Tapping out

Well, I guess I oughter make it one of them there official pronouncyments... I'm tapping outta th' ring.

No, this is good, really, truly. I made the decision yesterday, or really Saturday, I think, and nearly posted it yesterday but wanted to stew in it a bit before I made some kind of honking big deal over it. Which in a way it is, since it's the first time in four years now that I'm starting and finishing, if that's the right word, early.

Oh dear, I still haven't come out and just said it, have I? I'm done with NaNoWriMo 2009.

There it is. That's supposedly the bad news. The good news is that I spent the past two days thinking about restarting something I really wanted to write and spent my lunch hour today, when I wasn't taking calls, doing a little bit of cursory world building. I would have done some world building yesterday, but I wanted to do it with Campaign Cartographer and City Designer Pro and I couldn't get it to work under WINE (it's possibly an expired registration issue, not a compatibility problem), but that's something else, and negligible. The thing of it is, I'm actually a little excited about writing again, which is what NaNoWriMo was supposed to get me to whether I made 50,000 words or not.

What I had wasn't much of a story; what I did was take a bunch of scraps I had lying around my brain and dumped them into one pot with a badly-drawn character I didn't put much thought into. There was the half-baked ghost story, and the horror story about a raingod, and it was stuck into an old European town not too far off of something I'd already written, only it was occasionally nonsensical or absurdist, to which end I had a whole bunch of really inept German spies running around. When I hit a point where I wanted to write something else, it was also a point (not entirely coincidentally) where I really had nowhere to go with what was going in the "story" of this American reporter going to a constantly-raining town haunted by ghosts and stuffed with German spies. Indeed, that's why I'm telling you what I had--I'm never going back there again, unless it's to strip if for parts sometime.

I'm not exactly sure when I'll start writing the new/old thing though I feel like I've started already. I may draw a little bit, first, or try to--I'm no artist. I have some numbers in my netbook, that's good. I have some clumpy bits I have to chop up, too, before I can really get going. I feel like I'm talking about this too much, actually--but you have to understand, I'm feeling a bit giddy about this whole thing again, and that's really, really good.

NaNoWriMo 2009: best failure ever.

Root for me. Thanks.