Itisi

The nebulous ramblings; grammatical & punctuational experiments of a girl born on the fifth of November

Month: October, 2006

I Wanna Tell You a Story . . .

First of all, I must apologise for not taking a photo of Saturday’s sunset. No excuses, I just forget, and by the time I remembered it was pitch dark outside. And as I said in my last post, the chances of me being up early enough to take one of the sunrise were slim, even with an extra hour in bed.

And now some news: as you may have noticed from the logo in the sidebar, I have signed up to take part in this years NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month to give it it’s full title. The idea is . . . well, go to the site to have it explained properly. OK, read that? Yes, Dear Reader, I shall be spending the next month working on a 50, 000 word novel – I think at that length it is more of a novella, but it’s still a lot of words to crank out in 30 days. So, wish me luck, because now the big day is about to dawn I am just the tiniest bit nervous. I have planned, and made character notes, written a plot outline, but it’s still rather daunting. It works out at about 1600 words a day, which I intend to break up into 800 word sections. So, I’ll get up early, and write 800, then turn out the other 800 at night.

I’m also rather worried about letting people read what I have written*. I don’t mind exposing non-fiction to a wider audience, but fiction is different. I’m not sure why. Maybe because it’s more personal, maybe because there are a far larger numbers of great writers to compare it (unfavourably) with. Whatever the reason, this will be the first time in about 20 years that I have let anyone apart from my mother or Mr. Blogs read any of my fiction.

I’ll still post here, probably not at great length, you might have to make do with memes and quizzes, but they seem popular, so that shouldn’t be too terrible.

Anyhow, I hope you will wish me well, and if you are taking part yourself, let me know – it would be nice to have another crazy fool to share the journey with.

*In fact, I find the idea of letting anyone else read that stuff so nerve-wracking, I usually fib and say I never work on fiction at all.




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Red Sky at Night/Red Sky in the Morning

The clocks go back one hour on Saturdaynight/Sunday morning, and I saw this idea over at Asterisk’s for a rather nice way to mark the changing of the seasons.

I will take a pic of the sunset of Saturday (weather permitting) whether I will get one of the sunrise is a different matter – the chances of me being up at 6.48 on a Sunday morning are slim to say the least.


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