Is a nanoword on the order of a millionth of a pixel?

[cjsmith]

3393 NaNo words so far today. Nothing like the antics of cats to get me going. (I don't know what my total is right now. Half my files aren't here.)

- The Lord-Marshal is one of the man-sized snobby felines, as they're considered the only decent warriors ("humans? those wimps don't belong in the army"). This has a side effect, though: whenever someone dangles a string in front of the highest-ranking soldier in the land, he can't help but chase after it, and sometimes he fetches up against a wall because he can't turn sharply on a polished stone floor.
- My little thief met one of the felinoid young and had a bit of a territory dispute. Dialog sure chews up the words.
- The aliens in flying saucers tried to abduct the felines, who sniffed at the UFO and promptly tried to bury it in dirt. Nearly succeeded, too. Their Specimen Acquisition Specialist has now decided to go after one of the young, as they're "likely more ineffectual". The little green men have no idea what they're up against.

rfrench said a little while ago that if I wrote a thousand more words he'd make us "good popcorn" -- not microwave, not Jiffy Pop, but homemade with melted butter drizzled on it. I'm almost there. Two hundred eighteen more words and I get popcorn. He is an excellent partner. I got him this shirt, which the NaNo team thoughtfully designed for the partners of NaNoists everywhere. :-)

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Hah. Added a little vignette of 271 words, to make 3664. POPCORN!

[rampling.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

I earnestly hope you'll be sharing your results with (at least) a few interested parties. I'd like to politely ask to be in that list, should you end up making one. It sounds like such a fun story!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I warn you, the writing SUCKS. I may never share it because it's just that awful. But the ideas are fun! 8-)

A little begging.

[rampling.livejournal.com]

I'm still interested. It sounds fun! You've accomplished the first bit of making me want to pick up the book, no small feat. One thing I've learned from the pornography biz is that the video cover is more important than the contents. You sound like you have the makings of a great cover blurb, with fun story elements. Great first step!

I know NaNoWriMo is supposed to primarily be about quantity rather than quality. That's OK, I've read a lot of stuff of varying qualities, yeah, varying qualities. And if the idea is amusing, and it has cats (or catlike beings) in it, that's about all it takes for me to have fun. So you have a very friendly audience here, I'm just sayin'. Besides, it's not fair -- you've made it sound so intriguing!

Re: A little begging.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Erm... okay, I can post some excerpts and see how much you feel like horking after you read 'em. Friend cjwriting?

:)

[rampling.livejournal.com]

Done. Yay! Thank you!

Re: :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Gah, it helps if I remember to have cjwriting friend you BACK. *sigh* I never claimed to be no genius. Anyhow, two excerpts today. They have the most cats in 'em so far, I think. Hopefully tonight I'll have the energy to make the aliens capture a kitten, and you can read that bit too. :)

[rampling.livejournal.com]

Cool! Stuff to read! Thank you!

I'm terribly out of phase -- have been up since 6pm last night. I have several errands to do, then I sleep. I hope to read your excerpts tonight. I look forward to that.

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Woo-hoo, way to go! Can you send some of that popcorn my way?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I'm beaming it to you, but it might be a bit stale when it gets there. Hey, if I ever manage to get back over there to visit you again, want I should bring popcorn? Don't know if you can get that easily.

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Actually, we can get popcorn fairly easily here, though it took me a good year to figure that out (and several months more to remember how to pop it without and Official Black and Decker Amazing New and Improved Popcorn Popper (tm).

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, popping it in a pan takes the right heat level and a little practice. I'd probably scorch a few batches before getting it right. Glad you can get popcorn! It's one of life's little joys.