1667

1667. That is the key. No nothing to do with year, though there must have been something going on that year. As there are things going on every year. Perhaps I will remember to look it up, perhaps not.
Like I said this has not to do with that.
“So what is the 1667 for?”
Yes back to topic. 1667 is the number of words I must write a day in November. Well technically it is 1666.666666, but 1667 is better and works. You need a few extra because no two word counts work just the same. So as I have to right them then I though it best to get started now. As I have a different set up and need to get used to it. And see that I can get my words done and feed my troops still. They, the folks in my game, need to get used to seeing less of me. It is going to be interesting for all to see how this plays out.
But I can’t not write. It just is not possible to go though a November and not right. It has gotten under my skin. I am not sure just what I will write but I know I will write. There are to may ideas bouncing around, and what makes it to the page may be nothing like any thing in my head.
“Wait why are must you write a set number of words in November? And for that matter why am I here? That is why are you talking to your self like this?”
Ok one at a time. First I am doing it like that for two reasons. One it helps me go where I need to. Keeps me from moving all over. (and has the added bonus of reminding me of my phil. papers, :) Asking questions and answering them is a nice way to keep things moving where you want the to. It alls is a good way to have arguments in a page, as I might show anther time.
Second it helps with word count. Not that I do a lot of padding, that is writing things that you know will disappear during editing, but some happens. There are days where every word is a struggle and so some non-since happens. Or those times when your fingers somehow kill the wrong person and you need to turn it in to a dream. You see the one thing you should not worry about is deleting things, that is January is for. The key thing for November is just getting the words on the page. A thing that is not all ways as easy as it sounds. Trust me.
If there is something you just cant stand change it to white and move on. When you go back tio edit you might feel different, or it might be the thing to spark anther idea. Even if in and of it self it is useless. Well that is what you should do, but it is not all ways something I can do I can’t help but edit a bit as I write. But will not remove big chunks, just small. It is all about compromises.
But then I have not told you why I am doing this in the first place yet, have I? Well if you have stumbled upon these ramblings of mine, or my facebook page, you might just know all ready. But for those ho don’t it is for NaNoWriMo. There you go.
“Wait! Just what is that Wrima thing?”
Na No Wri Mo. National Novel Writing Month. It is a contest. No that is not right, as that implies judging. And there is no judging. Um Lets go with challenge, a self challenge. Yes that is better. So it is a challenge to write 500000 words in a month. It says novle, but no one is reading what you write unless you show it to them. There are those that will right non-fiction, those that write plays, or other things.
And there are this few sad souls that feel it necessary to cheat there selves and just write copy one word overt and over, or even to just cut text from other places and put it in the word counter. Some of them to show how pointless it is, how silly we all are. Others because they can. There will always be some like that. But they are only hurting there selves. There is no curve here as they might be on a test.
“So what do you get out of it?”
The joy have having done it. Seeing the word count bar turning from gray to green to purple, and certificate. But the key is the know you can, that wonder at having written all those words. Then there has been a self publishing company that offers the winners, that is everyone who made it to 50000 words a free copy of there book. But the key thing you get is the joy. The knowledge that you did it, that you can do it.
“I you don’t edit why would you want a copy?”
You coupon is good for six mounts so you have time to finish up and do some editing. And there is something so amazing about getting you book and seeing all those words you have writing and knowing you made it. That it was all you. The power of your mind. But you don’t have to use it for your nano book,. It can be used for anything. And no it doesn’t matter if what you use it on is over 500000 words. Heck all of my nano novels have went over, and the ones I got copies of got longer after November. The company doesn’t care.
“So if you get it dose that mean it is for sale?”
They do give you the option to sell your book though them, but nothing forces you to do so. Don’t go into this thinking you will make money. You won’t. even if you write something that gets published your not going to make a lot of money. An writers share of the cost of a book amounts to a few cents. It is not much, most of your favorites will have a second job, or are putting out a lot of books each year just to pay the bills. There are exceptions, of course, but don’t count on being able to live off of writing. No I have been published, and likely wont be. But I have looked into how it works. Go to look at some writers blogs, chances are they will have at lest one post about how they get paid. Some will have posts answering question about getting published as well. (If you can’t find anything on yours let me know and I can give you links to mine. Visiting there pages is all so a good way to keep up on what they are working on, and when the next book will be out. Some share snippets)
As for Nano, visit Nanowrimo.org yes that is .org, not .com. they are a certified non-profit. There is no charge, but they do ask for donations, both for site expenses and there classroom work. There is a separate sight for young writes, with a different set up for word goals. Sorry not a site I have looked at, but you can check it out for details.
The big thing for me is that there are others doing it to. Folks who understand that you don’t always know where a stories is going. That characters can and do have minds of there own. Even if they do come from your head. It is being able to talk to folks who are going though the same thing as you.
Well I don’t have more to say so will just call it a night. But look for there to be a few more post here for then next little bit.

Night and good dreams,
Imaginary readers.

oh and feel fer to ask anything. might just give me something to write about :) take care and have fun.

New story idea.

Yap I know I have anther blog for this but I am bored, no not bored just . . . . . . energized. yes that is better. So I thought to post it here as well. it has no names and nither do the players. realy all it has is an opening. so not much but here it is any anyways. Just case I wanted to
"She stopped her mount and looked down at the valley and shook her head. She had never expected to be here again. Yet she was and it all looked the same. From here you could not tell that five years had past. But they had and it was not the same sacred and troubled child on this hill now as had been there before. She heard anther horse pull up next to hers. With out turning her she said. "I do not know if I am more afraid that they will know me, or that they won't. When I left here all those years ago, I never ment to come back. Certainly not like this, as part of a hired army."

So there you go. its not much but I felt like shareing. odd, but that is me tonight.

I'm melting

Ok so I'm not, but summer is arriving by leaps and bounds. That means hot weather and short tempers. (temps short as I find folks tend to tier faster in heat.) Fans a going and water disappearing. But the heat is good. it helps us welcome winters cold, as winters cold helps us welcome summers heat. but enough of that.
now then Demon now has a crime partner so I need to find a way to deal with 2 kittens. such fun and such pain. My poor legs.
reading anther good book, when I find time to and don’t have a cat trying to eat it. :) King aurther story that starts with atlantes. Merlen should be sowing soon, Aurthur won't tell the next book in that set that is. Not the next i read, as that has noting to do with him. Either a teen book on how to get rid of a parking fairy, or a book about seeing the other world is next. Not sure witch will win. So many books and so little time. There are so many that I can never read them all. So sad. Sure I am missing some good ones but am reading some good ones. So it is all good.

Ok just a bit more. You know that nonawrimo thing? Well there is company that gives the wins a free copy of there book, in book form. I all ways seem to run out of time and never get the editing done, but send it in any ways. So nice to see it. Well this last one ended up being a whopping 580 pags. Of course there is things that don’t need to be, but there are things that should be and aren’t. such is the way of rough drafts.

Ok done. Do pardon my bragging.

Night and good dream

imaginary reader.

wow a post.

Thats right A post. After more than a month without even a look. no you are not seeing things. this is a post.
Why? Well I found the end to by book, got my computer back, and demon is doing better. So I am posting.
Who is Demon?
A withe kitten that we have for some reason. not that we have ever been able to keep a white cat alive, but this one might just be mean enough to make it. :)
Demon?
Yes. it was running all over so I said it was moving like a little demon. And as we got to know it Demon fit. She knows her name as well as any other cat.
Why are you writing like this? Talking to your self is not a good idea.
Why nit? it is fun. Besides this is the second time writing this and I am trying to remember what I said the fist time. before I lost internet. Man but dial up is a pain. If you want slow and bother some. you've got it.
Life is good. Summer is here and the roses are blooming a bit, budded at lest. no more snow for a few months and by then I will want it.
Wasn't there something eles?
There was but I can't remember it so it must not matter.
Oh and by my book coming to an end I mean I have something that might be something after a lot of work. there are details to add and unneeded events to be removed.
Will that ever be done?
Who knows? It might, but this is the second that i thought might be worth it and nothing has been done with the first yet. though this story is a bit more inviting. I want to know what happens. how they handle there different lives. but there are so many stories that I just don't know. most just live in my head but a few seem to stay longer and might make it out.

Well goodnight imaginary reader.

Luck be with you.
Blp

Fortune Cookie spoke true.

No it didn't bother to say that I can't spell. That would be to mundane to warent this late night post. After all there are a lot of barb camps to be hit. When your troops has your food down to -1mil an hour it takes a lot of barbing to keep ahead of them. And I missed my morning session so was under a days food, and feel better when i have two days lee way.
And no it did not say I am way to attached to a silly computer game. after all it is just a bunch of 1 and 0. Again that would be to mundane to warnt this post. after all this is eat my barb time. Yes it might just be 1 and 0 but it is fun. even when my city gets sacked for no reason. (Yes it is a war came but we were not in a war just then so there was no reason for him to hit me 14 times. 1 or 2, but not 14.) Yes I know I am silly, but silly is fun.
Where was I? Oh yes the fortune cookie!
What It said was READ TO LIVE! Dose it get any better than that? I mean I have been a book worm since I was in the fourth grade, or was it the third? Years beyond count anyway. For that long books have spoken to my soal. Taken me places I would have no hope of going with out them. be it an untouched forest, a plague ridden city, the building of a cathedral that was completed long ago, or a battle in some war that never was, or that has long been added to history books. They have taken me to place so old that they live only in stories and fragments. Books let you see what might have been, what could be, and what was. With out books we would know so little of the world, and it if us. What a sad place the wold would be with out stories to show us the worlds that are beyond our powers to see.
Yes I know there is life outside of books to. Life I to often underrate, devalue. For it is from that life that the books come. Well in part. Books whether true or false are drawn from a mix of the stories and history all ready out there and the world that is lived in when they are written.
I know scolory books are supposed to be above influence. The whole pure history movement and all that. Sorry but it just is not possible. the person who writs, wrote, will write, them lives in a society that has certain ways of looking at the world. certain thing it views as right and certain things it views as wrong. Things that change over time, sometimes dramatically from one generation to next, sometimes slowly. But change they do. And as a part of that society, having been raised and educability in it shades how you see the wold. it can't be helped. It is there, often you are not even aware of it. but it IS there. and that shade will affect what you do. The way you tell the story. The way you look for truth, and in some ways the truth you find. had make no mistake you are telling a story, even if you are describing the way a cell reacts to a drug, you are telling a story. Even if you are solve a math problem, or coming up with a new answer for a physic. You are telling a story. And that will be shaded by what you all ready know, by what you have been taught. As for history. Well the winners right the books but there are two sides in every fight.
Oh I know there are those who have broken the laws of soiscity to tell a truth, and have paid for it. But they saw it inspite of the shade and no doubt the shade colerd how it was presented.
but that is more than enough of my pompous and silly ideas. For some reason Palto is ruining though my head with his "No man is wiser than he who knows he knows nothing"or something like that. but that is a even more selfish thing then my earlier writings, So I don't know where it came from, and should delete it. But that would not fit the spirit. So it will remain.
Talk about topic drift! this post has it in buckets. Sorry for that, but what can i say?
I had no idea where this was going to end up. I just meant to say that i was being told i was not reading enough lately, but went everywhere but there. Oh well. I will blame the time. (Oh and I am back to 36mil of food in my silly game. don't think I will hit much more before bed.)

Good night and good dreams imaginary reader.
May you have found something to think about somewhere in that jumble.

nothing but a post.

Well I am recovering from yesterdays trip to town. It was dun and I did find a few books but next year I am going to wait tell the seconded day to go. there were just to many people to be able to look. was there an hour and know I missed a lot because it was just imposable to really look. Live and learn. now i know it is not worth it. Still draind from all the shoping. we were gone all day and still forgot something i am sure. but it is nice to sepend a day away now and then even if it is tireing.

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I recently finished anther book, "The Dragon Book". This is a book of short stories. All have a dragon in them but not all dragons are what you would expect. It is surprising all the forms dragons can take. I am used to shape shifters, but this book was my first encounter with ice dragons. That is ones that breath ice. I had encountered dragons that lived in ice but not that breathed. There were tails of the past, of now and of other lands. There were dragons that were evil, that were good and some that just were. There is a tale of an author being hunted by an abandoned story. One that worry of what has been forgot. Dragons that were mountains, dragons that lived in the water. dragons that were loved and ones the were hated. Such images. It is surprising the place the mind can go.
I had been planing to go to anther book of short stories but this book made me want more shape shifting dragons. So I changed my plans a bit. funny how that works. Nice to have choices. As difficult as they can be at times. Well I truly don't know what to say so this will just be a short post.
Soon things will be green. that will be good.

good night and good dreams,
imaginary readers.