Wednesday, October 03, 2007 - October: NaNoOutMo

Or so I'm choosing to call it, in honour of my month long expedition of outlining. Other ideas included NaNo-Brainstorm-Mo (but that abbreviates to either Bra-Mo, which would give people the wrong idea, and Brain-Mo, which is just weird) and NaNo-Holy Crap I Need To Come Up With A Hell Of A Lot Of Ideas To Write 50000 Words And I'll Never Be Able To Do It So Maybe It as Just A Bad Idea Anyway-mo, but, well, I was assured it was something of a mouthful.

Anyhow, as I mentioned I'm an unofficial participant, since I'm going to try to work on some short stories. In my case, a novel churned out in thirty days wouldn't be good for much else than the trashbin, so I figure that this course of action will work best for me.

I've come up with a few ideas over the last two days (my thanks to Walt Whitman - his poetry makes for a kickass springboard for SF concepts, believe it or not), so now I actually have some stuff to start outlining, which is good news.

On a slightly different note, but perhaps useful for some of you, author E.E. Knight blogs about some things not to do when writing SF/F. (via BoingBoing)


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Progress

Zilch!
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Listening


A.J. Croce - "Maybe I'm Amazed"



My Music


Reading


Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney

My Library


Watching


Black Book: B


Sweet and Lowdown: C


Breakfast on Pluto: B


Wishlist


Bridge of Sighs - Richard Russo


Rachael Yamagata - Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart