So, just over a week until Camp NaNoWriMo starts. It’s going to be interesting this year…
For one thing, I’m still adjusting to a new job with no set schedule, which is making it a little hard to get into the swing of writing.
For another, I’ll be doing NaPoWriMo along with camp – attempting to write 30 poems in 30 days in addition to the 50,000 word goal I’m setting myself for camp.
Normally I am a rebel for camp, working on an already started project and trying to finish it. This year I’m actually trying to finish two: the first two books of The Other Mages trilogy. Book One is almost done and Book Two is about halfway, I think. I have no outline prepared for either one – I suppose I should probably do that sometime between now and next Tuesday. (Or at least figure out what still needs to be covered in each of them.)
And this year I have an additional distraction – three of them, actually: Peter, Paul, and Perry, my pet rats. They aren’t all that time-consuming, technically. It takes about half an hour to do a thorough weekly cage cleaning (with quicker cleanings in between) but they are spoiled little critters who love attention and who are endlessly entertaining.
And they are very bad for productivity. (They are sort of anti-muses.)
They love to come out to play with me, and it’s really hard to resist those bright hopeful eyes peering at me through the bars of the cage, or the tiny little paws reaching out for me.
But it’s also really hard to type with them using me for a jungle gym, especially when Paul and Peter try to sit on my wrists while I’m typing. (Perry, so far, is not at all interested in the keyboard, although the other two find it fascinating.)
You know, now that I’m thinking about it, they aren’t too different than plot bunnies: trying to get my attention, trying to tear me away from what I should be doing…
Novel Notes 