This is the place where, in my infinite wisdom, I just pile all kinds of stuff I think I should save or comment on, or whatever. The junk drawer is bulging with lots of tidbits and half consumed stuff. It has been a whirlwind month for some strange reason.
On the book front, I read Deception Point by Dan Brown and thought it was okay, not great but worth reading. I am just finishing Mars Crossing by Geoffrey Landis. I am always crazy for a anything Mars related and this is a good piece of fiction. I have not been reading at the torrid pace I am accustomed to because I have been spending free time elsewhere.
Other then doing some fun stuff for the blog and hanging with the Fam, I have not done a whole bunch of cool wandering this month. I have been prepping for the..Project. I have not done anything with short stories and just tinkered with some poetry. What I have been doing is digging out the notes and assorted stuff in anticipation of National Novel Writing Month.
I have toyed with the idea of NaNoWriMo for a couple of years but just never committed to doing it until this year. I have several half finished, half baked, tons of notes/outlines for several different novels, stuff I have worked on over the years. I was scanning the website and thought, hey do it this time. So I thought about it and decided I should pick one of the many projects started but never finished. The next day I picked the story idea and signed up. Now I have told everyone I am doing it, so now to avoid looking like a slacker, I have to shut up and just do it.
The past three weeks I have delved the mine of story holding and have been digging up and preparing for November, when the fireworks truly begins. I guess I really meant it when I said it was time to stop being a dilettante, and get to the business of not only writing, but submitting and doing the big projects I have always wanted to do. You know what? This has been a ton of fun for me so I have achieved success. I think I have finally turned that corner and there is no going back, just go Paddy go!
November in the blog is going to be a wee bit different. I plan on doing a daily update on word progress with a little blurb on what is going on in the story and how the whole project is doing. And that folks is going to be about it for the month. If I have planned it correctly, I will do a wee blog post and write like mad, work and sleep, and play with the family and that is going to be about all the time I am going to have in any given day. With that being said, I am off to do more prep work and tinker with some stuff over the next week.
Happy Wanderings!
Now I can say. Get to writing. =)
Posted by: twitter.com/ManchineGDF | 10/24/2009 at 12:06 PM