Ever onward

[vanillafluffy]

Got a box o' books from GK in today's mail---"What Not to Wear" (the British edition), "No Plot? No Problem" - the NaNoWriMo* writing kit, and a style manual called "Quick Access". The NaNo kit in particular promises to be fun. I've signed up for NaNo a couple of years ago, but never made it beyond the first week. Will this be the year---?

I'm not really happy about my current writing slump---but then, I'm not happy about a lot of other things, most of which you've heard me whinge about. (House, job, weight, car, etc.) I'm already committed to a Halloween costume---that's BEFORE NaNo. I'm not sure about a whole from-scratch novel, but looking at my major unfinished fics, if I spent a week balls-to-the-wall on finishing each of them, I think I'd meet or exceed 50K words. It's a thought.

Time to go move the laundry from washer to dryer and scratch the surface in my bathroom.

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* For the non-writers on my f'list, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. It's celebrated in the month of November, and the idea is to write a 50K word/175 page novel between November 1st and the 30th. Their site is here: http://www.nanowrimo.org/

Comments

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

those women in the brit version of What Not to Wear remind me of a sober Edina and Patsy from AbFab. That is not intended to be a compliment to them.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

I've never watched the Brit version, but Stacy and Clinton can be rather cruel when they're trying to be glib.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

the women in the brit version are FAR nastier. they would scare House.

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

The Brit version is really the ONLY way to go. I adore Trini and Susannah. Also, having seen it at least once makes Jack's scenes with the Trini and Susannah robots in Bad Wolf that much funnier.