Nanowrimo

[azhure]

Nanowrimo officially started today (and half of you reading this reply with a resounding “duh”).

I’m still not really sure if I’m going to shoot for the 50k “win” or not, but as things stand, I’m going to have a play around with Never and see how the brainmeats comply.  So I guess you could say that I’m doing Nanowrimo, if only in a half-arsed manner

Plus it gives me a good reason to justify owning the new MacBook and to play around with Scrivener.  And if I do make the 50k, then I get to buy Scrivener at 50% off.  Bonus.  I’ll be stuck inside the house for a good chunk of this week anyway, since we have guys coming out to fix the ceilings, so I might as well be doing something useful.

Have I talked myself into it yet?

And that said, I haven’t done any actual writing today.  Nor do I probably plan on doing a lot of writing on weekends.  I like having my weekend break.  I have, however, played with Scrivener, finished setting up the MacBook properly, and put together a few templates of things like character sheets.

Now I just need to start doing the actual work.  I’m not planning on outlining or doing any more prep work than writing up said character sheets.  At this stage, I’m exploring a new world, which I always do best by pantsing.

And on a semi-related note, damn it’s nice to have an actual light and portable laptop again.  I am most pleased with the decision to go Mac (though I’ll never replace my PC as a desktop machine), even though it’s going to take me a little time to adjust to everything.

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.

Comments

Re: Pantsing

[darakat-ewr.livejournal.com]

Ah. Thanks. I suspect I do that a lot myself whenever the need to write grabs me.