Monthly Archives: November 2009

Nov
4

Zen And The Art of NaNo

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I’m sort of kidding about this. Because honestly, there isn’t much art to it. At least not for me. And I have to stop myself from going back and editing and fixing. It’s sort of painful, really – because I know what I’m producing isn’t the best I can do. But that’s the point, isn’t it? The whole idea of NaNo is to just write, without giving that inner editor a chance to pontificate over whether or not the sentence structure really makes sense, or if people really *can* muse out loud. But it’s hard – maybe doubly so for me because I didn’t actually plot anything out, other than what I sort of had down for the books I was already working on. (Which wasn’t much, panster that I am). So what this means is that I’m writing and having to make it up as I go. Well, truthfully,… Read more
Nov
3

Seriously.

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I’d like to say my back is perfect and lovely, but I’m having a moment of panic this morning as a fair amount of pain has returned down the left side. Mostly in the left ass cheek, actually. And it’s definitely nerve pain – like what I had before, only in a different place. It pisses me off. I do have a tendency to panic, which I’ll admit. Though, I *do* feel somewhat justified in doing so, as I seem to have a slew of medical bullshit issues that have no cure and are terribly chronic. (And usually pretty damn painful) I will say that I no longer have muscle knots in the lumbar area where I did before, so small favors, there. And up until yesterday, things have been utterly brilliant in the pain management area. For the moment, I’m going to do nothing. I’m going to pretend it’s… Read more
Nov
2

On Comics

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Sort of a continuation from the Shoujo post from a few days ago. The thing of it is, I don’t actually read real comics all that much. I do have a few graphic novels, including The Crow, Sandman and a few odd Elfquests kicking around (but honestly the more recent ones really kind of blow from an artistic standpoint and totally turned me off so I stopped buying them). But I have to say I’m rather happy with the Buffy ones. As a general continuation of the Buffy story, I find it awesome that Whedon is doing them – and his writing really shows through. They managed to capture a lot of the same sort of snark from the show and best of all? It’s *canon*.   That means it counts. Instead of having the characters waste away in the land of crap fanfiction, the creator moved forward. No actors,… Read more
Nov
2

…about Comments…

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Not a real blog post. More of an announcement on the new commenting thingy I installed. For those of you who *are* leaving comments and filling out your names on the comment form – if you click the little arrow next to the word From, you’ll be able to log in as *you* from a bunch of systems – i.e. google, yahoo, OpenID, whatever.  And then your icon will show up as well as subscription options and all that. 🙂… Read more
Nov
1

*thuds* 1st Day of NaNo Over.

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And no, I’m not going to be doing daily updates on this. Just wanted to mention that I cracked past 3000 words today. Which, while admirable, doesn’t come close to standing up to some of the NaNo Writing Buddies that managed upwards of 7000. And there’s no way I can keep up a 3000 word-a-day pace, but I had a little extra time today, so I figured I’d add in some padding for the rest of the week. And truly, it worked out well. It was a very rainy day out, so aside from playing with the kids off and on throughout the day, we ended up watching a fair number of movies on the couch. The netbook is awesome for this, by the way. I could just leave it open and throw in a sentence here and there as I could fit it in.   I don’t expect that… Read more