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Jun. 24th, 2005 11:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
triple_flameIt's starting to worry me that I only seem to be posting meaningful stuff when I want to rant...then I look back and realise how regular the posts have been recently and I worry even more.
Ended up having a blazing row last night, not fun. Although the random 3 mile wander probably did good things for working off the random free Korma.
I'm not going to talk about it though, don't want to talk about it, it's left me with a headache and feeling generally depressed and now there isn't even sun to cheer me up 'cos it's all rainy and grey - although finally cool enough to think.
I've come to a decision, November I am going to be spending alot of time with my computer and avoiding the internet since it's a distraction. After discovering GW last year only to have them close it on me early this, I also discovered NaNoWriMo...It happens in November and the idea is to write a 50,000 word novel/novella in one month - 12 midnight on the 31st of October 'til 12 midnight 30th November. No editing, no rewriting, no spending hours agonising over one line - you just write until the story is done. Now knowing me I'll be hell to live with and I'll still agonise forever over a single paragraph but at least I have a goal and the prospect of a shiny certificate if I win (win = finish 50,000 words by midnight 30/11/05).
The thing is, I look at some of the stuff I've already written and I know I can do it, it works out to 2,000 words per day and a little free time...Goddess when I think about my first year or so at Uni and how intimidating 3,000 word essays were, never mind a 9-10,000 word dissertation, now I'm casually talking about writing a novel that's 5 times that length! I know that if I can do this there is hope for me finishing Goddess in Chains though, not to mention actually getting on with Sleeping Dragons (Yes Simara I promise Myst will make a comeback). I know from GiC that if I make myself sit down and write 1,000 words every so often I can get some really good stuff out of it, the thing is with that, there's no deadline, nothing to work towards but my own satisfaction and the vanity printing I've been promised if I ever finish it. The thought of a whole month where I can just immerse myself in being "a writer" appeals to me and if I get something good out of it that's all the better. 2,000 words just doesn't seem so scary anymore, and with my laptop it doesn't matter that I'm going to be at my parents' at the start of November, I can write there and I can write on the train, then when I get home I can randomly stay up half the night typing if I want!
I'm starting early with the looking for ideas part, going to start scribbling characters, world ideas, plot thoughts, everything because I'm going to need a good idea where I'm going before I start.
Ended up having a blazing row last night, not fun. Although the random 3 mile wander probably did good things for working off the random free Korma.
I'm not going to talk about it though, don't want to talk about it, it's left me with a headache and feeling generally depressed and now there isn't even sun to cheer me up 'cos it's all rainy and grey - although finally cool enough to think.
I've come to a decision, November I am going to be spending alot of time with my computer and avoiding the internet since it's a distraction. After discovering GW last year only to have them close it on me early this, I also discovered NaNoWriMo...It happens in November and the idea is to write a 50,000 word novel/novella in one month - 12 midnight on the 31st of October 'til 12 midnight 30th November. No editing, no rewriting, no spending hours agonising over one line - you just write until the story is done. Now knowing me I'll be hell to live with and I'll still agonise forever over a single paragraph but at least I have a goal and the prospect of a shiny certificate if I win (win = finish 50,000 words by midnight 30/11/05).
The thing is, I look at some of the stuff I've already written and I know I can do it, it works out to 2,000 words per day and a little free time...Goddess when I think about my first year or so at Uni and how intimidating 3,000 word essays were, never mind a 9-10,000 word dissertation, now I'm casually talking about writing a novel that's 5 times that length! I know that if I can do this there is hope for me finishing Goddess in Chains though, not to mention actually getting on with Sleeping Dragons (Yes Simara I promise Myst will make a comeback). I know from GiC that if I make myself sit down and write 1,000 words every so often I can get some really good stuff out of it, the thing is with that, there's no deadline, nothing to work towards but my own satisfaction and the vanity printing I've been promised if I ever finish it. The thought of a whole month where I can just immerse myself in being "a writer" appeals to me and if I get something good out of it that's all the better. 2,000 words just doesn't seem so scary anymore, and with my laptop it doesn't matter that I'm going to be at my parents' at the start of November, I can write there and I can write on the train, then when I get home I can randomly stay up half the night typing if I want!
I'm starting early with the looking for ideas part, going to start scribbling characters, world ideas, plot thoughts, everything because I'm going to need a good idea where I'm going before I start.