Coming Up . . .
Wednesday, October 24th, 2012
The next reason for not blogging: NaNoWriMo. Sitting on the sidelines last year was a drag, so even though I’ve got things in line to revise, I’m going for the fast draft.

Efficiency: I haven’t written anything yet and I already think it sucks! (Except the barn scene–that’s gonna be great. And the brother and the TV scene has promise. . . .)
And as usual, November is being its hectic arrhythmic self. We’ve got days off school, an election that I’m working (not just voting in), teacher conferences, and a major holiday. For the next five weeks, I’ll have to be ruthless about sending the Inner Critic out of the room (the Inner Editor has to stay on task with a book about health policy and genome mapping).
The three principles I (re)engage:
- I’ll figure out what I need to know to go forward by thinking about the story and going forward.
- Any and all progress is success.
- Don’t think (freak) about the total; think about what’s next.
It’s a timely mood to go into Halloween with: the thrill (setting up a new world! new files! new characters!) and the terror (how the hell is this going to play out?) of starting something new.