Nanowrimo
Days Left: 6
Words Left: ~20,000
Motivation: 0

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(I am writing other things... just not Nano.)

"Increasing the overall system efficiency by a simpler topology presents the succeed of this study."

I post this only so I can say 'succeed fail'.

CURSE YOU SWEDISH GEOLOGISTS

>=|

Nano update! Right now, in the storyline...

Amara is about to travel north to speak to Celdura and warn her that Amara's ex-boyfriend has come back from the dead and brought a magical death curse with him.

Geraint is also heading for Celdura, with the intent to kidnap her and bring her back to Tristan. He is going to fail, on account of Celdura being a goddess and Geraint being a mortal. Tristan, meanwhile, is brooding in a very theatrical manner. At some point he will probably get up and kick some ass because that's his second-favourite thing to do.

Grom, the undead ex-boyfriend in question, is rampaging around the countryside with his army of evil death gnomes. He isn't quite certain what he's come back from the dead for, but Melech is happy to explain things to him in such a way that Melech gets what he wants.

But before any of that can happen, Amara has to stop talking to Lucius and uncover the secret that he's implanted mind control devices in most of his favourite people.

Fun fun.

Pro: Dragon Age: Origins is awesome. Whoever had the idea of recasting dwarves as scheming bastards totally devoid of atrocious Scots accents deserves a medal. TWO medals, one of which is made of CAKE.

Con: I keep playing it instead of doing my Nano. =/

So, today's Nano pep talk was written by Lynda Barry. I have no idea who she is.

What a heap of shit. If nothing else I need to become a super-famous published author so when I stand up and say this sort of thing is shit, people listen.

The right way to arrange a meeting at work: Find out when everyone is free and schedule the meeting for then.

The wrong way to arrange a meeting at work: Kidnap everyone involved, nail them to chairs in a basement somewhere, and give the goddamn presentation whether they like it or not.

If these people don't stop cancelling on me, they're going to discover 'the wrong way' is just the tip of the iceberg. I will not have this crap hanging over my Christmas.

>=(

So, I started my Nano again*. Same plot, same characters, new structure, new style.

1104 words.

Plenty of time, plenty of time... I'll get seriously cracking on catching up this weekend.

* Because it was 7000 words of unmitigated toss. Better to restart now than later.

You know it's going to be bad when the six-line abstract has fifteen corrections:

But if conversion accuracy is needed for optimum design using a device in an application having triangular wave as a test signal, then exercise of determination of parameters of an ADC for triangular wave input is must.

Nanowrimo is underway. I don't think I've plugged it here yet.

3300 words in so far, and they're mostly shit. =/