Bethanie's Brain

1. The door locks are genetic. (*eyepop!!!*) 2. "Ich bin im Wasser verbrannt...." (hmmmm....) .

So the brilliantly funny/entertaining posts that are the NaNo forums have already begun. Yaay! One of my favorites is "How 'Impossible' is your Novel?" , in which the original poster has challenged WriMo's to name 6 impossible things in their novel. Naturally, it took me about 5 minutes to come up with mine.... The entire human race abandoned the dying, uninhabitable Earth in huge space ships jetisoned off to each of the known (and hopefully) habitable extra-solar planets. Faster-than-light-speed space travel!!! :D The main female character is stronger than any man. Also, she has fangs. However, she is NOT a vampire!! 8-D Her people biologically engineered themselves to survive the nasty not-so-habitable-for-humans planet they ended up on (the fangs are part of that, see? :). And, yanno, that's just for starters. And before I've even begun writing. And they're even somewhat believible! Just wait til NaNo actually starts. I'm sure I'll be back ...

So a while back, kick-ass authoress Holly Lisle , in her fantastic newsletter, mentioned something about multi-tasking as a writer. Not in those words exactly, but what she was getting at (paraphrasing here...) was: 'don't work on more than one project at once'. Or at least, if you're serious-writing on one project, don't be serious-writing on another at the same time. World building on another project and/or final polish-editing on another project (i.e., max: 3 projects at once) is probably managable (if-and-only-if you MUST). And I thought: 'is she serious'?? Because I am a many-many projects at once sorta gal. At least I thought I was. But then I got to thinking and it sorta started making sense. When you're serious-writing on a project, you're immersed in that project's world. You live it. You breathe it. If you're a bit of a method-writer like me, you become your characters and take on their personalities from time to time in your r...