(no subject)
Nov. 7th, 2011 09:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretThe best thing I have written for NaNo so far is a takedown of Giambattista Vico from a post-apocalyptic perspective. "Ricorso? What ricorso? We know only the sensation of slipping backward off the shoulders of giants."
It is a great sentence I am so proud of.
I also wrote this nutty Biblical criticism parody: "Everyone seems to have a theory about who is narrating the italicized sections of "Pale Fire". The proposed narrators span from God to a common songbird who happened to be flying overhead as Nyeiza hashed out this awkward scene with her blind date. One critic even proposed that Vladimir Nabokov, author of the pornographic novel Lolita, is being pastiched here by Shade."
But other than these scattered bright spots, this NaNo is way more frustrating than last years. I'm at 8500 words, a far cry from where I ought to be, and I'm not enjoying writing as much as I want to be. I have a strong suspicion I'm going to lose interest in this before the end of the month, but for now I'm determined to keep it up mostly because I love the social part of NaNo so much. I've already been to three write-ins and they've all been great fun.
I'm also a little worried about Yuletide. Not in an omg let's make wank way, but I think the combination of having to request someone else's nomination and only being able to nominate 4 characters is going to make it much easier to match- at the expense of actually getting the story I'm most excited about. And I'm not enthusiastic about that tradeoff. I think many people who request fandoms the way I do are likely to end up matched on their fourth fandom, the one they had to make compromises on.
Now, I had a great time doing Yuletide the year I didn't do nominations at all, and I love to death the East of Eden story I received that year (Lee and Sam can argue forever as far as I'm concerned!!!!), so it's not the end of the world. But I definitely think prioritizing the ease of the match over the goodness of the match is more harmful to people who request nonexistent fandoms than to people who request small fandoms for Yuletide.
In any case, Yay Yuletide! I can't wait for it to happen!!!
For reference, I am most likely nominating Marriage of Figaro (again), The Autograph Man, and Midnight's Children. If I had a fourth nomination it would go to Space Opera Peter Grimes, but alas...
It is a great sentence I am so proud of.
I also wrote this nutty Biblical criticism parody: "Everyone seems to have a theory about who is narrating the italicized sections of "Pale Fire". The proposed narrators span from God to a common songbird who happened to be flying overhead as Nyeiza hashed out this awkward scene with her blind date. One critic even proposed that Vladimir Nabokov, author of the pornographic novel Lolita, is being pastiched here by Shade."
But other than these scattered bright spots, this NaNo is way more frustrating than last years. I'm at 8500 words, a far cry from where I ought to be, and I'm not enjoying writing as much as I want to be. I have a strong suspicion I'm going to lose interest in this before the end of the month, but for now I'm determined to keep it up mostly because I love the social part of NaNo so much. I've already been to three write-ins and they've all been great fun.
I'm also a little worried about Yuletide. Not in an omg let's make wank way, but I think the combination of having to request someone else's nomination and only being able to nominate 4 characters is going to make it much easier to match- at the expense of actually getting the story I'm most excited about. And I'm not enthusiastic about that tradeoff. I think many people who request fandoms the way I do are likely to end up matched on their fourth fandom, the one they had to make compromises on.
Now, I had a great time doing Yuletide the year I didn't do nominations at all, and I love to death the East of Eden story I received that year (Lee and Sam can argue forever as far as I'm concerned!!!!), so it's not the end of the world. But I definitely think prioritizing the ease of the match over the goodness of the match is more harmful to people who request nonexistent fandoms than to people who request small fandoms for Yuletide.
In any case, Yay Yuletide! I can't wait for it to happen!!!
For reference, I am most likely nominating Marriage of Figaro (again), The Autograph Man, and Midnight's Children. If I had a fourth nomination it would go to Space Opera Peter Grimes, but alas...
(no subject)
Date: 2011-11-07 09:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-11-07 09:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-11-07 10:14 pm (UTC)