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janetlinI was going to pick up a new book to start reading when it occurred to me that I have two and a half hours until November 1st. Actually, at the time I realized it I had a bit over three hours but it's taken me this long to calm back down so I wasn't just spamming y'all with incoherent panicked keyboard-mashing. In a few weeks I may not be so polite. You have been warned.
So yes. You know the entry I posted about pre-writing like crazy? Haven't done a lick of it since that damn thing went up. Perhaps I shouldn't have said anything and must now perform some bizarre ritual to get my juju back. Throw salt on my keyboard? Spit outside my door and run around the apartment building three times? Naked? In the rain? 'Cause it _is_ raining at the moment. Knew it had to happen sooner or later but blah. Oh that reminds me there are halloween pics of Morgan in my phone. I could procrastinate by posting those...
This is me practicing this fascinating new idea called turning one's inner editor off. See, I didn't even go back to capitalize the H in halloween up there because the backspace key is my enemy. Is practicing even spelled right? It looks funny.
Right, so, maybe I should conserve my fingers and go watch some He-Man while I can and take a shower or something in the time I have left.
Honestly, I have these moments of "Holy shit how am I going to do this?!" followed rapidly by "I am so going to do this thing" and vice versa. Those who have done NaNo before, is that normal?
Yes, shower, He-Man, then figure out your opening scene. Ha! I have the whole story arch all figured out except for how to _start_ the damn thing. Figures, doesn't it? Does starting in the middle and then posting the beginning later count as the "editing" that is to be avoided? Is it supposed to be just stream-of-consciousness, full speed ahead and never look back? I... really don't think I'm going to be able to do that. Rambly talking/typing is one thing but writing a story is something else. Or at least it always has been. Or is that what we're all supposed to be getting away from? Building "writing a story" up to be this huge insurmountable thing that requires all sorts of meticulous preparation and everything has to be done at the right time in the right way or the whole thing will fall apart? 'Cause... that's the way I live my _life_, y'all. Those of you who know me best are probably already aware of the story of toddler!Sierra not getting out of bed until Mom told me what we would be doing today, where we would go and what we would do and who we would see and what we'd have for lunch... I'd love to say I've grown out of that, but *shakes head*
Shower, woman! Stop psyching yourself out!
Oh, and if any of you want to opt out of this madness I could set up a NaNo filter or something. Though it's a (maybe) fascinating opportunity to see me stripped of all the literary eloquence and linguistic mastery and general put-togetherness I usually try to exude online. So stick around.
Or maybe once I come back from my shower I'll jsut lock this post.
So yes. You know the entry I posted about pre-writing like crazy? Haven't done a lick of it since that damn thing went up. Perhaps I shouldn't have said anything and must now perform some bizarre ritual to get my juju back. Throw salt on my keyboard? Spit outside my door and run around the apartment building three times? Naked? In the rain? 'Cause it _is_ raining at the moment. Knew it had to happen sooner or later but blah. Oh that reminds me there are halloween pics of Morgan in my phone. I could procrastinate by posting those...
This is me practicing this fascinating new idea called turning one's inner editor off. See, I didn't even go back to capitalize the H in halloween up there because the backspace key is my enemy. Is practicing even spelled right? It looks funny.
Right, so, maybe I should conserve my fingers and go watch some He-Man while I can and take a shower or something in the time I have left.
Honestly, I have these moments of "Holy shit how am I going to do this?!" followed rapidly by "I am so going to do this thing" and vice versa. Those who have done NaNo before, is that normal?
Yes, shower, He-Man, then figure out your opening scene. Ha! I have the whole story arch all figured out except for how to _start_ the damn thing. Figures, doesn't it? Does starting in the middle and then posting the beginning later count as the "editing" that is to be avoided? Is it supposed to be just stream-of-consciousness, full speed ahead and never look back? I... really don't think I'm going to be able to do that. Rambly talking/typing is one thing but writing a story is something else. Or at least it always has been. Or is that what we're all supposed to be getting away from? Building "writing a story" up to be this huge insurmountable thing that requires all sorts of meticulous preparation and everything has to be done at the right time in the right way or the whole thing will fall apart? 'Cause... that's the way I live my _life_, y'all. Those of you who know me best are probably already aware of the story of toddler!Sierra not getting out of bed until Mom told me what we would be doing today, where we would go and what we would do and who we would see and what we'd have for lunch... I'd love to say I've grown out of that, but *shakes head*
Shower, woman! Stop psyching yourself out!
Oh, and if any of you want to opt out of this madness I could set up a NaNo filter or something. Though it's a (maybe) fascinating opportunity to see me stripped of all the literary eloquence and linguistic mastery and general put-togetherness I usually try to exude online. So stick around.
Or maybe once I come back from my shower I'll jsut lock this post.
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Date: 2008-11-02 04:47 am (UTC)I haven't signed up for NaNo this year- I want to, but at the same time, in the Mass Comm department here, it's fuck around most of the semester, OMG NOVEMBER SEMESTER ENDING, test test project test project journal test.