NaNo update

[altariel]

Right, so I've hit halfway. All downhill from here! The aim for NaNo this year was to complete a very rough first draft of a girls-with-guns-in-space thingie that I've been working on intermittently since I was in the States. And I'm almost there! Obviously I'm going to have to pitch most of the text, but it's fascinating thrashing out the shape of the whole thing, and not having to bother about making it all consistent, just trying out all my various ideas.

Now if I could only get rid of this blasted cough. I seem to have embarked on a new cold without entirely shaking off the one I had in Wales. Stupid winter. If only there was some new Doctor Who to make up for it...

*flails excitedly*

Comments

[stultiloquentia.livejournal.com]

girls-with-guns-in-space

! I would read that.

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

Seconded!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Good! ;-D There's not enough of it about. And there should be.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Creating your own universe can be fascinating (I should know - I do it even within fanfic). Unfortunately, it's also a loooot of work. World-building can be so stressful sometimes that one doesn't have any energy left to actually *write* the frigging stories. ;)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It's unbelievably more work than I imagined!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

But it's also great fun, isn't it?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It most certainly is :-)

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Your story sounds as though it should be a lot of fun. You should get Clyde from The Sarah Jane Adventures to illustrate it for you. :) (I'm afraid that won't mean anything if you didn't watch last week's story.)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'm saving up this week's SJA for when mraltariel gets back from LA (hmm, a lot of acronyms in this reply...).

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure whether new Doctor Who is a cure for the common cold, but it's always fun. Tonight's was, too - I hope you enjoyed it. I have to say that, by the time I switched off, I was mainly focussed on the trailer for next time!

Well done with reaching halfway - and good luck with the downhill stretch...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I liked last night's quite a lot.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Half way! God, that's wonderful! I still haven't gotten over 16,000 words on my 20,000 words or bust novella.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Hmm, well, I don't want to overstate the quality, most of this is going to get pitched!

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

Roll on, you girls with guns!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I hope they keep on rolling!

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Still a fair way to go yet...