Day 4 of five

Well, like the title says, I'm here at work yet again, but significantly less tired- got a good nap in yesterday. The kidlet spent his time at his aunts house in the morning and since he's not feeling 100% he ended up playing for a while then fell asleep pretty darn quickly. I thought that he'd be down for an hour or so... I woke up 3 hours later when the hubbs told me it was time to go to work.
Somehow the crap junk food I ate for lunch doesn't feel as bad because I skipped a meal... The crap though was pure pure sweet sugar though. Suckage. Wouldn't it be great if they made a self control pill or something?
And, last, since its break time, I'm going to work a little more on that outline. We're coming up on a little under 6 days to go, and I'd like to get it straight before then.
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Updates

Well, I got a lot of the outline worked on today... Progress at least, but its a pretty bare skeleton so far. Hoping to add some serious flesh tonight.

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Pasta Data? is that anything like Copy Pasta?

Well, I just didn't realize the time, so this gets to be dated for yesterday (which means, yes, you one follower, you get treated to 2 posts today, instead of 1!!)

Today was a day of shopping and sleeping. Bought some offal, cooked some offal... Destunk the kitchen (I hope. Beef kidney STINKS! Next time we do lamb.)

And now going to bake, and outline. We're on a real time crunch now... Especially since I challenged Migs (who I'm not sure will do nano) and Amy (who's signed up and ready to go.) I'm betting I won't win, but I got a nice strong story idea this time.  The PoHo's think they know it.. nah. They've only seen the veneer on top... all the good stuff though, is on the inside.

Kinda like tonewood on a uke, I s'pose.

Ok, time for me to start baking- got a cake to bake and some cabbage to braise.

Niblets o' wisdom

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances...

--William Shakespeare.

And

Everybody's workin' for the weekend.

--Loverboy

Very little got done today unfortunately. Here's hoping for a quiet night at work. Might get some more done. I think I'm going to very coarsely set the outline, then as time permits, throw some flesh on dem bones.

Nap time now...pretty tired Pre work.


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More fleshing out the outline

Chilling out in my bed, trying to figure out where I'm going, and what I'm doing with this story. I finally figured out how the three individual parties get to the island. Now's the hard part... What do they see and what do they do there. What I've got so far, I'm calling part one.

I'm also considering that most of them will never leave, and those that do will learn a shitload more about themselves. That'd be part two.

I'm anticipating a many years down the road reunion, which would possibly be part three.

I think the epilogue should be lore/ backstory related... Like a guide to the truth to the history of the island.

These little blog sessions really do help me flesh this out. Good thing, because we're about t-minus 13 days out from d-day.


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Plot hooks and angles

I decided today during my outline session that I'd use three different  storylines, and merge them later. I think this is the real practical beauty of outlining, because if it sucks, you can do a very early revision, and get it to slow right from the start.

I'm getting a little fantasy island vibe though. I'm hoping to cut it with enough futurism and sci-fi to cut the magic down later on. A girl can hope!

So far the three angles I'm thinking of are the earned, the winners, and the escapees. Very different groups, with very different stories to tell. I might add a stow away, but that might overlap with the escapees. The stow away might be where the main story is though.

Write Drunk, Edit Sober

Hastily stolen, but found at: wineharlots.com

I think these are by far the best words of wisdom for nanowrimo. If you're not into drinking, honestly, just throw your inhibitions out the window- writing is supposed to be free. Hell, you don't actually have to show anyone what you've written, unless you want to. 

Someone (ok, ok, it was Bunny Bennett.) posted to tumblr something really awesome about letting other people look at your writings- lemmie go and find it:

"...but still…the tingling you get from someone interpreting your words..."

This struck a chord with me, because it's exactly how I feel about these things. When someone reads your work, it is a little anxiety maybe, but a lot of excitement. Almost like when someone you care about sees you nekked (that would be nude, for the purposes of doing no good,) for the first time. Its a little freaky but a lot exhilarating.

Okay then, back to the grind, still working on the outline, little bits at a time. Warming up for the Marathon known as November.

Gah, we're doing it again..

Yep, another round of 'There is no try, only do.'

Except, there will be a lot of try, and hopefully a lot of do. (that'd be do the writing, not doo. Eew.)

I have about 2 weeks to finish my outline. I'm hoping it doesn't borrow too much from the Callahan's Crosstime Saloon books. I think they're my inspiration this round.

The topic is about historic Nutland. The Uke Crew knows about it, now the rest of the world can too. Maybe an adventure or 2.

More to come.