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NaNoWriMo thoughts
*Beginning to think about NaNoWriMo, because it's totally me to plan everything out in advance. On the flip side, if I actually have a vague idea as to what the plot will be before I write, I can structure the story so that it's going towards the plot. And not do things like have the macguffin change from a time travel machine to some sort of extra-temporal storage, to a gun. Not that I ever did that, see also, the entirety of last year.
*Trying also to decide if writing my novel "counts" as writing my 750words. This...could easily end in madness if I decide it doesn't. I look forward to finding out. On the plus side, I've been trying to work out how fast I write, and I think I should be able to write 2750 words in two hours or less. Maybe. (Now question, do I have two hours to spare every single day. Hahahahahhaohdear.)
*As with last year, I will be posting progress over in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
katarina_tales. This is mostly because of the year in which my computer asploded and I lost everything from a three month span of time, except for the two novels I had been posting as I wrote. Yeah, keeping online copies of things is a really good plan.
*Did I write anything in 2008? I feel like I must've, because I always write, but that might have been my break year. Huh, crazy stuff.
*Oh, ideas and stuff. Idea this year is a possibly horror, probably partially historical fiction, certainly ghost story, possibly with two points of view (the ghost and a modern equivalent), set in the house I lived in the last two years. It has a _real title_ which is absurd, as I've never written anything with a title, ever --"The Girl on the Stairs". Yes, I know that's not imaginative. Whatever.
*Knowing me, the research and complexity involved means this will crash and burn really hard. That's okay, I'm seriously considering using the month to rewrite something instead of write it. At the very least, I need to refine more plot outlines. And I really *really* ought to write a (much better!) second draft of my one completed novel.
*Do I even have that in this state? *checks notebooks*
*Yes, yes I do. And the 2005 attempt, which is my favourite, and least writable character1. Muahaha.
Anyways, that's about it. Wish me luck and such!
~Sor
MOOP!
1: I have started, and restarted, and restarted Dante's story so many times now. Entire sections of her composition book have been crossed out, and her notes span half a decade, multiple notebooks, and two computers. I love Dante, and think she's awesome, but she refuses to let me write her adequately.
*Trying also to decide if writing my novel "counts" as writing my 750words. This...could easily end in madness if I decide it doesn't. I look forward to finding out. On the plus side, I've been trying to work out how fast I write, and I think I should be able to write 2750 words in two hours or less. Maybe. (Now question, do I have two hours to spare every single day. Hahahahahhaohdear.)
*As with last year, I will be posting progress over in
katarina_tales. This is mostly because of the year in which my computer asploded and I lost everything from a three month span of time, except for the two novels I had been posting as I wrote. Yeah, keeping online copies of things is a really good plan. *Did I write anything in 2008? I feel like I must've, because I always write, but that might have been my break year. Huh, crazy stuff.
*Oh, ideas and stuff. Idea this year is a possibly horror, probably partially historical fiction, certainly ghost story, possibly with two points of view (the ghost and a modern equivalent), set in the house I lived in the last two years. It has a _real title_ which is absurd, as I've never written anything with a title, ever --"The Girl on the Stairs". Yes, I know that's not imaginative. Whatever.
*Knowing me, the research and complexity involved means this will crash and burn really hard. That's okay, I'm seriously considering using the month to rewrite something instead of write it. At the very least, I need to refine more plot outlines. And I really *really* ought to write a (much better!) second draft of my one completed novel.
*Do I even have that in this state? *checks notebooks*
*Yes, yes I do. And the 2005 attempt, which is my favourite, and least writable character1. Muahaha.
Anyways, that's about it. Wish me luck and such!
~Sor
MOOP!
1: I have started, and restarted, and restarted Dante's story so many times now. Entire sections of her composition book have been crossed out, and her notes span half a decade, multiple notebooks, and two computers. I love Dante, and think she's awesome, but she refuses to let me write her adequately.
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The one that I've looked into the most myself (although I don't use it because of that costing-money-for-offsite-backup thing, and I already have a program that works well enough for just backing up to an external drive) is CrashPlan (http://b2.crashplan.com/consumer/features.html). Their software gets good reviews as a free onsite backup-er, and apparently their offsite service is pretty good too.
For me, paying for offsite backup doesn't make a lot of sense, because of cost-vs.-benefit. I don't have very much data that is both irreplaceable and important, so I go without that particular catastrophic protection (offsite backups are in case of, like, fire or flood or something that destroys the drives that your data is on as you use it normally/daily). There's a whole debate you have to have with yourself about what's necessary to back up and why vs. the cost and hassle of doing so. So, say, if you have the skills and the disc(s) to reinstall your operating system and programs if something goes horribly wrong, there's not much reason to back those up other than convenience; you just need the settings (that said, drive space is cheap nowadays, so there's little reason not to back everything up). Stuff like that.
Good luck. :)