I filled up November with travel and Vipassana, so I'm psyching myself up to do Nanowrimo in October. I'll track my daily word count as usual of course, and make a script to post the right number each day to the Nanowrimo.org API during November.
But HEY WOW October is really soon.
Day 25: 25,000 words. Better late than never.
I alternated writing with cooking and listening to Syre. I made bulgar wheat with lentils and veggies; baked a loaf of bread; and now I'm making leek and potato soup to accompany the bread.
I have allowed twice as much time tonight to write as I manage on most nights! I can write twice as much!
Or I can write 750 words and watch a movie. I miss movies.
Waiting for a docker image to build? That's time for at least 100 words.
Sometimes I take a moment to just revel in how much more free* time I have with a full time job compared to doing a PhD.
* time for decentralised social web stuff** and Nanowrimo.
** what was my thesis about again?
Nanowrimo 2017, Of the Moon. The first (long) story I've written:
Dunno if it's a coincidence, but since I've been writing fiction every day I have had fewer mega-lows, and zero urge to curl up on the sofa with a colouring book and pens.
This also coincides with my phd finally being actually properly and for real wrapped up, so I can't scientifically identify a correlation here.
But definitely writing is making me feel good, everything else aside.
Hey I have almost 15,000 words and a whole world that I didn't have two weeks ago.
I discovered today that my Nanowrimo (Of the Moon) is set on the same planet where I started another story (Quest for Brothers) several years ago, but thousands and thousands of years in the future, after an apocalyptic event wiped out the first inhabitants.
One of the characters in QfB, whose story I didn't get very far with at the time and was the least interesting to me of the three MCs, apparently had great adventures and went down in her peoples' history in a series of legends about her deeds.
Anyway looks like my MC in OtM knows more about other characters I've met in the past than I do.
That feeling when you are now so far behind the finish-on-time Nanowrimo target that you stop writing for the word count and start writing for the story, and then it gets easier again.
Phew.
I'm aiming for a 750words streak for the whole month at a minimum. I expect I'll be maintaining the 1667 daily average in fits and starts. Tomorrow I'm not going to work.
hello darkness my old friend
