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blamebrampton ([personal profile] blamebrampton) wrote2013-11-01 07:14 pm
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Nano Diary Day 1: Gravity is my remorseless nemesis

Useful* word count before beginning: 11, 781
After a quick midnight type and before an evening's work: 12,197 (and about 200 more that were deleted and rewritten)

Complicating factors for the evening's work: evil bicycle toe strap caught my foot on my pedal when I was putting my foot down coming to a stop at a roundabout and I came off. I currently possess the mother of all elbow bruises! But I did keep everything tucked in neatly so it's minimal damage. Save to my ego.

On the upside, three fellow cyclists and some nice workers from the building site on the corner all leapt to help. No need for help, mostly just embarrassed! Off to he bike shop tomorrow for new toe straps, or maybe some clips. Or maybe I should just bite the bullet and go back to cleats and keep a pair of comfy shoes at work … Mildly tempted to buy some mountain biking body armour for my right elbow, which has been taking the brunt of things this year. I had even told myself on the ride in that it was time to replace that toe strap, due to developing evil. One day I will learn to listen to myself in a timely fashion!


* Consecutive stuff, not counting sketched out bits and fragments of later scenes that may or may not survive to the end.

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2013-11-01 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Original work. And yeah: I had thought about starting something fresh, but I had this story that has a lot of the planning and research already done, so it seemed to make a lot of sense to get somewhere serious with it.

YOU CAN DO IT! Even if it's not perfect, you can edit it later and then it will be!

[identity profile] incandescent.livejournal.com 2013-11-01 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
That definitely makes sense. My decision to do this was very last minute, so I haven't planned much of this story out yet. I'm just taking it slow, writing a page at a time.

That's what I figured! I'm just going to get it all out and then go back. I mean, it can't get much worse than it is right now. :)

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2013-11-01 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
A page at a time is a win, regardless of whether or not you hit an arbitrary deadline: think of all the pages!

[identity profile] incandescent.livejournal.com 2013-11-01 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
So true! And all the words! I'm aiming for five pages today. *fingers crossed*