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[gategrrl]

 I hope everyone on my flist had a Happy New Year's Eve - the Guy and I didn't even pop off the cork of our faux champagne. We both felt a little "off" and funky. Not sick exactly, but not up to drinking. And there was no other fizzy in the house (nonalcoholic) to drink, not even with the kids. Both of whom, by the way, managed to stay up past midnight. Little Guy has practiced staying up while on sleep-overs at friend's houses.

I spent last night, off and on, going through my NaNo draft (I wouldn't even call it a rough draft) of Land of the Dead and divvying it up into scenes and chapters. I hadn't realized I started skipping marking chapters after Chapter 5 on the manuscript, although I had demarcated scene divisions. Anyhow, I did that so that I could load the monster into yWriter, and it worked!

I also got my copy of Editing for Fiction Writers from Amazon the other day, and have been going through it. Yeah, I depend a lot on Narration (Telling) rather than showing, in this story. It's something I have to fix because it's boring. Boring boring boring. There are enough infodumps to top up a landfill. This is going to take up a lot of time, getting it rewritten and revised. What I'm doing right now is going through, scene by scene, and writing down the summaries in yWriter's scene summary box. It's neat, because I can print out the scene summaries as a list. And an outline, too. I still can't believe this program is free.

Anyhoo, I'll be taking Mermaid to OSH (that's a home-hardware type of store, similar to Home Depot but smaller and friendlier) today for paintchip samples. She wants to paint her room. And honestly, I wouldn't mind painting the interior of the entire house. We still have the color scheme that the previous owners painted up, plus some horrible shelves that look like they're from the fifties (so my mother said on her visit). 

What else...the Science Fiction Book Club got me in its marketing grasp once again with their $9.99 a book special offer. To be honest? All of their sales are a bit pathetic - it doesn't make it nearly as "special" if sales are constantly offered, but what the heck. I bit, and ordered a mammoth version of Salem's Lot, usually $24.00, Stephen King's new book, Dume Point (?), and the latest Temeraire book in that series.

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[whisper99.livejournal.com]

Well, let's just say that I read your post where your goal was to write 500 words a day and last night I sat there staring at a Word document and I was SO discouraged. Then I opened up yWriter to look at what I had typed in there already and I ended up writing close to 500 words. It did a really good job helping me focus on what needed doing. So yeah, I'm giving it my thumbs up. You *do* need to get used to it though, because it's a different way of writing just straight in one document.