Tag: nanowrimo

Read: Enemies (Svetlana Chmakova): More middle school adventure with a main character who was a side character in previous volumes, and is having a rough time because getting things done is the worst and everybody is always getting upset and she has a little sister. It does work out in the end, though.

Read: The Cool Code (Deirdre Langeland, Sarah Mai): A homeschooled girl goes to middle school for the first time, but fortunately she wrote an app to tell her how to be cool. Trouble ensues, but it works out in the end.

Read: The First Rule of Punk (Celia C Pérez): A Mexican-American-Punk girl has to go to middle school in a new city where everybody thinks she should be more Mexican, with only punk music and hand-made zines to cope. It works out in the end.

Read: Mihi Ever After (Tae Keller): An elementary(?)-school girl who really wants to be a princess despite not being thin or blonde or white makes a couple of new friends and gets sucked into Fairy-Tale-Land, where they offer to train her to be a princess, but things get much worse before it all works out in the end. Something about the style made this very unengaging, but maybe that’s just because it was younger than I usually read?

Written: 769 words, but mostly not NaNoWrimo. You’d think reading about middle-schoolers would make me more able to write the travails of my middle-school-aged protagonist, but apparently not.

Read: Ocean’s Echo (Everina Maxwell): Same universe as Winter’s Orbit, but not otherwise related. A disaster of a politician’s kid gets drafted because nothing else will keep him out of trouble and partnered with an extremely dedicated and honorable complementary psychic who wants nothing to do with him. Together, they fight crime, and also find out what their powers are made of and change the course of history. There might be some romance, too.

Written: 511 words, although they weren’t all NaNoWriMo words.

I did manage to do some work, although probably not as much as I should have, and also got a flu shot so I’m immunologically qualified to go to Thanksgiving and see Finley. I scheduled a fourth covid shot as well, which I probably should have done before Big Bad Con, but some weirdo in a long scarf hijacked my time machine so now I can’t do that then. Anyway, time to begin stressing about how I am a failure at life due to having no children or child-related activities to talk to real grownups about!

Written: 410 NaNoWriMo words. So trending in the right direction, but still very feeble.

I could not find any helpful information on the judicial confirmations, but was able to form opinions on everything else up for a vote. (The partisan offices were easy, because the time to go “well, even though he’s a Republican, he seems reasonable” is long past.) Looks like many other people nationwide also declined to vote for fascism, possibly even enough. Also nice to be able to point and laugh at the (rich, male) pundits who said abortion wasn’t important to people.

Written: 326 NaNoWriMo words.

I should be doing more work but instead I am going blurgh. I should be filling out my ballot, but instead I am going blurgh. I should be writing a terrible novel, but instead I am going blurgh.

Read: The Iron Gate and The Flood Circle (Harry Connolly): Hurray for more Twenty Palaces! Annalise is becoming almost human, but Ray… not so much. Also everything is on fire and we don’t know when the final book will come out!

Written: 205 NaNoWriMo words, which is at least going in the right direction compared to yesterday. Blurgh.

Grocery shopping worked okay, except that I skipped going to the bookstore so I could get back in plenty of time for minigolf  and then the buses are all different so I turned out to have had plenty of time. Not that I have any shortage of reading material and anyway I should redo my list of things to buy.

We had a Marith and a Jus for minigolf, so that was nice. I might even be getting slightly better at it. Afterwards I went to play Band Hero extremely badly (I just cannot sing, vocals don’t come out, because I only ever subvocalize along to music) and eat some pretty darn good hummus. Jus sang a lot of Joan Jett, which is good.

Written: 175 NaNoWriMo words, which I am supposed to celebrate even though it’s basically nothing.

For a change, I didn’t have to get up early! Well, not earlier than usual, which still seems too early, except that if I stay in bed any longer, it’s definitely too late.

Read: “Skeleton Song” (Seanan McGuire): Another quick portal fantasy, full of love beyond death and spooky beauty.

Watched: Star vs the Forces of Evil 4.17-19: On the plus side, all plot all the time! On the downside, still the wrong ship.

Written: 649 NaNoWriMo words. Still not very many, but if I keep increasing at 300 words per day per day, I should finish in plenty of time! (That would be 18 days of writing, with the last day being 5400 words, which is totally an amount a real writer could do. Just not an amount I could do.)

Another early-morning meeting, bah. Also customers.

Read: Candy & Cigarettes vol 1 (Tomonori Inoue): A cop reaches mandatory retirement age but still needs an income stream for medical treatment for his grandkid, so doesn’t put up much fight when he gets recruited by the secret government agency in charge of murdering bad people and partnered with a terrifying 5th-grade assassin. It helps that all the targets are super-sleazy.

Read: Command Authority (Terry Mixon, JN Chaney): Fifth in the series. New discoveries continue to be made and tested without mounting a scratch battleship, the military continues to be entirely corrupt.

Watched: Star vs the Forces of Evil 4.15-16: What the heck, Hekapoo? Did you do that on purpose?

Written: 385 NaNoWriMo words, which is not even close to a NaNoWriMo day.