NaNoWriMo 2004

[House of Mustard]

So Fell convinced me to make some major changes to the book I'm currently working on.  So it looks like I'll be following the official rules of NaNoWriMo after all -- starting from scratch.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

hasn't someone already bought this book?

[House of Mustard]

Not officially, but they've verbally accepted the series.  No contracts have been signed (so, thankfully, no deadlines are set).  The book that comes out in January is Book 1, and this is Book 2.  (There will probably be only three, but I'm calling it a series, not a trilogy, just in case.)

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

well, that's good. at least it doesnt' crush your life.

[Mistress of Darkness]

HoM, is that because of the harddrive failure? Or was there another reason Fell thought you should start over?

[House of Mustard]

Well, deciding to go a different route kind of throws eight months of work away.  It was just the fact that six months of that work was lost in a computer accident that clinched the deal.

[House of Mustard]

Sorry MOD -- didn't see your post...

The hard drive was the catalyst, but I'd been having doubts about it for a long time.  Basically, he convinced me to switch it from two first-person characters back to one first-person.  It had been slowing the story down, and forcing a lot of mechanical problems.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

are you doing 1 first- and 1 third-person now? I think that will irritate me.

[House of Mustard]

No -- I'm cutting one POV character.  Instead of following two different interwoven stories in this book, there will only be one.

[Prometheus]

I'm guessing that he'll be going with just one viewpoint from the sound of things---cutting out the other's viewpoint altogether. But I wouldn't really know.

It's strange that the farther I get into this project the more it feels just like miscellaneous worldbuilding rather than writing out the actual text. Maybe that's just what first draft feels like for a story. Or maybe it's my rewrite instincts howling to be unleashed on my poor unpolished story text.

Doh! posted too slowly.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

heh, that's nothing. Last night a minor character I came up with out of nowhere not only turned out to be the best friend of one of the protags, but he'll become best friends with the other. AND it turns out he's immortal or extremely long lived. Weird. Maybe he's colluding with someone.

[Prometheus]

Hm. Where's my minor character discipline stick? *smack* *smack*


*smack*

[House of Mustard]

Well, I got 1251 during lunch.  I'll try for more tonight.

[stacer]

It's 4pm and I haven't even gotten home yet, let alone started on my paper for the day. I stopped by the Verizon store to see what they could do for me because my phone is about to break any day now, and they wanted me to pay full retail for a new phone (like $250) or $60 to replace it with the same model that's given me all the battery trouble and flip phone breakage for the last year. And the contract isn't in my name, and that adds to the complications (it's nice to have a patron when they *pay* for the phone, but when they stop paying for the phone, Verizon needs to stop automatically renewing the 2-year contract!).

So I'm going with the "I hope it doesn't break before July when the contract runs out" attitude. And have gotten no homework done this afternoon. Unless you count coming by the library to pick up my ILL articles, which my teacher doesn't even want me to read yet till I've gone through and made a preliminary argument first.

Sigh.

[Prometheus]

Gee, Stacer? That easy?

Joking aside, good luck on your cellphone and homework. Working in industry is a real pain sometimes, but it doesn't follow you home quite as much as I seem to remember schoolwork. Most of the time.