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Nov. 1st, 2006 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
triple_flameWell, it's that time of year again and NaNo has landed in my lap while I wasn't really looking this time! Not that this will stop me winning of course, it just means that I actually have a life to put on hold this year.
What with moving, benefits craziness and work you would think that I'd be feeling burned out and not in any fit state to write. Apparently (thankfully) my brain doesn't work like that. I'm all excited about getting started again despite having absolutely NO outline and 3 plot ideas still floating about. Simara honey, if you're reading this, I'm sorry about yesterday and will explain all when you appear on MSN...Oh yeah, and get back to typing!
Hmm I think that might be why I'm getting excited about this year, I have company with the NaNo craziness who lives close enough for tea and frothing!
No outline is exciting, it means that things can just go where they want to go and I get to find out the story as I write it. One of my plots is shouting louder than the other two and it's something a little different from my usual high fantasy. Besides the MC is whispering temptingly in my ear (well she is a succubus) and promising to tell me all about herself if I'll only start writing her. Add to that random feelings of doubt about starting the sequel to Pryde and Honour when I haven't actually finished the first novel and I think I have my idea. Now of course I need to start finding names for various characters and a title. *Sigh* a writer's work is never done, at least not until November 30th!
This month is going to have my notebook glued to my side even more tightly than usual I think, I'll write down random ideas and paragraphs as and when they come to me at work, then write them up when I get home. Afterall I've written things like that before with no idea of where I'm going and it generally works. The insanity of moving is a little like the insanity of NaNo, it's a mad rush to get everything in by the deadline, then you can make something good out of the chaos at your leisure.
Ok, Ok, I can hear all the other NaNo-ers shouting at me, I'll stop procrastinating and go read the forums now ^_^
Good luck everyone.
*Pixie Dust - Launched via Trebuchet!*
What with moving, benefits craziness and work you would think that I'd be feeling burned out and not in any fit state to write. Apparently (thankfully) my brain doesn't work like that. I'm all excited about getting started again despite having absolutely NO outline and 3 plot ideas still floating about. Simara honey, if you're reading this, I'm sorry about yesterday and will explain all when you appear on MSN...Oh yeah, and get back to typing!
Hmm I think that might be why I'm getting excited about this year, I have company with the NaNo craziness who lives close enough for tea and frothing!
No outline is exciting, it means that things can just go where they want to go and I get to find out the story as I write it. One of my plots is shouting louder than the other two and it's something a little different from my usual high fantasy. Besides the MC is whispering temptingly in my ear (well she is a succubus) and promising to tell me all about herself if I'll only start writing her. Add to that random feelings of doubt about starting the sequel to Pryde and Honour when I haven't actually finished the first novel and I think I have my idea. Now of course I need to start finding names for various characters and a title. *Sigh* a writer's work is never done, at least not until November 30th!
This month is going to have my notebook glued to my side even more tightly than usual I think, I'll write down random ideas and paragraphs as and when they come to me at work, then write them up when I get home. Afterall I've written things like that before with no idea of where I'm going and it generally works. The insanity of moving is a little like the insanity of NaNo, it's a mad rush to get everything in by the deadline, then you can make something good out of the chaos at your leisure.
Ok, Ok, I can hear all the other NaNo-ers shouting at me, I'll stop procrastinating and go read the forums now ^_^
Good luck everyone.
*Pixie Dust - Launched via Trebuchet!*
