time and relative dimension in space

So I meant to post about Nanowrimo yesterday but...I did not.

Anyway, this year I'm trying my hand at portal fantasy, partly because I had an idea for one but mostly because I've never attempted portal fantasy before and Nano is the time of year when I try to stretch outside of my comfort zone. (I also stole my main characters and title from last year's trainwreck attempt at sci-fi/fantasy fusion.) That said, my main goal this time around is to pace myself and actually reach 50K. Because last year was a trainwreck. I've set a personal goal of 3K per day, at least to start with, in the hope that it will a) give me enough of a head start that I won't completely fall behind if something comes up later in the month (like last year's deathplague), and b) not burn me out completely by the second week. I'm also making the most out of Write Or Die and its fullscreen capability; right now I'm working exclusively in Stimulus mode but I suspect soon I'll move into Consequences mode and eventually Kamikaze.

Wordcount for day two: 6,233

Good luck to everyone writing this month!

In non-Doctor Who news, I made 50K on my NaNo project tonight!

The plot's not done quite yet, mainly because I'm still not 100% sure how one extremely important thing works out, but it's surprisingly close!

Day two of this year's NaNo, and I'm at 5210 words. So. Not bad. A day ahead of schedule, even.

And I've managed to get my two main characters introduced to each other! (More or less. She still doesn't know his last name, but that'll come.) I am excited about this, because writing the bits before they knew each other was kind of boring.

So today was the first day of Camp NaNo's April session! Is anyone else participating? I'm doing the whole Rebel thing this month; planning to work on several projects. Although the first 2000 words have all been in the same story. (It's Lost fic! I'm really excited about it and hope it turns out well enough to share with other people! We'll see.)

So I've pretty much completely lost the thread of posting every day. I'm sorry! I will try to get back to that! NaNoWriMo's been beating me rather than the other way around; as of last night I've officially given up on this story and gone full rebel; I'm just going to try to write 50K of fiction by the end of the month and if it's not all in the same story, too bad.

Note to self: Don't attempt do to NaNo three times in one year ever again.

So that should at least kill most of the NaNo whining, hopefully.

Tomorrow is American Thanksgiving! Which means delicious food and Broadway shows performing in parades! Happy Thanksgiving if you happen to celebrate it, happy November 22nd otherwise!

Things I did today: Made banana bread for the first time! It came out pretty well, too, so I am pleased. (chicafrom3: Ruiner of housemates' diets.)

Things I did not do today: Get any significant amount of writing done. I don't know why it's so hard for me to put words on a page this time around. It's not even that I can't come up with words that don't suck! At this stay I'd be okay with words that suck a lot! I just can't come up with words, at all. :|

I should be writing.

But the heat's been out all day and will be out all night and probably most of tomorrow at least, possibly longer, so instead of writing I'm curled up in a nest of blankets being grumpy about our landlords.

/fail

Late and short tonight, but:

Word count: 10,019.

I think one of the twins is going to be kidnapped by a dolphin in disguise.

That's not a sentence I get to say every day.

NaNoWriMo status report: 4,005. Keeping ahead of the minimum, but only just barely. On the plus side, I did some reinvention of the story structure in my head and I think once I get past this opening/establishing section I might be able to pick up speed. This story might be salvageable!

The heat went out today, so I spent most of the day freezing. It's back on now, though. /awesome month so far


As a positive, I got my Yuletide assignment and it's pretty awesome! :D

Current NaNo idea: a space opera/urban fantasy fusion focusing on mythological shapeshifters. Good idea, idea with potential, or terrible idea?

(Seriously, doing 3 versions of NaNo in one year was one of the worst concepts I've ever come up with.)