Getting back to speed
Nov. 7th, 2005 07:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skyringWell, it's been a busy day what with this Cackleberry thing. Very distressing, and not what I really need at the moment, but it had to be done, and I'm hoping that something positive comes from it.
Apart from all the messages of support that is. Forum posts, emails, LJ comments, even a phone call! I must be doing the right thing if so many people I love and trust tell me so!
Sunday was My NaNoWriMo meeting. We assembled in Garema Place by the big silver pillow, upon which I naturally released a book, only to be topped by Calissa who released two!
There was a protest march assembling nearby and for a while we had more peoplee than they did. we considered amalgamation, if not forced recruitment:
"Wadda we want?"
"50 000 words!"
"Wenna we wannit?"
"Now!"
But instead we hied ourselves off to a nearby cafe, where I asked the smiling waitress whether if you ordered pasta and antipasto you went hungry. "There's always one!" she said "But with this table there's eleven!"
That's what happens when you get a team of high speed novelists together.
A pleasant lunch and I got some good lines which I'll try to winkle in somewhere.
I feel rather ashamed, though - even Calissa, who was undergoing treatment for a sore writing wrist right there at the table, has written more than I have! Basically, I'm almost a week behind.
Afterwards Kerri, DD and I went to the Botanical Gardens, where we walked in the rainforest gully, admired the wildflowers and had an icecream or two at the kiosk. I took some pix which I'll upload as soon as I free up some space on my hard drive.
Apart from all the messages of support that is. Forum posts, emails, LJ comments, even a phone call! I must be doing the right thing if so many people I love and trust tell me so!
Sunday was My NaNoWriMo meeting. We assembled in Garema Place by the big silver pillow, upon which I naturally released a book, only to be topped by Calissa who released two!
There was a protest march assembling nearby and for a while we had more peoplee than they did. we considered amalgamation, if not forced recruitment:
"Wadda we want?"
"50 000 words!"
"Wenna we wannit?"
"Now!"
But instead we hied ourselves off to a nearby cafe, where I asked the smiling waitress whether if you ordered pasta and antipasto you went hungry. "There's always one!" she said "But with this table there's eleven!"
That's what happens when you get a team of high speed novelists together.
A pleasant lunch and I got some good lines which I'll try to winkle in somewhere.
I feel rather ashamed, though - even Calissa, who was undergoing treatment for a sore writing wrist right there at the table, has written more than I have! Basically, I'm almost a week behind.
Afterwards Kerri, DD and I went to the Botanical Gardens, where we walked in the rainforest gully, admired the wildflowers and had an icecream or two at the kiosk. I took some pix which I'll upload as soon as I free up some space on my hard drive.
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I love your work.
Date: 2005-11-07 07:06 pm (UTC)I can't believe what Cackleberry is up to. He started off fighting with me and then he seemed to turn on someone else, in a most vicious way while suggesting that he wanted the original thread about me to die.
I am beginning to think he has serious personal issues.
Re: I love your work.
Date: 2005-11-07 07:20 pm (UTC)This probably isn't the forum to debate Cackleberry's own issues, but the viciousness you mentioned has been seen before and the two alternatives seem to be to force him to stop posting, or to find some way within himself that allows him to deal with his anger.
I hope that we can keep him as a valued member of the community, but one way or the other, these attacks on other members WILL stop.