Thanks, Charity and Marianne!

On Writing Wrongs, Charity gave a great tutorial on making a powerpoint collage.

So, finally, I got it.

Marianne suggested a great website for images: http://www.sxc.hu/

And here's the result:

Progress report

Made it through my goals of the past two days. I am NOT writing late again, however. While I made my 1000 words, they sucked, and I was miserable the whole time.

I did much better writing 1000 this morning and another 1000 this afternoon. I'm really looking forward to returning home on Tuesday and going back to my normal schedule for a few days.

Notes from the last couple of days

Current word count: 4011, but I haven't written yet today. That's next.

I was hoping to come on here and be inspired and I was. I think it was Ceri or Keri, but one of you mentioned how nice it is writing in this manner and getting such wonderful support. I so second this! It's just a great place to visit at the end of a long day.

I played around way too late with a collage last night. I didn't like any of the images I found and power point was driving me crazy, etc., etc.

I really like the collage idea. Tonight, as a reward if I make at least 1000 words, I'm going to start gathering images for an old-fashioned cut and paste collage, which I'll make when I return to MI on Tues. Then I'll take a pic and post it. ;-) I'm such a techno whiz kid.

My mother asked me this evening what my story was about. And I told her. And I'm now thinking maybe I need to rethink some of my plot twists. It also pointed out the places I'm really unclear on. Those were the points where I'd be in the middle of explaining a detail and my eyes would glaze over and I think I probably went slack-mouthed and started saying, "Um, uh."

I'm worried I may have more of those than I realized.

I'm writing this draft in a linear manner. I never do that. I'm going to write out of sequence tonight and see how that goes.

I'm giving myself all these "treats" to write tonight because I am a MORNING writer and I'm so darned tired right now!

But I'm going to write.

Happy writing!

Starting counts

Starting point: 398 wc

end of today: 2027.

I'm shooting for 2000 most days, due to the fact that I may not be able to do every, single day in Jan. Today I cut myself some slack because I'm still behind on a lot of research, etc. I'm actually planning to put more in tonight, if I can.

Cheers, everyone!

More fickleness

I was all set to work on my second in a series, but I got this idea, and then it wasn't running, and this morning while I was working out the plot and everything came to me.

So... I *think* I'm now going with magic realism.

OTOH, I may go back to my mystery.

I'm going to start massive interviews and notes on the magic realism piece in any case.

At least I'm actually in the realm of preparation now.

Preparations

Marianne asked us to post our preparations. My preparations will start Monday... that's the official "D-Day" when I'm off work. I've been doing a lot of incubating, though. I'm not sure if I'm going to work on my second novel in my series or try something completely different or go where the wind takes me. I have a few story ideas stashed away, so I'm going to try to meditate and decide what would be best to work on at this intensity.

What about the rest of you?

I'm also really excited to be doing this! Nano was just NOT going to happen for me in November this year. A huge thanks to Marianne for getting this together.