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shadowkatDead tired so going to sleep soon. Just letting tummy settle, then hot shower to relax the muscles.
Everyone deals with stress and anxiety differently, I think. Numerous people have told me that I have a great poker face, and clearly internalize my stress. And I do - it all gets pulled into my back and stomach and neck. May have to get another massage soon...to work it out.
Question? I'm considering doing the NanoWriMore [ETC: NanoWriMo - I don't know what it's called, pathetic I know] thing - just to get myself writing creatively again. And maybe to get me to revise my book so I can send it out to publishers again. But here's the thing, I don't really understand what the NanoWRiMore thing involves? Outside of people just putting down word counts? Can anyone explain it to me and let me know if it's a good idea? Thanks.
Off to shower, bed and maybe read a bit more of Feast of Crows...made to the second round of POV's, we're now on Cersei round 2. Cersei's interesting, but she's also a bit on the whiny side. Clearly the character had major Daddy Issues, with a capital "D". No surprise there. Everyone in this book appears to have major Daddy Issues. No one appears to have Mommy!Issues though...which makes me wonder about George RR Martin. Yeah, I get that it is a male run universe, but seriously...OTOH - kudos for writing some incredibly interesting, diverse, and strong female characters. None of the female pov's are necessarily weak, some may be more whiny than others...but that's true of the guys as well - he's sort of equal opportunity on that front. He's also equal opportunity on the killing, maiming and torturing front - it's a karmic universe, but it is also sort of equal opportunity as well.
Oh apparently running into directors and stars from Lord of The Rings films runs in my family. I ran into Elijah Wood (Frodo) in a bar about four years ago. Two years ago (I think it was two years ago), during the filming of The Lovely Bones in Pennsburg, PA, my uncle ran into Peter Jackson in a bar - which made his son's day, because of course they'd all read the Lord of the Rings when they were kids too. Personally, I'd much rather run into Peter Jackson than Elijah Wood, much cooler. (I'm the geek in my family, my brother is not. In the rest of the family it's the guys who are the geeks, it's just my brother and I that flipped - proving one should never generalize about gender. I read and adored the LoTR, kidbro did not. Not surprising, Momster kept trying to get my bro to read and would buy all these books for him, which I devoured (including my own books and my parents books and my grandparents books and my aunt's books). As a result, I read all of the S.E. Hinton novels not my brother, and the Hardy Boys, and Encyclopedia Brown, amongst others. )
Everyone deals with stress and anxiety differently, I think. Numerous people have told me that I have a great poker face, and clearly internalize my stress. And I do - it all gets pulled into my back and stomach and neck. May have to get another massage soon...to work it out.
Question? I'm considering doing the NanoWriMore [ETC: NanoWriMo - I don't know what it's called, pathetic I know] thing - just to get myself writing creatively again. And maybe to get me to revise my book so I can send it out to publishers again. But here's the thing, I don't really understand what the NanoWRiMore thing involves? Outside of people just putting down word counts? Can anyone explain it to me and let me know if it's a good idea? Thanks.
Off to shower, bed and maybe read a bit more of Feast of Crows...made to the second round of POV's, we're now on Cersei round 2. Cersei's interesting, but she's also a bit on the whiny side. Clearly the character had major Daddy Issues, with a capital "D". No surprise there. Everyone in this book appears to have major Daddy Issues. No one appears to have Mommy!Issues though...which makes me wonder about George RR Martin. Yeah, I get that it is a male run universe, but seriously...OTOH - kudos for writing some incredibly interesting, diverse, and strong female characters. None of the female pov's are necessarily weak, some may be more whiny than others...but that's true of the guys as well - he's sort of equal opportunity on that front. He's also equal opportunity on the killing, maiming and torturing front - it's a karmic universe, but it is also sort of equal opportunity as well.
Oh apparently running into directors and stars from Lord of The Rings films runs in my family. I ran into Elijah Wood (Frodo) in a bar about four years ago. Two years ago (I think it was two years ago), during the filming of The Lovely Bones in Pennsburg, PA, my uncle ran into Peter Jackson in a bar - which made his son's day, because of course they'd all read the Lord of the Rings when they were kids too. Personally, I'd much rather run into Peter Jackson than Elijah Wood, much cooler. (I'm the geek in my family, my brother is not. In the rest of the family it's the guys who are the geeks, it's just my brother and I that flipped - proving one should never generalize about gender. I read and adored the LoTR, kidbro did not. Not surprising, Momster kept trying to get my bro to read and would buy all these books for him, which I devoured (including my own books and my parents books and my grandparents books and my aunt's books). As a result, I read all of the S.E. Hinton novels not my brother, and the Hardy Boys, and Encyclopedia Brown, amongst others. )
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Date: 2011-09-13 02:28 pm (UTC)Technically, you're supposed to write 50,000 words of brand-new fiction, none of which you've pre-written before November 1st. You're not supposed to stop and edit it at all, and it's all supposed to be from one new novel rather than multiple stories, and original fiction rather than fan fic, blah, blah, blah.
Those rules are part of the reason I didn't participate in it for years. I see what they're trying to accomplish by having them--unlock people's blocks by giving them time constraints and removing the "inner editor." But the stage I was at in my writing whenever November rolled around never fit those parameters. Yet I was envious of the social support received by friends who were participating.
So eventually, I just adapted NaNo for my own needs. Back in 2006, I wrote 50,000 brand-new words of a fan fiction WIP. Last year, I wrote both narrative and meta-notes on my new story, all of which came from random characters or moments, and had no linear flow whatsoever. I also felt free to pull in chunks of stuff I'd written before November when they were relevant, and allow them to be part of my "November word count."
Because for me, the point had become moving my story further along by harnessing the energy of NaNo, rather than being a stickler for rules.