novelitis

Well, I’m a couple hundred words behind… (never mind that my story is going nowhere fast.) I’ve noticed this novel is doing wonders for my blogging. This week is the first one in probably months that I’ve posted four days in a row.

There is an immense sense of accomplishment that goes along with finishing my obligatory 2000 words. So far I’ve only felt that twice, and last night I was tossing and turning the whole night, agonizing about whether I should get up and try to finish again. I hope tonight I can actually motivate myself to get 2200 words in, hopefully before it’s time for bed. I have family dinner before I can start, which isn’t going to help anything.

Alex sent me a link to Blovel 2003 this afternoon. I will probably sign up… but since I’m posting my actual novel to a different blog than I normally post to, they’ll only get my novel updates, not the blog posts about them. When I surfed the site earlier, I found that the meta-novel posts were actually more interesting, I felt than the ones of the actual novel. It’s probably a lot like reading the nanowrimo forums… which seems incredibly addicting. I’ll bet there are hundreds of people who don’t finish each year from just reading those forums. I also wonder if anyone has done a percentage study/comparison of how many people post on the forums regularly, versus how many people finish their 50.000 words.

I discovered today that amazon’s new “search entire text of book” feature is good for something. You get to the end of their “sample pages” you can just search for the next page number! I’d never make it through a whole book that way (I’m guessing), but I’m excited to try! Who wants to make bets about how long the page numbers will be searchable?

Also, I’ve decided I really want to read Rucker’s The Hacker and the Ants.

(PS, this entry is over 330 words, words that could have gone towards the novel, damnit.)

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