Comments on: October already! http://writers.sharp-words.co.uk/2008/10/october-already NaNoWriMo writers and others in Ireland Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:46:47 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Frostie http://writers.sharp-words.co.uk/2008/10/october-already/comment-page-1#comment-78 Frostie Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:58:36 +0000 http://writers.sharp-words.co.uk/?p=73#comment-78 I'm definitely getting excited now, I can feel it in the pit of my stomach, but it's that nervous excitement. I'm not sure if it's a nice feeling! I've basically cleared my schedule for this weekend (well, everything except Taleweavers anyway as I might need a moan by Sunday!) so I'm hoping to get a bit of a head start on my word count and get ahead of myself in case work catches up with me next week. I'm glad I've ditched my old idea - it's a bit serious and I just need something a bit fun and different to my usual fare! I’m definitely getting excited now, I can feel it in the pit of my stomach, but it’s that nervous excitement. I’m not sure if it’s a nice feeling!

I’ve basically cleared my schedule for this weekend (well, everything except Taleweavers anyway as I might need a moan by Sunday!) so I’m hoping to get a bit of a head start on my word count and get ahead of myself in case work catches up with me next week.

I’m glad I’ve ditched my old idea – it’s a bit serious and I just need something a bit fun and different to my usual fare!

]]> By: Sharp Words http://writers.sharp-words.co.uk/2008/10/october-already/comment-page-1#comment-77 Sharp Words Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:42:41 +0000 http://writers.sharp-words.co.uk/?p=73#comment-77 Gotta love that kind of random inspiration, Frostie! I've had my idea since April and even wrote a few words back then - which are being soundly ditched in favour of November's outpourings. Getting excited though... Gotta love that kind of random inspiration, Frostie!
I’ve had my idea since April and even wrote a few words back then – which are being soundly ditched in favour of November’s outpourings. Getting excited though…

]]> By: Frostie http://writers.sharp-words.co.uk/2008/10/october-already/comment-page-1#comment-76 Frostie Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:27:27 +0000 http://writers.sharp-words.co.uk/?p=73#comment-76 Yeah, I've had my novel idea since last NaNo, then last Friday while driving to Dublin I saw a place called 'Two Mile Borris'. My imagination went into overdrive and within about a half hour I had ditched the idea I'd nursed for a year in favour of new-fangled newness. I may regret this. Yeah, I’ve had my novel idea since last NaNo, then last Friday while driving to Dublin I saw a place called ‘Two Mile Borris’. My imagination went into overdrive and within about a half hour I had ditched the idea I’d nursed for a year in favour of new-fangled newness.

I may regret this.

]]> By: Mamo http://writers.sharp-words.co.uk/2008/10/october-already/comment-page-1#comment-75 Mamo Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:52:08 +0000 http://writers.sharp-words.co.uk/?p=73#comment-75 Join the club! (Oh, you have done - the one called NaNoWriMo!) I have a vague idea of three of my characters - the main one and two initial ones. I have an idea of my outline ('plot' is too stronga term) but don't have a title and have only the vaguest idea of where it will go. The beginning is fairly clear, and I have the ending pretty well sorted. It's the gap in the middle that will take time. My process is to organise dinner as soon as I get home from work, then sit down at a computer for at least 2 hours immediately afterwards. During the previous 20-odd hours I will have been mulling over where to go next. Some time in the next week I shall have worked out an approximate outline of the whole thing. My first year I had worked out the whole storyline, but got to a fairly neat half-way point at 53,000 words, so I kept the second half for last year, and completed in about 90,000. Since then it has sat glowering at me to edit and delete and add, but I will leave that to next year, when I am scheduled to retire from work. Join the club! (Oh, you have done – the one called NaNoWriMo!)

I have a vague idea of three of my characters – the main one and two initial ones. I have an idea of my outline (’plot’ is too stronga term) but don’t have a title and have only the vaguest idea of where it will go. The beginning is fairly clear, and I have the ending pretty well sorted. It’s the gap in the middle that will take time.

My process is to organise dinner as soon as I get home from work, then sit down at a computer for at least 2 hours immediately afterwards. During the previous 20-odd hours I will have been mulling over where to go next.

Some time in the next week I shall have worked out an approximate outline of the whole thing.

My first year I had worked out the whole storyline, but got to a fairly neat half-way point at 53,000 words, so I kept the second half for last year, and completed in about 90,000. Since then it has sat glowering at me to edit and delete and add, but I will leave that to next year, when I am scheduled to retire from work.

]]> By: Frostie http://writers.sharp-words.co.uk/2008/10/october-already/comment-page-1#comment-74 Frostie Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:06:54 +0000 http://writers.sharp-words.co.uk/?p=73#comment-74 I'm not ready. I'm dreading it, in fact. Work is manic right now. I do have an idea, have had one since last NaNo in fact, but somewhere in the evolution of it it became a great character, a great setting, a decent idea... the story part however is still MIA. :) Why do I do this to myself? I’m not ready. I’m dreading it, in fact. Work is manic right now. I do have an idea, have had one since last NaNo in fact, but somewhere in the evolution of it it became a great character, a great setting, a decent idea… the story part however is still MIA. :)

Why do I do this to myself?

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