Comments on: It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: Why I’m Quitting NaNoWriMo http://barelyknittogether.com/2009/11/dark-and-stormy-night/ Will write for yarn. Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:07:43 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: april http://barelyknittogether.com/2009/11/dark-and-stormy-night/comment-page-1/#comment-2303 april Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:35:54 +0000 http://barelyknittogether.com/?p=1195#comment-2303 Aseveryone has said just by attempting you have done it - I too quit - got to 14,000 ish words and just wasn't there - the story was writing me and I was auditioning and holidaying and all three of those do not go together - But I'll always aim higher than i can reach :) Your writing is so interesting and good to read. I just love your blog :) and well done for trying. Aseveryone has said just by attempting you have done it – I too quit – got to 14,000 ish words and just wasn’t there – the story was writing me and I was auditioning and holidaying and all three of those do not go together – But I’ll always aim higher than i can reach :)
Your writing is so interesting and good to read. I just love your blog :) and well done for trying.

]]> By: Melodie http://barelyknittogether.com/2009/11/dark-and-stormy-night/comment-page-1/#comment-2187 Melodie Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:48:10 +0000 http://barelyknittogether.com/?p=1195#comment-2187 This would be a huge undertaking for anybody! Phew! But wouldn't you rather write your first novel without so much pressure? In a genre you're happier with? My best friend is a published novelist whose book of fiction might as well be an autobiography. Write what you know. Write about your life. When it's been a painful one it can be very hard to put it all out there but you've got a head start because you already write about yourself on your blog. Anyway, my friend's novel is called Highways and Dancehalls. She suffers from PTSD and Depression and it took her a long time to write it. But it was picked up by the first publishing house she tried and it got nominated for the Governor General's Award for Fiction in Canada. Do it in your own time on your own subject. :) This would be a huge undertaking for anybody! Phew! But wouldn’t you rather write your first novel without so much pressure? In a genre you’re happier with? My best friend is a published novelist whose book of fiction might as well be an autobiography. Write what you know. Write about your life. When it’s been a painful one it can be very hard to put it all out there but you’ve got a head start because you already write about yourself on your blog. Anyway, my friend’s novel is called Highways and Dancehalls. She suffers from PTSD and Depression and it took her a long time to write it. But it was picked up by the first publishing house she tried and it got nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction in Canada. Do it in your own time on your own subject. :)

]]> By: alantru http://barelyknittogether.com/2009/11/dark-and-stormy-night/comment-page-1/#comment-2184 alantru Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:15:29 +0000 http://barelyknittogether.com/?p=1195#comment-2184 Good point, dreamboat. Can't have a crazy plan without lorikeets. Good point, dreamboat.

Can’t have a crazy plan without lorikeets.

]]> By: Barely Knit Together http://barelyknittogether.com/2009/11/dark-and-stormy-night/comment-page-1/#comment-2182 Barely Knit Together Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:29:44 +0000 http://barelyknittogether.com/?p=1195#comment-2182 You never disappoint, Daddy-O! But don't forget the lorikeets. ;) You never disappoint, Daddy-O! But don’t forget the lorikeets. ;)

]]> By: alantru http://barelyknittogether.com/2009/11/dark-and-stormy-night/comment-page-1/#comment-2174 alantru Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:27:25 +0000 http://barelyknittogether.com/?p=1195#comment-2174 50,000 words in thirty days? That’s crazy. Crazy like a dame with a gun and a bad plan that’s gone awry in the city as the summer heat beats down on her like an iron smoothing out the creases in a dead man’s suit. Crazy like a rabid mug strangling himself with a fox stole. That kind of unexpected, uncharted, unreliable and yet understandable crazy. The kind of crazy that makes you more loco than a bug eyed madman trapped in bedlam with only sheets for friends and nickels to plug: All the while wondering where he’ll finds his next plug nickel once he bust out of this crazy joint. I could go on… But you know that. ;) I’m sorry it didn’t work out with these NaNo mugs, but as you well know, doll face, it’s all good when you sit down and write whether you feel like it or not. That’s what you writers do. But 50,000 words in thirty days really is crazy, I tells ya. Crazy like the madman locked in bedlam and dressed in a fox stole. Crazy like his plan to get out. Crazy like how he felt as the evening moon cast its harsh fist of a white glow on his egg shaped head. Crazy? Or was it? Yeah, it was crazy. But he didn’t care. He’d show those palookas who was crazy. All he needed was a quart of whiskey, a bedpan, the love of a good dame and a little ingenuity. 50,000 words in thirty days? That’s crazy. Crazy like a dame with a gun and a bad plan that’s gone awry in the city as the summer heat beats down on her like an iron smoothing out the creases in a dead man’s suit. Crazy like a rabid mug strangling himself with a fox stole. That kind of unexpected, uncharted, unreliable and yet understandable crazy. The kind of crazy that makes you more loco than a bug eyed madman trapped in bedlam with only sheets for friends and nickels to plug: All the while wondering where he’ll finds his next plug nickel once he bust out of this crazy joint.

I could go on… But you know that. ;) I’m sorry it didn’t work out with these NaNo mugs, but as you well know, doll face, it’s all good when you sit down and write whether you feel like it or not. That’s what you writers do.

But 50,000 words in thirty days really is crazy, I tells ya. Crazy like the madman locked in bedlam and dressed in a fox stole. Crazy like his plan to get out. Crazy like how he felt as the evening moon cast its harsh fist of a white glow on his egg shaped head. Crazy? Or was it? Yeah, it was crazy. But he didn’t care. He’d show those palookas who was crazy. All he needed was a quart of whiskey, a bedpan, the love of a good dame and a little ingenuity.

]]> By: Barely Knit Together http://barelyknittogether.com/2009/11/dark-and-stormy-night/comment-page-1/#comment-2166 Barely Knit Together Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:13:00 +0000 http://barelyknittogether.com/?p=1195#comment-2166 I do remember - ah, the glory days! That was some good fun, wasn't it? I wrote this with you two in mind, actually. Hope you enjoyed it. Now, where's our <a href="http://sickdays.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">partner in crime</a>? I do remember – ah, the glory days! That was some good fun, wasn’t it? I wrote this with you two in mind, actually. Hope you enjoyed it. Now, where’s our partner in crime?

]]> By: Barely Knit Together http://barelyknittogether.com/2009/11/dark-and-stormy-night/comment-page-1/#comment-2165 Barely Knit Together Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:11:31 +0000 http://barelyknittogether.com/?p=1195#comment-2165 Quatto? I don't know, I'll have to think on it. But I appreciate it. :) Quatto? I don’t know, I’ll have to think on it. But I appreciate it. :)

]]> By: FJ http://barelyknittogether.com/2009/11/dark-and-stormy-night/comment-page-1/#comment-2162 FJ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:32:03 +0000 http://barelyknittogether.com/?p=1195#comment-2162 Fuck NaNo doll face, remember we wrote a 50,000 word comment thread back in the day (May I think) on Alan.s blog. Fuck NaNo doll face, remember we wrote a 50,000 word comment thread back in the day (May I think) on Alan.s blog.

]]> By: FJ http://barelyknittogether.com/2009/11/dark-and-stormy-night/comment-page-1/#comment-2161 FJ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:22:47 +0000 http://barelyknittogether.com/?p=1195#comment-2161 Can ditto go to the dreaded fourth level? I hope so. Can ditto go to the dreaded fourth level? I hope so.

]]> By: bschooled http://barelyknittogether.com/2009/11/dark-and-stormy-night/comment-page-1/#comment-2157 bschooled Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:45:43 +0000 http://barelyknittogether.com/?p=1195#comment-2157 Haha... You're right...Saskatchewan is a dead end for writers. So is Alberta, which is where I am right now...but I'll be in Vancouver soon. And if things work out, Virginia here I come! ps. Since we're only three years apart and I've always believed deep down that I was adopted, there's a very good chance we could be twins! Or something! Haha…

You’re right…Saskatchewan is a dead end for writers. So is Alberta, which is where I am right now…but I’ll be in Vancouver soon. And if things work out, Virginia here I come!

ps. Since we’re only three years apart and I’ve always believed deep down that I was adopted, there’s a very good chance we could be twins! Or something!

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