Larocque and Roll

NaNo 2007 Day 30: Endgame December 1, 2007

I just spent the last hour an a half in the kitchen making the components of a gingerbread trifle (it will be assembled tomorrow afternoon). Before that, I spent most of the day cleaning the house, moving furniture around, and shopping for groceries. Last night I spent almost three hours baking gingerbread cookies [1] for the cookie exchange at work today. Before that, I spent an accumulated seven or eight hours making new curtains for the windows on the main floor and a new cover for my footstool.

Prior to that, I’ve entertained four guests on three occasions for a total of six days and seven nights (I’m rounding up, I think). With those visits, came the obligitory cleaning and slaying of dust bunnies.

This is a long way of saying that I didn’t get any writing done on my story since the last update. None. My total word count this year was under 2000. I did try a few times - I’d sit down at my laptop and stare at my screen for an hour or so before giving up and going and doing something more [2] productive.

Part of it was the story - I just wasn’t feeling it. I had no plot, no characters, and no passion for what I’d written. If I’d had any of the three, you can bet I’d have made time to work on the story. As it was, it was too easy to walk away from it because I couldn’t see getting to the point where I would start to like it. And in the end, there was just no spark. To belabour the analogy, the patient had very little life on arrival and died on the table.

Would I do NaNoWriMo again? Damn skippy I would! Would I do it next year? I sincerely hope so.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go to bed. I’m hosting the staff Christmas party tomorrow night - almost everything is done except sweeping the floor, and cooking my two dishes. I can sleep the sleep of someone who is on schedule for once.

[1] Yes, I’m obsessed with gingerbread. What made you ask?
[2] Or occasionally less.