9 posts tagged “nanowrimo”

Goal for next month: write a book!

There's a lot of super ego, and child-parent relation psychoanalysis, and 'religion is for dummies' condescension in there too. If only lifehacker tips were around back then we could have had a much more interesting read.

Speaking of books which appear to be written solely to fill some arbitrary word count quota, anyone doing NaNoWriMo next month? I mostly likely will, but I'm trying to ignore the nanomania until mid-month at least-- uh, oh. Now that I've mentioned it it's really hard to ignore! Oh, the power of suggestion.

yeah, I've got a lot to say...

I finished my nanowrimo novel around 8:45 tonight, and I'm a little wired, but I feel like a lump, a bump on a log, what have you. All I've managed to do since I finished was to order in food.  Way to lift that phone! Go me!

Writing this year's story was a real effort because I did it completely on my own computer and my own time; never during my day job's work hours. Not really during the weekends either which came to bite me in the butt toward the end. Taking charge of setting aside my own time to write was a new challenge, but this is probably good for a whole other post.

For every person who attempted to write a novel during National Novel Writing Month, I am happy to have shared the experience with you. For the buddies who have added me to your nano list from Vox, I want you to know you all rock regardless of how much you managed to write this month. I was watching all your bars progress throughout the month and rooting for you, even if I didn't actually get around to sending you nanomail saying as much. Come midnight I too will be able to answer the question 'Am I glad it's over?' Until then, I have to remember to pick my excerpt passage and finalize my word count before it gets stuck that way at midnight. Each year, without fail, there has been some glaring typo in my excerpt that I could no longer edit in December. This drove me nuts for the past four years, and I'm pretty sure it'll happen again this time. But I think I'll be okay with that.

Each person has a reason they take on the NaNoWriMo challenge.  For me, I just needed to remind myself that I can meet deadlines for my own projects. If I can consistently do this, just for myself, then I know I can meet deadlines for other people, especially when people offer to pay me for my creative efforts and/or time. Being able to over deliver is a valuable skill.

Plus, this is the perfect type of challenge to give my writing muscles a sorely needed work out, while at the same time, finding some really cool new music to become obsessed with.  My favorite new band, discovered by way of John Mayer's blog, is Paramore and the song I am currently obsessed with is "Crush Crush Crush" (<--lyrics)

Check out Paramore (<--their myspace) when you get a chance

Their entire album, RIOT, is streaming from that site. "Crush Crush Crush" is the first to automatically play.

Oh hey, the food has just arrived and there's a Bollywood/ Hollywood DVD all ready to watch until I fall asleep.
Shush! I actually like those movies (judging from the few I've seen).  See you around, November!

While handling a bag of dry cleaning this evening, I managed to, without the aid of a stapler, staple my middle finger to the bag by puncturing my skin approximately one cm from the tip of my middle finger.  The staple went through any guitar callous I had, and back out again and in my knee-jerk reaction I managed to close it (you know, the way it looks when stapled to something normal).   It was not painful until I pulled it out. I pulled it out because after I told my mother what happened and she saw her daughter stapled to a bag of dry cleaning, she wanted to a) go grab a knife to open the staple, and b) put rubbing alcohol on my stapled finger to "kill the germs." *cue scream of terror*

So I decided to get over my fear of removing sharp metal objects accidentally inserted into my skin, and take matters out of my own hand before she returned, opting to risk tetanus and whatever other germs were hanging out on the staple. I do hope the ice and makeshift paper towel bandage wrap will stop me from dying at some point during the night.

Typing this entry sucks. I've hit backspace 100 times already. And I did not reach my word goal for today. :(

In other news, I finally received my books from Amazon, two months after ordering them. If I can't type for the next day or so, at least I'll have something interesting to read.

I remember two years ago that I wrote 20K words in two days. I also remember how sore my wrists were for days afterward.  I told myself that I wasn't going to do that again. Still, six days into it my brain is just not in NaNo mode. Am I subconsciously trying to turn NaNoWriMo into NaNoWriWeek?  I know that can be done, but I also know I don't want to have to do that.  I still have plenty of time. But I could use some pep talking. I think I somehow missed receiving my end-of-week-one "kick in the pants" pep talk from Chris Baty. Where'd you go Chris? Where are you when I need you most?