York Trip and Writing
Mar. 8th, 2008 06:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jacey
Went to York today and wandered through the town and the fair trade market before treating myself to a piece of Old Amsterdam from the cheese stall. (It was about all I could afford after paying £9.50 for the car park, but the Park and Ride buses from my side of the city all go to bus stops on completely the wrong side of town. Bad planning that, they should do a circular tour of drop off points.) Then I met up with bluehairsue and her best beloved for lunch at Cafe Concerto (thanks, guys) before going with Sue to what was supposed to be a NaNoWriMo get together in the cafe of York Art Gallery. All I can say is that I'm glad Sue was there because the three young women who turned up were pleasant enough but were either shy or...
Why do people come to meetings if they don't want to say anything? Why do people join NaNoWriMo if they aren't passionate about writing? (Note I don't expect everyone to finish NaNo because it's a hell of a thing to do, write 50k words in 30 days, but at least you should surely be interested in the writing process or else why are you signed up?) I think I've been spoiled by the level of commitment of Milford writers. (Though the young lady who had the baby during NaNo month has every excuse for ducking out, of course!)
Or... maybe the three quiet ones thoughtbluehairsue and I were a couple of cackly crones who totally took over their contemplative meet.
Oh well...
But one great thing was that over lunch S & R really helped to noodle a world-building glitch that had been troubling me in Empire of Dust. (Thanks, guys.)![[info]](https://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
maeve_the_red, just hold that plot synopsis, will you, please, I have one very small tweak.
Another good thing was that last night I started to read the first draft of the magic pirate adventure quest novel that I did 50k words on under NaNo conditions last November, and having left it to mature for three months I actually found I was a) enjoying reading it and b) wanting to turn the next page because I'd semi-forgotten what happened next. This has to be A Good Thing. Of course the first draft is not quite complete yet. I have the final chapter to write. I intend to read through once and then write the last chapter. The outline (yes I actually wrote this one to an outline rather than my usual write-it-and-see mode) merely says: stuff happens and the good guys win.
:-)
This is the one I took to Milford in October 07 - then entitled The Elf-Oak Box - the one that got critted on International Talk Like a Pirate Day. At that point I only had 9k words, but now I have 78k and I reckon it will come in at about 85 - 90k when finished. That's just about the shortest first draft I've even managed. (Longest being 240k which was ridiculous!) I think (and hope) that this one has legs.
bluehairsue and her best beloved for lunch at Cafe Concerto (thanks, guys) before going with Sue to what was supposed to be a NaNoWriMo get together in the cafe of York Art Gallery. All I can say is that I'm glad Sue was there because the three young women who turned up were pleasant enough but were either shy or... Why do people come to meetings if they don't want to say anything? Why do people join NaNoWriMo if they aren't passionate about writing? (Note I don't expect everyone to finish NaNo because it's a hell of a thing to do, write 50k words in 30 days, but at least you should surely be interested in the writing process or else why are you signed up?) I think I've been spoiled by the level of commitment of Milford writers. (Though the young lady who had the baby during NaNo month has every excuse for ducking out, of course!)
Or... maybe the three quiet ones thought
bluehairsue and I were a couple of cackly crones who totally took over their contemplative meet.Oh well...
But one great thing was that over lunch S & R really helped to noodle a world-building glitch that had been troubling me in Empire of Dust. (Thanks, guys.)
maeve_the_red, just hold that plot synopsis, will you, please, I have one very small tweak.Another good thing was that last night I started to read the first draft of the magic pirate adventure quest novel that I did 50k words on under NaNo conditions last November, and having left it to mature for three months I actually found I was a) enjoying reading it and b) wanting to turn the next page because I'd semi-forgotten what happened next. This has to be A Good Thing. Of course the first draft is not quite complete yet. I have the final chapter to write. I intend to read through once and then write the last chapter. The outline (yes I actually wrote this one to an outline rather than my usual write-it-and-see mode) merely says: stuff happens and the good guys win.
:-)
This is the one I took to Milford in October 07 - then entitled The Elf-Oak Box - the one that got critted on International Talk Like a Pirate Day. At that point I only had 9k words, but now I have 78k and I reckon it will come in at about 85 - 90k when finished. That's just about the shortest first draft I've even managed. (Longest being 240k which was ridiculous!) I think (and hope) that this one has legs.
