This Droid Has A Bad Motivator

Rando-NaNo Update #2.

NaNoWriMo 2017: Week something something. Day 22 (wrote this on Day 20 but messed up loading it to Drive so posting on day 22).... My NaNo continues. Over 75% there and my motivator has worked loose.

Finding finding the space to write hard. Not enough quiet silence time to focus, and having gone totally off my original skeleton draft and plot points conflicted about trying to drag things back to them or let them continue as they are.

Had an “interesting” Saturday, trekked to town to try to make it to the NaNO Adeliade write-in, but Adelaide Metro had different ideas. Their Christmas Pageant bus stop shuffles had me waiting at the right stop, according to their website, which was the wrong site according to the slightly incomprehensible and hard to find temporary detour sign they had up at the stop. Yay... so I ad-libbed and headed up to City Library above the mall. Got a big chunk of work done there so not a total write off, but not worth the extra travel and muck around time involved.

Read a couple of books this week. John Scalzi's Old Man's War. Good fun 'old fashioned' space opera with a few nice trope bending twists. Reminiscent of Starship troopers, but a bit more fun. And James Bradbury's “Clade”, which if I'm going to sum it up in one sentence the best I can attempt is that is an updated “On the Beach” but has replace the nuclear threat with anthropogenic climate change.

“Clade” is reassuring for me in many ways (while also being terrifying) as it confirms that my worst case scenario that I'm building as the back-story for my book is not an unique take and that at last on that level the science of my world building is solid. Which as a wannabe writer is quite reassuring, but as a parent of young children and a person who hopes to live for a few decades more is not so reassuring. Bradbury kills off a lot more wildlife than I do, his cascade takes out almost every bird, I'm optimistic that many birds are smart enough that they may adapt to the rapidly changing ecosystems. My pessimism beats him on two fronts, I do kill off a lot more of humanity and pitch Australia into an endless war with New Zealand....

Anyways, back to attempting to write. Just have to suck it up and admit to myself that whatever I write next will probably be rubbish, but I'll learn from it anyway so better out than in.

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