Keziah Hill

Haven’t been here much. Been co-ordinating contests and doing other life stuff. And I’m writing this on my shiny new Mac. It’s bewtiful! But it also meant that my internet life collapsed somewhat because even though I saved all my work and other files, I lost my email contacts. Very frustrating. And I’ve yet to work out how to get my ebooks onto my HP ipaq. I don’t think it’s possible. Luckily I have a windows laptop I can download ebooks to and sync with my PDA.

My artist’s date was to a new very swank stationery shop in Leura. I bought a notebook and a dark pink glass pen. The picture of the notebook doesn’t do it justice. It’s actually fuschia and black and has a linen and flock finish. I almost can’t write in it, but I have.

Working on a fantasy novella which I hope to have finished by the end of October. I’m doing a writing marathon with RWAOnline, which is training for National Novel Writing Month. I’ve never done it before. The aim is to write 50,000 words in 30 days. That means 1,600 per day. Can I do it? Don’t know, but I’m going to give it a go.

I want to use the experience as a way of reconciling myself to writing crap. Instead of starting my first draft and agonizing over every word, then getting depressed and giving up, I want to get into the practice of writing without thinking about it too much. It’s not what I normally do, so it’s an experiment. Part of my strategy is to disconnect my modem before I go to bed and put it in another room. Then when I get up in the morning, I don’t get tempted by the internet. The other strategy is to not have breakfast before I start writing. Just get up and get into it.

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