In which I yell excitedly at everybody before turning off the computer...

[strangecreature]

There's a terrific review of Atwood's The Year of the Flood over here, which is thorough without being spoilery. Just in case anyone was thinking "Megan! Stop making ridiculous monkey noises and tell us about the actual book

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[strangefrontier]

I'll probably be giving NaNo another go this year. I don't know how many times I've tried it then not made it past a couple of thousand words!

[strangecreature]

Eeexcellent! Maybe this'll be the year of winnage for you! (Why do you figure you get stuck? Just too busy or waning interest?)

My icon + your icon = OTP.

[strangefrontier]

Jepha/pineapple ♥♥♥♥

Some years I've been super busy in November, and I tend to write quite slowly. There's also the I-have-no-idea-what-happens-next obstacle, and I've never managed to put myself into the NaNo mindset of JUST! KEEP! GOING! EVEN IF IT'S TERRIBLE! My inner editor needs to be bound and gagged and locked in the basement for me to reach 50,000 words in a month.

[strangecreature]

Their love is epic like Patrick/hat. X-D

Aw, that sounds pretty normal... You can do eet! Outside of NaNo, I swear I'm one of the slowest, ploddiest writers out there.

There's also the I-have-no-idea-what-happens-next obstacle...

I have learned that this can be blasted out of the way by having somebody come running in with a gun. Mwuahahaha. Even when your characters are in the middle of the forest. RUN IN WITH A GUN, I SAY! Otherwise, ninjas.

[strangefrontier]

The classic Raymond Chandler advice! "When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand." :D I think the setting for my NaNo novel this year needs to be one in which there is a lot of guncrime to explain these constant intrusions!

[strangecreature]

That's the one! I always forget who said it. (Y'know, I was just thinking how with last year's story I threw it into a future city where civilians couldn't own guns and then there was this big scene where somebody smuggles a gun to the main guy and I just now realized that I completely forgot to do anything with it for the rest of the story. Oh dear. That might've been helpful.)