NaNo Adventures, Part 2
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rustydragonflyThis is Part 1, in which I pull off a 10K day and obtain a shiny Eevee, in case you were curious.
I kept on meaning to post this for a while and was being a lazy bum about it, but here it all is now. I really have to get out of the habit of seeing longer posts as a chore. Anyway as I said in the first post of this series, in the last few years I'd been lapsing in how much I got into the spirit of NaNo. I was participating and winning, but not really getting into the social aspects of it. But because the forums last year were such a nice place, and I wanted more places to socialise, I jumped in. Initially I afflicted with Brighton but after trying out write ins both there and in London, I decided to stick with the latter.
The third weekend of NaNo was NaNorilla, a novelling crawl across London. You go to places, you write a bit, and then you go somewhere else. Having only ever done normal venue based write ins, this was something I really wanted to try out.
We started out by meeting up in a church crypt, like you do. Ok, so it was Cafe in the Crypt in St Martin in the Fields, if that means anything to you. Actually by this point I'd finished my NaNo a couple of days ago, so I brought a notebook along and did some work on a RaTs fic I was poking about at. The idea is you do about half an hour's worth is writing at each location, then move on, so we all wrote while waiting for everyone to show up, then got ID stickers and moved on to Trafalgar Square.
(Not pictured: bewildered passers by)
And then someone took a photo of me. Let me tell you it was kind of surreal watching the 50th anniversary Who episode the next week and watching the Doctor climb up those stairs. But that's a different story.
From then on we did some writing inside the National Gallery. (There were no Time Lord paintings.) I think by then I'd racked up about 1K before we met up again outside.
Also this guy was outside.
This was the next stop... don't remember the name of the place, though. By then we got more than a few people wondering why the hell half of the staircase was blocked by people with notebooks and laptops. Turns out even in London, you can surprise people.
There was food after that, and then this:
I opted out of this bit because it so turns out that sitting with only a rail between you and the Thames is fucking terrifying. Those of us with height issues moved on and waited for the fearless weirdos to be done.
Next stop after that, Southbank and books. For sale. There was a lot of distraction going on here...
I didn't get any more photos since it was getting dark by then, but we did a stop off at the National Theatre, and then went to the pub. THE END!
Next time: Doctor Who, and the London Literary Lockin. Or: why London is tied with Yorkshire for best region.
I kept on meaning to post this for a while and was being a lazy bum about it, but here it all is now. I really have to get out of the habit of seeing longer posts as a chore. Anyway as I said in the first post of this series, in the last few years I'd been lapsing in how much I got into the spirit of NaNo. I was participating and winning, but not really getting into the social aspects of it. But because the forums last year were such a nice place, and I wanted more places to socialise, I jumped in. Initially I afflicted with Brighton but after trying out write ins both there and in London, I decided to stick with the latter.
The third weekend of NaNo was NaNorilla, a novelling crawl across London. You go to places, you write a bit, and then you go somewhere else. Having only ever done normal venue based write ins, this was something I really wanted to try out.
We started out by meeting up in a church crypt, like you do. Ok, so it was Cafe in the Crypt in St Martin in the Fields, if that means anything to you. Actually by this point I'd finished my NaNo a couple of days ago, so I brought a notebook along and did some work on a RaTs fic I was poking about at. The idea is you do about half an hour's worth is writing at each location, then move on, so we all wrote while waiting for everyone to show up, then got ID stickers and moved on to Trafalgar Square.
(Not pictured: bewildered passers by)
And then someone took a photo of me. Let me tell you it was kind of surreal watching the 50th anniversary Who episode the next week and watching the Doctor climb up those stairs. But that's a different story.
From then on we did some writing inside the National Gallery. (There were no Time Lord paintings.) I think by then I'd racked up about 1K before we met up again outside.
Also this guy was outside.
This was the next stop... don't remember the name of the place, though. By then we got more than a few people wondering why the hell half of the staircase was blocked by people with notebooks and laptops. Turns out even in London, you can surprise people.
There was food after that, and then this:
I opted out of this bit because it so turns out that sitting with only a rail between you and the Thames is fucking terrifying. Those of us with height issues moved on and waited for the fearless weirdos to be done.
Next stop after that, Southbank and books. For sale. There was a lot of distraction going on here...
I didn't get any more photos since it was getting dark by then, but we did a stop off at the National Theatre, and then went to the pub. THE END!
Next time: Doctor Who, and the London Literary Lockin. Or: why London is tied with Yorkshire for best region.