NaNoWriMo = MouseSheep

[saint_of_me]

So, mostly because of Hailero, I signed up for NaNo and started writing yesterday. MouseSheep is my username because in the particular fantasy world I created the mouse and sheep switch places. It's mice who are herded and kept for their fur, it's sheep who scurry about in the pantry looking for crumbs. It's not a story about mice and sheep, it'

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[hailerro]

I don't think hoarding food is a bad idea. If money becomes worthless then food could be the new gold. (You can't eat gold afterall). I always hear it's good to have a lot of savings (we don't but I'm perfectly willing to admit that is Steve's and my own shortcomings ... and we're working on it ... we just haven't squirreled away a lot). Though I often wonder if savings will be worth it. If the dollar isn't worth anything than having many of them in the bank does you no good at all.

Yay for Nano. I highly doubt anyone churns out anything that is publishable from this. I think the best idea from NaNo is that it gets you writing - some form of writing - a bit everyday and that's the habit that becomes profitable. The more you practice your craft the better you become at it (which is true in most cases, though I have met a few people that will just never be any good at their writing, though their ideas are amazing ... Then again, they won't get better at it because they're snobs and refuse to listen to any criticism or questions but their own). (I'm a writing snob ... if someone asks me to review their work - and this has happened a time or two with the same person - and I can't make out what the hell they're trying to say and I point this out to them, gently, and they decide to sit on their butt and proclaim their superiority instead of fixing their muddle of paragraphs ... Well, those are the people that will surprise the hell out of me if they ever make it anywhere.) And honestly, I'm not stupid, I give people a lot of leeway in what they're trying to say but if I can't figure out what they're saying then the 'general public' at large is going to have no damn idea.
Rambling. Sorry. Glad you're doing NaNo. I shall friend you, if that's cool. I think what you write might be publishable ... if you refine it afterwards. (I mean, aiming for the 50K words will lead you to some brilliant places as well as lead you to churning out some scenes where you'll wonder if you were high when you wrote them).
For me, it's a good goal to get me into writing again. Consistently. I'm not sure who I'll let read my stuff once it's done. (I ran into the mistake of comparing it to some friends of mine and I feel like what I'm saying on the page is absolute drivel compared to their eloquence). I'm also writing about things that my religious culture would probably be uncomfortable with reading (This year I've chosen to write about realistic people, non-fantasy, that are roommates in college, who have all gone through their own various issues ... one dealt with childhood sexual abuse and is an alcoholic as a result, one came from poverty and jumps into a marriage of convenience only to figure out it's not convenient when he starts using her for a punching bag, one has dealt with depression but has a pretty good handle on things (though she's the most sympathetic to the alcoholic who is attempting recovery), one is a religious snob that will eventually get knocked off her high horse by life ... basically I'm touching on a lot of topics one doesn't find in 'mormon literature' which has the tendency to gloss things over and not dive too deeply into real life issues).
I'm hoping I don't stall out like I did last year after I hit 10K words. I'm going step by step and seeing what the characters want to say/reveal. It's sort of an organic form of writing.
And the chocolate I had for breakfast is making me way rambly.
I'd love to read your story, when you get it done, if you want a second pair of eyes. If not, I won't assume that you think I'm the devil incarnate and have been deluded into paranoia that I shall steal your masterpiece.

[saint_of_me]

Ah, if only we had manga in the States like they do in Japan! That's the kind of venue where I think Nano could get published and look fantastic.

Ah, I am afraid that if I have some one read my stuff without totally bashing it I will become a monster of ego and insist that it be published, even at my own expense. Then I will sit on the street corner selling books that I wrote myself. Doom doom doomy doom.