Sunday, December 04, 2005

Stuff and Nonsense

Well I'm a little disappointed to report that NaNoWriMo didn't go quite as expected. I don't have a final word count yet as I still have to type up hand written notes. I will let you know as soon as I have typed up. I am still writing although not as disciplined as I was when the month first started. I have concluded that there were three issues that prevented me from achieving a better word count:

1. Laziness (yup, no excuse for that one)
2. Lack of rountine - sometimes I wrote when I got home from work, sometimes I had ideas at work, sometimes I wrote in bed just before I went to sleep. I think a structured time would help me to get into a routine.
3. Dealing with a major phobia (dentist) and working to overcome that isn't particularly conducive to coherent creative thought. :o)

So, number 2 is something that I can work on and number 3 is progressing well. My 2006 resolution will be to write something every day so by the time NaNoWriMo 2006 comes around I might have managed to get up to 50,000 words!

And now for something completely different - I was passed this link by a friend and it's most amusing. It's a very basic drawing programme. You can send links of your creations to friends who can re-play the creation of the piece brush stroke by brush stroke. Here's one I did earlier!

Happy Drawing!

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi there, I found you on Michele's site!

I don't know how many people finished the Nanorimo this year, but it's not easy with busy lives!

Thanks for the link -- I'll check it out!

12/05/2005 9:11 pm  
Blogger Rhea said...

Hi Netchick!
Many thanks for the hello :o)

12/05/2005 10:53 pm  
Blogger Bill Sticker said...

50,000 words in 30 days means around 1800 words a day to make target and allow the a day for reading / correcting. Even pro's can find that a tough bullet to chew.

You'd need five to six dedicated hours a day to do it.

Well done for having the guts to try.

Regards

Bill

12/12/2005 7:58 pm  

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