So how's it going?
It's kind of slow in here this year. I guess LJ has died completely, but after NaNo, I'm really going to try to do my part to breathe some life back into it.
How's everyone's NaNo going?
I'm doing a space fantasy that I've worked on off-and-on for like 8 years. I've written 3 generations plus backstory stuff, designed a giant mini-world spaceship, and have all of the worldbuilding and most of the cultures well in hand. THIS version is the story idea that I originally set out to tell and which sparked the whole world...
...And writing it has felt like pulling teeth. I do sprints on chatzy sometimes, and I get like 100-200 words per 15 (or 30!) minute sprint. Once I finally dragged my ass across 25k (day before yesterday, I think), it's finally starting to come a wee bit easier. Mainly because I'm getting to new, not-thought-to-death, un-outliney stuff. I was all, "Hey, I now have magic on a spaceship, so I think I need to rock the [space] out! Time to revive my Ziggy Stardust character, maybe throw in some space a capella with a cameo by Pentatonix (for the sole purpose of basing a werewolf character on Avi), make more people Amish, create a new faerie realm, and start having some folks descend into madness and try to rip apart humanity!" So that's given me a pretty fair second wind.
I've had trouble staying motivated since my writers' group fell apart this year. And I was really stoked to see that the regional ML for my "Elsewhere" group happened to spring up nearby to my extremely rural area. Write-ins have been 30 mins from my place, but the husband just started a new job and has to work that day, so I haven't made a one of them. I usually do NaNo with my kids every year (we homeschool), but they decided on day 2 or 3 that they just weren't into it this year. So I've been pretty much going at it alone except for the occasional online sprint. Which really just means I've been distracted by internet almost all month, but I'm working on that. I'm finally only 5k behind, so I think I may have a decent shot of winning if I can keep my new, somewhat floundering momentum going this next week.
How's everyone's NaNo going?
I'm doing a space fantasy that I've worked on off-and-on for like 8 years. I've written 3 generations plus backstory stuff, designed a giant mini-world spaceship, and have all of the worldbuilding and most of the cultures well in hand. THIS version is the story idea that I originally set out to tell and which sparked the whole world...
...And writing it has felt like pulling teeth. I do sprints on chatzy sometimes, and I get like 100-200 words per 15 (or 30!) minute sprint. Once I finally dragged my ass across 25k (day before yesterday, I think), it's finally starting to come a wee bit easier. Mainly because I'm getting to new, not-thought-to-death, un-outliney stuff. I was all, "Hey, I now have magic on a spaceship, so I think I need to rock the [space] out! Time to revive my Ziggy Stardust character, maybe throw in some space a capella with a cameo by Pentatonix (for the sole purpose of basing a werewolf character on Avi), make more people Amish, create a new faerie realm, and start having some folks descend into madness and try to rip apart humanity!" So that's given me a pretty fair second wind.
I've had trouble staying motivated since my writers' group fell apart this year. And I was really stoked to see that the regional ML for my "Elsewhere" group happened to spring up nearby to my extremely rural area. Write-ins have been 30 mins from my place, but the husband just started a new job and has to work that day, so I haven't made a one of them. I usually do NaNo with my kids every year (we homeschool), but they decided on day 2 or 3 that they just weren't into it this year. So I've been pretty much going at it alone except for the occasional online sprint. Which really just means I've been distracted by internet almost all month, but I'm working on that. I'm finally only 5k behind, so I think I may have a decent shot of winning if I can keep my new, somewhat floundering momentum going this next week.