October 2009

NaNoFlailMo

It’s tradition. The closer NaNo gets, the more flailing must happen. There’s a big hole in the middle of my plot. My planned ending won’t work after all. NaNo is a little over a week away. I want to blog my NaNo but if it’s not going to go well I’d rather not crash and […]

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Wednesday

Not much to say tonight. Just don’t want to lose the habit of blogging often, since it’s taken me so long to work back to it. Experimented with using tarot cards for plotting. Didn’t get far, since I don’t know tarot at all. And I kept getting distracted. Why is it all the captives in

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No AC at Work=No Brain at Home

It was ninety-five degrees today. You know how you feel when you slowly cook all day long in your own sweat while pretending to be comfortable and professional? Yeah. Completely typical–I start recovering brain cells and it’s time to go to bed. *sigh* Some plotting done–more deciding limits on characters and stuff. I seem to

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Puttering

It’s such a pleasant occupation, puttering is. Today I’ve puttered about my house, and puttered about my blog. The biggest change is on my Original Fiction page–I’ve updated it, tried to put dates on more of it, and purtified it a bit.

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Shaolin Monks and Mayan Mysticism

This NaNovel is going to be awesome. If the research weren’t so fun, I’d be jumping up and down, I’m so eager to start. But the research is fun. Llamas are fascinating, magic and mysticism and the practices of shamans are all intriguing, and I can watch Shaolin monks and old kung fu movies and

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A Day Out

Okay, so it was a day taking bus after bus to get the kid to a couple appointments. I was out. It counts. We actually had some fun. Spent too much money, but what else is new? My kid deserves dinner out once in a while. At odd moments I tried to plan, but I

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Organization

NaNo planning proceeds apace. Or sort of, anyway. I wonder if there exists a way to plan in an organized fashion? Generally I have notes in every direction, and spend a lot of time sorting them. I’ve been trying for years to find a better way and I haven’t. The best I’ve come up with

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