not dead, just my brain is eaten by words
14,662 is the current wordcount. I am feeling pretty decent about this novel, despite how I frantically cobbled its plot outline together at 10 pm on October 31 after I drank a celebratory libation for finishing Every Light and then went "oh fuck my LIFE NaNo starts tomorrow."
I'm also less freaked out by the lack of hyperdistinct narrative voice, partly because apparently I'm doing it now and partly because I really, really need to stop freaking out so much and I'm trying not to let myself think about it too much.
Last night was....wow. I mean. In Nate we trust, and all that, but I was still sitting on the couch frantically IMing
who_shot_kr and all but biting my nails--and then after they called it somehow I wound up throwing up hardcore. I suspect either the massive horrific sinus headache I had, or a bad batch of soup; either way, I was fine this morning (albeit a five-hours-of-sleep zombie, because what dipfuck stayed up to watch the acceptance speech? This one.)
It's kind of a relief not to be refreshing 538 six times a day anymore. It will surprise no one reading this that I'm an ardent liberal. Quite frankly, the idea of a Romney/Ryan presidency was horrifying to me. Paul Ryan is more or less the antithesis of every political opinion I hold. Today I am just kind of flopped in relief. (I've also been gerrymandered--no, Illinois legislature, there is no other word for what you did; it benefits me but SERIOUSLY--back into a blue district with a Congressperson I adore and was sad to move out of their district before.) Akin and Mourdock lost (not that Donnelly is THAT much better but he's less absolutely horrifically clusterfucktastrophe), and we are now at an historic number of women in the Senate. (We need more, but this is a start.)
While there are a few races I would've preferred to go the other way, overall I'm much more hopeful for the next few years. I believe, passionately, that one of the keys to a strong economy is a strong safety net. I don't agree with President Obama; I'm farther left than he is by a significant degree. But I hope that, now that he doesn't have to worry about re-election, he can start making measurable progress (assuming, of course, a moderately reasonable Congress, which...mmmm.)
Any of the foregoing aside, I'm making decent progress in NaNo - by the end of tomorrow I'll be two full days ahead - and getting really excited about a project I have planned for the new year. It's almost making up for the hell that is the end of DST. why is it so fucking dark ugh.
Coherence is degrading, so I guess I'll go to bed. Goodnight, Dreamwidth.
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I'm also less freaked out by the lack of hyperdistinct narrative voice, partly because apparently I'm doing it now and partly because I really, really need to stop freaking out so much and I'm trying not to let myself think about it too much.
Last night was....wow. I mean. In Nate we trust, and all that, but I was still sitting on the couch frantically IMing
who_shot_kr and all but biting my nails--and then after they called it somehow I wound up throwing up hardcore. I suspect either the massive horrific sinus headache I had, or a bad batch of soup; either way, I was fine this morning (albeit a five-hours-of-sleep zombie, because what dipfuck stayed up to watch the acceptance speech? This one.)
It's kind of a relief not to be refreshing 538 six times a day anymore. It will surprise no one reading this that I'm an ardent liberal. Quite frankly, the idea of a Romney/Ryan presidency was horrifying to me. Paul Ryan is more or less the antithesis of every political opinion I hold. Today I am just kind of flopped in relief. (I've also been gerrymandered--no, Illinois legislature, there is no other word for what you did; it benefits me but SERIOUSLY--back into a blue district with a Congressperson I adore and was sad to move out of their district before.) Akin and Mourdock lost (not that Donnelly is THAT much better but he's less absolutely horrifically clusterfucktastrophe), and we are now at an historic number of women in the Senate. (We need more, but this is a start.)
While there are a few races I would've preferred to go the other way, overall I'm much more hopeful for the next few years. I believe, passionately, that one of the keys to a strong economy is a strong safety net. I don't agree with President Obama; I'm farther left than he is by a significant degree. But I hope that, now that he doesn't have to worry about re-election, he can start making measurable progress (assuming, of course, a moderately reasonable Congress, which...mmmm.)
Any of the foregoing aside, I'm making decent progress in NaNo - by the end of tomorrow I'll be two full days ahead - and getting really excited about a project I have planned for the new year. It's almost making up for the hell that is the end of DST. why is it so fucking dark ugh.
Coherence is degrading, so I guess I'll go to bed. Goodnight, Dreamwidth.
I've posted this at http://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/1058515.html and you may comment there or here. On Dreamwidth, this entry has
comments.