NaNo – Day 1

It’s done. My first 1700 words are done and I’ve left myself a little note for what I have to do tomorrow. November is going to be a very l-o-n-g month, LOL

I’m also doing these little pages as an incentive to myself. I’ll be having a different one for every day, with a different favourite line. I’m hoping it will make me write…

:::Edit:::

Just to add, my total is now 2479 for today.
There was an email from the Nanowrimo people saying that we should aim for 2500 everyday this week.

Eep…

Nano – Minus Four Days and counting…


Am I ready?

I don’t know.

I have my outline, my character sheets and a general idea were I’m going.

Hopefully, I’ll get somewhere with this story as its been bugging me for quite a while.

And I know I’ve changed the nature of this blog. But Jarod Vae is not playing any more. He’s popped up in The Mystic’s Son, 25 years older and still just as annoying… *sigh*

What to work on next…

I have my little list on the wall above the bombsite that is my desk.

I know, I know… my desk is my most valuable real estate… but my whole house lacks storage so my little corner of the Hobbitses playroom will not be an exception.

Anyway I have my Alphasmart. I am so-o-o portable right now *smirk*

So, back to my list.

I can knock two off it: Past Lies and 7% and Rising.

That left… four… or so I thought. I suddenly have a shed load more

I started The Mystic’s Son on Saturday to stop me attacking my Nano story. However, I was getting too wrapped up in that, and I’d never get to my Nano, LOL

So I’m up to 2k on The Balanced Blade, which has a maximum length of 8k. A fair chunk of it should be done by next Wednesday. It’s still not geling at the minute. But I can rip it apart when it’s a first draft *grin*

Then it’s Nano.

On the 1st December it’s Guardian Angel.

There really aren’t enough hours in the day… *sigh*

And I’m still not outlining

So my Alphasmart Dana came yesterday. Plugged it to charge and went out to a Write Club meeting.

The Ent who poo-pooed my wanting one of these little gadgets, spent two hours playing with it while I was out.

And does it work?

Well, after a bit of fiddling and realising that Documents to Go wasn’t working and finding out where the hell Alphaword was dumping the docs in my laptop, I added a few words to The Mystic Son... 3000 to be exact. *grin*

Words pile up, it’s a little scary. Just shows how completely distracted I am by this laptop LOL

Hopefully, it’ll really help with NaNo…

And another distraction…

All right, I worked through my Guardian Angel urge by writing a thousand words and setting up the prologue… me being the Prologue Queen and all. *grin*

So I’m ready. I’ve grabbed 45 Master Characters, looked at the first part of the heroine’s journey outline. And the idea for the sequel to The Bone Magician’s Daughter hits me… ARGH!

I used 45 Master Characters to write Bone Magician. I think my naughty subconscious was waiting for me to look at it again before telling me about Rede’s story. I can see him lying there, ship wrecked on the beach… *sigh* Now I’m going to have to write that scene before The Mystic’s Son – see, my subconscious even supplied a title *grrr* – will leave me alone and I can get on with my NaNo outline.

Will I ever get this outline sorted?? LOL