So I won Nano which is very exciting. Although the novel is still a way off being finished.

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You're Randal Graves. You're a sarcastic
sonofabitch who loves porn and hates people but
loves being around them. How else can you piss
them off with your offensive and crude
comments?


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Somehow I'm just about keeping up with Nano writing. Admittedly at the same time my PhD's gone pretty much out the window. But who cares about that right? I mean which is more important, writing 50000 words of crap in one month, or 60000 words of pretentious crap in three years. Ooh, House is on in like three minutes. Must run and make tea.




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After falling far far behind managed to get a lot written for Nano toady and am just about back on schedul.

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Yay, managed to write quite a bit for Nano this evening so that's good. Probably won't have time to write any tomorrow as I either have to work or go to a graduate seminar (if I can get out of working) and then to the pub.



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Spent most of the day (okay, some of the day) working on my nano and have just about caught up I think. I don't really know what's going on in the story but I don't care. As long as something's happening.

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I guess I should really go to bed but I can't be bothered. Maybe I can.

Have returned from spending a couple of days in the bosom of my family where I alternated between being served nice food and drink and wanting to put a fork in my eye due to the world of my family which I'm too tired and weak to describe. Anyway I managed to write some more Nano stuff since getting back whoo-hoo. So I'm only about 5000 words off schedule or something, I can't do the maths. Unfortunately my main character has gone a bit nuts which I find a little distubning oh well...

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Arrgh. I've finally hit my Nano first day target of 2500, even though it's seemed to take like a really (really) long time and I wouldn't be at all surprised to discover it wasn't even November anymore (except then there'd be no explanation for the firewroks going off every seven minutes). Beside wasting much time on the Nano boards taking comfort in other people's difficulties and sense of their own crapness, and even more time making endless cups of tea just to get away from the evil eyes of my laptop, I also went onto campus and returned about twenty books and got out some stuff on the horror genre. For some reason the library's just installed these self-service machines for returning and checking out, so there's lots of people milling about spying on other people to see how they work, and finally walking away when the stupid machines refuse to respond to all forms of begging and pleading. I signed up for some shifts at the centre - I'll be working a screening of Broken Flowers so yay, but also a screening of Kinky Boots, so not yay. Oh well.
I finally managed to set up a meeting with my supervisor to discuss the chapter I sent him, it's only taken a week and a half.

So yes, have hit the Nano target, but now my mother has persuaded me to go home for a couple of days tomorrow, and I'm missing my dog so...I guess that'll put me behind on Nano by, oh about 7000 words or something, and I only need the slightest discourgagment to give up, as I proved last year.

Anyway, here for safe keeping and posterity is my Nano first day nonsense.

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I've finally got back from staying with a friend for a week. I'm very very tired and in the midst of some kind of three day hangover and am malnourished. So this is all good. Still it was a good week, I got to play with her dogs a lot (which really isn't a euphemism for something - I swear), and we watched some of the worst movies ever made. So that's good. I've spent today pacing round the house thinking about tidying up and buying food and thinking about the next section of my thesis (which is about Ginger Snaps - yay werewolves). Anyway, I'm feeling oddly optimistic about Nano, mainly because I've done brief character outlines for the three main characters (and given them names, thank the maker) and also roughly planned out the first three chapters. Tomorrow I have to face the trauma of going on to campus and dealing with the library. So that's a reason to get up in the morning. hah.

AAHHHHHHHHHHH. I've finally finished the chapter of my dissertation I was working on. It's only like a week late, so that's okay. well I guess now I get to stop living like a crazy hermit and can leave the house. Yay. im going to stay with a friend for a week whiler her parents on holiday. so i guess my nano prep may be pretty screwed. oh well.

I managed to write about 5000 words of my thesis chapter which I'm pretty pleased. I'm choosing to ignore the fact that it was due on Monday and I didn't start writing it until half ten this morning. Also am in crazy essay writing state of mind where I don't leave the house and pile notes and books and DVDS all over the house and wander round in stupor drinking endless cups of teas. Still am in no mood to sit in front of my laptop getting worse posture and carphal tunnel so I guess I won't do any Nano planning tonight. That said I did manage to write a character outline for my MC Tegan, which should be somewhere around here...

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I'm a little worried about the fact I found writing about my supporting character easier than writing about Tegan, although it could just be that she's basically the same MC from my last two novels with a different name.

Anyway, I also had my first novel rejected today, which I feel pretty indifferent about. So I guess I'm not a literary genius. Looks like I'll have to rethink my career plans.

Well, I'm off to cook some food and drink some wine.

Actually managed to write some Nano prep. Admittedly at the expense of working on my thesis chapter which is supposed to be tomorrow, but I don't really feel up to it. Anyway, I wrote a character outline for one of my main characters, so that's something.

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Very tired and hungover, and hungry. I had my first shift as a steward at the art centre this evening, which went pretty well, even though I was mostly just trying not to pass out.
I'm already getting a sinking feeling about my prospects of completing Nano. Still don't have a very concrete plot or characters and I have to write the section of my dissertation on All About My Mother and 8 Women over the weekend, so wont have much time to work on Nano.
oh well. Time to make a toasted cheese sandwich a pot of tea I think.

So I managed to so some prep for Nano. Only about 20 minutes but it all helps. I think I have a clearer idea about the plot. I guess it couldn't be any vaguer than it was anyway. Although mostly I've been trying to decide whether I like the name Teagan for my main character or not. Hopefully I'll be able to post something about the plot, anything, tomorrow, but I'm so tired. I went to a research seminar on celebrity for some reason and only got back a while ago. So I think I'll lie down and drink some tea and continue my internal debate -"Teagan, that's a great name for a MC." "No, wait it sucks." "It does not" and so on.

All hail the reviving powers of The Goonies. I'm in a better mood than I was this morning and have even managed to do the first draft of the writing assignment for my creative writing class. which should be here...

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I might go and see Last Days (the new Gus Van Sant film about Kurt Cobain) later, so I guess now would be a good time to think some more about Nano plot, characters, and all those other things.

I'm very tired and kinda down and a bit hungover so my grand plans to work on the characters for Nano look unlike happening. I'm also having a crisis of confidence about my paper thin plot and feel inclined to come up with something less vague. I guess the best thing to do maybe is lie under a blanket and watch The Goonies.

So I think I have a working title for Nano - My Most Imaginary Friend. I can't decide if I like it or not so it may change.

I also have an opening line - He smelled good. again I don't know if I like it or not. I guess the thing about it I like is it's casual or something.

The rough plot I have in my head at the moment is about three high school kids or are about fifteen, or maybe older. The central character is a girl who has a crush on this boy who is pretty much a loner. He transfered from another school about a year ago and keeps himself to himself. The reason for this (unknown to my main character) is that his best friend died in mysterious circumstances. Whether he changed schools because he was a suspect or because he was in danger is a big question (that I don't know the answer to). The third character is the girl's closest friend, who maybe is in love with her. Lurking on the edge of the story will be another boy who may or not be the dead boy. What exactly will happen to these kids? I don't have a clue yet.

But there we go, at last I have something down on paper - or computer screen.

I also dug up my feeble Nano 2004 effort. It's very short but still I kinda like it. I'd like to get a similar tone this time round. If I understand how lj works my Nano 2004 (which either didn't have a title or I can't remember it) should be available from this link. Be warned it contains a bit of bad language and only runs to about four pages in its entirety.

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Anyways, I've managed waste like half the day reading the paper and messing around online. I really should do something, like clean the house or make lunch or do some work. grrr. I guess I'll make soup.

Ahhh, so I guess this is my first post (or whatever they're called) in my shiny new livejournal. sadly I have nothing to say. doh! anyways, I got the livejournal as a place to work out my plot for nano. at the moment I don't really have a plot. i have like a vague idea which may turn into something but might not.
other than that i'm very hot at the moment. i cant figure out how the heating works in my flat so yesterday I was freezing and had to wear many sweaters and blankets, today the heating's working but is too hot. oh well.
I finally got paid yesterday so i went out and spent more than i can afford on new cds, which is exciting.
well I guess i should go away and think about plot and characters and stuff.