Sunday 3 June 2012

BuNoWriMo [Days 1-3], and a haunting tune

BuNoWriMo has begun!! For anyone who doesn't know yet, it's basically another national novel writing month, but one run by the folks at the Burrow. I've added a word counter widget to my "Goals" page, so you can see how I'm doing on word count. But for the record, I'm at about 5,200 words as of the end of Day 3, and that's basically me being right on schedule. I've also got within less than one chapter of finishing my edits on FIRE!! I'm so excited at the prospect of getting that done at last. I'm going to do it before bed tonight, just 'cause I want it done. I will do a proper report on how I went with that later.

For now, I need to post this while it's still Day 3, and still Sunday (i.e. Sunday Session below). I have 2 minutes. ;)

Hope you are all doing well!! I'll be better with return comments tomorrow, I promise.



In other news, it's Sunday, and time for another Session! Below is the song I've listened to most in the last week. Porcupine Tree's "Blackest Eyes", which I've always found kind of haunting, and after I looked up the song's meaning I found out why! But basically I think this song rocks at being inspirational when it comes to writing dark, dark stories. It's not exactly a depressing tune, in fact it kind of strikes me as blackly magical. But yeah, it's haunting.


22 comments:

  1. I've heard of BuNoWriMo, but didn't have a clue to what it was! Thanks for clearing that up, and good luck!

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  2. Love that tune! Heading off to research the group. :)

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    1. I don't know much about them, but this is definitely now one of my favourite songs!

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  3. I'm doing Camp Nano and Chocolate Boot Camp. Falling behind by one standare and doing well by the other. I have a puppy sleeping at my feet and I am a happy woman.

    Congrats on the word count!!

    Like the song.

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    1. Good luck Judie, you're having a big month it seems!

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  4. Great job on BuNo, and congrats on your editing progress!

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  5. You had me at "blackly musical." :) Good luck with the writing!!!

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  6. I thought about doing Camp NaNo, or something similar, but I think I'm going to wait for NaNoWrimo '12. So much to do and so little time. Le sigh. :)

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    1. Yes, I know! But you have a great excuse, what with studying and all.

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  7. You are doing well. Good luck with it. Porcupine Tree is such a great group--good choice.


    Lee
    Wrote By Rote

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  8. Awesome, another NaNo :). I have, as of about 5 minutes ago, finished 4 massive assignments that are due tomorrow! So I'm planning on getting started on CampNaNo tomorrow, which is 50k in 2 months. I'm easing in. ;)

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    1. Well done Sari!! Enjoy the rest of the month with writing, as your reward :)

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  9. Oh, I like it. The intro reminded me of Alice in Chains or Soundgarden, but the voice is sweeter.

    You're doing great on BuNoWriMo!

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    1. Yep, he's got a nice voice. Thanks for stopping by Hart :)

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  10. Happy writing. There's nothing like the buzz of writing 50000 words in30 days. But if I did it twice a year, I think my family would disown me!

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    1. Well, my cats haven't disowned me yet, thankfully they're all I have to worry about for the time being. haha. I'm taking advantage of it while I can!

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  11. I keep seeing BuNoWriMo and wondered what it was. That's awesome that you're right on track. Good luck :)

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  12. oooo, eerie song. I've got a dark-ish story on the back burner right now. I'll have to keep this in mind. Thanks!

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    1. Yeah, songs like this always inspire me, even if I don't know what story I want to write because of them. :)

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