November Round-up
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cjmarloweIn November I wrote 27,701 words, but I didn't post anything.
I definitely have mixed feelings about November. On the one hand, it was supposed to be Nanowrimo month, so on that front it wasn't exactly a success. I decided fairly early on that I really wasn't digging the story I was writing, not in a "this is hard and I'm going to give up" way, but "this is kind of boring and I'm not enjoying these characters or this story." I've finished Nanowrimo a few times now, so I think I just didn't have the drive to finish at all costs. I did flirt briefly with starting over but ultimately I decided to work on the stories I was motivated to work on even though they were shorter. And on that level, November was much more successful. I finished the first draft of a story that I started over four years ago (I can't even remember exactly when, but I know I've moved twice since then), and successfully reworked the plots of two stories that've been plaguing me for a while so I think I can finally finish them too.
After dropping nano I was still aiming for an overall word count of 50,000, so 28,000 falls pretty short of that, but I did finish that draft--which I am extremely psyched about--and over 10,000 of those words were on the last day so I feel like I'm poised pretty well going into December. Especially with Yuletide coming up soon!
Anyway. Moving on.
Movies and books, November 2010:
Wilby Wonderful
Men With Guns
True Blood [Season 1]
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
21 Jump Street [Season 2]
Rabbit Fall [Season 1]
Rabbit Fall [Season 2]
3 Idiots
Alice in Wonderland
Dance Me Outside
Cougar Town [Season 1]
Rubicon [Season 1]
21 Jump Street [Season 3]
Star Trek: Voyager [Season 2]
Airplane!
Yeah. That's a whole lot of TV.
Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Some books you love because the worldbuilding is amazing, some because the story is compelling or the characters are riveting, and some because the language itself is so beautiful or intricate. This book is all of that.
P.S. Since drafting the first part of this round-up, I finished up another story draft, so that's two in two days. This one is a lot shorter than the last, but still. I tend to be optimistic on the first of every month, but I think maybe I was right to be optimistic about December.
I definitely have mixed feelings about November. On the one hand, it was supposed to be Nanowrimo month, so on that front it wasn't exactly a success. I decided fairly early on that I really wasn't digging the story I was writing, not in a "this is hard and I'm going to give up" way, but "this is kind of boring and I'm not enjoying these characters or this story." I've finished Nanowrimo a few times now, so I think I just didn't have the drive to finish at all costs. I did flirt briefly with starting over but ultimately I decided to work on the stories I was motivated to work on even though they were shorter. And on that level, November was much more successful. I finished the first draft of a story that I started over four years ago (I can't even remember exactly when, but I know I've moved twice since then), and successfully reworked the plots of two stories that've been plaguing me for a while so I think I can finally finish them too.
After dropping nano I was still aiming for an overall word count of 50,000, so 28,000 falls pretty short of that, but I did finish that draft--which I am extremely psyched about--and over 10,000 of those words were on the last day so I feel like I'm poised pretty well going into December. Especially with Yuletide coming up soon!
Anyway. Moving on.
Movies and books, November 2010:
Wilby Wonderful
Men With Guns
True Blood [Season 1]
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
21 Jump Street [Season 2]
Rabbit Fall [Season 1]
Rabbit Fall [Season 2]
3 Idiots
Alice in Wonderland
Dance Me Outside
Cougar Town [Season 1]
Rubicon [Season 1]
21 Jump Street [Season 3]
Star Trek: Voyager [Season 2]
Airplane!
Yeah. That's a whole lot of TV.
Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Some books you love because the worldbuilding is amazing, some because the story is compelling or the characters are riveting, and some because the language itself is so beautiful or intricate. This book is all of that.
P.S. Since drafting the first part of this round-up, I finished up another story draft, so that's two in two days. This one is a lot shorter than the last, but still. I tend to be optimistic on the first of every month, but I think maybe I was right to be optimistic about December.
