Well, I’m back

Oct 25, 2007

Well, I’m back

Filed in Blog, RVing

I think it safe to say that I’m back in the blogosphere. Gee, can you tell?

To those just reading this for the first time: I don’t usually post so many posts on the same day. However, the paid posts do make up a big chunk of my income and I haven’t done any for nearly a month now. I am therefore doing a little catching up, along with the sheer joy of having a more or less stable internet connection and staying in the same place for more than one day at a time.

Today I tackled the disgusting fridge while Don tackled his pocket network, several old laptops which together take up only one small closet. I’d rather do the fridge and he’d rather do the network. Works good.

The rig was sold to us as-is which meant that not only had it not been cleaned since its last use over a year ago but had not been cleaned when it was passed into consignment.

I now need not worry about stocking the fridge with food and dying of food poisoning, which is good because I’ve run out of mac and cheese and overpriced campground butter.

In other news, is anyone else planning on doing NaNoWriMo?

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pussreboots (158 comments.)

Welcome back! I’m signed up again for nanowrimo.

Oct 25th, 2007
Buffra

I’m NaNo-ing.

I think Asterapallas is. And Rendiru. And Emperor-Fool. And….I’m not sure who else. Or even if these people are on your friends list!

But I am. And that’s really all that counts, right?

Oct 25th, 2007
J. Lynne (35 comments.)

I successfully did Nano a few years ago; it was a autobiographical thing. I seem to have a writer’s block on the other kind of stories I’d like to write. I have concepts but no story ideas. I’ve read the book “No Plot, No Problem” but the OCD does a brain lockdown on Nov 1rst.

Plus,where the Nano groups do their write-ins — Panera — doesn’t let puppies come along. :(

Oct 25th, 2007
katster (14 comments.)

Me! Me!

But then you knew that.

This year, I have additional fun! I not only get to write my 50k words, but I get to do it while organizing write-ins and otherwise encouraging the local Sactown Nanofolks in their quest for 50k.

Which reminds me, I should repost katster’s handy fix-it-down and do-it-to-yourself type tips for surviving Nano with your sanity (mostly) intact.

-kat

Oct 25th, 2007
Marina (86 comments.)

I think that doing NaNo would be pretty ambitious for me, with everything else that’s going on–maybe next year when Anthony’s not so much a toddler? I do think, however, that I’ll give this go:

http://www.nablopomo.com/

I’ll see if I can establish the habit first, then I’ll work on volume

;)

Have you given any more thought (now that you’re settled) to the Artist’s Way project you’d been talking about a while ago?

Oct 26th, 2007
Sherrie (34 comments.)

Woo hoo!!! Welcome back! (and as a postie who posts to travel, paid post away!!!)

I am thinking about doing Nano, I tried last year for the first time and failed spectacularly!!! But it was so much fun to even try it, and I do have 2 weeks on a beach, so maybe more motivation???

Oct 27th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Goodie! I’m sort of thinking of doing a fantasy novel. That way I don’t have to do any research and I already have the world sort of blocked out anyway.

Oct 27th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Marina: that’s cool and definitely do-able. :)

Oct 27th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Oh and re: the Artist’s Way: there’s too much going on right now, and I’m not in the right frame of mind for it. I did rescue the book from the pile of things for the Goodwill/Landfill, but I’d need to be more relaxed before I worked on it…

Oct 27th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Sherrie: you’ll definitely fail if you don’t try, and I think it will be fun. We can all cheer one another on. :)

Oct 27th, 2007
pussreboots (158 comments.)

I’m doing a steampunk scifi. The main character is a surveyor who has just returned from an off planet war. I’m tentatively calling the book Tangent.

Oct 27th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Asterapallas and you are on my friends list. :) Good luck then–I still don’t have a real plot, though some ideas are whomping through my head. It will be a followup to Rhaeva, I guess. I’m so anti writing fantasy now that I figure the 50k romp should burst through that. ;)

Oct 28th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Lynne: my last year’s novel was one of those “write it out of my system” books. This year I’m a bit more stuck, but I figured, why not. Good luck if you decide to go ahead :)

Oct 28th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Katster: if you post them publicly I will link to them from here. :)

(Or write a guest post if you’d prefer.)

Good luck! I’ll probably play.

Oct 28th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

What is steampunk?

Oct 28th, 2007
katster (14 comments.)

They’re public. :)

How to win Nano while staying (mostly) sane.

I found a Wordpress plugin that crossposts to my LJ, so there’s another copy there.

-kat

Oct 28th, 2007
pussreboots (158 comments.)

Steampunk is a subset of science fiction that blends the technology of the Jules Verne / H. G. Wells era stories with modern urban culture.

Oct 28th, 2007
J. Lynne (35 comments.)

Ooo, I used to love roleplaying steampunk — though usually it was an alt history post Civil War Western RPG. ;)

Linda — for steampunk, think Wild Wild West, both the t.v. series and the movie.

I’ve decided to go ahead and sign up for nano. I have a plot, which I’m tentatively doing in a fantasy setting, though now I’m liking the steampunk idea. ;) I need to sit down and sketch out the three main characters. I might go reread the first story in the Thieves’ World series to just remind myself of dirty, gritty fantasy city life since I haven’t roleplayed or read fantasy in a long while.

Oct 28th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Katster: link has been published. :)

Nov 3rd, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Pussreboots: Oh, that makes sense. Steam engines and the like. Fun!

Nov 3rd, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Cool, Lynne–good luck!

I have not seen Wild Wild West ;)

Nov 3rd, 2007