I Live!
*crawls out from under rock*
Yes, she lives!
NaNoWriMo is going...well, better than expected. Of course, mad-busy-craziness had to descend on work in honor of the fact that I have a pretty fat non-work-related commitment to do at work. October was unbelievably dead at Ye Olde Warrant Apprehension Unit; November was ushered in with a chunky stack of warrants for Dawn to run, as well as all of the warrant officers deciding to turn in the crap that's been moldering under the seats of their State cars since July.
Yesterday, I hunkered down to work with NaNoWriMo in mind. (Normally, like any good State employee, I am happy to take my time, peppered with frequent breaks, but lately, I'm motivated to work at breakneck speed.) Johnny came in at one to say that he was surprised that I wasn't complaining, and I said, "About what?" to which he replied, "All of the work that was waiting for you."
"Oh, that? I finished that two hours ago."
At noon yesterday, I opened a fresh Word document, poised my hands ASDF-JKL;-perfect on the keyboard (my dad was a nut who insisted that my sister and I learn how to properly type at a young age and used to chide us for looking at the keys), and got really nervous. What if the story didn't work? Normally, I wait for a story to burst out on its own. AMC was began on a day when I had no idea, going into work, that I would be starting a novel-length story that day.
But I got busy on the task and found, after the initial anxiety over making those first words *perfect* that it was just another story. Right now, I am at the heroin-stage of Felak's writing cycle. I think about the story constantly; I have to force myself to do normal things like laundry and skating and work. Even now, I need my fix, and I know that it's in my email, and it's very tempting to stay up half the night working on it. (That's not going to happen, though.)
If anything, NaNoWriMo has been a bit disappointing just because I was expecting it to be...well, a lot harder than it's been. Not that I'm trying to sound cocky or like a braggart, but I should be over 10K by this time tomorrow.
(I'm tempted, actually, to set myself a 100K goal but then think, "Why ruin this relaxing month of novel-writing and nothing else to do?")
To my co-crazywriters, I have loved reading the details of your stories and apologize for not posting more on my own. I cannot share writing with anyone--I don't even show or tell my husband about my stories while they're being written--until it is finished and cleaned and made suitable for the public. I can tell you that it's based on original characters from my RPG; that it's a fantasy story and, like most of my stories, psychology- and character-centric. Which is weird and probably unpublishable but fun as heck to write.
Also, I am reading everyone's LJ and emails but am cutting myself back on commenting. Normally, I have a tendency to get a bit crazy with LJ posting and comments. This month, I'm slowing down a bit, but I am reading your stories and your posts, even if I don't appear very often.
To all my fellow NaNos, good luck in the days to come! To the rest of you, enjoy your relatively sane November. You're much smarter than me. ;)
Yes, she lives!
NaNoWriMo is going...well, better than expected. Of course, mad-busy-craziness had to descend on work in honor of the fact that I have a pretty fat non-work-related commitment to do at work. October was unbelievably dead at Ye Olde Warrant Apprehension Unit; November was ushered in with a chunky stack of warrants for Dawn to run, as well as all of the warrant officers deciding to turn in the crap that's been moldering under the seats of their State cars since July.
Yesterday, I hunkered down to work with NaNoWriMo in mind. (Normally, like any good State employee, I am happy to take my time, peppered with frequent breaks, but lately, I'm motivated to work at breakneck speed.) Johnny came in at one to say that he was surprised that I wasn't complaining, and I said, "About what?" to which he replied, "All of the work that was waiting for you."
"Oh, that? I finished that two hours ago."
At noon yesterday, I opened a fresh Word document, poised my hands ASDF-JKL;-perfect on the keyboard (my dad was a nut who insisted that my sister and I learn how to properly type at a young age and used to chide us for looking at the keys), and got really nervous. What if the story didn't work? Normally, I wait for a story to burst out on its own. AMC was began on a day when I had no idea, going into work, that I would be starting a novel-length story that day.
But I got busy on the task and found, after the initial anxiety over making those first words *perfect* that it was just another story. Right now, I am at the heroin-stage of Felak's writing cycle. I think about the story constantly; I have to force myself to do normal things like laundry and skating and work. Even now, I need my fix, and I know that it's in my email, and it's very tempting to stay up half the night working on it. (That's not going to happen, though.)
If anything, NaNoWriMo has been a bit disappointing just because I was expecting it to be...well, a lot harder than it's been. Not that I'm trying to sound cocky or like a braggart, but I should be over 10K by this time tomorrow.
(I'm tempted, actually, to set myself a 100K goal but then think, "Why ruin this relaxing month of novel-writing and nothing else to do?")
To my co-crazywriters, I have loved reading the details of your stories and apologize for not posting more on my own. I cannot share writing with anyone--I don't even show or tell my husband about my stories while they're being written--until it is finished and cleaned and made suitable for the public. I can tell you that it's based on original characters from my RPG; that it's a fantasy story and, like most of my stories, psychology- and character-centric. Which is weird and probably unpublishable but fun as heck to write.
Also, I am reading everyone's LJ and emails but am cutting myself back on commenting. Normally, I have a tendency to get a bit crazy with LJ posting and comments. This month, I'm slowing down a bit, but I am reading your stories and your posts, even if I don't appear very often.
To all my fellow NaNos, good luck in the days to come! To the rest of you, enjoy your relatively sane November. You're much smarter than me. ;)