At 4:30 this afternoon, I turned over my last signoff for the last component of the project I had to finish for the Evil Day Job before I could start my vacation. I didn’t have a lunch, didn’t go with That Man to pick up the kids, and crammed straight through, but I made it! Yeehaw! I’m free for a four-day weekend!
Now I’m spending the evening prepping madly for NaNoWriMo. My tools so far:
- A really old hastily written “synopsis” of the entire series that I sent Deena over a year ago.
- Two brand new “electric” pencils as the monsters call them. (Mechanical, yellow, cheapos from the Dollar Store)
- A brand new rainbow pack of my current favorite pens. (Pilot Precise V5 in 7 colors)
- A brand new pack of index cards. I found some new ones at Wal-Mart that have colored bars on the lined side. The colors are wrong (pastel), but I like the bar effect.
- A brand new speckled red/black composition book. The color choice is obvious for those that know the Blood & Shadows world. This notebook I intend to use for free-writing if (when) I get stuck, and it’s small and sturdy enough to travel with me.
- A brand new lined “legal” pad — only the normal 8.5X11 size, white, already hole punched. It has a red binding. (Yes, I’m anal about the color.) It doesn’t have a cover, so it won’t travel with me. I can’t stand for my pages to get wrinkled. It’s my “jot down ideas for the next scene” notebook, or for questions, notes, etc. that may be slightly messy. I love the composition notebook, but it’s not easy for me to write on the left-hand page. This flips from the top and makes for easy and quick access.
- A pocket folder with brads. This item I still need to buy. I have numerous ones in my stash, but none of them are the right color. I need red!!!
So now while That Man zones in front of the TV, I will jot notes on my cards and see how many scenes I can get…. I’m going to try and stay up until midnight and get at least a couple of hundred words down to say I started.
Let the NaNoWriMo mania begin!
Good luck! I’ve been working on the outline form that PBW posted a while back. I think I now know enough to get started, which is good since it starts tomorrow. 🙄
Oh, I am so jealous of your red and black comp book!
I haven’t had a moment to think about my NaNo since I went to my medical editors conference last week, what with all the weird work stuff this week… 🙁 Also, I think my Inner Editor may have scared my characters off, since I always let her run around all nekkid at the conference….
OK, one more Mounds and then I’m going to start poking my outline with something….
With two hours to go, I’m sitting here debating whether to take a nap and risk missing the kickoff moment.
i get that color thing too. i have a thing about color coding my writing projects.
Happy NaNoing!
Well, I had a difficult beginning to my NaNo experience. I tried to stay up last night and get my first
words in at 12:01am, but I got sleepy and decided it would be better just to get a good night’s sleep.
I only got 347 words. But that’s pretty good considering I didn’t know how to begin the thing. I suspect
this is going to be difficult for me.