My third blog post

Ideal Job #1 - successful novelist
This ranks as my all time number one job. You can work in coffee shops (with beret), cocktail lounges or even the beach and you have an excuse to ask anyone ANY question. People expect you to be eccentric and you get invited to parties.... now an unpublished novelist is a completely differnet kettle of fish

Start your engines

OK I'm just busting to start writing. I've been filling my note book with ideas and I just want to get scribbling before my enthusiasm wanes. I keep thinking I should wait until Nanowrimo starts. I just can't shake the feeling that this one might be publishable.

I was looking through the forums on the nanowrimo website and came across a great tip. When you end writing for the day, end on half a sentence. When you sit down to write the following day you will naturally just finish the sentence then keep going. I can't remember who posted the tip but my hats off to you.... this seems like a great idea.

I've installed mind manager so I can start to plan out the plot anyway. It's a fun time of year where I get to pretend that I'm going to complete a novel.

I found my blog post from last year and it still seems apt

Given my fetishisation of the writer’s life style I've joined Nanowrimo for this year. I have no idea how I’m going to fit it in with the rest of my life, but I'm going to give it a go anyway. I wanted to write a novel and I'm going to get it done (or at the very least make a big dint in the word count).

Tags: nanowrimo

Parties and Nanowrimo

Right... I'm back now. I was just in the other room for a while.
I've signed up for Nanowrimo for another year and even decided to get involved in the community. I'm excited about this year it should be fantastic! In the lead up to nonmo I'll put up a few posts then go off the air for a while during november.

Got back from Lennox Heads yesterday. Went to my mate Detta's b'day party. It was the best birthday eva. Amazing ocean views from the front deck, live band in the lounge room (they kicked ass) and it all got a bit messy (no sleep until 4:30am). As always a fantastic night was followed with a "why do I punish my body so much" sort of Sunday... but I'm feeling more human today.