When you have nothing to say, make a LiveJournal post (brief mention of NaNoWriMo)

[mousme]

It's funny because it's true.

I feel like I'm spending a whole lot of time whining in this LJ. Or, if not whining, then complaining (which is eerily similar, but is less high-pitched).

I'm not sure I like that.

For one thing, I don't (I hope) spend nearly as much of my time being negative off the internet. I'm generally a pretty upbeat person (when not beset by crippling depressive episodes, but that's a story for another day), and it looks to me as though anyone reading my LJ would just find me the most Negative Nancy ever.

I'm not sure why that is. I have theories, though. I think part of it is due to the fact that I was raised never to burden other people with my problems, so that even when I complain to my friends IRL, I try to mitigate what I'm saying by turning it into a self-deprecating joke. Online, it doesn't seem to count in my books. Somewhere in my head, LJ isn't real. The people reading my LJ aren't real, and that includes people I know and interact with off the internet regularly. It's not even a question of complete-strangers-off-the-internet.

miseri once made the observation that LJ is a lot like OOC (Out Of Character) Knowledge in a roleplaying game. On one level you know what's going on with other people, but you carry on as though your "character" doesn't know it. It's like being an omniscient narrator and a third-person limited POV character at the same time, and keeping the two scrupulously separate.

I have no real answer. I think that's the closest I'll come to it.


In other news, my November is progressing better than previous ones. I haven't gone crazy, I haven't been swamped by work (or, at least, not consistently swamped), and it actually looks as though I might be able to finish my novel for NaNoWriMo.

Those of you who don't already know this, but who want to follow the day-to-day high speed drama of NaNoWriMo in Phnee's world can find my ramblings on the topic at secret_history. I've been told repeatedly that my talking about NaNoWriMo in this forum pisses people off, so I mostly talk about it over there. Bear in mind it's usually just brief accounts of my day and wordcount. The meaning of life is not to be found in my writing journal. Not yet, anyway.


I'm kind of thinking of a new writing project. One that might end up in rocking_thing. It's poking at the back of my mind, and telling me it wants to be a weekly column, maybe on creativity, more likely thoughts on the idea of personal change. Evolution. Or something. I may noodle about this more thoroughly in secret_history, since it's writing-related.

Actually, I have ideas for two writing projects, and I want to start my serial again in December. So many projects, so little time.

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[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

Having the other LJ is all well and good, and yes, even makes sense, but if it came about because of feedback like that, I gnash in their general direction.

Ann and I would make a formidable hit team, you know. She could hit them with bricks; I could hit them with Roman. And both of us could tear targets apart with the words from our tongues.

[meallanmouse.livejournal.com]

Death by bricking and deadly rapier wit.

:: wise nod ::

[terheyt.livejournal.com]

Ever hear the song "Me and Dorothy Parker" by the Flash Girls?

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

No. I keep meaning to look up some Flash Girls. Appropriate, I take it?

[meallanmouse.livejournal.com]

Ha!

:: makes mental note of stuff to set aside ::

[meallanmouse.livejournal.com]

I have both Maurice & I and The return of Pansy Smith and Violet Jones.

:: grin ::

[mousme.livejournal.com]

*puts up a shield and cowers behind it*

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Nah, the LJ was there before, because I really liked the name. I decided to use it as a writing LJ, and then forgot about it.

Then people whined that NaNoWriMo was boring, or pointless, or evil (there are a few people out there who think NaNo is the pinnacle of all things evil, I'm not sure why), and said they wouldn't read my LJ during November.

Originally I was going to say "Fine, whatever. Don't read." But then I remembered my writing LJ, and started posting things in there instead. So every now and then I post a reminder over here for people who want to read my creative writing stuff, also for the benefit of new readers who might be interested too. :)

The thought of you and Ann together as a hit team frightens me beyond coherent thought.

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

And well it should. It should Strike Fear Into The Hearts Of People Who Quash Self-Expression Everywhere.

I think I can speak for Ann when I say, invoke us at need.

[meallanmouse.livejournal.com]

When I say "I have a brick on my desk at work", I am not kidding in the least.

It serves as a pencil holder, when not needed for Other Things.

[swestrup]

Your post reminds me of the character Scorn from the book Desolation Road. He could flay the flesh from a mans bones by words alone. Literally.