In which I lay some plans

Well, I have had a little more sleep, so I may be a little more coherent, or maybe I won't be. But, as the song goes, I'm still here. Almost through the week. I'll be able to pay more attention to the NaNo stuff after tomorrow, I think. Finding that most of the books I got weren't what I was looking for. Don't know why I even bothered looking, I knew what I was going to do.

I'm also distracted by the receipt of Pratchett's Going Postal. Good stuff. Haven't gotten as far as I like into it yet, but it's been a busy day, and I only got it yesterday. I've been thinking a lot about the write your own adventure thing I want to do. I've always hated that choose-your-owns never had the choices I would actually take. With the web and hypertext, though, one can have a system where people propose new choices and consequences to add. I think the wiki format would be ideal for this. I want to set one up, do some basic stuff with it, and set it loose to the kids it's intended for and see how it evolves. I need to see if there's a way I can view stuff before it gets put up, though. Just in case people get, er, out of hand with it. But kids will be able to add their own choices, and write up what they think happens. As I have time, I'll edit the added bits to be more in with the style of the rest of the story, I think, but I intend for it to be largely self-written. I've downloaded some wiki software already, though I haven't put it up on the site yet.

But this will all probably occur after NaNo. Ok, so, what am I doing with that? Well, I went and read a friend's treatment, and boy, does it sound good. So I have to fight the "gee, my story sounds dumb" bug again. Of course, I haven't spelled out the details here. Part of that is because I don't want anyone actually saying "Gee, that story sounds dumb" where I can read it! They'll have plenty of time to do that once I've finished it. Then I won't mind so much. People do it too soon, and that'll kill the thing in its tracks.

I'm trying to decide if I'm going to post bits of it anywhere (password protected, natch) or not. I dunno. I will try to get the progress meter to show up here. If not, I'll put in the other NaNo progress meter. So you'll know where I am with the word count. It would be nice to use the NaNo bar rather than the other gauge for two reasons- I can update once, and the gauge is a larger graphic than I'd like for this page.

I don't know how much I'll write here during November. I was thinking of checking with a daily word count and some favorite sentences or something. Teasers. What do you think? I don't think I want to spend precious word count time doing ramblings here... But I may find I do, since I may want to core dump during the process. I dunno. I'll have to see. But I am hoping my sprinting now will pay off later. I am bound and determined to write, even if it's crap, even if I don't want to. I've been pretty good. I've had many nights I came close to crying off. Still kind of having that. I missed a few, but not more than twice in a row, and not too often. I'm pleased. I don't need to do it perfectly, I just need to do it.