Had the misfortune to watch My Little Eye recently.

Flat and lifeless, and completely lacking in tension.

Here’s a quick story round-up.
There are five contestants living in an old house in the middle of nowhere for six months for some reality-internet show. And there a big prize if they all stay there for the full time.

And very close to the last days, everything starts going wrong.

Maybe I wasn’t paying much attention or maybe I just didn’t care about five main characters who don’t seem to have any personality or anything interesting to say, but it really was 92 minutes that I will never have in my life again.

In actual fact, while there’s very little positive comment I can say about the film there’s also very little negative I can say as well. Apart from the characters who it’s impossible to care about.

And the lack of tension.

I did like the concept. But it did leave me unmoved.

Had a day to myself today. Since my hours have been cut at the After-School care, I thought I would take the morning off and get some writing done.

This year’s NaNoWriMo progress has slowed to a crawl, but that was to be expected.

Still enjoying the process but the writing is certainly moving slowly.

Having fun and enjoying the experience, still.

Also, I have been chatting with mrBen about podcasting…

That is a plan, a vague plan at that, but still a plan dependent on me getting more work finished.

Despite the sudden pressure to get more of this year’s WriMo completed, I have been writing bits of the Desert Of Zin story and generally brainstorming other ideas. Not what I was expecting to be doing today but any creative work is good.

Day seven? Surely not!

It has been a long haul today. With church work, the after-school care and Revolution in the evening, I only got in about 8ish.

It certainly has been a long day. And all the longer with 1667 words waiting to be written.

But despite my lack of enthusiasm for the WriMo today…

1802 words today.

6863 words in total.

Bet my daily target today.

To make the 50,000 words in 30 days it’s advisable to do 1667 words a day. Today I bet that target. And I’m feeling damn good about it.

I’m feeling good about it even though meeting every daily target so far should have netted me a total of 10,000 words. And I have just over 5000 in total.

But I’m okay with that.

I’ve realized something about my writing this time round. On previous Wrimos I have tried to push the 1667 daily words from the first day. And the passion has always burnt out because I punish myself to get the daily target and feel like I’ve let myself down when I don’t get there.

I don’t enjoy the experience and I give up. But this time I’m just taking my time. It has been six days so far and I’ve hit my daily target once. And that’s okay.

I’m pacing myself. Tomorrow I might not write anything, or I might match today’s number. I just don’t know.

To try and keep the pace, I’ve taken next week off work. Even if I claw my way over the daily finishing line, I’ll be happy.

So.

1710 words today.

5061 words in total.

Apparently so.

To feed my ongoing and unexplainable Popcorn habit, I have been listening to this.

And I thought that this was my final word on the subject.

3351 words.

Hmm, yes.

Still not making my minimum daily target of 1667, but I’ve written more today than on any other individual day.

As long as I keep that pattern going, everything will be fine. 

Nope.

Day 4 came and went.

Ruthy passed her flu-like badness on to me and the weekend was very much a shambles.  However the has been some Day 5 progress.  Not much, but any progress is good.

(Found a old draft post after the last game of Cthulhu we had, in March!  Thought I’d post it anyway…)

So, no Call of Cthulhu adventure last night, but there was one last week.

The adventure - The Madman from the 6th. edition rulebook - was done in one night and almost saw Edgy (Logan Fletcher, investigative journalist) and Enzo (Montague Summers) meeting a rather unfortunate end…

Old Harny Rooger has gotten a touch eccentric. Tales are told off his involvement in mysterious rituals on hilltops and the possible involvement in goat sacrifice.

Oh dear, whatever can be done…

Enter Summers and Fletcher, the latter of whom knew a retired journalist who died mysteriously while investigating the aforementioned hilltop rituals.

Highlights of the game included Fletcher using his fake cop ID and failing every roll associated with using it. And his potential incarceration after it has been discovered as a forgery. And events leading up to that with Summers getting a bit physical with everyone on the way…

Anyway our intrepid investigators saved the day with what can only be described as the jammiest of dice rolls when dealing with Harny Rooger and a hilltop full of mi-go.

Another day, another few hundred words.

Sore throat, headache and general feeling of blah hampered today’s progress. But Ruthy has returned from her big adventure so there will be plenty of cracking the whip to keep me going.

The highlight of today’s additions is introducing a donner kebab to a Science Fantasy setting.

2095 words.

NanoWriMo Day 2.

Not much time for writing today. Still encouraged. Get there eventually…

1225 words.