So I didn’t post a whole hell of a lot this month. Part of it was football angst and not wanting to keep beating a dead horse. Part of it was down to Thanksgiving and a good bit of travel and company and the like. There were some parties, there was out-of-town dinner company from twenty years ago, there was babysitting (some) and church (on Thursdays?) and a lot of outerwear purchasing – after buying NO new outerwear for myself in 2005, 2006, 2007 or 2008, I’m up to 3 and counting in 2009, plus one or two as gifts.
But the big thing that ate up my free time was NaNoWriMo.
Yes, at long last, five years after first considering it, I knuckled down and churned out fifty THOUSAND words in thirty days. Now, in fairness, some of it was a rehash of stuff I’d thought up before, and a lot of it is thinly-veiled personal history, and things like characterization and plot went out the window in favor or raw narrative. It’s honestly not fit for consumption, which is kind of the point – the goal here was to get fifty thousand words out into the keyboard just to show that I could physically do the dump.
The next one will be a little more serious. Inasmuch as it was a pitch for “why I need a netbook,” it kind of fell flat – the 13″ Macbook is still the straw that stirs the drink for blogger and NaNoWriter alike.
A great finish, though. I’m glad I pulled it off, just like the old days – a wild finish, but I’m done before the office closes.
Congrats on your finish! I was happy to be done and then furious when I was two hundred words short, but a thinly veiled tirade put me over in the end. I have plans to finish it and actually try to make the thing fit for consumption but I think they need to make another month for just that. Script Frenzy in April! Remind me to not do that, I need sleep. While it got me the netbook, I still want the 13″ Mac, so grass is greener and all that.
Football, football! I am glad my Drewzy-baby can help you out. 🙂 It is like a dream and I keep thinking I will wake up inside my paper bag, but we shall see.
Keep TBSE in the loop for Christmas plans!