NaNoWriMo 2011 Won!
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about my NaNoWriMo effort this year.
Well you’ll all be pleased to hear that I managed to win again. I passed 50,000 words with about three hours and fifteen minutes to spare, so it was a close thing.
Of course not everything went quite as planned. I’d hoped to finish the story a couple of days before the end of NaNo and then go back and fill in a couple of scenes to hit fifty thousand so I’d have a readable first draft on the 1st Dec. But as it was I lingered over the final chapter, it was enjoyable lingering, but it meant that I hit the magical fifty thousand in the penultimate scene.
So I still have a couple of thousand words to write to wrap it all up nicely.
Still, as an experiment to see if it’s possible to produce a readable first draft on the agressive nano schedule I’ll call it a success. And the beauty is that I can distribute this to a bunch of Beta readers and get feedback as to what needs work before I put a lot of editing in.
Assuming that is I have any Facebook friends left. Having only posted NaNo count’s for the last month will have driven some away I’m sure.
Empty Coffee Cup reload.
After many years of neglect the old ECC site has been consigned to the recycle bin and I’m starting a new blog/site.
Why?
Firstly, The old site was looking desperately dated, and because it was all custom code I never, and I use that word accurately, updated it. It was an interesting exercise in templating at the time, but the reality is that as a platform wordpress is vastly superior for that kind of site. I’ll be going over the old content and some of it may find it’s way into this site, although not with that atrocious colour scheme.
Secondly, I’m coming to the end of my time at Computing Edge/Altiris/Symantec, it’s been eleven years, and I’d like to start writing about my upcoming projects and also my past experiences in software development.
What are those experiences? and what projects? Well 
stay tuned and see.
