Firstly, some bad news. Apparently story writing and assignment marking make use of the same part of the brain: the thinking part.

True story.

And right now, after seven days of NaNo, my... err, "thinking part" is worn out from all the use (it's not accustomed to such activity). In fact, in defiance, it's ground to a spectacular halt.

Hence the ( Read more... )

In my sleep, that is. On paper, however, um... not so good.

(Damn, but I write well in my dreams! Of course, by "writing", I really mean live through, experience and envisage sentences, speech and scenes. And, yes, my assessment of how good these bits are is also being carried out in the same theta state in which the creating has occurred, so ( Read more... )

So, November is... argh, FOUR days away!

Bloody hell. Where did the year go? Oh that's right... TOD stole it, what with all his talk of making Christmas puddings and shopping for presents. :D

So, I was planning on doing NaNoWriMo this year! The "National Novel Writing Month". Heard of it? It's when aspiring authors sign up here and then they try to ( Read more... )