Oh no! Nano go kablooie!
Thu 2005-11-03 09:29:19 (in context)
- 4,018 words (if poetry, lines) long
Dangit! 1,700 shiny new words, and no way to update my word count at NaNoWriMo.org! The page is CSS-wacked and every link is broken due to passing through a broken session_confirm.php file. I'm sure they're working on it--in fact, I'm positive they're working on it, because the CSS-wackiness is somewhat different than it was an hour ago. But meanwhile, here I am with no way to get in.
For the record, I got 1,700 shiny new words written this morning. I'd like to raise that to 2,000, but I have returned the story to the point at which it beached itself the first time I tried to write it several years ago--before I knew that this was a sequel to The Bookwyrm's Horde--and I still don't know where it goes next. I'll probably work on the whole Snowflake Method of Novel Plotting thing some more. That'll help me figure out what scenes need writing.
Meanwhile, me and a fellow NaNoWriMo participant/WFC attendent I met on the bus from Chicago to Madison are sitting in a nice little cafe called Michelangelo's, enjoying the atmosphere, art, and free wi-fi. This is where I wrote my 1,700 shiny new words. I've run into a few more familiar faces, folks that tend to be at WFC and WHC every year, and we said "Hi" and "How's your year been" and "What's your name again? Sorry." And we're looking forward to finally getting all registered at 1:00 and going to the first panel at 2:00. The weather's gorgeous and I actually slept in a bed last night.
I am human again, and life, once again, is good. Nyah!
(Oh, and NaNoWriMo.org is fully functional once more, or at least close enough for rock 'n roll. Hooray!)