Ahira's Hangar

Well, it starts in less than a week.

My goal this year: to finish the short story I started here and never got the tiem to finish.

I know that you are supposed to try for a novel length manuscipt - but I would be very happy to come out of this with a decent short story (or maybe two).

NaNo again? Good grief. No chance. I couldn't even scrape up an entry for the anthology this year.

--A

My older daughter (aka Batsutousai on the Watch) pestered me into signing up for NaNo this year.

I spent last weekend in Roanoke with the girls. I got about 20 min. of writing in on Saturday, 0 min. on Sunday (had to drive home), 0 min. on Monday (had to get caught up on the stuff I didn't get done all weekend while I was out of town), and 0 min. on Tuesday (glued to the election returns!). Consequently, I am about 5000 words behind right now. And I will be driving back down to Roanoke for Thanksgiving -- just down Thursday and back Friday, but still, that kills at least one more day.

I will *never* get caught up.

Batty, needless to say, is well ahead of where her word count needs to be right now. And her girlfriend is right on target. I hate them both. (Not really, of course. But it *is* annoying.)

Truth to tell, I don't really care about the certificate. I signed up only because I needed a kick in the butt to actually write this novella. When I pulled out my research for it, I realized I've had the idea since at least January....

Duchess, what's your NaNo username? Mine is aliantha.

I would actually have to go there and find out. I signed up for it one year, and have never had time to actually do much writing so have not signed up for it since (though I have finished another scene for my short story).

Well, best of luck, you two. This has never been my sort of thing.

Me either. Don't have the patience. Poetry is short.

--A