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[thanate]

Went to write-in, thanks to the Etsy lady I ordered tea from, to whom I said, "hey, according to your profile, you're less than ten miles from me, and it seems rather silly to ship stuff that short a distance," so I had to leave the house to meet her somewhere. Having agreed to do this, I looked up write-ins for today, and determined that there was one at the Caribou Coffee (which has green jasmine tea I actually like, as opposed to starbucks, which I boycott mainly because I don't want to drink anything they sell except hot chocolate) where we used to go all the time over lunch break on one of the projects I was on during the cold/snowy bit of last winter. So I even knew how to get there.

Anyway, except for the random friend of another writer who turned up and kept trying to talk to us, it was quite worthy. Possibly I should motivate to leave the house more often.

However, my pre-planned plot is about to desert me. I've added in another conversation with the snake to put that off as long as possible. And for some reason, there's a lot of religion going on in this novel. Only aside from priests and fanatics, nobody seems to think much of it.

Comments

[grauwulf.livejournal.com]

Where do you find the write-in locations? I think that would be a good/cool thing to do, at least once. (could be a nice way to meet folks too)

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Maryland calendar (http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=nanowrimomaryland%40gmail.com&ctz=America/New_York)

NoVa calendar (http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=kpitts2%40gmu.edu&ctz=America/New_York)

I'm sure there's one for DC as well, but I don't have the link to it bookmarked. If you go to your Nano profile, there's a "regions" option, where you can search and join local groups.

[saladmonkeylamb.livejournal.com]

I'm a little surprised! I think write-ins are the best thing about NaNo, esp. after living somewhere that there was nothing ever going on. Actually, I hardly write at all when I'm at home- I only seriously sat down *here* and wrote one night. Most of the time I'm in coffee shops at write-ins or on my own, first because this lovey-dovey cat isn't around to come between me and my keyboard and second because when I'm working on my computer at home I feel guilty for not working on the comic.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

I just don't leave the house much? Also, my laptop dies after about 15 minutes without power, even when I give it a new battery that works perfectly well for someone else, so I need guaranteed outlets anywhere I go.

I tried going to a coffee shop to write once last year, and it was pretty empty, and they were playing some kind of music with people singing, and I was totally unable to concentrate on my story because there was just the one set of other people's words to listen to and my brain is convinced it has to listen to all words always, or at least not do anything else at the same time. I should totally go to the library, I know... but anyway, I was really proud of myself that I went out today and managed to ignore the christmas music on the loudspeaker and everything. Also, having other people around me writing helped, because there was the sense of "people will notice if you slack off and do something else."

And the other reason I haven't been is that all the write-ins are in places that aren't necessarily that far away, but that I never go to. And I'm really not a forum-person, so Nano isn't a community thing in my head. Except for people I actually know on lj, and the deadline bit...?

Um, how's that for five different excuses that might or might not have anything to do with it?