My trio of awesome nephews have gone back to their hotel to swim before bedtime, and I'm taking a break from frantically typing up everything I wrote today. Currently the wordcount stands at 51,000, but I have a lot left to type.
This afternoon I attended a meeting in the downstairs conference room (at work, of course). When I walked in, there were bottles of water on the table along with a few boxes of cheap cookies, a binder and pen at every place, and graph paper. Yes. Graph paper. I still don't know why; probably no one could find any lined paper in time. But I still had this wonderful moment as I took my place, because I was certain, in my heart of hearts, that we were about to start a D&D campaign. Alas, it was not so.
I'm rethinking the 3-day novel thing this year. For one thing, it costs $50; for another, I don't know if I'll be done with The Trickster Society in time. I refuse to set this book aside to work on anything else until it's not just done, it's done to my utter satisfaction. I learned my lesson with Bell-Men last year. I'm convinced that half the problem with the difficult rewrites and revisions was due to rushing the ending so I could do NaNo.
I do expect to finish Trickster Society in another month or six weeks (hopefully). I'm shooting for ninety to 95,000 words and I know what the very last scene will be. I'm a little fuzzier on the big ending, but ideas and pathways are unfolding beautifully as I write. Once I'm done, I'll start preparing for NaNo 2010: The Finishing. I'll be picking up the abandoned romance novel I started this spring and finishing it, after which I'll work on Adventures in Zoology. Once that one's done (and we're talking well past NaNo and into December or even January), I expect I'll be rabid to do some editing, and then I'll circle back to finish Little Sparrow. Until all these projects are done, I'm not starting a single new one. Really!
13 comments:
Ah, D&D - those were the days.
Sounds like you have some very good plans indeed. You will be one very busy little sparrow, won't you?
Good luck
Well, I make plans and wreck them, but in the meantime I feel very organized.
I miss D&D! I haven't played in years.
No D&D session? What a rip off! Lately I've been on an ebay binge, buying up old OOP D&D books like my life depended on them.
No new projects. I believe you.
Jameson--I don't have my old D&D books. Maybe I should their acquisition a goal. I still have my dice.
Cate--I'm glad you believe me, because I sure don't. :p
Solid plans. We're here to support you with virtual hand-slapping should stray away from the plan.
Kidding, of course, but still sounds like a good plan.
I'm hoping it'll work. At least I know I'll be able to finish Trickster Society and the romance book this year. Maybe not Adventures in Zoology too--but maybe I will.
The fact that you can write with children around amazes me! They seem infinitely distracting.
They are indeed infinitely distracting. At the moment, I've managed to tire them out with a trip to the nearby park (at least the youngest two; the oldest is on a shopping trip with my mom) and they're watching cartoons. The house is unsettlingly quiet!
Good luck, but I will be the first to admit that I wouldn't be able to stick to this myself.
I can see it not working. But it might!
Those are some serious goals. Well done on the word count.
I didn't get very much written over the weekend, but I'm going to make up for that this week. So far so good!
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