Susan, huzzah! I'm trying to polish off the last of chapter 4 of The Eden Tree, then down the home stretch for Matty, with tour stuff in the middle.
Darn your sinister attraction!
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deborah grabien - Dec 02, 2003 10:05:47 pm PST #2933 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Susan W. - Dec 02, 2003 10:23:16 pm PST #2934 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I'm going to try to finish Anna by 11/30/04, though allowing myself grace for not knowing how I'll deal with motherhood and all the changes about to come in my life. Eventually I'd like to be able to turn out two manuscripts per year, but this definitely isn't the time to push for that.
And by coincidence I'm getting a chance to write what I know--in the scene I'm working on, Anna is as pregnant as I am now, and the sensory details are flowing more easily than usual.
deborah grabien - Dec 02, 2003 10:27:52 pm PST #2935 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Always a plus - the flow for what you know.
I like the idea of being able to write one per year, then research and start the next one and get that half done. A book and a half, with research included, strikes me as a nice personal balance.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 03, 2003 12:56:32 am PST #2936 of 10001
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Well, wri mo is over. Did any of us make it?
Yes! Me! I'd cracked 50 000 words by 23rd November, and went on just far enough to finish the story, about 51K. Now I'm trying to be good and edit it properly.
Nilly - Dec 03, 2003 1:34:36 am PST #2937 of 10001
Swouncing
So by my standards, yeah, I won.
Yours are the important ones, in this case at least, I think. So go you.
I'm writing again!
Congrats, Susan!
Liese S. - Dec 03, 2003 4:37:19 am PST #2938 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Whohoo, Am-Chau! Good on you!
And yay for us, too, who learned about the process. I'm pretty happy with the plot I ended up with. I think I can do something with it later. And I'll kind of be happy to discard the meme of mediocrity. It was good exercise, but I disliked the feeling of leaving something I knew lacked luster, for the sake of the count. Still, it was something I wouldn't have done otherwise, so I'm glad I did try.
I think I'll keep working on it, and then, of course, there's always next year. (Cubs fan much?)
§ ita § - Dec 03, 2003 5:07:17 am PST #2939 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I looked at NaNoWriMo, and thought "which of my wee ideas could be a novel?"
None, was the answer.
However, the next question was "Well what could they be, then?"
And I'm working on that.
Deena - Dec 03, 2003 5:20:16 am PST #2940 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Wow, Am, go you!
I got about 15k words too, and a story that I like well enough to try and finish it. I'm shooting for 80k and hoping. So, overall, I feel like it was a success.
Betsy HP - Dec 03, 2003 7:56:02 am PST #2941 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Go Am-Chau! Yea!
Susan W. - Dec 03, 2003 7:57:40 am PST #2942 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Way to go, Am-Chau!