Talk, Talking A Lot, But It's Still Talk

NaNoWriMo has been pretty interesting so far.  Initially I was working on an idea that's been floating around in my head for a while, but 2,000 words in I realized that I hated what I was doing to it, and that it really did need a lot more planning out before I attempted to write it.  That set me back quite a bit, because I spent another day wallowing in indecision about whether to continue with a different subject or just abandon the enterprise altogether.  I finally decided to start over, tackling a new, very vague idea in hopes that somewhere over the course of 50,000 words it might develop into something interesting.  So on Saturday I nearly strained something by writing over 5,100 words all in one sitting, catching myself up on the time I'd lost.  So now I'm a little over 8,500 words in and nothing too exciting has happened yet, but I'm kind of figuring it out as I go.  I don't know where some of these characters are coming from, but it's kind of cool to watch them and the beginnings of a plot emerge, like I'm driving a car and sitting in the passenger seat at the same time.

Of course I could never show this "novel" to anyone because it's utter crap.  Which is kind of the point, yes?  It feels good to force myself to write something, although now I probably won't update Accepting Irony until December unless I get some more free time.

I just want to finish that fic and be done with it, really, so I can start working on another WIP that's been nagging at me for a little while.  Well, actually there are two of them, one for Bartimaeus and one for the Twilight series.  I might write the Twilight one first for a change of pace, and although I'll probably break this resolution later, I thought I might try finishing it before posting.  Just to see what that's like.  (It is so not happening.  I can already tell.)

Kind of wondering when I'm ever going to get around to revising Terms of Endearment.  Maybe I should post the original somewhere just for politeness's sake, since I kind of whisked it away without warning?  I don't know.

I've heard that the second week of NaNoWriMo is the hardest.  I can believe it - although I've been doing pretty well so far, I just have this sense that pretty soon this project's going to knock me on my ass.  But I want to finish.  Like, really badly - I've never actually completed an original story idea before, how sad is that?  Time to break the trend.

Anyway, in other news, it is freezing in my dorm room.  I could've sworn they turned the heat on today - guess they were just messing with my mind.  Nice.

(Oh, and I downloaded this song randomly and now find myself slightly obsessed with it.  I don't even know why.  Seems I'm developing this appreciation for electronic music or something, what with my love of Imogen Heap's second album, D.H.T., and now this.)