Catching up on sleep

[skyring]

I've been shamefully neglecting my LiveJournal entries recently. November has been a busy month for me, what with trying to get "Bookcrossing Through OZ" into a draft format, attending the ABC and writing that up, and then in a feat of wild optimism, doing the whole NaNoWriMo thing in the final ten days of the month.

I've been making a lot of weird and cryptic comments recently. I went to a local meetup of the WriMos here in Canberra ready to chuck it all in as impossible. All I had was the title and a rough idea of the plot and with ten days to go, well, it was looking like a losing proposition. Then I realised that I can write 5 000 words a day with my blog and journal entries on books and mucking about in the Bookcrossing forums and so on.

So I created a LiveJournal and a Bookcrossing account for Ann my protagonist and set to it.

Annuncial on Bookcrossing and LiveJournal, two other fake Bookcrossers WingBearer and ManlyReader and a wildly implausible plot. But I got it done, barely.

Busy now in revising the awful mess that emerged, especially the final bits when I was full of coffee and low on sleep. Want to publish on Lulu in ten days time, and I have to get the first draft chapters up as freebie PDF downloads tomorrow.

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[thebiblioholic.livejournal.com]

>Annuncial on Bookcrossing and LiveJournal, two other fake Bookcrossers WingBearer and ManlyReader
> and a wildly implausible plot. But I got it done, barely.

Eh? What have I missed? I noticed ManlyReader and welcomed him at some point. Was I replying to a fictional character?? :-)

ManlyReader

[skyring.livejournal.com]

ManlyReader is indeed fictional. The books on his bookshelf are not.

I enlisted an "ethics committee" of "moral auditors" before I began this project. This eventually expanded to people who had sussed me out or I felt were getting too close to the subject.

My main interest was to stop Bookcrossers getting upset over the weird and disturbing things that were happening to my protagonist in real time. You know what Bookcrossers are like - there'd be support groups, detectives trying to out the stalker, care packages sent to Ann, media campaigns...

I thought it would be kind of cool to have people read the novel and then go look up the messages, books and things.

My apologies for misleading you (and others). I'll be sending out requests to use the posts and journal entries later on when I get the book into a better shape and work out what to include from Bookcrossing.

Peter

Re: ManlyReader

[thebiblioholic.livejournal.com]

Very cool. Looking forward to the book.

And for the seriously gullible types...

[amberlee17.livejournal.com]

Would it be useful if I delete my comments?

*blush*
Amber L.

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[thebiblioholic.livejournal.com]

I just read a bit of annuncial's blog. Very nice! Hoping to read the whole thing in printed form.