Something about November, and Plot ...

[tamaranth]

NaNoWriMo underway (though am disappointed with first chapter: still, important psychologically to be started). I don't feel comfortable with characters or setting yet, but this will come. It had better.

Have discovered Flaw in OpenOffice: you can count words in a document, but apparently not any subset thereof -- highlighted paragraphs, for example. Back to Notetab ...

It does not seem to have got light yet. Roll on Spring.

Apple juice now makes me sick, after being poisoned by moral_vacuum's Cornish Apple Spirit an unpleasant experience on Saturday night. (This was extremely early in the evening, and involved one mouthful of Liquid Evil and subsequent forced vomitting, which I hate: should be distinguished from somnolence later in the evening, which was a result of the gallon or so of healthy pink!drink with which I consoled myself.)

Comments

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

> though am disappointed with first chapter

But but it is still only the first of the month!

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

My chapters are Very Short: given that I find it easiest to write whole scenes (or whatever other stylistic division suggests itself -- chapter, paragraph etc) at a time, and that my writing time is likely to be fragmentary this month, it seemed easiest to aim for 50 x 1000 words, rather than longer chapters that wouldn't get written in one fell swoop.

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

I'm still impressed.

[reddragdiva]

"you can count words in a document, but apparently not any subset thereof -- highlighted paragraphs, for example."

Ooh, bugger. That's less than useful.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

you can (and I did) paste text into another document and count that: but that's not the point! Other than that, OpenOffice is quite sweet, really. But I suspect NoteTab will supplant it as WP of choice.

[ajshepherd.livejournal.com]

I should really have a go at something like this. I wanted to write, dagnabbit! Must get off arse and do something. I'm quite envious of anyone who is having a go.

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

It's not too late to start...

[ajshepherd.livejournal.com]

That would probably involve some forward planning, and perhaps An Idea...!

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Forward planning is overrated. Plot definitely so. Be post-modern! Just write! You have plenty of interesting experiences to draw on -- and weird interesting friends to cameo ...