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[ellarien]

I feel vaguely as though I'm letting the side down by not attempting Nano this year, but I've seldom in my life felt less fictive than I do right now. I'm not even using my idle-time braincycles to tell myself stories very much any more; they seem to be going into beading and the current wardrobe-renewal exercise instead.

I do have a plan, though. I have nearly enough un-blogged books read this year to do a mini-bookpost every day in November, and by the end of the month there should be even more. So I'll try to do that, if the travel mid-month doesn't interfere too much.

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[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

November is never going to be a good month for me as far as writing goes. Besides, despite always getting vagure urges to do NaNo, I've had to face the fact that I just can't write 1750 words a day, every day. 400-750 is doable. I can occasionally do a big splurge of 1500 plus if I have a whole scene ready in my head, but then there'll be a few meagre days to make up for it.

Right now I don't particularly feel like writing, but I have to have a 1500 words story written and polished by 6 November for part of the assessment for the creative writing course. So writing will have to happen over the next few days, whether I'm in the mood or not!

[ellarien]

Good luck with the story!

I feel as though my disinclination to write at the moment goes deeper than not being in the mood, as if all my characters have moved away without leaving a forwarding address unfriended me and locked down their journals. It's really odd and a little worrying not to have that ongoing background narrative, to be honest.

[ellarien]

Now there's weird. The notification for your comment got as far as gmail but isn't forwarding to my ISP -- even when I try to do it by hand -- but a simple 'test' message goes through fine, so it must be the LJ-ness of it that the ISP has suddenly taken exception to.

Sigh. (Their not-user-controllable spam filtering is fairly efficient, but sometimes a bit much, which is why my LJ notices and my mother's weekly missives go around by gmail.)