My NaNoWriMo novel is finished! On Monday night I stayed up till 2am, but I wrote an ending. Not a great ending, but an ending, with enough of a twist that I’m not completely dissatisfied with it. On Tuesday night I made a bunch of minor edits I’d noted that needed doing, and then Rachael and I read each other's novels. (Hers is really, really cool ( Read more... )

I'm a NaNoWriMo Winner!
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I had yesterday off work, to work on NaNoWriMo.
By 3pm, I'd written 1000 words. This is not good. It was like those days at work where I get nothing done before 12noon, except what I'd done nothing of wasn't work, but my novel. You know, the one I chose to do.

(Instead I started playing the Chromatron series of puzzle games, from the same people who ( Read more... )

All right. It's the end of Monday, and my wordcounts spreadsheet says I've written 40562 words this month, and I've got 9438 to go. In four days.

This is a lot.

Thankfully, I have Wednesday as a day off work. (Well... tentatively confirmed by my manager. I'm hoping that when I get in tomorrow I'll have a voicemail properly confirming it.) So my plan ( Read more... )

Well, on the plane back from SC07 on Friday I forced myself to write the final 2000 words, so that I'd have written 10k during my trip away.Then we landed at 9:30am UK time (1:30am Pacific time), so I decreed that'd be the cutoff between Friday and Saturday. I was strangely awake for the whole flight and taxi journey. In the taxi I got 400 words ( Read more... )

As I predicted, the stress faded away relatively quickly. The dinner with colleagues want on till 11pm, but it was actually very fun. I spent most of the dinner having a fascinating conversation with Bruno, on NaNoWriMo, writing, science fiction, time travel, and several related things. He's a creative guy too, but is very concerned about ( Read more... )

( Supercomputing talks: cosmology, Dreamworks and jet engines )

I didn't get any writing done last night apart from on the shuttle bus: I got into my hotel room around 10pm, lay on the bed, and fell straight to sleep ( Read more... )

Well, I woke up at 6am local time, and decided to try to make a start on my day's noveling, since I knew I wouldn't have much time once the day's events started. I forced myself to write 200 words before I got the shuttle to the conference centre, where the internet awaited me ( Read more... )

NaNo in Nevada is off to a good start, but it's been the easy bit so far ( Read more... )