katster's closet

15,630 / 50,000 (31.3%)

Zokutou is back, yay!

Anyway, I slacked yesterday. I wanted to listen to the Cal game, which was right in the middle of meetup, and so I slacked, but I had slack in the schedule. Today I wrote more.

zibblsnrt has jokingly asked me if I'm doing NaNoWriFo. ...with it being only five days in, and I'm already at 15k, a two week 50k binge is entirely possible. I don't know if I'll stress myself out to try, but if I do, it could be fun.

There's new stuff in katsterwrites, and tomorrow I'll put up the beginning of Chapter 2, which is punctuated by Finnegan vs. the hurricane. (I'm thinking of changing that -- I'm using hurricane because that's what they're called in my dialect of English, but I considered cyclone and typhoon. None of them really seem to have the right feel for high fantasy, though.) Anyway, Chapter 2 is dragging a bit. It's like, c'mon characters, hurry up and get to idyllic fantasy village where the children can grow up.

In other news, I have a cold. And now my ears are plugged. And it's been two weeks, and I'm pretty much only functional by liberal application of sudafed, cough syrup, cough drops, and kill headache dead medication. And my ears are still plugged, and I can't hear well in ambient settings -- which means, while I might be able to hear with a phone up to my ear or with my headphones on, I can't hear a person trying to converse with me when I'm nearly standing in front of them. I think it's doctor time tomorrow.

Other than that, I'm doing okay. How about you, LJ world?

4,409 / 50,000 (8.8%)

Well, two scenes done. I've got to contemplate where the third scene goes, but I've got a pretty good idea. And the fourth scene (well, maybe fifth) involves one of my favorite characters in this year's Nano novel -- Finnegan Scholar. (And yes, how a just graduated from mage college wizard ended up with an epithet is a story I plan to tell when he shows up.)

But this is enough for one day.

I had an accounting midterm today, and then I goofed off at the write-in because of said test, but I got back on the writing bandwagon tonight and got nearly another 2k out today. At this rate, I'll be done before my birthday, but I know that it'll slog soon enough, and I'm just trying to build up momentum before I get to the slog point.

But at the moment, I'm content to be making good time.

As a friendly reminder, you can read this year's Nano novel at katsterwrites. Comment here or there and I'll friend you so you can. (If you asked me to add you last year, I've not taken you off, so go ahead and knock yourself out.) As an added bonus, if you missed last year's Nanoing, you can read what I have on the 2005 Nano novel at that same place. It's two two two Nanos in one!

*run*