I will read anything and everything that you are happy for me to read. I do not promise, however, that I will read it in a timely fashion - my livejournal reading is often days behind, much like my life. Time seems to disappear when I am not looking - if I do so much as blink I have been known to loose whole days!
I will just add, here, that not every one of my LJFriends is in my LJ "Default view" friends group which is the group that LJ displays when you click on the Friends link of your LJ. This means that I do not read everything that all of my LJFriends write. There are only so many seconds in the year…
- Location:Horsham, UK
- Mood:
awake
Interesting to me, currently, especially because my main character is a single woman with nary a friend and is at least partly about the friends she starts to allow herself to make and remake. Also interesting to me because most of my friends are my hubby and you lot. I only have a few friends (more acquaintances if you take into account how often we see each other or speak) out here in real-life-land that are not hubby or family. That is fine by me, though, because that is how I am comfortable most of the time. That is probably, also, why my main character is so much like me. "Write what you know," yanno?
- Location:Horsham, UK
- Mood:
contemplative - Music:The Tinnitus! (dun dun daaaahh!)
- Chris Baty (in "No Plot? No Problem!" - the NaNoWriMo book)
This (and further reading of this book, by email, using DailyLit) prove that this man knows me. Even though we have never met. Maybe he *is* me. Stranger things have happened, I am sure, especially within NaNoWriMo novel first drafts…
See also "THE MONTH-LONG NOVELIST AGREEMENT AND STATEMENT OF UNDERSTANDING" (all-caps his not mine - and I am aiming for 30k not 50k).
P.S. 0 words thus far today. Then again I was asleep for 12 hours - including all of the daylight hours.
/ 30,000 words for IndyWriMoChart of my IndyWriMo Progress, 2009
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natnowrimos- Location:Horsham, UK
- Mood: contemplative
- Music:the rain
ysabetwordsmith. Warning - VERY FUNNY!Dailymotion - Very Funny BIG CATS! - a Animals video
- Location:Horsham, UK
- Mood:
amused
YouTube - Oritse Williams from JLS - Being a young carer
- Location:Horsham, UK
- Mood:
sore
fjm who asked us, "So: how do you do NaNoWriMo?":I write when I can. When I am awake. When there is little enough pain. When it is quiet enough (or with earplugs in).
I find that, as soon as I load Scrivener, words start to pour out of my fingers and through the keyboard. Yes, I try to make sense and occasionally spot typos in the previous sentence or paragraph but I also try not to reread much as I go along. I am also finding that the word-flow seems to come in approximately 500-word chunks.
I initially started off trying to make sure that I wrote as soon as I woke up and did not let myself read the web or knit until I had written at least one chunk but now, two weeks later, I am just writing whenever it is possible for me to do so given the above constraints. I am doing IndyWriMo (30k target) and am a couple of days behind due to health and other hurdles. The original aim was 1k per day and that fell nicely into two 500-word chunks. Now I am just doing as many 500-word (or longer) chunks as I can as often as I can. A couple of days I have even done NaNo sized writing - between 1500 and 2k words!
I must admit that I am writing my fist longer-than-short-story piece of fiction and then again the first in many years which means that I am not even caring too much about plot or repetition. Butt in Chair and Words on Page. I will learn to edit/rewrite the first draft after I have written it!
I have just thought to add that I do not touch-type and so having to look at the keyboard as I type prevents me from being able to reread very much, anyway! All I do is spot the red wavy spelling-mistake likes in Scrivener as I glance up and then, in fixing those, I might spot other glaring errors in grammar and sense.
So: How do you do IndyWriMo or NaNoWriMo, if you do? How do you write if you don't?
/ 30,000 words for IndyWriMoChart of my IndyWriMo Progress, 2009
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natalief and natnowrimos- Location:Horsham, UK
- Mood: awake
When hubby is playing on the Wii or watching TV, don't bother trying to write with headphones and music on - earplugs.
When You need to sleep some deep restful sleep - earplugs.
I buy them in bulk and so it is not like I am short of them, I just need to remember that they are there and to use them - earplugs.
I slept from about 23:30 until 03:30 and have just written 700+ words in the 30 minutes since then - both due to earplugs!
Going into my cave to write with the door shut may need to consist of both shutting the door and putting in earplugs, in future. Neighbour noise, cats and other noise in the house will not be an issue any longer when I want to concentrate. Yes, that means I will be writing in silence and not with my music but sometimes it seems that that is what I need to be able to put words to the keyboard.
*nods* This.
/ 30,000 words for IndyWriMoChart of my IndyWriMo Progress, 2009
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natalief and natnowrimos- Location:Horsham, UK
- Mood: contemplative
/ 30,000 words for IndyWriMoChart of my IndyWriMo Progress, 2009
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natalief and natnowrimos- Location:Horsham, UK
- Mood: disappointed
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.
- Washington Irving, ""Tales of a Traveler""
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- Location:Horsham, UK
- Mood:
focussed
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