first day yesterday, I got 6,067 words done. But of course, the question remains - can 50K be done by end of month? That remains to be seen.
This year's NaNoWriMo is a rehash-slash-rewrite of Unforgiven, one of my first original works. I think I started on it when I was 12 or 13 years old and it has remained unfinished until now. *facepalm* So if you think you procrastinate a lot, think again. Bwahahahaha.
One of the reasons why I'm choosing this is because of the length of time this story has remained unfinished. It has to happen soon, and NaNo may just catapult it to near-finished status. Another reason why I've chosen this is because I have a plot - a defined beginning, middle and end. This is crucial, cause Arcadia seriously lacked a middle part. (I remember how excruciating it was to write the middle, but that's another story) The last, and probably the most practical reason for choosing this is the amount of writing and rewriting spent on this story for the past 10 years will be a great stepping stone for this year's effort. Most of the originals have been teared up (when I wrote them on paper) or deleted (when done in the PC). The only stuff that remain are side stories, which of course, are useless without the main storyline and are scattered safely across the Internet. LOLZ.
So, having all that said, I present my weapons of warfare:
The Ideapad S10. Not mine (unfortunately), but will be semi-mine once I make the move to Canlubang. Since the upstairs PC died a few months back and the downstairs PC is almost always occupied, I have resorted to the portable. LOLZ. The S10 is what I now use to write Arcadia, and also the one I used for After Dark.
Theodor, my trusty hard drive and container of everything grim that I can unleash on Earth, goes hand in hand with the S10. =D
Okay, that's it for my NaNo 2009 primer! It's great that I'm finally in my turf when it comes to writing (fanfic is so not me) but I wonder how all this will turn out.
50K BY NOVEMBER 30! AJJA!