Wait, What Was I Supposed to Be Doing?
Thursday, October 1. 2009
The weather in Central Florida has finally turned autumn-like, the rainy season is over, and I was able to ride my motorcycle to work yesterday for the first time in weeks, if not months. On Friday, my second batch of prototype circuit boards is due to arrive, and I expect to spend most of the weekend getting some devices up and running. The Epcot International Food and Wine Festival is in full swing, its constant siren call luring me over to the Tourist Zone to eat, drink, and be sick on Mission: Space. I'm up to the eight-mile mark in my weekly long runs, in preparation for the back-to-back half and full marathons I plan to run in January.
Oh, and I've actually started working on writing again this week.
I managed to earn another "Most Productive Critter" award on Critters yesterday, having done 11.5 critiques for the week. I'm almost caught up to the required 75% participation level, and I'll probably grab another MPC in the process of getting there, for a total of three outstanding. Then I guess I'll need to have some of my own prose ready to send through the queue. So I'm re-examining the status of my in-process stories, and I'm going to start getting a few of them dressed up and made presentable.
Meanwhile, I also took a look at BMtL again, for the first time in a couple of months (to my chagrin, embarrassment, and disbelief...but ext3 timestamps don't lie). I was not at all happy with the first few pages, but before I start tearing that novel apart and re-building large parts of it, I'd like to finish the story arc. So that's going to be my primary focus (again) for now—and it will consume my November, in place of National Novel Writing Month 2009.
I'll miss doing NaNoWrimo this time around, but it's best for my writing that I skip it. As I've said before, I feel that I need to finish a novel before I start any more of them.
I think I've helped convince a friend of mine to try NaNoWriMo this year. She's got the kernel of an idea, and I think she's going to have fun turning it into a bunch of text. She's concerned (as we all are) about having enough time to follow through, and I've been trying to convince her to take advantage of some of the NaNo "meet-ups" to help with motivation. I'm considering going to a meet-up or two myself, even though I'm not going to be "officially" participating this year. I'm thinking that all the writing vibes floating around at these get-togethers will help me along with my non-NaNo writing. It worked for novel starting, perhaps it will work for novel finishing.
There's nothing dishonest about that, is there? Unauthorized vibe absorption? I guess I could pretend to start a new novel, if I had to...
The weather in Central Florida has finally turned autumn-like, the rainy season is over, and I was able to ride my motorcycle to work yesterday for the first time in weeks, if not months. On Friday, my second batch of prototype circuit boards is due to arrive, and I expect to spend most of the weekend getting some devices up and running. The Epcot International Food and Wine Festival is in full swing, its constant siren call luring me over to the Tourist Zone to eat, drink, and be sick on Mission: Space. I'm up to the eight-mile mark in my weekly long runs, in preparation for the back-to-back half and full marathons I plan to run in January.
Oh, and I've actually started working on writing again this week.
I managed to earn another "Most Productive Critter" award on Critters yesterday, having done 11.5 critiques for the week. I'm almost caught up to the required 75% participation level, and I'll probably grab another MPC in the process of getting there, for a total of three outstanding. Then I guess I'll need to have some of my own prose ready to send through the queue. So I'm re-examining the status of my in-process stories, and I'm going to start getting a few of them dressed up and made presentable.
Meanwhile, I also took a look at BMtL again, for the first time in a couple of months (to my chagrin, embarrassment, and disbelief...but ext3 timestamps don't lie). I was not at all happy with the first few pages, but before I start tearing that novel apart and re-building large parts of it, I'd like to finish the story arc. So that's going to be my primary focus (again) for now—and it will consume my November, in place of National Novel Writing Month 2009.
I'll miss doing NaNoWrimo this time around, but it's best for my writing that I skip it. As I've said before, I feel that I need to finish a novel before I start any more of them.
I think I've helped convince a friend of mine to try NaNoWriMo this year. She's got the kernel of an idea, and I think she's going to have fun turning it into a bunch of text. She's concerned (as we all are) about having enough time to follow through, and I've been trying to convince her to take advantage of some of the NaNo "meet-ups" to help with motivation. I'm considering going to a meet-up or two myself, even though I'm not going to be "officially" participating this year. I'm thinking that all the writing vibes floating around at these get-togethers will help me along with my non-NaNo writing. It worked for novel starting, perhaps it will work for novel finishing.
There's nothing dishonest about that, is there? Unauthorized vibe absorption? I guess I could pretend to start a new novel, if I had to...
Oh, and I've actually started working on writing again this week.
I managed to earn another "Most Productive Critter" award on Critters yesterday, having done 11.5 critiques for the week. I'm almost caught up to the required 75% participation level, and I'll probably grab another MPC in the process of getting there, for a total of three outstanding. Then I guess I'll need to have some of my own prose ready to send through the queue. So I'm re-examining the status of my in-process stories, and I'm going to start getting a few of them dressed up and made presentable.
Meanwhile, I also took a look at BMtL again, for the first time in a couple of months (to my chagrin, embarrassment, and disbelief...but ext3 timestamps don't lie). I was not at all happy with the first few pages, but before I start tearing that novel apart and re-building large parts of it, I'd like to finish the story arc. So that's going to be my primary focus (again) for now—and it will consume my November, in place of National Novel Writing Month 2009.
I'll miss doing NaNoWrimo this time around, but it's best for my writing that I skip it. As I've said before, I feel that I need to finish a novel before I start any more of them.
I think I've helped convince a friend of mine to try NaNoWriMo this year. She's got the kernel of an idea, and I think she's going to have fun turning it into a bunch of text. She's concerned (as we all are) about having enough time to follow through, and I've been trying to convince her to take advantage of some of the NaNo "meet-ups" to help with motivation. I'm considering going to a meet-up or two myself, even though I'm not going to be "officially" participating this year. I'm thinking that all the writing vibes floating around at these get-togethers will help me along with my non-NaNo writing. It worked for novel starting, perhaps it will work for novel finishing.
There's nothing dishonest about that, is there? Unauthorized vibe absorption? I guess I could pretend to start a new novel, if I had to...
Craig on :
I've been in contact with the local NaNoWriMo Municipal Liaison. I ended up just being a lurker last year, but she is trying to get me to participate this year. So, I'm looking at some older ideas and brainstorming some characters and new ideas in preparation. In the end, it will be a last minute decision, though.
Jimmy Anderson on :
Good to hear from you again! Now that things are STARTING to settle down at work I hope to get back to doing some serious blogging as well.
NaNo sounded fun for you last year, but you don't need the added stress... Just do what's fun.