is where the January Novel Writing Month project will take place in 2006. The rules are very similar to NaNoWriMo. The exception to the normal NaNoWriMo rules is that, if you participated in NaNoWriMo in November, you can add 50K words to your November novel. Why? Because the purpose of starting a new novel is so that you can have a fresh start. If you did that in November and just need to finish your fresh-start novel, this is a good way to do it. Also, it’s what I’ll be doing, so I made it a rule. ;P
We’ll have a thread in the community to post any auto-generated word counter graphics so everyone can see their progress as they go.
There will be T-shirts and swag available for purchase, probably from CafePress or a similar website, but this is not a commercial undertaking. Just a fun free-for-all.
At the end of the project, if you win, your prize is personal enrichment. This is a prize that’s otherwise elusive in many of our daily lives, so embrace it. Enjoy it. Honor it.
Food: Potato-leek soup is an awesome thing to do with leftover mashed potatoes.
Sore throat: Woke up this morning at 3 AM with a “tickle” (and a cough) in my throat. Took a zinc lozenge. Woke up at 6:15 with partially-dissolved lozenge still in my mouth, and my throat feeling like it was burned by acid all night.
I went shop-happy on Amazon.com yesterday. They gave me a free 3-month trial of their premium membership. I am already loving it– free 2-day shipping on anything? Oh, yes. That is joy.
So my “I finished NaNoWriMo” self-presents shipped this morning (as did Mom’s Christmas gift). I got two books for SCA-ing: “Medieval Calligraphy” and “Pleyn Delit: Medieval Cookery.” The first is apparently *the* book for scribes in the SCA wanting to develop a “period” hand. The second is for folks wanting to cook period food (I’m secretly hoping it will also have recipes for rapini and other weird tasties that my organic CSA keeps delivering to us).
We had a winner at the write-in last night! Someone new(ish)– I gave her her winner’s medal and a bunch of congratulations.
