You did WHAT, Gilman?

[lagilman]

from CE Murphy's blog:

"I have accepted desperance /Chaz's challenge, and will be writing a novel in five weeks.

Chaz is already ahead; he has 15K of an 80K novel written, and I have, um. Five or ten hand-written pages of a 60K novel written. More alarmingly, I have a Walker Papers proposal and a short story to do, both of which really need to be done before the novel. BUT I SHALL NOT DESPAIR."

And because a) the write-a-thon taught me nothing and b) I can't see a challenge go by without thinking "sounds like fun" I said "hey, can I play, too?"

Apparently, I can. We start Monday.

*headdesks, makes more coffee*

I also have 15k words written, of a 70k novel. I s'pose I'm technically in the lead, when we start. This situation will not hold, I know those two. Plus, they're six hours ahead of me. I'll wake up and already be behind...

Um. Zoom?

ETA:  An Update on Who and How  Short version: 60k in 5 weeks), and many of us are insane.


Originally published at Practical Meerkat: A Blog

Comments

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

Part of me wants to play. The other part reminds me I am in the middle of the second draft of a novel that's under contract. Why don't these challenges happen at convenient times?

The last time I did a short fiction challenge - 3 stories in 10 days - I sold all of them.

[lagilman]

I have... 2 short stories due in November. A novella I need to have done before October. Another novel I need to start writing, as soon as it's approved (under contract already). A book that needs revising before mine editor gets her hands on it. A book that so badly wants to be written it whimpers at me in my few quiet moments.

I am insane.

But all this will be done with/without the challenge, as the book I'm using is under contract (or will be soon's everyone gets their butts off their hands). So I think of it as a form of public, um, encouragement. Or humiliation.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Writers will be the first to use Time Turners. *nods like he knows what he's talking about*

You can do it!

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

You win the insanity smack-down! I know, it's sort of a booby-prize, but I know when to admit defeat.

[lagilman]

I'd rather lose it, but ya gotta work with the material you're given...

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Yes, but I will lower their average. I'm slow, and I waster mornings at the gym and so on.

[lagilman]

I've gotten my gym routine down to a 90 minutes 3x a week, including time to walk there/back. I keep thinking "if I spent the money to buy a Bowflex, I'd exercise more often and in the long run it wouldn't cost THAT much...." But the start-up costs scare me off.