The Cass is Cookin' With Gas

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Phew! I was starting to get the impression that I wouldn't get any writing done tonight. I've been okay on the productive-in-other-areas-of-my-life angle, minus the cleaning, but writing was starting to look like a lost cause. That's when I hopped onto the NaNoWriMo chat room and begged people for word wars. Man, they saved my life! Word wars: make them a part of YOUR novel experience.

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7,685 / 50,000 (15.4%)

Yeehaw!

I'm so excited. I just wrapped up Chapter 3, also known as That Chapter In Which Da Cool Stuff Finally Happens, and I'm extra excited because I'm about to do something I Don't Normally Do. Namely, shift POV's. Gasp, shock! I know, ladies and gentlemen. What can I say, I'm a shit-disturber. No, really - I usually write short stories. Very I'm-In-This-Character's-Head-Yay short stories. So switching to the POV of another character is all exciting and stuff.

Actually, I think I'll have to write another chapter from this character's POV before the timeline will have moved forward enough for me to write from the other one. But that's okay. It WILL happen. Oh yes, it will. And it will be glorious. GLORIOUS!

Right, it's Friday, and I'm a geek and stayed home and wrote and read Psych and looked at "The Making of Indiana Jones" stuff. And I think I'll go to bed now. So. G'night.

Comments

[storyfish.livejournal.com]

What's a word war??

[cassaclyzm.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Word wars. I love word wars, at least for NaNo. Basically, you and at least one other writer set a time limit (usually around 15-20 minutes) to write your butts off, and when the time's up you compare word counts. Though nobody ever seems particularly competitive about it or anything, come to think of it. It's a great way to get into the spirit of NaNo - namely, WORDS WORDS WORDS I CAN EDIT YOU LATER.