Ramblings from the 'goblinn

Well, I attended my first write in with people writing in the same room with me. It was small, just Wee Hob, me, and two other women. Apparently the Sunday afternoon one is better attended. We chatted a bit, drank wonderful coffee and tea, and I tried to write, with mixed success.

But Neil Gaimain's pep talk email, about keeping on when the going gets tough, was certainly a welcome boost. I was glad to know I was in such distinguished company, feeling like I wanted to chuck it all and give up on writing for good.

I also went in the nanosprints chat room for a while tonight. Nice people, but the 15 minutes on and off really broke my concentration more than helped it. You need something short to get you started, but once you start, the distraction was not so good. I think wrisomifu serves the same purpose for me. Just start and promise it'll only be for 10 minutes. Once I get going, I'm fine. And I look up to find an hour or two have passed....

The word counter tells of almost 80% of 50K written. w00t!



Somebody remind me tomorrow to give wee hob's synopsis of his novel, of which he wrote the first chapter today at the write in before switching to a game for "research purposes." My Wee Hob rocks, have I mentioned that?

I was chatting tonight with sahiya and she suggested another virtual write in. I thought I'd open it up to anyone. clavally and I had a blast and got a lot accomplished last week. I agreed to 3-5 Saturday again (though I will probably be available earlier than that, and later.) Anyone else who wants to join in, just let me know, or get my aim id from my profile and chat me if you see me on. Again, I use the id for work as well, so, use some discretion with what you say and when you use it. And if you have another idea for a time/day, let me know. I can do more than one, I'm sure. Though wee hob will not be climbing up the side of a perfectly good mountain with his scout troop (least he was not rapelling down it, though he had the harness in case he fell. Which he did not because he is a little spider monkey.)

To go back to the write in, what worked last week was swapping ideas briefly, and shooting off questions when we got stuck. If you want to bring some kind of writing prompt or quote or inspirational something, by all means do so. And anyone who has not read mistful's post today on Point of View-- go read it now. I love her lemonade-fueled stories of her writing adventures, particularly how purple space monkeys may still legitimately put in an appearance in the final novel of her trilogy....

Hope everyone is okay, whether writing, reading or otherwise. I'm still slogging away at this scene, so no word count yet. But let me hear from you, friends. Give me something to look forward to when this scene is finished. (At least Snape hasn't yet stopped me and said something cutting about my writing ability like Giles did a couple of nights ago....)