Yup, I'm definitely doing Nano again this year. It will be my ninth.

I know it will probably sound crazy... but trying again this year as well...... maybe finally I'll be able to finish it properly!

I'll have an interesting couple of days - a prep meeting in my town (which I'm kind of organizing) tomorrow, frantic cleaning and last-minute preparation on Sunday. Monday will probably (hopefully) be a hellishly busy day at work (hopefully because it's the last day of the autumn season, and we still have a lot left to sell), then when I get home, I need to shower, eat dinner, put away laundry, pack up and head off to Vienna for the midnight kick-off. Get home on Tuesday morning, hopefully sleep a few hours (Tuesday is a holiday, which is why we can write all night) and then a kick-off/write-in here in my town - probably in my home, too, so I need to do a bit of cleaning on Sunday as well.
And on Wednesday, back to work. Not looking forwards to that at all.


It'll be an interesting NaNo anyway - first year living on my own, first year working during November. I'll have to make sure to wear gloves at work, and not to do any other stupid stuff to hurt my fingers (right now, my thumb is still sore from three hours of de-seeding rosehips on Wednesday. Typing is fine, but handwriting is a bit of a problem.)

And I don't really feel prepared. I've just barely managed to put together my timeline, but I've got almost no other notes, I've done no research... oh well. I'll manage, one way or another. At least I've got ten meals in the freezer (and hopefully, a couple more by the end of the weekend), a ridiculous amount of food stockpiled so I don't have to waste precious writing time on shopping, and two characters I like, and am excited to write about - and I can't wait to start!

I'm not too worried - I've written about that world for a long, long time, so I'm pretty familiar with it. There are only a couple of small things I need to read up on, which I could of course be doing now, but I'm too tired.

I'm just printing out the story I wrote two years ago, as I'm going to write a sequal for it. So I have today and tomorrow to read the previous 90k I wrote.

Since I'm having a crazy busy month this year, I'm not aiming for 90k again. Or rather, I am but not all in this month. I'll just keep on writing in December I guess.

Got back from the NaNo kick off meet.  Quite fun, it was.  Got to meet some interesting folks.  I ended up at the "big kids" table, where the stories tended toward more real-world than fantasy (making my own plot feel like quite the fool).  There was an exercise where you were supposed to draw your inner editor, then the cards get passed around and the person who gets it does something to molest it.

So of course I drew a box of fresh donuts but mentioned that they were high in cholesterol.  Because that's how I roll.

Hmmm...  Stuck in a sort of writer's block.  I'm trying to figure out how to get my characters from a beach (where three of them are engaged in a brutal fight) to a mystical undersea world of wonder.  I've been tying to avoid obvious deus ex machinas, but it looks like I'm going have some magic them away or something.

Magpie wrote:

Heh. I had a person escape a castle "through a conveniently situated plot hole" in my first NaNo. You can always go back and come up with something better - in December.

Hmm.  Maybe I can have someone drive up in a van, open the door, and say, "Hey, guys, want to join me in a trip to a magical kingdom?"

...

No wait.  That's creepy.

CREEEEEPPPYY!!!

Have them fight in the sea, push the one who has to go there under water. And then have him sucked away to there by some freak current.

10 K! Earned my first bar of chocolate! (Which I'm not really looking forwards to that much, because I've got a sore throat, thanks to two days working outside in pretty cold weather.)
And the story is coming together nicely as well. It's pretty interesting - there are these two characters that I didn't want to have in there at all, but now they're the ones that are sort of holding the story together,
providing connections between the different strands.
And that one character I was pretty afraid of writing is actually sort of fun. He's such a wonderful jerk. Not an actual "bad guy" in that he isn't an antagonist (there's no real antagonist, anyway), and he turns out sort of decent in the end, but definitely not a good guy either.

Still having fun with Julius. Getting to know his family... well, no wonder the boy turned out such a jerk!

I has been writing.... of course I've only started today in a haze from jetlag... but i purchased a little green celtic notebook, and it's magical in that it leers me into it..... five pages into my weird story, no where near any definite marks yet, but I'm writing... and that's good after three years of utter nothingness..... this might become the weirdes, most plotless story I've ever written, but I really really do not care..... Getting my account changed now.... hopefully they'll still let me in...