...but I'm not in it, thanks to word count hell!
Yup, it's day 2 of NaNoWriMo, and I wish it would just bloody rain! Sun, rain, sleet, I'm determined to plow forward, regardless. The first page honeymoon is over, and now I must face wholesale invent--which vacillates between anticipation and excitement, and terror of flat prose.
I have two NaNoWriMo buddies--Patty Kinney and David Millstone, and I have to say--it's so much better to have company in this misery. (Ack! A silverfish pincher bug just crawled into bed with me. Yes, my laptop is in my bed too. Disgusting, I know.)
I suppose I should swap out my sidebar wordcount meter --still boasting the 100% done of my last effort, with this one--it's just freakin' scary to face the drop-in-the-bucketness of it all.
Alas!
Hey. I came across your journal while looking through the interwebs for NaNoWriMo entrants (I was a winner back in '04 before employment life could distract me-- but oh, the rush!). If you think you might want to share your work, we're running a contest over at BookSwim.com that will let you have your novel read and judged by our readers. The top novel in each genre category (and there will be five: romance, historical fiction, mystery/thriller, speculative fiction, and mainstream / contemporary) will be printed and made available to thousands of subscribers in BookSwim's catalog!
ReplyDeleteHere are the details:
http://www.bookswim.com/blog/calling-all-writers-bookswim%E2%80%99s-2009-nanowrimo-competition/2009/11/05/
Maybe this is something you (or your readers) would be interested in?
Thanks muchly for your time-- and good luck with those words! (Are you keeping an eye on your supply of caffeine pills?)
Chip from BookSwim