Nightmares

I had a dream last night. It was set in the future, on 7th November. My bags were packed and I was ready to go on holiday. Pinky was in the house and so was Valpot. We were all ready to go. At around 4.30pm I said to Pinky 'I think we should leave for the airport.' She asked if my bags were packed and ready to be put into the car. I said they were. I was feeling very relaxed as I loaded up the car. Then I realised something - it was 4.40 and the plane was leaving at 5.30! We wouldn't even make it up to the air port in time. The boarding gate would be closed, we had missed our plane! I told Pinky and she started frantically phoning people to get another flight. It was a terrible nightmare.

I know I am going to New Zealand for a month, which really isn't a long time, but I feel I am moving away permanently the amount of work I am telling myself I have to do. Alot of my friends want to meet up with me before I go away. I feel like I'm going away for a year. It is weird.

It has been decided!

Thank you to everyone who voted in my poll. It looks like I am going to be writing a science fiction. This is good, because the idea I have is a science fiction thriller. I have one more day to do some research, write out a plot and some character sketches.

Good luck to everyone else who is starting NaNoWriMo the day after tomorrow.

Count down to New Zealand

Count down to NaNoWriMo

3 Days to Go

I'm starting to get REALLY SCARED now. There are only three days left to go before 1st November and I am totally unprepared. I haven't even thought about my novel, and I am not really that enthusiastic about the vague idea I have for a novel. What am I going to do? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

5 Days to Go

No, I haven't got it wrong. While I may not be flying out to New Zealand until 7th November, NaNoWriMo starts on the 1st - which is only 5 days away. Unlike the previous three years where I have been pretty organised by this stage, this year I have practically nothing done. I have a really bare idea of a plot outline and characters, more a feeling of what I would like it to be about more than anything concrete, and I know New Zealand is going to be a big factor. Other than that, I'm stumped. If I didn't have so much writing to do until the 1st, I might sit down and writing out my outline and characters, but it seems like I will be winging it come D day (or N day, as it should henceforth be known).

Thankfully I am slightly more organised for New Zealand.

Two Weeks To Go

I am sitting on my bed typing this message, my giant suitcase open beside me, already almost full with what I am taking to New Zealand. This time two weeks I will be on the plane flying off to the other side of the world, yet even with the departure date so close, I still don't believe I am really going. I've spent so long planning it and thinking about it that it now seems unreal. I suppose there is a lesson to be learned here about how the human brain functions and its ability to comprehend future events, but I'm not really sure what it is. All I know is that in two weeks time I will be starting the first leg on a looonngg journey and I can't wait. It only seems like yesterday that it was seven weeks to go, and another couple of days since it was six months to go. As Einstein said, time is relative.

New Zealand here I come!

Two years in the planning, almost 12 hours in the difference and a goal of 50,000 words - it's New Zealand and National Novel Writing Month all rolled into one! and the count down has started...