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NaNo: Day 01
Nov. 1st, 2011 11:13 pmToday I began my annual 30 day homage to self-inflicted pain. (A.K.A., NaNoWriMo.)
Um. Usually I babble about it for a while before, but it snuck up on me. And now there's new people. D: People. Subscribing to my journal. (flails) No one new has really commented though, so IDK how many are actually paying attention? (hands)
For NaNoWriMo I usually do a daily post, or try to. I babble a bit about my day and the writing process, give my word count total and the daily count, and then I post some of what I did that day. That's about all there is. I mostly do it to selfshame motivate. When there are people reading me, it forces me to sit down and do at least a daily word count rather than have to type something like "I did 15 words because I spent all day playing Destruct-o-Match on Neopets". Surprising how well that works.
Anyway, this is NaNo, so if you have questions, comments, concrit, ideas, or just want to babble at me, please feel free. Because my work's decided that Dreamwidth is a file sharing site (srsly work, WTF) I can't comment easily during the day, and my hours at night are restricted by time, so I might be slow responding.
And now, the daily. The NaNo Widgets are down, so I'll have the one on my DW updated as soon as they're available. The fic I'm doing is the next one in line for my girl!Steve Ultimates AU. I've been meaning to follow through on that, and I might as well since Vampire Tony AU needs superedits (the beta has been run through, but I need to actually edit the monster) and I'm just too busy ATM. So, girl!Steve got the call. I'm either going to call it Brothers at Arms or Brothers in Arms, which will be hilarious to me alone, I suspect.
The major difficulty I had was just getting stated. I was so sleepy. D: I ended up picking up at scene 2 and then going back for the tricky writing at the opening once I'd gotten into the flow. Write or Die and Scrivener are my new best writing buddies. Scriv is keeping my writing organized and Write or Die forces me too keep going. Work was slow (I suspect most people were too hungover to call for technical support), so I was able to get a good start going.
Today's word count, and the monthly, are 4,034 words. That's just a bit over two dailies of 1,667, so huzzah! Two excerpts today. I'd hoped to write more tonight, but my Mom's visiting and I'm sleepy.
( Excepts, which means fic spoilers )
Um. Usually I babble about it for a while before, but it snuck up on me. And now there's new people. D: People. Subscribing to my journal. (flails) No one new has really commented though, so IDK how many are actually paying attention? (hands)
For NaNoWriMo I usually do a daily post, or try to. I babble a bit about my day and the writing process, give my word count total and the daily count, and then I post some of what I did that day. That's about all there is. I mostly do it to self
Anyway, this is NaNo, so if you have questions, comments, concrit, ideas, or just want to babble at me, please feel free. Because my work's decided that Dreamwidth is a file sharing site (srsly work, WTF) I can't comment easily during the day, and my hours at night are restricted by time, so I might be slow responding.
And now, the daily. The NaNo Widgets are down, so I'll have the one on my DW updated as soon as they're available. The fic I'm doing is the next one in line for my girl!Steve Ultimates AU. I've been meaning to follow through on that, and I might as well since Vampire Tony AU needs superedits (the beta has been run through, but I need to actually edit the monster) and I'm just too busy ATM. So, girl!Steve got the call. I'm either going to call it Brothers at Arms or Brothers in Arms, which will be hilarious to me alone, I suspect.
The major difficulty I had was just getting stated. I was so sleepy. D: I ended up picking up at scene 2 and then going back for the tricky writing at the opening once I'd gotten into the flow. Write or Die and Scrivener are my new best writing buddies. Scriv is keeping my writing organized and Write or Die forces me too keep going. Work was slow (I suspect most people were too hungover to call for technical support), so I was able to get a good start going.
Today's word count, and the monthly, are 4,034 words. That's just a bit over two dailies of 1,667, so huzzah! Two excerpts today. I'd hoped to write more tonight, but my Mom's visiting and I'm sleepy.
( Excepts, which means fic spoilers )
