NaNo has started. Did about half today’s quota, posted a couple of entries onto the blog set up for it, then had to monkey with the settings on the posts to get it close to right. And also edited them in the process.
Still fuzzy on a lot of the details and feeling a little anxious about putting work out there with such possibly glaring errors. But have wavered less on this effort than on others in the past, so that’s something.
We’ll just have to see how it goes.
Went to a friend’s Halloween party last night. Had fun. Lots of junk food, and curiously spinach balls. No one was sure who brought them, but we had to wonder why.
The sky was like a cracked mirror, the rays of the dying sun spreading across it’s surface. In another age it might have been viewed with dread, with beseeches to deities.
But to my eye it is perfect. Perfect for itself, for what it portends.
I smile, wishing I had the talent to capture the sight on a canvas. But I will have to settle for a camera. Sufficient, but cold.
This will not be the last time for such a sight. Once more, at the very last. Before the world tilts just so and is never the same again.
It’s been a long time, hasn’t it? Almost forgot how to get here.
One week til NaNo. Adapting The Count of Monte Cristo into a Western. And doing it journal style on an online blog. Should be interesting. Or disastrous, haven’t decided.
Not too much happening. Work about the same.
Oh, but don’t know if I told you. Last month started a meet up thing with friends of mine based on fandoms. Our first one was for Harry Potter and the one last week was for Supernatural. Just a way to geek out and talk about them. Hardest part is scheduling, of course. But we’ve had a decent start I think so we’ll see how it goes.
Let my drabble page on Facebook fall by the wayside, need to get that going. And need to read three books before the end of the year, which shouldn’t be a problem unless my laziness makes it one.
Really need to work on that laziness. Nasty business that.
Looking forward to Star Wars, of course. Had a bit of a headshake over all the nerds mad that they had to watch some football to see the new trailer. I like watching football, so if hadn’t been working, would have had no prob tuning in, despite my team not playing. But to hear them go on, would think they had to walk over hot coals.
The weather is cooling off. Think we’re down to the 80s or something. Gets down to 60s at night. Most of my friends are happy about that. They like the cold. Not me. Will be mourning the final passing of summer this year.
Might have to get the Welcome to Night Vale book, if can find it. I only have like the first twenty or so of the podcasts, need to get around to that as well. Found out Stephen Colbert is a fan so that’s fun.
We will have to meet more often. I shouldn’t let our meetings slip by so.
See what the other bloggers are sharing with their coffee.
It will be quite the experiment for me, both in the style and in putting such a rough draft out there for public consumption. It does harken back to my RPing days on Livejournal, but with a bit less care taken.
It is also the most planning I have done on a NaNo. The need to pare down the original into something that fits the genre is daunting. I plan on reading the novel on the Wednesday preceding the start of NaNoWriMo to get a whole sense of it before beginning.
I need to flesh out the cast, in the literal case of choosing the actors and in translating them from the original.
But hey, bit over a week and half. Easy as cake, right?
Every year it seems I become more of a plotter and less of a pantser.
The first year I tried NaNo, I literally signed up late night of October 31. No idea, no plan. Just decided to see what everyone was talking about.
Now it’sa highlight of the year and I do seem to learn from past years. My writing program of choice is WriteWay. I figure out to use more of the features each time, and more open to other tools.
Saw this over the weekend on one of the forums and will probably use it. And possibly a beat sheet.
But I do have an eye on keeping some element of chance in my writing. Not like characters usually give you much choice in that.
Another fall and the smell of writing is in the air. Or rather, of plotting.
So, my first idea involved Norman Reddish and his two buds, Sean Patrick Flanery and Andrew Lincoln. It would have been a buddy cop thing with Sean and Andrew going after Norman.
And then, because there’s always an ‘and then’ went it comes to NaNo, The Count of Monte Cristo popped in my head. Set in the Wild West. With Norman as ‘the count’ and still with Sean and Andrew.
How much I end up ripping off from Monsieur Dumas remains to be seen. As well as how I illustrate the process on here.
Rob James-Collier of Downton Abbey made a video to raise money for an MS marathon. He surpassed his goal and made good on his promise of a second video. When it comes down to it, why you should watch is:
…you would find me with a book in my hands. Something that has not been in quite the while.
This week I rediscovered the joy of just walking thru the library and seeing what caught my eye. Seeing some old friends, some I had heard of, and new names.
My library used to have their fiction section divided into categories, but some time back they just mashed everything together by author name. So as you walk down an aisle, you can go from romance to regular fiction to western to mystery and so on. I’m still not sure how I like it. I have given thought to whether I would do my personal library like that or keep it in categories. It does make for an interesting look.
When I left the library that day, I had five books crammed in my bag, three in the crock of my arm, and was reading one. Just a shade bit rusty in walking while reading but did alright.
I’m wanting to write reviews for the books, just can’t seem to grasp how to. I know I’m making it a more difficult process than it truly is, but can’t get a handle on it.
I have started learning a little bit of German this week. Been wanting to learn something of a foreign language and German kept popping up over the course of a couple days. Got an app called Memrise that I’m using.
I also went to a BBQ joint on the other side of town with the MBM. The food was good, the staff great but best of all *le sigh* they had the perfect sweet tea. Now most places, when I order the sweet tea, I have to add more sugar to it to get it to how I like it. I’m a bit of a sugar fiend and have near turned people diabetic just by having them watch me add sugar to my tea.
But I took that first sip and found nirvana. MBM knows of my tendancy, but was willing to risk a sip to witness the perfection. When I asked her, for this post, about how long the taste lasted in her mouth, she replied thusly:
But she isn’t let that hurt our friendship, so all is good.
Found out we lost Rowdy Roddy Piper last night. In my religion (and funny enough, a belief of my family, who is not of my religion) we believe when it’s your time to go, you go. No stopping it. So it was his time, but still not fun. He was a one off. If you don’t know, Piper was a professional wrestler and actor. His most famous role was in the movie They Live. And he played the bagpipes.
Read As You Wish by Cary Elwes earlier this week, so of course the next time The Princess Bride plays was last night at midnight and had to watch at least half so now work on four hours sleep. Ugh.
Not much else this week. We’ll see what the next brings.
Desert Words 