November just around the corner

[winter]

It's been over a year now, since my writing-melody has stuck like a broken record. Okay, there have been some patches of cloudless skies (What Remains, Quintile, Memory(FeelIt)Now), but they have something in common: they're series of drabbles. I plot longer things, start to write them, but I do not finish them. I need to fix this stutter. I need a writing-catharsis, a typewritten epiphany, a free-flow marathon to make me forget about closed structures and filigree repetitions.

And look, it'll be November in no time at all.

I did it once, in 2003, ending up with 50,000 words that formed two-thirds of a rather good novel that still needs an ending and a place in the top 20 forum posters. In 2004 I started, then broke down as my ilness returned with a vengeance. Now it's 2005, and I don't want a plot, sense, rhyme nor reason. There will be castles and aristocrats, heather and magic and blood.

Since I don't plan for it to be publishable in print, I might even post it online.

Once more unto the breech.

NaNo or bust.

PS: My NaNo theme song for this year: INXS - Elegantly Wasted

Comments

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

I'm hoping to have the first complete draft of 'A Fine Moon To Die Under' with you tonight or tomorrow, if that's okay. Hopefully with all plot holes and continuity errors ironed out.

Gina

[winter]

:D

I'm feeling very guilty about not mailing you the comments (I have about half the novel annotated, but not typed in, and you've probably fixed most of it), but on the other hand I'll be able to look at the finished thing with a fresh eye. Always looking on the bright side, me ;)

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

I've done lots of fixes since anyone saw it, so it'll be great to hear what you think now.

Right, off to walk dog, then I'll continue with the final read-through.

Gina