26.9.03

I made myself a new Val's Writing Life on LJ. Mostly, I switched because LJ supports RSS feeds better and Evolution has a fun feed for just updated journals on the front page. Plus, LJ also has the regularly updated Friends page and most of my writing buddies are on LJ, so ::shrug:: random I know. Oh, well my primary blog isn't going anywhere.

13.9.03

NaNoWriMo Approacheth. Counting like the Romans, there are 49 days left until October 31st. I want to do NaNoWriMo this year which means my plate needs to be cleared of the other things I'm working on. This means that I should have No Use Wind done by then...I don't know if I can do it though. Yes, I'm completely capable of writing at high speeds and writing well at high speeds, but I haven't done it in so long...I want No Use Wind done though and I want to break this cloud that's been hanging over my writing. Looks like I've talked myself into it. I'm gonna give it a go, but, right now, I need to finish getting ready for work. I'll calculate what my daily word count needs to be when I get home.

11.9.03

Getting It Together. Didn't do the 3-Day marathon- school was starting that week, and I totally forgot how much work that was going to be getting myself ready. I've finally got some form of schedule worked out and I'm thinking about writing for fun again. My advanced comp class is cool--I had to read this essay called "A Writer's Habits" and I've been really thinking about it, especially the "Habit of Completion". I need to finish what I start.

No Use Wind, Update. Opened up the document, re-read it, then stared at it for almost an hour, without writing a new word. Opened up a new document, copied and pasted the third scene to be the first scene (I don't want to delete anything in case I want to use it later). I love this scene: it's Tangier and Reese, but starts off with Tangier remembering the night Paul saw her scars. It starts right off with conflict and sucks you in the story rather than dancing around it. Of course, now the novel starts off in Tangier's P.O.V. rather than in Reese's but I don't think it will be an issue...still haven't written anything really new, but I can feel my brain turning things over...