Oct. 6th, 2005

Ook!

Oct. 6th, 2005 09:21 am
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Okay, so I lied about the bananas...

Discworld quiz )

NaNoWhatMo?

Oct. 6th, 2005 10:49 am
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I've noticed a few people on my flist wondering what they should do for NaNo. I shall wonder too.

What should I do for NaNo?

2005 has been a good year for short stories, but not so hot for novels.

So far I have:
Dreams - about 40k into a revision. Trying to get the plot to support its own weight and remove the ten million gallons of illegal suck from the prose.
Prayers - 15k of some of the most gorgeous prose I ever wrote, no plot structure in sight.
Crepuscule - 15k of pretty, no plot.
The King of Moths - Can't really work on this till I finish Dreams, alas.
Halls of Dust & Clay - More of a structure, but nowhere near ready. But it does have Loki...
TDC - 16k of fine, solid, upstanding young novel. I know what the next bits are. But it's not the novel that I want to be writing right now.

So, blah... What to do, what to do? Should I pick one and attack it come November 1st? Start something totally new? Turn November into a short story marathon? Run away and join the circus, where I shall be known as the Incredible Waffling Girl?
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Today is gorgeous. Cool and windy with a low ceiling of pewter clouds. Verah nice.

On my way back from lunch I stopped at the cd store, where I bought Blue Valentine and Frank's Wild Years and got smiled at by the cute girl working. On my way back to the library I spot another cute girl (who used to be an equally cute boy) standing by a booth on the lawn, so I stop by and find out about the Nov 8th vote on Amendment 2 (the anti-gay marriage howdy I'm a bigot amendment). I am smiled at yet again, and invited to a rally. Go me.

I suspect Waiting for the Frog has some mighty girl-smooching power that I have not yet explored. It gave me a story about gay frog girls, too.

The bear tells me I need discipline, and I try not to argue with mammals that might eat me, so for NaNo I'll be working on Prayers in an effort to force plot and structure into my brain. And [livejournal.com profile] everyonesakitty twisted my arm, too. See, it's twisted. Ow.

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