Nanowrimo total, as of yesterday: just a smidge over 9,000 words.
It’s humid today, which seems to be the weather pattern that really kicks my butt at the moment. As a result, I’m finding it very difficult to actually focus on getting any writing done.
I’m also beginning to think that Nanowrimo is a goal that’s not going to be met for me this year. It’s not even a matter of whether I can get 50k written in a month. Hell, I could sit down and spend a couple of solid days just churning out rubbish to make word count.
The thing is that I don’t want to churn out rubbish. I’m enjoying exploring a new fictional world, but it feels like I haven’t developed enough of the world itself to be able to write anything that’s going to be of any use. I just don’t see the point in churning out words that I’m going to toss in a few month’s time.
And yes, I’m aware that this is the same discussion I’ve been having with myself about whether to do Nanowrimo or not in the first place. I think it can be a very fine thing – it’s a good way to generate a zero draft of part of a novel. It’s a good way to just play with words, to see if you can write 50k words in a month. I’ve “won” it twice before, so I know I can do that.
But is doing it just because I can a good enough reason? Yes, I want to write this draft, but I also want it to be a useful draft.
I might keep on pushing forward. This might just have to be a lost day of writing.
But I might just pull back a little, spend some more time working on building the foundation of this novel.
Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.
It could be done much better but I just did it so bleh.
( Blah )
Also more info regarding that other exciting spoiler for 5.12
( additional joy )
I've rewatched all of Rome and been amazed at how wonderful the second season is. I watched it every week while it was airing, but somehow its full brilliance didn't quite hit me at the time and some of the best scenes — Pullo trying to comfort Vorenus after ( spoiler ), Pullo's "I'm your friend. I love you. I would never betray you" during their fight, and their scenes together in the final episode — didn't permanently etch themselves in my mind the way they should have been etched. Now, they're etched.
I finally found a copy of Warriors, a 1999 BBC mini-series about British peacekeepers in Bosnia starring Damian Lewis and Ioan Gruffudd (whose name I will never be able to spell without looking it up). If you want to watch a no-happy-ending story about what it does to people to have to stand by and watch ethnic cleansing, by all means borrow it from me.
I'm also enjoying White Collar, after seeing the first two episodes with
Other than that, I've been whippersnippering, pullling what Paterson's Curse remains on my property (not much) and removing the seed pods from the cape tulip that lived to form them despite my spraying efforts. Plant by plant, combing over every inch of my 29 acres, day after day. This is going to be a good year in the ongoing me vs weeds battle and I'm already looking forward to seeing the payoff next year. I'm trying to manage my paddocks so 1) they feed the animals for as long as possible into the summer without me having to buy horse feed, 2) the horses don't get dangerously heavy on the spring grass, 3) the grass doesn't get so long anywhere that it's a real fire risk, and 4) no areas get so bare I get dust and erosion. I won't manage all of that, but that's the goal. Right now the horses are just this side of too fat and shiny in my smallest paddock, only one little area near the water trough is bare thanks to some temporary fencing keeping them out of other areas, everything is drying off but there looks to be plenty of feed for the summer, and I haven't spent a cent on horse feed since July and probably won't until February. No one believes me when I say this, but if you have some land and manage it right, it's cheaper to keep two horses than to feed a cat.
I think I'm irredeemably behind on New Things. Maybe I'll change my plan and aim to do 26 new things in the first six months of next year, like I did this year, rather than trying to fit my outstanding 25 things into the remaining 8 weeks of this year. Now that I finally have some free time, I mostly want to just relax and do the things I normally do.
Even the movie version is very, very long! It's all war! Peace! More war!
The librarian did find me a book which had hypotonia as a key word and inter-library loaned it. Then she told me I was on no account to read it, because when it arrived it turned out to be the story of a boy with a genetic condition (which included hypotonia as a symptom) who died. So it has been sent back, sight unseen, because I cannot handle that.
Still struggling to find useful information.
My charity fic cracked 20K today and is slowly inching its way towards structure and possibly even theme, though there are some tone issues that are a bit roller-coastery. I officially dropped out of
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sleepy
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 31
I would totally go on a road trip with...
In brighter news, UK Will Urge EC To Legalise Mashups, Format-Shifting, Content Sharing. This "could include legalising more outright copying, the creation of sound/image mashups, format-shifting and sharing material with family and friends."
Relatedly, folks seem to be figuring out that the DVR isn't actually the death of commercial television and that so-called "music pirates" actually buy more music. While we've heard this song before, optimistically copyright holders will eventually figure out that they shouldn't be afraid of new technologies.
Mirrored from an original post on the OTW Blog.
Comments blocked here because I want to keep track of things. Ooh, I don't think I've ever blocked comments before, how exciting :) I'm pretty sure anonymous and OpenID comments are screened but allowed, and if I don't unscreen for a bit I've just forgotten.
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cheerful
Q: If my math is correct, your episode is right around the 90th of the series and thus coming up on that magical milestone of episode #100. Has there been any talk or ideas about doing something special to celebrate that when the time comes?
Special Guest Star: I think they are planning a big shindig in honor of #100. I should hope so. That’s a heck of an accomplishment. I hear there is a band made up of crewmembers that are planning to play the party. Word is, several other folks are going to sit in, including Jensen and executive producer Robert Singer (apparently he blows a mean harmonica). Should be a fun night. I’ll be watching the mailbox for my invitation.
I feel like i should have a party - anyone wanna come?
(no mentions of this weeks ep or other spoilers in comments plz)