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Yes, well, it is done, anyway
Dec. 1st, 2006 10:24 pm"She's unconscious again!" I called out. OK, I probably screeched a little.
Russ chuckled. He didn't have to look up from WoW or ask me what I was talking about: I would yell this out every couple of days, so he knew what was going on. He laughed every time, as was expected of him.
I've been off LJ for the better part of a month now, doing the NaNoWriMo (oh, and working insane hours, and playing too much on Swap-Bot, and trying to prepare for the holiday season… the usual, but more so). Let me know if I missed anything un-miss-able.
I don't really like this novel I've just finished writing. It is done – I have the 50,000 words* and the official winner's certificate – but it is not a likable story. Nor is it a very "Melissa-like" story. If you’ve been reading me for any length of time, you’ll probably recognize how un-me-like the story is, as it features, in no particular order: cannibalism (where no one dies), four deaths (three of them violent; no one is eaten), lots of drug use (mostly involuntary), torture, and a main character with a nasty habit of falling or being rendered unconscious at the end of most major scenes.
Between exclamations of "she’s unconscious!", I would whinge** about how much I disliked my plot and my characters and everything to do with the whole novel, and Russ would ask me why I don't just stop then (already; yeesh). I didn't really have a good answer to that. I guess it is testament to just how stubborn I am that the story got done.
The lesson in this: don't stand between me and my goals.
*I have 50,046 words, including "the end". There’s nothing like doing the bare minimum...
**I picked up "whinge" from The Brit at work, and it is now my word-to-overuse of choice.
Russ chuckled. He didn't have to look up from WoW or ask me what I was talking about: I would yell this out every couple of days, so he knew what was going on. He laughed every time, as was expected of him.
I've been off LJ for the better part of a month now, doing the NaNoWriMo (oh, and working insane hours, and playing too much on Swap-Bot, and trying to prepare for the holiday season… the usual, but more so). Let me know if I missed anything un-miss-able.
I don't really like this novel I've just finished writing. It is done – I have the 50,000 words* and the official winner's certificate – but it is not a likable story. Nor is it a very "Melissa-like" story. If you’ve been reading me for any length of time, you’ll probably recognize how un-me-like the story is, as it features, in no particular order: cannibalism (where no one dies), four deaths (three of them violent; no one is eaten), lots of drug use (mostly involuntary), torture, and a main character with a nasty habit of falling or being rendered unconscious at the end of most major scenes.
Between exclamations of "she’s unconscious!", I would whinge** about how much I disliked my plot and my characters and everything to do with the whole novel, and Russ would ask me why I don't just stop then (already; yeesh). I didn't really have a good answer to that. I guess it is testament to just how stubborn I am that the story got done.
The lesson in this: don't stand between me and my goals.
*I have 50,046 words, including "the end". There’s nothing like doing the bare minimum...
**I picked up "whinge" from The Brit at work, and it is now my word-to-overuse of choice.
