Oh, it feels good…
I haven’t written since NaNo ’09 ended. Sure, I’ve had ideas, and the intention to write. But I never did.
Until I had an idea while in the shower this afternoon. And retained it, through sheer force of will (not easy, since I worked nights this past week), until I had towelled off and gone upstairs. And wrote it down, and more besides.
It feels so good, even if my handwriting is illegible at times.
Castle, my latest crack
It didn’t quite go the way I had planned, but I like what I have written so far. S1-based, Alexis’s thoughts on her father. Unfinished.
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Another year, another NaNo, another letter.
Dear Elsie,
I know you are angry at Kate. She was acting spineless and like a wimp. Still, you need to help her, or else the plot’ll just fall apart. And we wouldn’t want that, would we?
The author.
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I didn’t think I’d come here so soon
This thread on Absolute Write got me thinking. And then writing. Read the rest of this entry »
To my characters in my WIP
Please behave the way we agreed on when we set out on this. I know, I know, I have been slacking badly, but I’m trying to get back into it. So for the love of little green apples, don’t change roles halfway through!
Fiend, why did you change who you were masquerading as?
Same goes for Ameena. Make up your mind, woman. Angel. Whatever.
At least the lesbian-angle sems to have survived. But I foresee some massive rewriting later on.
Exasperated, the author.
And that makes three.
Three, haha! Three outlines.
And the past couple of days I have been writing. Not much, a couple of hundred words per day, but writing steadily nonetheless.
The plotbunnies are dead, aren’t they? :(
In my quest for three outlines before I come over to England (6 days…) I have two. The fact that I had those the day after the fiancé set the goal means he made Saturday the deadline for the third one.
I am so out of ideas right now.
Yes, I did write 449 words today on a plotbunny that bit me after listening to Pseudopod’s The Undoing (warning, bit graphic when it comes to surgical procedures), but that does not a novel make.
Bless my fiancé
For giving me a good kick in the backside. I have a terrible tendency to just fuss and not do anything. I whine a lot about wanting to write instead of just doing so. I can’t say exactly why this is so, apart from general laziness and unwillingness to do the work.
I was talking about NaNo, and that I had no clue what to write about, or whether I even wanted to participate this year. He said “There’s nine days before you come over here. I want you to come up with three outlines for NaNo by then.”
This was yesterday. I have two already.
