Setting up the starting stalls
The craziness has started. Will do most of the nano gossip over at the serpent journal but cannot leave this space empty on such a pretty little date 011110
Happy with today's word count but that's due to silly stuff like slinking in when the clocks chimed midnight and dropping by again around 6am, again at 8 and two more mad dashes around midday and just now.
It is a gorgeous sunny day. Somewhat hot. If I'd been at work like usual on Monday would have started at 7am and finished at 13.30 and then gone on a coffee crawl some place after work before returning to the Lair around 4pm
So it's only reasonable that the nano nuttiness gets some of that otherwise work dedicated time
Following last year's rule of no online lurking in Cyberia until the daily quota is reached but also added a few new ones.
Unlike last time, this time there's no editing at all before starting the next serpent snippet. Time wasted editing could be better spent writing and anyway editing is for December.
It also helps having a half decent text editor and not the infernal snailish Google Docs
Setting up all 22 chapters from the start means being able to dip in and out and just squiggle where the muse desires. So far got six chapters on the boil.
Still not yet looked at the Bohemian Gothic deck since midnight or not even the stash of index cards.
Presently writing snippets from memory in the relevant chapters - 22 chapters with 4 cards each at about 400 -600 words per card including the linking to the next scene in the story
So far putting the characters in their starting stalls. Once enough of them are in position, the race will begin. Tomorrow would be a good day for that.
Only one day in the game and already two of them are fighting over their place at the top of the pecking order. The real boss is being threatened by some uppity blond blue eyed and **sparkly** outsider.
Lucky this story is a prequel because he got well and truly killed off in last year's nano and not a shovel to be seen
On that subject, why use a shovel when there's even more fun to be had with pitch forks, fire and brimstone
Roasted plot bunny also sounds quite tasty. The possibilities are endless
Happy with today's word count but that's due to silly stuff like slinking in when the clocks chimed midnight and dropping by again around 6am, again at 8 and two more mad dashes around midday and just now.
It is a gorgeous sunny day. Somewhat hot. If I'd been at work like usual on Monday would have started at 7am and finished at 13.30 and then gone on a coffee crawl some place after work before returning to the Lair around 4pm
So it's only reasonable that the nano nuttiness gets some of that otherwise work dedicated time
Following last year's rule of no online lurking in Cyberia until the daily quota is reached but also added a few new ones.
Unlike last time, this time there's no editing at all before starting the next serpent snippet. Time wasted editing could be better spent writing and anyway editing is for December.
It also helps having a half decent text editor and not the infernal snailish Google Docs
Setting up all 22 chapters from the start means being able to dip in and out and just squiggle where the muse desires. So far got six chapters on the boil.
Still not yet looked at the Bohemian Gothic deck since midnight or not even the stash of index cards.
Presently writing snippets from memory in the relevant chapters - 22 chapters with 4 cards each at about 400 -600 words per card including the linking to the next scene in the story
So far putting the characters in their starting stalls. Once enough of them are in position, the race will begin. Tomorrow would be a good day for that.
Only one day in the game and already two of them are fighting over their place at the top of the pecking order. The real boss is being threatened by some uppity blond blue eyed and **sparkly** outsider.
Lucky this story is a prequel because he got well and truly killed off in last year's nano and not a shovel to be seen
On that subject, why use a shovel when there's even more fun to be had with pitch forks, fire and brimstone
Roasted plot bunny also sounds quite tasty. The possibilities are endless