NaNo Over
Ugh, my NaNo this year sucks royal matzo balls.
Here’s a Wordle. This will be the last time we shall ever speak of this atrocity.
I would think “barber” would be a lot more frequent. Same with “drunken” and “bourbon.”
This story really sucked. As much as NaNo is about quantity over quality, I have difficulty with that in the story-writing context. My blogs are a different story, though, haha.
Dear NaNoWriMo 2011:
HAHA, despite all the crap 2011 is throwing me, I shall still conquer you!
I’m at about 17,000 words now after being stuck with about 700 or so most of the month. Synopsis + excerpt to come soon, possibly.
Possibly.
And now, fun links from across Teh Intarwebs:
- List of all the quizzes on Blogthings.
- Awesome list of lectures.
- My favorite place to browse for recipes.
- Nerdy Day Trips.
- Playing with powder.
Vroom!
Dear Creative Muse: Pick a Freaking Topic and Stick with It
November 3rd: “Anyway, the new [NaNoWriMo] topic is deeply personal and definitely won’t get an excerpt posted…. so this year’s just going to be mysteeeeeerious! At least until I change my topic again.”
Today: I changed my topic again!
I had this super weird dream about a barber who goes and works for the President of the US, the President falls in love with him, all this absurdist subtext and symbolism is going on, there are lots of references to the ocean, and nothing really makes sense until the story’s over…
If I were a normal person I’d be like “oh, that was an odd dream. Oh well.” But since I’m a NaNoWriMo person, I was like “NEW NOVEL IDEA!”
So there.
And here’s a fascinating video discussing aging and time.
Haha, I’ve read that article they flashed at 2:26.
And he’s totally right…Vancouver was an intense hell on earth and therefore it felt about 60 years long.
Blog 2,013: NaNoReWriMo
That’s National Novel ReWrite Month for me, haha. I’m a fickle bugger, so I’m scratching my current NaNo idea (surprise, surprise) and going with something new. At least I’m restarting near the beginning of the month this time, unlike last year where Googol was born on like the 15th had to be written rapidly (alongside class-work stuff and that soul bomb of a thesis).
Anyway, the new topic is deeply personal and definitely won’t get an excerpt posted. Maybe not even a synopsis. But it’s happening because all my other ideas are about 45% there in my head and the stuff I’m writing about in the new NaNo needs to get out of my head to make room for more important stuff (a.k.a. statistics stuff, methods to convince my dad to get me a car, how many M&Ms just came crashing out of the bag I just heard tip over in the kitchen…stuff like that). So this year’s just going to be mysteeeeeerious!
At least until I change my topic again.
On a completely unrelated note, I was surfing around YouTube this afternoon and came across this video of Steve Jobs introducing the iBook way back in 1999.
I’d never actually watched one of his keynotes, but holy freaking crap, that man could sell a product. It’s got a tiny little 3.2 GB hard drive and I still want one.
My dad actually had a tangerine one way back when. I played Bugdom incessantly on it, haha.
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