The end of my cup of tea.
The end of my cup of tea.
1 Dec 2011Blah. I think I have the post-NaNo blues.
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I know I haven’t said much about NaNo here this year, but it was sort of a busy time, being ML for the St. Louis region and all. For year eight, I wrote another fantasy (of course). Here’s the one-sentence summary:
When a librarian finds a murdered historian in the undocumented vaults of the library, she discovers that magic, unusable for centuries, is returning to the world, and those who once wielded it are returning to take back their homeland.
It kind of ended up being like that, so I guess I stuck to the synopsis better than I have in previous years. Yes, I did manage to actually have a dead body show up in the first chapter right when it was supposed to, as opposed to last year, when I didn’t kill the person I was planning on until the very last section. Planning, it is your friend when writing.
There’s still more to go. I’ll see how many words I can put down tomorrow night, but I’ve got that purple bar of win, and it makes me smile.
Here’s to those of you who took this jaunt into literary abandon with me, and those who are still chugging along. Keep writing, my friends!
(Google+ edit:
Scrivener says 50,148; NaNoWriMo says 50,033. Either way, I just won NaNo for an eighth time.
Anthony MatheniaWay to go Jen on your eighth win! Thanks for all the hard work you do to support others!
Jennifer ShewThanks +Anthony Mathenia for all your good posts this year! I don’t know where you found the time 😉 Congrats to you too.
Zonked kitty loves CDs.
I am always surprised when I find out that I’m sore after a six-hour writing marathon. #stlnano #eosr #nanowrimo
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it.
-Neil Gaiman
(ganked from +Ashley Elson on the STLNANO forum)
(Nov 20 2011 was STLNANO EOSR. Tried to do multiple Google Hangouts, but…
Jennifer Shew: Trying this again.
Heather Dudley: Meh, I tried to get in, but unfortunately, wireless here at NOWD is a bit flaky.
Jennifer Shew: There are so many of us using the WiFi here at our regional event that they had to reset the router. )
It’s nice to be able to prove to the tech help that the PBKAC really isn’t BKAC, but in the software. Vindication!
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.
– Neil Gaiman
Ana Vargas-Machuca: Neil Gaiman is such an amazing writer. Love the way his mind works.
Thank you, veterans. #111111
Sigh. Delicious to trunkly back to delicious. Would the real bookmark manager please stand up and stop buying others/being bought out? #tech #annoying