Between voting and probable coffee-slurping, I have two main obj… no, three.  Three main objectives.  First, read my ecology books for the exam Thursday.  Second, keep up the good progress on NaNoWriMo (oh yes, there is progress.  I’m impressed with myself!)  Third, get back to Twilight.  I finished the first book yesterday evening, and stayed up late chewing through the first bit of New Moon.  Why I waited so long to start on this, I don’t know.  I have a habit of ignoring hype until it’s gotten to be “old news”.

On NaNo, progress has been better than I expected so far.  I dragged up my old notes, some old “quotes” I’d think every now and again, working them in to scenes… I found and old letter I wrote long ago and realized it definitely had a place (accidental artistry!), so I broke it up, filed it down, polished it up, and it’s on the sidelines, waiting for its chance to be introduced.  Actually… that’s how I’m writing the whole thing.  Writing quips, scenes, full ideas in pieces and parts, which will be arranged and fused later.  Why I never thought of this approach before, I dunno… it only made sense in my mind now, though.  One of my main struggles before was the linear fashion in which I wanted to write… beginning to end, with maybe some second-thought embellishments later.  But this way I stumbled on all frantically seems to work so far.

I’m toying with the idea of having cameos from my more ‘celestial’ of friends.  We’ll see.  I don’t think this story is going to be what I originally planned, but it’ll be what it’ll be.

NaNoWriMo.  Oh, yes.  Tomorrow is the day.  And while I was excited about it before, I’m not so sure now.  I barely have time to sleep, much less pull a novel out of my ass in four tiny weeks.  And although Kev has said he will give me the time to bang out some pages, I don’t see myself as willing at the time, nor do I see it as being too much of a help against all I will have most assuredly NOT written in weeks prior.  In other words, I think this is going to be fail before it even starts.

Then again, any progress is progress I can work with.  If I fail to finish, who cares?  I never really expected to finish.  If I only get twenty five pages out of the deal?  Great!  It’s twenty five I didn’t have before.  So it won’t be that bad.

No problem.  No matter what, no problem.

I just realized that my plans of doing NaNoWriMo this year are probably insta-fail, considering my week’s Tgiving Vacay.  Kev would probably gladly give me the time and space needed to bang out the required pages while I’m down, but the problem would be my willingness.  I mean… he’d be there… and well yeah, snuggles would take precedence.  Or maybe I’d get (un)lucky and he wouldn’t be able to nail much of a Vacay for himself, and I could pump the word-count while he’s at work?  Hmm…

Not that I’m expecting to finish by the deadline.  It’d be nice, and I’m gonna try for it, but I’m not going to make myself crazy trying to get there.

I do already have some ideas rolling around in my head.  There’s a story I’ve been wanting to start since the start of the year.  I wrote the Prologue and two pages of the first chapter, and haven’t touched it since, even though I love the idea.  Some situations are coming clearer, and I have a somewhat full profile of one character as he’s blossomed in my head of his own power.  I’ve been writing everything in my (badly named) plan book, just so I don’t lose anything before kickoff.

In other news, sickies are starting to lift.  Ain’t gone by a long shot, but hey, any improvement is good.  *snot-wheeze*