NaNoWriMo jitters

[miriam_e]

NaNoWriMo begins in 2 weeks. For the last several months I've been assembling notes for the story I wanted to write this year. But I'm having serious second thoughts. Quite by accident I came up with another, completely different idea some months ago and it has been running around in my head a lot lately. Tonight I suddenly realised that it could be merged with another, much older story idea to make a pretty good tale... if handled well.

I start thinking this with only 2 weeks to go???? Am I nuts?!

But it is a rather neat idea...

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[cranky--crocus.livejournal.com]

People signing on for as many stories as they feel capable of is a good idea!

April Fools. Giggles. I like it!

I hadn't heard of Melbourne's Comedy Festival. Edinburgh Comedy Festival I have. Hope I get to go some day!

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Oops! Just remembered: Script Frenzy runs during April. Similar deal as NaNoWriMo (and I think originated by the same people). Write a 100 page script in 30 days. You can write screenplays, stage plays, TV shows, short films, comic book and graphic novel scripts, adaptations of novels, or any other type of script. One of the rules is that you "must, at some point, have ridiculous amounts of fun". :)

Hmmm... I might try that next year...

Perhaps some other time period for short story writers. :)

[cranky--crocus.livejournal.com]

Wow. Perhaps I should do Script Frenzy sometime and do a script for an actual comic type thing.

Yes, yes on all that you wrote!

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

heheheh :)
That sounds great! I hope to draw some comics next year. And I will do ScriptFrenzy in 2009. Scripts are a quite different artform from novel- or shortstory-writing.

I started getting great floods of ideas today, like making a non-profit site that hosts stories for writers, and which enables donations to be made to authors whose stories people like. I have recently been thinking about the problems faced by writers nowadays. Something like this would eliminate the middlemen. A donation would go directly to the author. The website would not take a cut. If someone wanted to donate to the website separately then that would be okay too, but not required.

I've also been thinking a lot about the practicalities of indexing stuff and have come up with some innovative ideas for that.

Exciting!

[cranky--crocus.livejournal.com]

I've never done a script, well, not in years and years and years, but I think it would be fun. I'm sure I'd figure out my own way to do it.

Your ideas sound great! I'm afraid of the publishing process anyway. But it doesn't matter since I don't have any plans of publishing. So everything works out!

Yes, very exciting!

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

I was just wondering why my mind is all a-ferment with ideas. I just realised: it is because I have my weekly dose of medication tonight for this stupid infection. Damn! I'll stop being able to think clearly for another few days. Damn! Damn!

[cranky--crocus.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry! That sounds terrible! What's the infection, again? I feel you've already told me but my memory is always so horrible!

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

It is not really much hassle. :) I just miss my normal state of mind bubbling constantly with ideas.

Hepatitis C. I don't think I've mentioned details before. I contracted it in my foolish youth when I experimented with various drugs. HepC produces some tiredness, but its real danger is in risk of liver cancer -- not a nice way to die. The medication to get rid of the damn virus is very tiring, but should leave me clear of the little monsters middle of next year. I should then have more energy than I've had in years.

[cranky--crocus.livejournal.com]

I hope it works! That sounds terrible. I'm going to give your youth self a hug in my mind, anyway, as well as your present state. Smiles. Hugs to go around!