Had an absolutely fabulous afternoon/evening yesterday of food and conversation with several friends, most of whom have some involvement with writing in their lives. One is a professional, while the rest of us are part timers. It was good, however, to chat about the difference between the “art” and the “job” aspect, to discuss the […]
If I take anything from NaNoWriMo – more on that in a moment – it should be that I should write what I know, at least at this point and especially if writing under such pressure like NaNoWriMo provides. I don’t know enough about what is a large part of the setting of my NaNoWriMo […]
So I had some interesting dreams last night. I blame the videos I was watching on Youtube, quite late. Anyway, my dreams did help me to answer some troubling questions I’d had about my novel, one of which was the fact that I had a main character and so far I was telling the story […]
Just released has been the first full trailer for Battle: Los Angeles (called World Invasion: Los Angeles in some parts of the globe). With the volume turned off, it appears much like any other Hollywood action shoot-em-up war film, perhaps a little bit more interesting because of the aliens. But the music… oh the music… […]
The last two days I’ve not written a word. I struggle to find a reason beyond just “I can’t be bothered”. Admittedly the first day I was quite tired; but today, beyond it being a Sunday, I have no excuse, Your Honour. I need to get back into it. Half way and I’m at a […]
While yesterday the words flowed reasonably easily, today… not so much. And I face the second of my two night shifts. My brain is oh so much mush. I actually went back in my story today, to part where I had jumped ahead to write something “more exciting”. I began to fill in the part […]
With my brain finally responding to stimuli again, I haven’t quite caught up with the straight line that indicates the words needed every day to make 50,000 before month’s end but I wrote more today than I did the last two days and more than what the NaNoWriMo site says was required for me to […]
I wrote about 800 words, which is about half the daily requirement but better than nothing on a shift day. I’m hoping to catch up over the next few days, when I’m working nights (which means home during the day) and then on my break after that really rip into it. That’s all I really […]
12 hour shifts are just not conducive to creative writing. Don’t feel up to it. I’ll have to make it up on days off.
Lots of little, annoying things happened today that were quite annoying, together adding up to leave me tired and wrung out by the time I got home. My brain had turned to mush. I was surprised thus when I sat down to write how the words came out reasonably easily; just not many, as tiredness […]