Nanowrimo Eve
Oct. 31st, 2006 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_pretentiousIt's Samhain, the eve of the New Year, and the New Year begins with absolute commitment to story.
Completion requires sacrifice. The first thing on the altar of sacrifice is any effort to keep up with my lj friends list. If you need me, email me, call me, or comment on one of my posts. It's not my intent to lame out on my friends, just on y'all's blogs.
It's possible I may have to sacrifice any effort to keep up with dishes, laundry, groceries, cooking...really, that's plenty to give up, and I'm hoping I don't have to withdraw from more of the world than that.
In the next 30 days, I will finish roughing out the Stisele manuscript. In the unlikely event that the story takes less than 50K more to tell, I'll shift my attention to polishing.
In other news, I'm still waiting for lab results. Thanks to everyone who has asked after my mystery illness. The headache is now two weeks old, and I'm really ready to be done with it. At least it seems to have stopped getting worse. Fortunately, I have a long history of finishing projects despite this kind of thing.
I wonder what I'll write tomorrow. I've spent the last couple of days feeding my brain bits of Robin Lane Fox's biography of Alexander the Great, just to see what the old unconscious can do with it. Poor Alexander the Great, a Mary Sue in his own time, rendered an even worse Mary Sue by posterity.
Completion requires sacrifice. The first thing on the altar of sacrifice is any effort to keep up with my lj friends list. If you need me, email me, call me, or comment on one of my posts. It's not my intent to lame out on my friends, just on y'all's blogs.
It's possible I may have to sacrifice any effort to keep up with dishes, laundry, groceries, cooking...really, that's plenty to give up, and I'm hoping I don't have to withdraw from more of the world than that.
In the next 30 days, I will finish roughing out the Stisele manuscript. In the unlikely event that the story takes less than 50K more to tell, I'll shift my attention to polishing.
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In other news, I'm still waiting for lab results. Thanks to everyone who has asked after my mystery illness. The headache is now two weeks old, and I'm really ready to be done with it. At least it seems to have stopped getting worse. Fortunately, I have a long history of finishing projects despite this kind of thing.
I wonder what I'll write tomorrow. I've spent the last couple of days feeding my brain bits of Robin Lane Fox's biography of Alexander the Great, just to see what the old unconscious can do with it. Poor Alexander the Great, a Mary Sue in his own time, rendered an even worse Mary Sue by posterity.
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Date: 2006-11-01 04:15 am (UTC)I've told Wolf that he has to put the "NO" in NaNoWriMo this year due to all the other stuff we have going on regularly plus his parents coming to town. He pulled my leg the other night when we had guests telling them he was doing it this year. You can imagine my reaction.
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Date: 2006-11-01 08:37 am (UTC)Be well (or else. I know where you live).
I'd better dig up the dusty old story and get battering away at it.
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Date: 2006-11-01 11:53 am (UTC)