I spent most of the day today preparing for National Novel Writing Month 2012 while Audrey was down in Ken Caryl visiting (and shopping with) her mom.
To start the day, I wrestled for several hours with a spreadsheet that includes our daily word count targets – it frontloads a lot of the work (3100 words for the first day!) and offloads Tuesdays and Wednesdays (so we can continue to go to Trivia and Karaoke), and cranks up the word count for Saturdays and Sundays (when we have more time than during the week). I finally got it all together, with a chart and everything. I still need to revisit that and include our actual daily word counts so we can (hopefully) see our Words To Go line stay even below the “Reverse” line.
I cleaned up my Google+ Circles. I turned the ‘volume’ on every circle down to zero to reduce distraction, with the exception of the new NaNoWriMo circle I created. Then I added as many people as I could find to the NaNo circle – so I count that as a wash, since the folks in the NaNo circle will inevitably post cute cats, too.
I got the NaNoWriMo demo of Scrivener installed. Here in a bit, I’m going to start digging in and really learning it while scraping together the barest bones of a book.
Also on my to-do list is creating the next two weeks worth of GeeksWhoDrink answer sheets. Our Tuesday Quizmaster said we needed “more paisley” after we rose to his challenge of “more nudity”. Challenge fucking accepted. I’m thinking I might replace all the Geeks Who Drink logo people with Brad Paisley. The week after that, we’re going to go with the team name “Your Couch Pulls Out? Where’d’ja You Get It, Goodwill?”
