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Sooooooooooooooooooooo…
This year’s NaNo is underway. I knew I was going to do it, but I put off registering until two or three days ago. I was in denial.
I’ve got 508 words so far.
LET’S GO!
02 Sunday Nov 2014
Posted NaNoWriMo November 2014, Sin Bi
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Sooooooooooooooooooooo…
This year’s NaNo is underway. I knew I was going to do it, but I put off registering until two or three days ago. I was in denial.
I’ve got 508 words so far.
LET’S GO!
31 Sunday Aug 2014
Posted Musings
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Yep.
I’m completely stuck in a rut. I’ve tried everything. Even meeting up with the others at group this Friday did nothing to help my motivation. I wrote a total of 824 words. Though this is more than I have written in one sitting since Camp ended, it was all venting at someone who had completely pissed me off, and none of it is worthy of publication.
I’m sick to death of seeing the story I promised I would do. I went to start another that has masses of planning sorted, to give myself a break and maybe get the spark back, and I managed around a hundred words. Then I got stuck. With pages of planning, I got stuck. I started the story in a much more logical way than i’d planned, so that notebook has gone out the window until I can tie it all back in.
On top of this, i’ve decided to change my degree to a language based one. I had a moment of decisive clarity, where I thought i’d do what I want, rather than what I think I might need for work, or what was expected of me. I’m still torn between English Literature with Creative Writing and Language Studies. I like languages more, but I want the creative writing modules. I’ll probably go for the language option, i’m leaning that way.
15 Sunday Jun 2014
Posted Camp NaNo July 2014, Musings
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cabin, Camp July 2014, ideas, NaNoWriMo, poll, Sin Bi, word count
I have two weeks left to decide what to write for the July Camp NaNo. According to the Camp site, I have decided on a story. That could not really be farther from the truth.
I have been ignoring the book dubbed Sin Bi. Not actively ignoring, just working on the other idea. I have a few pages of planning for the other idea, and I think I could easily write ten thousand off the bat. I probably have planning right up to about twenty thousand, maybe a bit more. But I said I would get a story out before November NaNo, and for that I really need to get my head down.
I also have that other story… the one that I started last November. That’s still sitting under two thousand words I think, and I would really like to get that one off the ground sometime soon!
Maybe I should take a poll. Let’s add a poll.
There’s the poll. I’d appreciate it muchly if you could join in and help me decide. There’s no guarantee i’ll do the most voted one, but it might tell me something about the weakest idea. You could tweet me or catch me on Facebook too if you would like some more depth to the plot ideas.
02 Monday Jun 2014
Posted Camp NaNo July 2014, Sin Bi
inI’ve just set up my Camp NaNo account for July 2014’s story. I’m planning on writing the new story, i’ve even entered a word count and everything. But now i’ve (partially) committed to it, I am now feeling a little guilty that I should be finishing Sin Bi instead.
I’m 20k into Sin Bi. It was my April Camp story. It’s just I have such plot problems. Maybe I needed a break from it, I don’t know. Thinking about it from a distance isn’t helping, but it’s certainly making me want to take another look at it.
I spoke to a writery man on Twitter, and he said he could only inhabit one book at a time. I seem to have a concentration problem, as I now have one completed and three planned or half – written. This fits in with some other people I know, though. Susan.
I might do Sin Bi, but i’ll have to edit the first few chapters for flow. We’ll see in 28 days, as the Camp clock is already counting down on the website!
12 Monday May 2014
Posted Sin Bi
inLast Friday was meant to to a Guild meeting. We decided to move it, because exams and sporting endeavours were major conflicts for a few of us.
This Friday is meant to be a Guild meeting. I cannot attend, because the dodgeball practice that was meant to be last week has been moved to this week. I didn’t find this out until it was too late to ask anyone if they wanted to come, so i’ve had so send my apologies. I’m going to Birmingham on Saturday instead. It’s a longer day, but I spend about the same amount, as the coffee costs more but I buy less of it.
On the plus side, i’ve edited my first two chapters. I still don’t know if they are right, or if they’re even staying in though. They might have to be removed. It’s not like they’re a prologue, per se, but they are the story of the day before, leading up to the event. If I cut the chapters, it’ll make sense, with a bit of reworking, but I like the reader knowing a little more about what the character is doing.
There’s a bit of memory loss, you see… but I like that you know what has happened. Not the why, that’s what the character is investigating, as well as trying to find out what happened, which is the bit you already know.
Makes sense?
Also, you may, or may not, have noticed that this post is in a new category. This is a working title for the Camp NaNo story. It’s a ‘thinking ahead’ move, so I don’t have to go back through everything and recategorise it all.