well.

[dragonlady7]

Happy Samhain, or All Saints' Day, or whatever you believe in. The boundaries with the Otherworld are supposed to be particularly thin, and if that's the case I'd like to give a shout-out to my dead peeps, particularly my Grandma and Dave's.
Also, both Grandpas, it sucks that I never got to meet either of you because you were apparently both really cool.
Grandpa Kelly, I hope Grandma's with you now because she really missed you and the whole week before she died she kept talking about how great you were, and the bit where you told her you'd married her for love not babies makes me cry every time I think of it. It's not fair that you died so long ago. Dad's older now than you ever lived to be.
Dave's Gram Kleinschmidt, thank you so much for being so nice to me. Your family is made up entirely of wonderful people and I'm glad I got to meet you.
And Dave's dad, I hope you've settled in well and I hope the fishing's good, but it really sucks that you left so suddenly, and Dave's mom especially really misses you a lot. As does poor Bert, though I can't say she's losing any sleep over it. Beagles don't do that sort of thing.

Ok. Having said all that, and reduced myself to tears, I will talk about something else.

National Novel Writing Month.

Over in treigylgweith I have been posting every hour on the hour since I started. Given that I started at 12:30, and it is now 2:30, I have only posted twice. But the cumulative wordcount is 4728.

That is all. I am awesome. I will never sleep again. W00t.

Back to the Word document, where, er, destiny awaits or something.

btw, as I've said, please friend Treigylgweith, and then you can see my brilliance unfolding in realtime. :)
Depressingly enough, I've only had 4 people interested enough to actually sign up. Bummer.

Comments

[mother2012.livejournal.com]

It may well be that, like me, people who might actually be interested are the NaNoWriMo people, who don't want to take on any reading right now because they are hoping to spend that time writing.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

*whine* but it's much easier to write for an audience. Get your priorities straight, people!!! ;)

Ah well. I won't mind a bit if people go back and read afterward, but it is a big motivator to post if I feel that more people might possibly read it. It's been difficult to resist the temptation of making it public. But if I do that, duh, then what's the point of having a second journal?

Sigh. Life is so difficult when you're feeling exhibitionist and nobody wants to look. :)

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

I'm just too envious! I vaguely remember when a 4000 wordcount was possible... these days I'm doing well if I manage 400 words a week.

Seriously, though, go you.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm going.

Are you doing NaNoWriMo?

I like it, but I still feel that wordcount really isn't the thing for many people. I can make words like nobody's business, but it doesn't mean I can write a novel. A novel has to be finished. Everyone in the world has begun a novel at some point. Almost none of them, in the grand scheme of things, has finished it.
I'm only so pleased with myself over my huge wordcount because I know I'm actually saying something with all those words.

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

No - I considered it briefly and then decided it was nuts to try this year, right after going back to work fulltime. I hope to do it next year, though.