OK. Message received. Something for me to think about.
(I never said I wouldn't write anything else ever. Doing my "Firefly at the Mission" entries got me seriously thinking again about tryin' the fiction again. The book I started in NaNoWriMo stands at -- let's see, let's open the file -- 42,575 words, not all written in November 2002 but continuing into early 2003. And I can see the ending. And I think I know how to get there. I need it finished; I want to get to that end. And as Neil Gaiman emphasizes, it's the finishing that's the big, key thing. The resultant novel, however long it is, will probably en toto suck, and I accept that. (I accepted that when I decided to title it with James Blish's term, The Idiot Plot.) But I want to see myself reach that ending, sucky path to it or not.)
Here's one thing: November is likely to be a month where I'm traveling at the start of it. Hint, hint (he hinted, hintingly). So I won't be lazy at the start of the month. Hmm. Maybe I make October my writing month. Or something, anything.
We'll talk more. You've already gotten me to reopen that Word file again. That's a start.
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OK. Message received. Something for me to think about.
(I never said I wouldn't write anything else ever. Doing my "Firefly at the Mission" entries got me seriously thinking again about tryin' the fiction again. The book I started in NaNoWriMo stands at -- let's see, let's open the file -- 42,575 words, not all written in November 2002 but continuing into early 2003. And I can see the ending. And I think I know how to get there. I need it finished; I want to get to that end. And as Neil Gaiman emphasizes, it's the finishing that's the big, key thing. The resultant novel, however long it is, will probably en toto suck, and I accept that. (I accepted that when I decided to title it with James Blish's term, The Idiot Plot.) But I want to see myself reach that ending, sucky path to it or not.)
Here's one thing: November is likely to be a month where I'm traveling at the start of it. Hint, hint (he hinted, hintingly). So I won't be lazy at the start of the month. Hmm. Maybe I make October my writing month. Or something, anything.
We'll talk more. You've already gotten me to reopen that Word file again. That's a start.