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Believe it or not, I'm already preparing for Nano. You see, I had this dream, and I figured it might make a good story... then I read this book on writing (You've Got a Book in You by Elizabeth Sims), which inspired me to drag out my Alphasmart 3K and begin typing up notes on the idea... and now I've got about 20 pages of notes that I have to move into Scrivener (writing software), so that I can try to make the whole thing work. This random wild typing of notes is giving me lots of ideas, but of course no plot yet. But, hey, I have until November! The good thing is that for two weeks I've spent my lunch hour reading and writing rather than playing games.

Not all the stuff was random notes. One day at the beginning of all this frenzy, I got a desire to write just a leeetle bit, and started with what will probably be my opening scene (and the introduction of my hero). I stopped myself almost at once (BAD Kat. Wait until Nano!!), but if anyone is curious, here's the few paragraphs that I did:
( Intro )

One of the things that I took from the book was having "conversations" with my characters. Not interviews (I tried that, it doesn't work well), but just conversations. I am finding out all kinds of interesting things, but also one funny one - so far, every character I've "talked to" has described my hero as a jerk. A nice guy, but a jerk. hee.

OK, babbling is over now.

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Scary. I'm so up-to-date on my web presence that I've posted to my two blogs from my author websites. (Don't bother going - it's basically what I've said here.)

Now if I just get off my butt and update the websites themselves, I'll feel really good!