I contemplated NaNoWriMo this year. Last year was a dismal failure, though, because we were travelling across the US - LA to Kansas to Chicago to Washington to Jacksonville by train. That's a lot of miles, and I just found myself unable to sit down and concentrate on writing while on trains. Add to that, that we were on trains and neither of us was really able to sleep...my nascent novel died somewhere on a train track. The NaNo model doesn't really work for me, anyway. I get the idea, and actually applaud it - anything to get folks writing, right? But I'm not a speed writer by nature. Mostly, I write fairly slowly; I edit and such as I go along, just keep slogging along. The concept of 'just get down on paper, to hell with the typos' doesn't work for me. There are very few stories I've written that have come fast; I think the only one that has in the BotP-verse is 'Little Wing'. So, no NaNo for me this year. But I am trying to get back in the swing of writing - not so much in the BotP-verse, but Pern. I belong to an online writing club - no RPing, just straight writing in a shared world. I have seven characters there; six are dragonriders, one's a weyr-based healer. Keeps me entertained, anyway.

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