Every year I think I should participate and every year I find an excuse not to do it. Last year I was seriously working on a novel that I wanted to be good so I concentrated all my efforts on that. Then my interest kind of fizzled and I only got 9 chapters written down. If I could just think of the next plot piece I could finish. I re-read it a few months ago and some of it was really good (though a lot of it was crap).
It looks like we will be moving on November 15 or thereabouts so I don't know if I should commit to such a big project this year. But maybe I should. I have lots of words in me so I bet I could do it even with a few days taken out of the mix. Hmmmmm. I think I will do it if I can think of a decent plot and get it kind of mapped out in my head or on notecards. I read a really interesting method of plotting a book over on Holly Lisle's writer workshop--just come up with X amount of characters and write down X amount of events for each of them on notecards and then try to fit them all together. It made more sense when she explained it.
Also, I keep meaning to reply about our future bi-lingual children. We do plan to teach them both English and Swedish. I guess we will do OPOL since I don't feel like I speak Swedish well enough to always do the minority language in the home. I think it will be really tough since they won't have anyone but Mike to speak Swedish to, but hopefully it will work. We are already planning on getting a region free DVD player so we can order Swedish stuff for the kids and we'll order lots of Swedish books as well. I was thinking we need to get a Swedish au-pair, but I guess we probably won't be in that income bracket *lol*. Then I was thinking we could get a Swedish foreign exchange student but then I realized that there is no way I want to be responsible for a teenager for a year. I think foreign exchange students are usually pretty nice and studious, but sometimes they are really really wild.
Wow. This could have been a post of it's own. I don't think I've ever made such a long reply to anyone before.
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Date: 2003-10-07 12:51 am (UTC)It looks like we will be moving on November 15 or thereabouts so I don't know if I should commit to such a big project this year. But maybe I should. I have lots of words in me so I bet I could do it even with a few days taken out of the mix. Hmmmmm. I think I will do it if I can think of a decent plot and get it kind of mapped out in my head or on notecards. I read a really interesting method of plotting a book over on Holly Lisle's writer workshop--just come up with X amount of characters and write down X amount of events for each of them on notecards and then try to fit them all together. It made more sense when she explained it.
Also, I keep meaning to reply about our future bi-lingual children. We do plan to teach them both English and Swedish. I guess we will do OPOL since I don't feel like I speak Swedish well enough to always do the minority language in the home. I think it will be really tough since they won't have anyone but Mike to speak Swedish to, but hopefully it will work. We are already planning on getting a region free DVD player so we can order Swedish stuff for the kids and we'll order lots of Swedish books as well. I was thinking we need to get a Swedish au-pair, but I guess we probably won't be in that income bracket *lol*. Then I was thinking we could get a Swedish foreign exchange student but then I realized that there is no way I want to be responsible for a teenager for a year. I think foreign exchange students are usually pretty nice and studious, but sometimes they are really really wild.
Wow. This could have been a post of it's own. I don't think I've ever made such a long reply to anyone before.