Go Gators!

Posted by on Dec 3, 2006 in dish | 0 comments The BCS computers have spoken, and it’ll be the Florida Gators facing the Ohio State Buckeyes for the national championship. This’ll be an interesting game to watch personally, since I lived in Westerville, OH when I was a kid. Daddy got transferred there. (We personally think of it as the exile in the wilderness for a number of reasons, flat Midwestern accents, dinner at 5:30 pm,...
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NaNoWriMo Debriefing

Posted by on Dec 2, 2006 in dish | 0 comments I’ve had a day or so to come off my NaNo high, so here are some thoughts about the experience. A 50,000 word first draft in one month is not an impossible task. A 50,000 word draft in a month takes consistent output. Taking notes and thinking quite a bit about the story before starting the writing (following the NaNo rules) was very helpful. When November 1 hit, I was raring to go. Robin...
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I Did It!

Posted by on Dec 1, 2006 in dish | 1 comment Official count: 50,127 words. Official statement: I. Am. Whipped.I’ll post more about the NaNoWriMo experience after a good sleep, since I sure haven’t had much the past couple of days. Can you say, “Procrastinator”?My wrists are killing me! Where’s the chocolate??
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Update #4 – 17,822 Words

Posted by on Nov 21, 2006 in dish | 0 comments Advice to those of you who want to try NaNoWriMo: Don’t get the flu mid-month. Unfortunately, this is the voice of experience talking. I have managed to get way, way behind thanks to a nasty combination of headache, sinus pressure, and fatigue. Now I have to dig myself out.Of course, my normal distractability has reared its ugly head as well. Endless checking of Google News items? Check....
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Death on Toast

Posted by on Nov 15, 2006 in dish | 0 comments Ugh. I am so, so sick right now. I stayed home from school Monday, dragged my butt there on Tuesday (I should spare myself the heroics), and got the cosmic smackdown about it today. Spent most of today on the sofa, too. Head hurts, body’s stiff, head’s full of crud.I hate getting sick. I especially hate getting sick when there are THINGS TO DO around here, like clean and cook and...
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Update #3 – 11,113 Words

Posted by on Nov 12, 2006 in dish | 0 comments Jeff (Baty, founder of NaNoWriMo) said it would happen, and it has.I’m in the doldrums.I have found that breaking the “go back and futz with what you’ve already written” habit is very hard to do. I keep wanting to go back and reread, fix that word, trash that sentence, etc. etc. rather than forging ahead with the manuscript. There’s also that nasty “but...
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