And the rain came down like...rain, actually

[rolanni]

Here in Beautiful Central Maine, it's 6:45 a.m. EST. The weather is rainy and 51F (10.5C). Today is Saturday, January 6.

At this rate, we'll have our first Real Snowfall of the Winter in, say, June. Did I mention that, while I adore the writing of science fiction, I really don't aspire to live in an SF novel?

Well...

Yesterday, it rained for a change. But the Big News was that I received my first writing check for the year. Granted, it was for an article I wrote in November, but -- writing check Good.

In a few minutes, I'll be leaving for the metropolis, there to become a Temporary Cyborg. It'll be dark by the time I unhook. And rainy, too, I bet.

Stay dry, everybody.

Edited to add: If you're an aspiring writer, you might want to check out novel_in_90, a community of lunatics hot-gun writers who are challenging themselves to write 750 words a day, every day, for 90 days. At which point, they'll have a pile 67,500 words, which is a Respectable First Draft. A first draft in 90 days is, IMHO, much more realistic than a novel in 30 days. NanoWriMo forces people to write at a level that can't realistically be sustained for more than a month, while, as the pitch for novel_in_90 says, 750 words a day is a respectable output for a professional writer in Real Life.

I do have a minor niggle. The sell-copy states: We will mock you if you fail. In Real Life? No one will mock you if you fail. No one will CARE if you fail. The road to the grocery store is paved with the souls of writers who failed -- and whose failure no one noticed. So, the mocking thing -- that's hyperbole. The rest of the stuff is good, though.

Comments

[keristor.livejournal.com]

We have rain, in southern England, as well today. But for us this isn't unusual, we've had a few days break from the rain this week but we've had a lot before that. No snow, and unlikely to get any at all this year (we had little last year, and none that even lasted a day).

I'll pass that writing link on to some people I know who have become disheartened with the NaNoWriMo thing, thanks. Although I don't do it myself, I rarely even write in my LJ. I certainly won't mock anyone who tries something like that, especially in public, because it's something I know that I can't even start, I doubt if I even write 750 bytes (let alone words) of program code a day on average and that's my job...

Good luck on being a Temporary Cyborg!

[magda-vogelsang.livejournal.com]

We've got rain and a high of 46 here in Ann Arbor, Michigan today as well, which is just wrong for January. My poor confused crocuses are up, and are going to be sorry when winter actually arrives.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

No one will mock you if you fail. No one will CARE if you fail. The road to the grocery store is paved with the souls of writers who failed -- and whose failure no one noticed.

That's the kicker, that in the end, it's all down to you.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

I called my mom during the Holidays, and it's been raining, and there is basically no snow. That's in Quebec City and white Christmases were the norm when I lived there for the first 30 years of my life. Meanwhile, here in Albuquerque, 24 inches of snow fell one week ago and haven't really melted away much because it's been too cold.

[trolleypup.livejournal.com]

44F and partly cloudy...which isn't all that unusual in San Francisco in the winter...maybe a bit on the cool side.

[rowan-falar.livejournal.com]

Much to the disappointment of Moppet (our 4 year old daughter) we had a wet, rainy Xmas and New Years. We live in Southwestern Ontario where our snow was 3 inches and lasted less than 24 hours in October. *sigh*

I don't want a deluge, but this 10 Celcius has just got to stop!