Bondphone: NaNoWriMo.
Fifty thousand words in thirty day by Chris Lamb.
1.11.05
Housekeeping: Derivé.
So I'm doing this thing for the third year in a row, and in the interest of keeping things interesting, I've decided to post the novel as I write it, warts and all. There isn't really any time or need to edit as I go (it doesn't matter if the patient lives or dies, so to speak, so long as the operation is a success), so expect things to get a bit ugly grammar-wise. I'll spell check if I can be bothered, but that's about all I can promise. Anal-retentives, avert your eyes.
At the moment, I can only think of two types of posts that will show up here: one being chunks of the thing as I write them, the other being these Housekeeping posts. I don't know how often these little interruptions will occur, just that I find writing about the novel different enough from actually working on the thing to be a nice distraction. Speaking of, I should really be getting back to work. In the meantime, have a word and its definition. Or put of another way, have my book's working title and next best thing to a theme, ironically thought of on the walk back from a hat shop.
Derivé:The technique of locomotion without a goal, in which one or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there.
Wow, I kinda forgot this thing existed. It was meant to be an offshoot of my then-blog "Bondphone" for dealing with NaNo stuff, and then I got too busy to every use. Best intentions, and all that. All things Bondphone are dead and gone now, though, with everything blog-wise I do going up at Expertologist
