It's Official, I'm NUTS
So yesterday (or rather really really really early Friday morning) I discovered that you can enter NaNo Wrimo with a work in Progress as a rebel. Some Rebels will still validate, others won't. So I considered this and decided what the heck, I'm working hard on two fics right now anyway, might as well join the fun and make it somewhat official. So I did it. I joined. I will start my NaNo Tally on November 1st and not count anything written before hand. Which means, the big fic that I have in progress right now, is going to get bigger.
This particualar fic is basically wiggiemomsi's auction fic from me. It was a story I've been meaning to tell almost since I finished watching the show and it's inspired by Shakespeare's Sonnet "O Mistress Mine." It's a pot Journey's End fic so it really applies. Anyway, it is probably the most complicated and most rewarding story I've ever written and it's been really exciting for me to write. So my main NaNo goal is to finish that story.
I also have to finish my Original story for the project4editrx. It's reached the point where it could become a novel so my amazing beta cookie2697 and I are meeting tomorrow to deliberate over what the best plan of attack is. Do I edit out some plot threads? Shelve it and let it be a full novel at a later date and quickly try to write something else? Or keep going and try to finish it in under the 15 000 words? Tough choices.
I'll keep the word meter in my side bar going throughout NaNo so in addition to my NaNo word count, you'll be able to see my progress on the story as a whole and on the original story.
In addition to this, I've entered my grade 7/8 class into the youth version of Nano. They're excited to be starting a novel and many of them are trying to write 10,000 words which I think is pretty impressive. They'll write for 30 minutes every day in November, and when they write, I will too, so I'll get to do a lot of writing. YAY. Collectively, my class goal is 115, 058 words. That's for 13 students. They also want to try and collectively beat MY Word count. I'm pretty sure this is a contest I'm doomed to lose, but if it motivates them then I'm all for it.
Anyway, with all this going on, and with report cards coming up, (not to mention the I'll be Homemade for Christmas supportstacie auction) it's going to be quite a while (read December) before I have another fic to post. But, once this is done, there will be a massive story that I'll be able to start posting chapter by chapter so I promise you I'll more than make up for the hiatus.
If you're one of my Gilmore Girls readers, I have more in the works for you too, including a chance to weigh in on what missing scenes from Secret Desires and Nameless Fears, or Love, Marriage and Moving Vans you might want to see a one shot of while you wait for the third installment of "Good Things Come in Threes".
PS - I know there's a whole lot of us DW writers doing NaNo this month, perhaps it's time for a DW NaNo community for anyone in DW writing either a fanfic or an Original story for NaNo Wrimo? I'd be willing to put such a community together if there's interest and if there's at least one other person willing to help mod it.
This particualar fic is basically wiggiemomsi's auction fic from me. It was a story I've been meaning to tell almost since I finished watching the show and it's inspired by Shakespeare's Sonnet "O Mistress Mine." It's a pot Journey's End fic so it really applies. Anyway, it is probably the most complicated and most rewarding story I've ever written and it's been really exciting for me to write. So my main NaNo goal is to finish that story.
I also have to finish my Original story for the project4editrx. It's reached the point where it could become a novel so my amazing beta cookie2697 and I are meeting tomorrow to deliberate over what the best plan of attack is. Do I edit out some plot threads? Shelve it and let it be a full novel at a later date and quickly try to write something else? Or keep going and try to finish it in under the 15 000 words? Tough choices.
I'll keep the word meter in my side bar going throughout NaNo so in addition to my NaNo word count, you'll be able to see my progress on the story as a whole and on the original story.
In addition to this, I've entered my grade 7/8 class into the youth version of Nano. They're excited to be starting a novel and many of them are trying to write 10,000 words which I think is pretty impressive. They'll write for 30 minutes every day in November, and when they write, I will too, so I'll get to do a lot of writing. YAY. Collectively, my class goal is 115, 058 words. That's for 13 students. They also want to try and collectively beat MY Word count. I'm pretty sure this is a contest I'm doomed to lose, but if it motivates them then I'm all for it.
Anyway, with all this going on, and with report cards coming up, (not to mention the I'll be Homemade for Christmas supportstacie auction) it's going to be quite a while (read December) before I have another fic to post. But, once this is done, there will be a massive story that I'll be able to start posting chapter by chapter so I promise you I'll more than make up for the hiatus.
If you're one of my Gilmore Girls readers, I have more in the works for you too, including a chance to weigh in on what missing scenes from Secret Desires and Nameless Fears, or Love, Marriage and Moving Vans you might want to see a one shot of while you wait for the third installment of "Good Things Come in Threes".
PS - I know there's a whole lot of us DW writers doing NaNo this month, perhaps it's time for a DW NaNo community for anyone in DW writing either a fanfic or an Original story for NaNo Wrimo? I'd be willing to put such a community together if there's interest and if there's at least one other person willing to help mod it.