I've kind of got out of the habit of posting. Going to try and rectify that, as of now. I've basically given up on NaNo this year (for several reasons that I don't have the time or inclination to get into in full but the hardest part has been working around 50 hours over 6 days each week and how FUCKING EXHAUSTED it leaves me each and every damn ( Read more... )

I'm supposed to be 1/4 of the way through my novel by the end of tomorrow, but as it is I'm languishing at around 6,000 words behind. I'm not feeling great about that right now (plus all of my writing buddies on the main site are ahead of me and here on LJ I keep seeing these updates from prolific fic authors who somehow seem to manage both ( Read more... )

So I'm underway with NaNo, and so far it's been harder than I was expecting. I guess I thought that because I had done a decent amount of planning, it would only be a simple matter of meeting the word count each day. But the truth is that I write so much less frequently than I would like, and I never find it easy. I am also not much good at writing ( Read more... )

It's close enough now that I can mention it, right ( Read more... )

THIS IS SO FUCKING AWESOME AND IF YOU'RE NOT WATCHING IT, YOU SHOULD BE. WHAT, YOU NEED A REASON? I'LL BE BACK WITH A DECENT REC POST FOR THIS SERIES IN DECEMBER...

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The series is Shiki and it's FUCKING AWESOME and I can't for the life of me understand why I didn't follow it from the moment it aired because I definitely watched the first episode ( Read more... )

Is anyone thinking of attempting NaNo this year? I'm seriously considering giving it a try; the idea occurred to me a couple of days ago and I've been musing on it ever since and the more I think about it, the more appealing it becomes. I still haven't reached a decision for certain (need to weigh it up a bit more because essentially my life would ( Read more... )