Days before NaNo

[tinhuviel]

I'm in the process of wrapping up yet another Date story, this one being called "The Artist's Date." And, yes, it's a kind of creative payment for art done for me. I think that's how all creative people should gift one another, with the products of their creative effort. I was gifted with some art inspired by "The Sainted Confessor." As a result, I'm writing "The Artist's Date" in return. I'd like to see it paid forward to see how it manifests from one creator to another. It's that creative spark that inspired the first cave paintings and has been running along the longest dynamite fuse of all time. Once the spark hits that dynamite, who knows what will happen? Oh, that's right...2012!

As soon as I finish "The Artist's Date," I need to complete my outline of The Blood Crown for NaNoWriMo. "The Sainted Confessor" was always going to be the largest chapter in the book and, since I had to go ahead and write it thanks to anchoring Faust to the worst person on Earth, it totally messes with my word count for NaNo. It reached novella status, it got so huge (38,605 words!), and I actually had to break it down into mini-chapters. They are entitled: "The Timeless Vagabond," "Session One," "Session Two," "Session Three," "Session Four," and "The Incorruptible Dove." If I reach my 50k for NaNo, the novel will be right at 89,000 words. The Chalice is 88,650 words. That said, I'm thinking that The Vampire Relics will be one great big book with three pretty decent-sized parts. I'll leave a decision like that, though, to my editor. ;)

I know I haven't been the most communicative person of late, thanks to my involvement with The Joker Blogs. Since I'm participating in NaNoWriMo, it's not going to be much better, but I do plan on writing about my progress here. Hopefully, I can keep up with my f-list on a certain level too. I hope so. I miss everyone here.

Speaking of The Joker Blogs, I'll be busy tomorrow getting ready for a double release of Bloggy Goodness Saturday morning. At least that's the plan, not that any of us officially plan anything, in the tradition of The Joker in TDK. We all just "do things." But I will say that I'm slowly preparing for the viral onslaught come Saturday. And I'm pleased that the Halloween task instructions seem pretty clear. No one has really asked "what the hell does this mean?" So I guess I did my job there okay. I love writing out task instructions and Blog synopses, among other things, for Dude. I can't say I've enjoyed doing something this much in a very long time. I'll be sad to see it end.

As for doing things for The Joker Blogs and participating in NaNoWriMo, I don't know where my head is, but I'm going to attempt to do both. The only reason I'm doing NaNo is to finish The Blood Crown. If I don't make my 50k because I'm busy with The Joker Blogs, then so be it. I made a promise months ago and I intend to stand by that promise no matter what. Either way, I'll be winning because I'll be that much closer, if not finished with, The Blood Crown. And then I can move on to The Augury of Gideon.

Aunt Tudi and I have errands to run early tomorrow morning. I'll be purchasing more energy shots while I'm out...just in case. If they aren't needed, then at least I'll have them for NaNoWriMo and don't think I won't use them. I'm a maniac.

Comments

[deminsia.livejournal.com]

Ah, you seem like such a work-a-holic! But I bet you feel pretty accomplished when all is said and done, I hope. I know I would. Yes, I'm terribly excited about the tomorrow release as well. Gotta keep sitting on my hands. I must say, though, I'm rather curious about this NaNoWriMo thing. Sounds pretty nifty. :o

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Ah, you don't know about NaNo? It's National Novel Writing Month and it's a challenge to write 50,000 between 1 November and 30 November. It calculates to about 1700 words a day for the entire month. I participated in 2005 and won, which is how I got The Chalice written for the most part. I got about 60k written, but have added almost 30k more to that since then.

I was certain to hit my word count with the tale of Faust included but, since I've already had to write it (it took me a month and a half...it was very difficult to write), I can't count that toward my word count in NaNo. So...it's gonna be a struggle, especially with maintaining my promise to TJB. So, honestly? I don't expect to win, but that's okay.

Here's the link to my NaNo page. From there you can go exploring the site and learn more about the competition. http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/499187
It's really pretty groovy. Any one who participates has to be a bit of a lunatic, but we writers are, so it's all good yo.

Oh, and glad you're looking forward to the Saturday episodes. I can't wait to see them myself! It's good to see J getting into some serious mischief now.

[gunslingaaahhh.livejournal.com]

LOL ill have to wait to make that decision after ive edited everything and read it all through. there are some stories that can be broken up as individual volumes or as one large one, depending.