Weg die Schienen

Filed under: Project 88, Typecast — olivander September 2, 2009 @ 9:55 am

“Nicht heilend Geisteswunden
das Lebeneine bittere Schande
Ich gehe weg die Schienen auf einem verrückten Zug”
–Ozzy Osbourne

Typewriter: 1932 Remie Scout

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  1. I’m certainly there with you. I had planned to update my blog everyday and was going good for a little over a week. Then I missed one post due to being out of town (even though I did bring my typewriter along). Then I missed another day due to coming home late.

    It happens. Its a self-imposed rule. Reminds me of trying to lose weight and feeling bad when you cheat a little. At this point in my life, I do what I can and if I miss a little something, well, I don’t let it get the best of me and just keep going!

    As for NaNoWriMo, it had come up enough times in the typeosphere, that I looked it up. Very cool experiment and I am sure I will give it a try one of these years.

    And I’ve got a few good ideas, but I don’t want to restrict myself to only writing one month out of the year.

    So, I agree, let it happen and when the time is right, it will come. I’m still just thinking small and committing myself to typing daily, even if its just a few lines of a poem or as mundane as a recipe or shopping list.

    I figure that the more I put myself in front of my writing instruments, no matter how trivial, the better the opportunity I will write…which, afterall, is the point!

    Comment by deek — September 2, 2009 @ 10:25 am

  2. Failure is not an option, soldier. The Brigade is sending ’round a few of our burlier thugs to help you realize the folly of your ways. You’re in the Family, capiche? Ain’t nobody crosses da Family and still’s able ta counts ta ten…

    *cough*

    Um, I mean: “It’s perfectly understandable how 88 consecutive days of writing would be way too much to manage, but that’s still no excuse for wimping out on NaNo.”

    Comment by mpclemens — September 2, 2009 @ 10:33 am

  3. Dude, I was once hauled into a Hackensack back room for a “chat” with a guy named Nunzi and a couple of goons. Your Typewriter Brigade thugs don’t scare me. :-p

    Comment by olivander — September 2, 2009 @ 10:41 am

  4. Bah. The 50,000-word mark is just there to get people who don’t normally have the personal motivation to write to write. When you’re ready to write something, you will.

    ‘Course, we’ll still have to bust your knees. You know, appearances.

    Comment by Mike.Speegle — September 2, 2009 @ 1:51 pm

  5. Apropos of nothing, I really like that typeface. Seems like I’ve said that before about the Scout…maybe not.

    The first few years I did NaNo, I was psyched up at this time of year. The last few years have been another story. (Get it? Another story…har-har.) Right about now I’m thinking of all the stories I’ve left in a tangled mess and how much I’ve been struggling to just write daily without some crazy goal in mind; and I admit, I’m just old enough and cranky enough to resent a little the cult phenomenon NaNoWriMo has become since I first started participating.

    But you know…by the end of October, with the Brigade conversations going full tilt and the excitement of the newbies in the air, I imagine we may all be singing a different tune.

    Comment by littleflowerpetals — September 2, 2009 @ 9:34 pm

  6. NaNoWriMo is just a Convenient Excuse for me to spend a limited amount of time doing something different and creative: I don’t go gangbusters for all the hype (also too grumpy/old, I guess) but I do enjoy figuring out the stories, and writing them all down. It makes up for the other eleven months of my insipid blog entries and snarky Facebook comments.

    Besides, my typewriters don’t get a chance to play that often.

    Comment by mpclemens — September 3, 2009 @ 7:03 pm

  7. Oh, the NaNo. I might be pressed this year to make it a rewrite-Nano instead of a fresh new one. I’ve got a story, but last year’s keeps whispering in my ear.

    We may both wimp out. Or we may say To Hell With It and dive in again anyway. We need to revisit this rationally around October 15th.

    Comment by monda — September 4, 2009 @ 8:42 pm

  8. I, for one, cannot believe what I’m reading here. I’m shocked, SHOCKED to hear this negativity.

    Shoot, November is the month where I have a ready-made excuse to spend tons of time playing with my typewriters, and my wife and kids don’t say a thing! It’s the time where I can sop the enormously frustrating rewrite of my last story and just do the *fun* part – the sloppy, crazy first draft!

    And Mike’s right – it don’t look good when senior officers in the Brigade start deserting. Don’t make us fire off a salvo of harshly-worded memos in your direction.

    Comment by duffymoon — September 5, 2009 @ 8:37 pm

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