So, Zim: how’s the daily writing thing going? Hmm? According to your writing-hours goal tracker on NaNoWriMo.org, not well. Your lack of daily entries into this journal is also telling. Well; what are you going to do about that?
(And by the way, Zim: staying up until 4am playing Dragon Age II, while a favorite game, is. Not. Helping! Sleep schedule? What’s that?)
Ahem. I digress. As a more formal goal, I need to schedule an hour each day (preferably the same hour on a given day, just for rhythm & consistency) to do my writing. Each writing session should start with a quick entry here, as a way of checking in (1), getting the textual-verbiage juices flowing (2), and providing what few loyal followers I presently have an update as to the progress, and where I’m taking the project next (3).
Can we agree to this plan; me, myself, and I? Yea? Good.
On that note, my progress transcribing hand-written drafts from 7-10 months ago has been stymied by attempts to expand my lexicon for a fantasy language so that certain characters can be shown conversing *in* that language: Orcish. Is this a necessary thing? Well, probably not. Considering there’s two scenes, one notably longer than the other, wherein the protagonists are conversing with members of an orc tribe, I may actually keep the in-Orcish bits to a minimum, and render the rest in common while telling the reader the conversation is in Orcish.
Of course, by “Common” I mean English for the initial edition of the book, but that’s the fascinating thing, isn’t it? No matter what other languages I eventually/hopefully have my book published in, “common” will be the language the reader will understand, whilst the Orcish phrases and words will always be rendered the same. Perhaps in different alphabets, of course, but other than that - Orcish will be Orcish will be Orcish, regardless of whether “Common” is in English, Tegalo, Russian, Spanish, of Japanese.
At any rate: enough rambling. I’ve allowed the overall progress to screech to a halt over the growing home-made language of Orcish, not because it’s necessary to the project, but simply because: it’s fun.
And having fun with writing is what NaNoWriMo is *really* about, yes? Yes!
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