No Writing In Central Park Stories Yet
NEW YORK CITY (BROOKLYN), NEW YORK - Not much to report on the novel front. I didn't get any chance to type away once I got to New York City which means that I didn't participate in NaDruWriNi. I was plenty drunk from seeing Black 47, of course, but the opportunity to get in front of my laptop and plug away never really presented itself.
I had the laptop out a couple of times while talking to my friend who I'm staying with but I'm at a point now in the story that I needed to come up with some new situations completely. I could have typed away on old situations but my brain was too cloudy to come up with names, locations, and the like. Which as every NaNoWriMo writer knows is the biggest pain in the ass of being under the time crunch.
However, there was fiendishly paced writing on the plane yesterday. I put on my iPod (thankfully blocking out the middle aged stupid couple who were babbling away about something or other) and kicked out 792 words in the hour we were at cruising altitude. Adding this to the 1,158 words I wrote from 12:15 a.m. to 1:45 a.m. and yesterday's word count was 1,950. Not exactly ahead of pace but for a day where I could have gotten 0 (and probably should have), I'll take it.
Today is where I fall behind last year's word count as the sixth of November 2004 saw me kick out three chapters and 2,970 words (which was actually a few less than last year's fifth).
So this may be the last time this word comparison makes me happy (going back to this exact minute last year and not the end of the sixth):
NaNoWriMo 2004: 4,471 words
NaNoWriMo 2005: 7,588 words
And in the other contest:
reliantfc3: 19,061 words
incendiarymind: 7,588 words
And I'm not catching up today.
One more thing about Black 47. Their set was absolutely perfect for the tone I'm trying to set for the revolutionary characters in the novel. That band has always had a perfect way to be overtly political without being so out-in-the-open about those politics that anyone takes them as a threat of any sort.
They do it by singing about the heroes and using their stories (Michael Collins, James Connoly, etc.) and by attacking things like the British press coverage of their band instead of the British presence in Northern Ireland.
If I hadn't made it one of my NaNolutions to avoid using any music in the story (no characters going to concerts, no "listen to this awesome mp3", no singing along with street buskers - which one character did in last year's story), I would create a similar band to Black 47 (but talking about general American history as opposed to Irish and Irish-American history) and have them be the house band at the John Harper Society meeting space.
But I won't because I'm trying to avoid the same elements I've put in every novel I've ever stated!
That and I'm just trying to note write another 6,000 word musicology essay in the middle of the novel. It breaks up the story, you know? :)
I had the laptop out a couple of times while talking to my friend
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However, there was fiendishly paced writing on the plane yesterday. I put on my iPod (thankfully blocking out the middle aged stupid couple who were babbling away about something or other) and kicked out 792 words in the hour we were at cruising altitude. Adding this to the 1,158 words I wrote from 12:15 a.m. to 1:45 a.m. and yesterday's word count was 1,950. Not exactly ahead of pace but for a day where I could have gotten 0 (and probably should have), I'll take it.
Today is where I fall behind last year's word count as the sixth of November 2004 saw me kick out three chapters and 2,970 words (which was actually a few less than last year's fifth).
So this may be the last time this word comparison makes me happy (going back to this exact minute last year and not the end of the sixth):
NaNoWriMo 2004: 4,471 words
NaNoWriMo 2005: 7,588 words
And in the other contest:
reliantfc3: 19,061 words
incendiarymind: 7,588 words
And I'm not catching up today.
One more thing about Black 47. Their set was absolutely perfect for the tone I'm trying to set for the revolutionary characters in the novel. That band has always had a perfect way to be overtly political without being so out-in-the-open about those politics that anyone takes them as a threat of any sort.
They do it by singing about the heroes and using their stories (Michael Collins, James Connoly, etc.) and by attacking things like the British press coverage of their band instead of the British presence in Northern Ireland.
If I hadn't made it one of my NaNolutions to avoid using any music in the story (no characters going to concerts, no "listen to this awesome mp3", no singing along with street buskers - which one character did in last year's story), I would create a similar band to Black 47 (but talking about general American history as opposed to Irish and Irish-American history) and have them be the house band at the John Harper Society meeting space.
But I won't because I'm trying to avoid the same elements I've put in every novel I've ever stated!
That and I'm just trying to note write another 6,000 word musicology essay in the middle of the novel. It breaks up the story, you know? :)
posted by incendiarymind at 8:08 AM
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