Going to Ground for a Month, Starting Now

[dr_pretentious]

Nanowrimo starts tomorrow. I haven't been keeping up with lj this weekend, and from now to December, I expect to read very little on it, and to comment less. Though occasionally I may procrastinate in the face of my insane 50,000words/30days project by reading posts, especially posts from my fellow Nanowrimo cultists, you should assume that any given thing you post in November will escape me. (Unless you're one of the people with an immediate family member in a hospital ICU, in which case I will be checking updates. Anybody else, if you get caught up in a Real Live Emergency, please let me know. I do still care about you all.)

So it may be especially irritating that--after being a person who could be relied upon to post only sparingly, rarely more than twice a week--I'm about to become a high-traffic poster in the very moment when I just about stop reading you. I'll be posting daily updates about word count and other forms of novel progress. These posts will probably be short, but they may not be especially entertaining or personal, and there will be a lot of them. If anybody unfriends me in the interest of temporary traffic management, I will not be offended.

Come December, I have every reason to expect that I will bounce back to my old habits, posting just once or twice a week when something especially entertaining, worrisome, or wonderful happens, and catching up daily with all of you.

Be well, dear ones. I'll miss you.

Comments

[wayzgoose.livejournal.com]

Starting here with a midnight write-in tonight and expect to follow much the same pattern you've outlined. The short daily posts tracking your progress will be great motivation for me to keep plugging too. Wife and Daughter are also writing, so I expect our home to be uncommonly quiet this month.
Best wishes.

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

Best wishes to all of you. That's a great strategy to avoid feeling isolated from your family while you write--you're all in the solitude together.

I'm looking forward to Mad Aunt Hattie's revelations.

[calene.livejournal.com]

Best of luck!

No NaNo for me this year -- again. I am inevitably in the middle of or just finishing a project when it comes around every year. And dropping one to start another for a month proves catastrophic for the one I drop.

Have fun!

[skyefyr.livejournal.com]

I hope your challenge brings you great satisfaction and that lots of wonderful writing is done, lots of ideas come forth, and you find creative ways of experessing all your imagination holds! Good luck!

[jr0124.livejournal.com]

With luck I will be joining NaNo in the fall of 2007. I know for a fact that I will be in the middle of working on papers for school for the next 2 Novembers. Hmm - Maybe I can do my challenge in January instead - but then I won't have the tons of community support - but it will still be writing. Hmm. Points to Ponder...

In any event, good luck, have fun, and you can do it!!

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

I hear there's also a National Novel Revising Month, sometime in the spring. March? That sounds right. If you were starting a fresh project then, you could find support from the same pool of people, even if you weren't working on the same part of the process.

[seimaisin.livejournal.com]

Good luck! :)

[shellyinseattle.livejournal.com]

I'll look forward to hearing how it went for you in December. Good luck. I take it you won't be out here (WA) for AnnaCon then?

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

Nope. Most of the time, I'm delighted with the results of having embraced the marginally employed state. So my car's ten years old, and the power windows are all out of track and won't close properly--so what? I have time to write, and that's what money exists to obtain. But every once in a while, I miss my old salary. For instance, the moment when I had to tell myself there would be no Annacon for little me. I'm saving up for June. Are you going to Annacon? It did sound awfully useful.

[shellyinseattle.livejournal.com]

I'll only be attending the dinner on Friday to socialize. Since I write non-fiction, Annacon isn't the right fit for me. However, my husband the_monkey_king has submitted pages from one of his novels and should have a good time at the con.

[reynaud.livejournal.com]

Seeing as I'm at this late in the day, I'll assume you won't read this until December, so:

Congratulations on finishing!!