NaNoWriMo Tuesday, October 24, 2006 As I said, I will be officially doing NaNoWriMo this year. I'll be there under Tselmende. :D Please feel free to friend me there. I may or may not be posting bits of it as I go along...just in case you get curious about my writing, lol. I will be honest. Criticism at this stage is not welcome. Is it right or fair to say, praise is welcome, but criticism is not? Yes and no. I never ask for compliments because compliments asked for are worthless. But criticism, at this point, is as well. If someone says something like, "Oh, so and so's hair color was different last week." or "Your structure there is a little weak, try..." it will stop me. Dead. I will then have to go back and fix it, and then I will have to try and go on from there. There are times for this -- often very helpful -- critiquing. The first draft is never, at any time, one of them. Even if you have a friend ask to tell you what you think, you should remember that the first draft is when the writer just puts things down, gets the words into an order...until you get to the very end you won't know everything that you're going to need for the story, the whole idea is just get there. At this point a friend of a writer is more like...the people who stand along side the road during a marathon and hand off water to the runners. You certainly don't want to give them false encouragement, lying to a friend is never good, but you don't want to stick your foot out and trip them, either. Ooh, got preachy there, sorry. ;) I've not been role-playing much because a) no one really seems to be replying much in any of the communities I belong to and b) the time that I used to rp I now write. I can get at least 500 words written in this time, though it usually gets closer to 1,000. It's caused me to re-think rping. Maybe it would be better to concentrate on writing more? Especially because now I have to think more on...urk...marketing my book. Today it's freezing in the office. Since 8:00 I've had coca and a cup of Bentley's Orange Spice tea, and am now considering some English Breakfast. It is not working. I'm all caught up on my work, so I am going to a) clean up more in the back room and b) write until something new comes up, which it will shortly. I love this...when you are ahead of things so you can complete tasks immediately. It makes me a good secretary, which I enjoy, and then you have the freedom of your own head. I do have a niggling, scared little part of me that is afraid of having forgotten something, of failure, because my job is important to me, but I look over my lists yet again, and think, no, I am alright. And if I did mess up, well, at least I have time to fix it. ;) Permalink Cindy scribed this at 11:57 AM 0 comments

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