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Nov. 1st, 2009 10:56 am( The first 100 words. They're pretty bad, but I like the names. )
Or in other words, I'm doing NaNoWriMo this year. I think I kinda have to, and I think I have to win it, just to prove to myself that I'm not a fuck up.
The last time I officially tried WriMo1 was 2007. In the month where I lost a hard drive, more or less broke up with my boyfriend2, and first spent the night at Magus's house (he slept, I read --some nights I just need the comfort of company)
Luckily, I lost very little of the novels I was writing in the Seren-crash --I had actually been uploading them to
katarina_tales at the time, so the majority of the words I wrote actually made it --not that I managed more than about 10k words that year, combined across the two stories. Also in the Kattales is my 2006 WriMo project (which I wrote in and around falling in love -yes thank you brain, I know that hurts right now- and finding out that kissing, even when separated by computer screens, might actually have some merit to it.)
It's less terrible than it could be. I actually remain fond of each of my WriMo efforts, though Dante (2004) is a stubborn bitch, who has never let me write her story well (and I have tried, on multiple occasions) and Adie (2005) really wants to undergo a second first draft sometime --essentially just rewrite the whole story, using the completed draft as my outline.
At any rate, I'm babbling. If only I could simply count 50k words of elljay posts, I'd be there in no time. We'll see what this month brings for me --if nothing else, I may get some good editing in, just from having all these stories back on my mind.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: "NaNo" does not make sense as an abbreviation. "Yes, hello, are you having a good National Novel?"
2: Technically Ksatyr and I broke up on the second of December. Butyeah. Hence the more or less, also hence why the very end of November/beginning of December is a pretty rough time for me.
ETA: Man, this bit from my 2006 WriMo remains one of my favourite things that I have ever written about myself. It makes me smile every single time:
Or in other words, I'm doing NaNoWriMo this year. I think I kinda have to, and I think I have to win it, just to prove to myself that I'm not a fuck up.
The last time I officially tried WriMo1 was 2007. In the month where I lost a hard drive, more or less broke up with my boyfriend2, and first spent the night at Magus's house (he slept, I read --some nights I just need the comfort of company)
Luckily, I lost very little of the novels I was writing in the Seren-crash --I had actually been uploading them to
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It's less terrible than it could be. I actually remain fond of each of my WriMo efforts, though Dante (2004) is a stubborn bitch, who has never let me write her story well (and I have tried, on multiple occasions) and Adie (2005) really wants to undergo a second first draft sometime --essentially just rewrite the whole story, using the completed draft as my outline.
At any rate, I'm babbling. If only I could simply count 50k words of elljay posts, I'd be there in no time. We'll see what this month brings for me --if nothing else, I may get some good editing in, just from having all these stories back on my mind.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: "NaNo" does not make sense as an abbreviation. "Yes, hello, are you having a good National Novel?"
2: Technically Ksatyr and I broke up on the second of December. Butyeah. Hence the more or less, also hence why the very end of November/beginning of December is a pretty rough time for me.
ETA: Man, this bit from my 2006 WriMo remains one of my favourite things that I have ever written about myself. It makes me smile every single time:
I quickly shook my head. "New York City was destroyed by a plague a very many years ago. I think that Washington D.C was destroyed in the third world war, but I'm not certain. You would have to ask someone who specilizes in Common Era history to find out for sure. Boston was, however, one of the most prominant cities in the world, ever since the failed dominator of all mankind declared it her capital. She moved a lot of important stuff up there, and did a lot of very good works for the world and then died spectacularly by tripping while doing a manic victory death around a bonfire. History can be quite funny sometimes like that."