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NaNo Preparation

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National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is just around the corner.  Are you ready?  Have you remembered to renew your information from  last year?  What are you working on?

This year, thanks to Valerie, I’m doing a category romance.  I haven’t done as much preparation as I’d hoped, but I have done more than I usually do for NaNo.

I’ve added an additional twist this year.  I’m also teaching a Back to School for Busy Writers class at Forward Motion on Ethics.  I think it will work out ok.

Still, I’d like to frontload the writing as much as possible.  Hubby’s in San Antonio until at least Tuesday, so I’d like to get a lot of words knocked out between Sunday and Tuesday.  It would be really cool (and highly unlikely) to have 30k knocked out by then.

I’ll be using a combination of Scrivener and other venues — the Mac Mini isn’t portable, and I suspect I’ll be spending some time on the laptop this month, so that will be an interesting back and forth effort.

I got the lawn mowed today and did a little work at the new building (no vine pulling, although I checked, and it looks like I hit a grand slam for poison ivy, oak, AND sumac.  Joy.  Laundry is caught up, and I have a few groceries — probably should stock up on a few staple items.  I’m behind on meal planning.

@InuittheBear and I watched the Spurs home opener tonight.  She got her own Twitter feed a few weeks ago, so if you’re interested, feel free to follow.  She isn’t tweeting much so far, but you just never know when she’s going to have something to say.  We were both pleased with the depth of the new Spurs and how balanced they were.  Of course, they have a lot to work on yet — too many turnovers, and the game was much closer statistically than the score indicated.  But when the bench can outscore the starters or at least stay even with them, it’s like having two starting line-ups, and you can’t go wrong with that as long as you have chemistry, and these guys seem to have good chemistry.  That bodes well for not having to play any one person too much, thus keeping them fresh for the long haul.

I think it’s time to hit the sack.  Good night, all.

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NaNo Preparation — 5 Comments

  1. I do hope you’re planning to hire someone to deal with the vines. As badly as it’s affected you, you don’t even need to handle the hubby’s clothes to was them after he deals with them.

    • In spite of my doctor, my veterinarian, you, and several other people strongly recommending it, I doubt we’ll hire anyone. I just need to remember to take my gloves off when I wipe my face. I also wore running socks instead of mid-calf socks. I could use gloves that come higher on my wrists, too. But, in addition to taking my gloves off to wipe at my face, the best approach would have been to take a cool, soapy shower immediately after finishing the job and stick everything I was wearing in the washer.

  2. Really, you should hire someone. You can also spray the poison ivy with an herbicide. They make some just for poison ivy. Makes removal much easier.

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