[NaNoWriMo] My version!

Okay, so it's November first, and pretty much all my writing friends here on LJ are jumping in on NaNo, so I commend you all and hope you reach all your goals!! :) Even emmalyonis getting in on the action, doing NaKniSweMo this year!

As for me...? Unfortunately it looks like another year where I'm too busy with other things to be able to write a novel in a month, so I've decided I'm going to tweak NaNo to my own purposes, and it's twofold:

--Use the month of November to finish off the projects I'm working on
--Train myself to speed up my workflow

The first one would be the kinda-sorta NaNo challenge for me, as this would include not only the Can't Find My Way Home outline but getting as far as I can with the trilogy website planning (finish reading/tweaking A Division of Souls, write up a few teaser posts, etc). If I still have time left, I will add the various Love Like Blood 2 projects. The main goal is to finish off these projects, or at least get as far as I can on them before the end of the month.

The second one is sort of more important and is kinda the outcome of the first...although I've been a lot more consistent with my work, which I felt was more important to focus on for awhile, I feel it's nearly time to work on volume. I can do a lot more than a couple hundred words a day...I just have to work at it. And the outcome of this one is to train myself out of procrastination and getting easily sidetracked.

So all in all, not exactly writing and completing a novel, but I'm aiming for similar goals, and that's good enough for me. It's going to be a busy couple of weeks all around, and I doubt I'll be posting much around these parts, or at least as much as I normally do (with the exception of November 4th--that's a given, whichever way that day ends up), but I'll try to check in either here or on jonchaissonwith updates!

So!

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

Good luck NaNo'ers!

See you at the finish line!

:D  :D  :D  :D

[PC] Arkham West 2.0

Yay! Up and running! The restore went well...at the moment I'm still configuring things such as McAfee and IE. I hope to install the printer next.

Which reminds me--ran the Big Fix thing that comes with XP, and noted that they had a message talking about a virus going around that's affecting print spoolers. Hmmmm....

More soon!


ETA: PRINTER SUCCESS! :D Now y'all will stop hearing me whine about it! :p

[NaNo] In which I spend the day NOT writing...

...for a good reason! As said in the previous post, I spent the day restoring the PC, connecting the computer, and updating a lot of the stuff. All steps I think are a little more important at the moment, considering that I don't have MS Word on there at the moment!

Which reminds me...looking at the Microsoft site, I'm thinking I may update MS Word to the 2007 version...I had the 2003 version, but considering how much work I do on it, I think it's worth the upgrade. If it wasn't so late in tax season, I'd even use it as a writeoff...

And on the list to be updated/reloaded/redownloaded:

--Media Monkey
--Zune
--My camera software
--My scanner software
--Random scanning programs (CCleaner, Ad-Aware, etc)
--iTunes/QuickTime
--My Dana software
--Google Earth
--Wave Pad (a great mp3 editor for simple remastering)

There's some other stuff, but I think that's about it for now...I'll download more later if/when I need it. And I think with most of the above, I won't download until I actually need it.

More later!