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Dec. 1st, 2009
I am so sorry to everyone who noticed my absence.
...I don't know how you did, since I am pretty much absent anyway, but let's not go there.
This year NaNo was completely different for me. Why? because I worked with one of the Municipal Liasons and she asked me to *help* and I am too damned midwestern to say no.
So I ended up going to at least three or four write-ins a week, helping with the preparation (putting together the notebooks ML gave out, the survival kits, and the sister helped me put together the info booklet this year). I helped with some of the tech stuff as well, because ML friend is pants at technology.
It was exhausting but also really fun.
So that is, largely, where my November went. Spent too much money on food and stuff at the coffee/tea shops where we had our write-ins, dealing with drama which comes with every group (ugh), and writing. Let's not forget the writing.
I cranked out 50,616 words of what amounts to backstory and world building. I had no plot, no actual story, so I just sort of wanked around for 50K. That was actually fine, too, because I needed to do it; I hadn't really thought that concept out before, and now I have some interesting if a bit crack-y backstory to work with if and when I decide to go back to it.
But I also decided that I am going to try to write something to sell, probably to one of the online romance retailers (only the legit ones: I know what to look out for). So we'll see how that goes...
...I don't know how you did, since I am pretty much absent anyway, but let's not go there.
This year NaNo was completely different for me. Why? because I worked with one of the Municipal Liasons and she asked me to *help* and I am too damned midwestern to say no.
So I ended up going to at least three or four write-ins a week, helping with the preparation (putting together the notebooks ML gave out, the survival kits, and the sister helped me put together the info booklet this year). I helped with some of the tech stuff as well, because ML friend is pants at technology.
It was exhausting but also really fun.
So that is, largely, where my November went. Spent too much money on food and stuff at the coffee/tea shops where we had our write-ins, dealing with drama which comes with every group (ugh), and writing. Let's not forget the writing.
I cranked out 50,616 words of what amounts to backstory and world building. I had no plot, no actual story, so I just sort of wanked around for 50K. That was actually fine, too, because I needed to do it; I hadn't really thought that concept out before, and now I have some interesting if a bit crack-y backstory to work with if and when I decide to go back to it.
But I also decided that I am going to try to write something to sell, probably to one of the online romance retailers (only the legit ones: I know what to look out for). So we'll see how that goes...