Nanowrimo 2009 - Driving Drunk

Art Credit: Unscripted Feature
I couldn't, for the life of me, quiet my brain yesterday.

I hadn't Nano'ed for 3 days and I was determined to get back in the groove. But I had so many thoughts (none of them related to writing) blitzing around my brain that I couldn't even sit still long enough to read over the last paragraph of my WIP to remember where I left off.

So I drank. It was either that or an expired Vicodin left over from a root canal a few years back. I chugged the Whiskey straight from the bottle until nothing mattered and everything made sense.

And it worked. 3o90 words of fairly decent quality in one hour before I passed out.

I'd better take care not to abuse this shortcut. But if you're stuck, and over 21, you might want to file this trick away in your brain as a Last Resort.

I'm off to eat something because my stomach is sour and my head is pounding. Then I'm going to sit down and write some more.

Sober this time.

Nanowrimo 2009 - When in Doubt, Hand Write!

I'm over the nipple.

After hours of dumbly staring at Word's blinking cursor, I did the best thing I've done in a while for my writing. I shut my computer off.

Okay, that's a lie. I set it aside.

I grabbed me a writing pad (Staples Bagasse) and wrote the old fashioned way. I had a bunch of fountain pens that needed to be drained of ink and put out of rotation, so I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone.

Just bask in the glory of the results. Five pages of double sided writing. 22o2 of which made it into my novel.

Good times.

On a side note. I'm ashamed to post these pictures because I do own a decent camera, I swear. But I usually just snap away with my blackberry and e-mail the images to myself. It's so much easier than hunting down the camera cable, plugging, unplugging, messing around with folders... rawr. My laziness is truly truly a sin.

SugarSync - Back that As* up!

My new best friend.

I've been using this online backup system for about six months for work stuff now and I love it. I just set up a separate account for Nano '09

You get 2GB of space to backup your files. Since it's online, everything you save can be accessed from any computer. Sure you can use a thumbdrive or e-mail yourself over and over again, but that's cumbersome.

Lazy people like me will appreciate a handy-dandy tool called the Magic Briefcase where you can save your file once have SugarSynch automatically upload changes and edits at a real-time pace. Want more? How about it saves the last 5 versions of your files so you can revert back with a simple click of the mouse?

Last but not least, you can share and collaborate.

Did I mention it was free?

Hard drive crashes, theft, housefires... my writing is free from your clutches.

Get thyself over to http://www.sugarsync.com/