Comments on: nanowrimo day 11 – outlier days http://globalspin.com/2006/11/nanowrimo-day-11-outlier-days/ a glimpse into the tiny mind of Chris Radcliff Sat, 01 May 2010 03:53:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8 By: deb http://globalspin.com/2006/11/nanowrimo-day-11-outlier-days/comment-page-1/#comment-8304 Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:50:57 +0000 http://globalspin.com/2006/11/12/855/#comment-8304 Heh, I’ve been doing that with my budget. Budget, what budget? I’ve got emails to answer! People to manage! Vacations to take! We don’t need no stinkin’ budget . . .

]]> By: Karen http://globalspin.com/2006/11/nanowrimo-day-11-outlier-days/comment-page-1/#comment-7713 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 04:45:26 +0000 http://globalspin.com/2006/11/12/855/#comment-7713 I’m totally with you there, C. I’m hitting the wall, hard. I’m finding that I want my heroine to be far more interesting than I am and have witty dialogue and have a fascinating adventure in a place that seems to change from day to day of writing and I’m not sure I want her to be in that place and I only have the vaguest idea of where I want her to end up and I’m not sure that idea doesn’t suck lemons. So, I do the crossword and then bring up the file and concentrate only on the last sentence I wrote and cringe and try desperately not to delete the entire story. Why do you guys think I haven’t posted an excerpt? I will, though… Oh, and one thing: my story has far fewer run-on sentences than this comment.

]]> By: Deana http://globalspin.com/2006/11/nanowrimo-day-11-outlier-days/comment-page-1/#comment-7673 Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:51:19 +0000 http://globalspin.com/2006/11/12/855/#comment-7673 Interesting. I haven’t hit the wall yet. I’ve thought about it, and I’ve had some days where the writing wasn’t flowing like I would have wanted it to, but several days where it’s been a blast. I think part of it is requiring no more of myself than the 1667 words per day that’s the minimum (If I’m in the middle of something and I go over, that’s fine, but if I do 1867 today, that means I only have to do 1467 tomorrow), and part of it is having this novel be based on my honeymoon if my honeymoon involved a murder mystery and Glen and I had access to unlimited cash. Places where we stopped and looked around wistfully during our actual honeymoon are now places where we spend thousands of dollars to decorate the bookstore/teahouse/café our fictional counterparts are planning. And then there are all the anthropological asides explaining certain things from my character’s point of view, which is remarkably similar to mine – she’s also an anthropologist who studies pilgrimage, just older, luckier, and a lot richer. So, I’m actually having a very good time.

Sorry for the gloaty bits. :-)

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