{"id":2870,"date":"2015-12-01T02:36:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T09:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2017-04-08T20:56:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T03:56:06","slug":"eight-hundred-fifty-thousand-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/01\/eight-hundred-fifty-thousand-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Hundred Fifty Thousand Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nanowrimo<\/p>\n

So another Nanowrimo draws to a close. The title says HEX CODE, but today\u2019s writing was finishing out a few details in scenes in BOT NET (the second part of the Spellpunk trilogy manuscript I\u2019m working on) and then a new beginning for ROOT USER (book 3). That new beginning, which played out a scene I\u2019ve had in my head a long time, was very easy to write.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat\u2019s a damn shame,\u201d says a distant voice, \u201cso large an animal, in so small a cage.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Muzzily, I grogs awake. What the fuck? Can\u2019t they see I\u2019m sleepin\u2019? But then the words they\u2019ve spoken starts to set in, balls in a Pachinko machine, rattlin\u2019 in through the Pascal\u2019s Triangle patterns in my brain to rack up a score of maximum annoyance.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The cage, you see, is large, for its type\u2014a safety cage. Eight by thirty, made of elaborate wrought-iron vines, fashioned special from a welder we knows in Little Five Points, the safety cage is the largest and nicest I\u2019ve ever been in\u2014and the largest we could fit on our front porch.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The porch is big, and Southern, in front of a house big, and Southern, a third of the way down Fairview from Moreland, not three blocks from L5P. Pretty big even by Atlanta standards, but county code sez leave the front door unblocked, so thirty feet wide is was the cage limit.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Not that it feels limiting; there\u2019s lamps and books and ferns and an ahw-SOOOME sectional sofa we found at an outdoor patio store, which stretches almost from the porch door on the left to the <regulation width with code #> stair down to my den.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a full fourteen feet of sofa, fully twelve feet of it usable\u2014which is a good thing, because stretched over it right now, covering just about its full length this very instant, is the enormous animal that the annoying interpopers have named.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s why the last day of Nano has that spike: let your inspiration flow!<\/p>\n

\"Nanowrimo<\/p>\n

That brought me to over 65,000 words, the most I\u2019ve done in Nano, as far as I know, ever:<\/p>\n

\"Nanowrimo<\/p>\n

SO I have a new record to beat. But I also cracked 700,000 words on my spreadsheet \u2026 which means, since I\u2019ve done Nano at least three times before, my total Nano total is 850,000 words.<\/p>\n

\"Nanowrimo<\/p>\n

I feel pretty happy about that. Nano has brought so many creative ideas to the table, I can\u2019t even begin to describe it. Easily a half dozen completely new ideas came to me this month – one even within the final writing session just before midnight tonight. I have to credit Nano for giving me this inspiration.<\/p>\n

Now, onward to the next round of edits on THE CLOCKWORK TIME MACHINE \u2026 and the 50,000 other projects I\u2019ve been putting off, like my library \u2026 though I *might* take out a little time to play a video game, or, perhaps, read a book \u2026 you never know …<\/p>\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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