Well, at least the sun is shining today. Yesterday’s dismal weather was a stark contrast to the clear skies and perfect firework weather of Saturday. As a result we generally spent the day clustered around laptops, playing Halo on the Xbox, or greeting old friends who unexpectedly dropped by on flying visits.
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Some of this weekend’s fireworks
The weekend seems to have gone in a general rush of activity. Hardly surprising given the confluence of t’other half’s birthday, bonfire night and visitation by my daughter – all on the same weekend as Skyfall’s general release. To say we’ve been bouncing from pillar to post is something of an understatement. In addition, its also the opening weekend for Nanowrimo, and unlike the industrious busy bees that I’ve been sharing my flat with, I’ve not actually had a chance to start writing anything substantive for it.
My intention is to try and break the back of the second half of my novel this month – and having a virtual muse standing over me, with a baseball bat in the form of a target and deadline, seems to be a potent tool that I would be unwise to ignore. We shall see. The temptation to write a series of short stories is also quite strong, given the number of competitions currently running in sundry places.
Despite that, I know my biggest challenge is going to be to just sit and write, without stopping to edit and revise. I completed the Nanowrimo challenge last year, but promptly lost an effective word count of some fifteen thousand words when I came to tidy and revise the document into something readable. Prepared for that this year, I intend to be somewhat more selfish than I have been in recent months and spend as much spare time as possible scribbling in notebooks or transcribing notes into Scrivener. There will almost certainly also be a few blog posts where I let off some steam…
Right – back to the grind. Good luck with your own projects, whatever they are.
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