Saturday am

[lar_laughs]

I know I've played too many of those games on Facebook that only give you so many moves a day because I find myself staring at the COMMENT button on LJ and wondering if I have enough lives to hit it and comment.

*shakes head*

This is me on little sleep. I'm self-destructing this NaNo. It's not just NaNo, of course. I've got a lot on my mind and that's making me more of an insomniac than just the stress of NaNo. I'm doing what I can to keep moving forward.

Now I'm trying to decide if I should go to the library to write. Hmmm....

I've been watching a lot of Pop Up Videos lately (I DVR them) and I have to say there are a lot of videos I don't remember from an era in my life when I should have been watching the videos!

Comments

[aryas_zehral]

Which games do you play on Facebook? I appear to have wandered back into Farmville which used to eat all of my time. This may not be a good thing.

Who are you on the nano website?

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

I'm Larinzia Hope over at the NaNo site.

I haven't played Farmville in a long time but I do play Sim Social and the Ravenskye games. I get very fickle about the games and leave if they 1)take up TOO much time, 2) can't be played without giving money and/or 3) simply can't be "won". I like to feel a sense of accomplishment about them and some of them are just too out of reach. I'm getting a little bored with the Sim game because it's getting to the point where you HAVE to pay money to get the good stuff but I'm looking forward to decorating my "house" for Christmas so that's keeping me playing for now. We'll see after the holidays if I'm still interested.

My sisters and I were playing Rummikube together and I know they still do but I kept playing with too many idiots for it to be fun when they weren't around.

The link to my facebook is in my user info, I think. If you need to add anyone for games, definitely add me.

*shakes head* It's like an addiction... *sigh*

[aryas_zehral]

What is Rummiekube?

I'm playing Sims Social. I'm more likely to get annoyed at the "get your friends to click this to move you on in the challenge" than anything else. :S

[innerslytherin]

I've been doing horribly at NaNo this year. I think it's because I'm not working. If I'm working, I have to squeeze the writing time in. If I am unemployed at NaNo time, I think I have all the time in the world, so I fritter it away doing everything but writing. :(

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

I do that exact thing! That's why I suddenly start doing so much around the house. I'm MORE productive in November (or other times that I do large amounts of wriitng) because I have to have more to do.

Could you give yourself a schedule like you might have at work? Like... 15 minutes of writing and then I'm going to the bathroom and then 15 more minutes and I'm going to walk into the other room and talk to the water cooler. Is that too cheesy and demanding?

My kick start this year has been the fact that I have three different communities where I'm expected to have some sort of word count each day. I don't know what I'm getting if I complete word counts everyday on two of them and one of them is my writing community so I would be making my little banner myself but it's still a matter of pride.

You're not my only writing friend who's had a hard time getting started. I have a feeling that I'm going to be lapped by those that are starting late! Isn't that the way it normally is? The rabbits beat the tortoise!

[innerslytherin]

I just seem to write better in fits and spurts rather than slow and steady. Other people do better if they write smaller amounts each day.

I think part of my problem is that I didn't follow my entire usual method this year. I used a lot of the plotting worksheets in First Draft in 30 Days, which are awesome, but I didn't do the transferring to index cards that I usually do. So I'm planning to write out my index cards tomorrow, and I think that will help get me in gear.

I love the idea of the schedule! I'll try that!

[hhhellcat.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I think the NaNo illness is affecting a bunch of us. I've stalled out at 1900 or so words. I'm trying not to panic because I know that I'm capable of cranking out 13,000 in a day, but that's not my norm, either. I start losing steam in the middle of a scene and I don't understand why this is happening. I now know my characters, I know what I want to say, what my plot is, where the story begins and ends. WTF brain???

Re: Facebook games, the only one I play regularly anymore is Farmville and only because I've got almost two and a half years sunk into the damn thing. I wish I could walk away from it, but doing so means also walking away from some very good friends. Damn games are so addicting. If I'm not wasting time there, I'm at Sporcle which is just as much of a time killer. Neither is getting my NaNo written. LOL