Virtual NaNo Party

[wyld_dandelyon]

I have always been dismayed that NaNoWriMo is in November. Even the best November is not the month I would choose, if the choosing were up to me, for this endeavor.

And this year's Windycon was absolutely fantastic, deserving of all of my attention (and getting it). Which meant no words. But I should have been able to catch up.

Unfortunately, the

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[pocketnaomi]

*pulls up a chair with an ottoman, and offers hot cider*

I don't have the slightest trace of a novel and I didn't try. Someday maybe I will. OTOH I do have a new poem (not very good, but it's a start), a few ideas for other poem which might turn out better, and a child whose school I fought to a creative solution to her special needs as an exceptionally gifted child who was being bored to death. And my partner and I worked some things out that are making it a lot easier for us not to fight as often. So I consider it a pretty satisfying November.

[wyld_dandelyon]

Welcome! Fighting for your kid is a good thing. And so is poetry!

[stryck]

I'm also frustrated at NaNoWriMo being in November. November is when the stress dials up at work and the end of year extra effort starts.

Between work and baby this year, I didn't even have time to read your posted efforts. :( I have an idea for a novel and the first few pages sitting around, waiting for when I have time.

[wyld_dandelyon]

Last year I kept putting off reading Shadow Unit until I was not feeling up to doing creative work. Come to think of it, I'm behind on reading that again.

I wish you could pick which month to do it in, and still at least use their cool graphs and things.

[stryck]

What month would you pick? May, maybe? I usually have more spare time around then..

[wyld_dandelyon]

I was thinking the dead of winter. January, February or March. May is planting season here; July if a summer month.

[rowyn]

I didn't even manage to get together an outline that I actually like for the novel I wanted to finish writing (that was my "successful" nanonovel for 2007). *sigh*

[wyld_dandelyon]

Have some chocolate? Or how about gluten- and corn-free spicy ginger cookies?

Perhaps in analyzing why you don't like what you came up with, you can fix it.

[ellenmillion]

I won I won I won!

*ahem* *breaks out the consolation booze*

This is my first win since starting it in 2001 and trying every year since. Using it as a coping method for a car accident was greatly helpful.

[wyld_dandelyon]

Congratulations!

I'll have some of that chocolate liqueur, please.

[kelkyag]

I was not trying to write, but I was trying to prep for the open house at pottery studio. The last glaze firing before the open house was loaded yesterday. Five of my glazed bowls were in the firing queue and did not make it into the kiln. If there's a next time, I need to be a little more ahead of the game.

[wyld_dandelyon]

Oh, how frustrating!