NaNoWriMo: a particularly fierce creature from Northrend?
It’s been a little quiet around here lately. There’s been a lot of election hubbub, Halloween, a myriad array of class changes, and (of course), Wrath descending upon us in approximately two weeks. Content is amazingly easy right now, and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy blowing through instances without thinking twice about what I’m doing or if I’m even wearing the “correct†gear to be tanking. Just for kicks, I used up my badges, extra T6 tokens, respecced bomb owl, and ran around nuking people with 1200 SP for a week and a half. Basically, it’s like everyone figured out how to hit SSJ3 with little to no effort and all the raid bosses have the combined abilities and intelligence of the Dinobots and the Ginyu Force.
So from now until Wrath, there’s very little point in theorycrafting (though I have a bit of an opinion about the Mangle spam v. Shred spam Cat specs that are floating around). Instead, I’m trying to decide what my future raiding plans will be (killing frozen d00ds and dagrons) and I’m writing a novel.
You heard me.
November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), an endeavor that encourages the intrepid writer to churn out 50,000 words by the end of November 30th. The goal isn’t necessarily to write anything perfect (or even linear, for that matter), but rather to have something in your hands by December that is worthy of revision. It’s a great concept. All professional and amateur writers alike have peculiar habits when it comes to their work, and I am no exception:
- I have a difficult time writing more than a paragraph at a time without revising extensively as I write.
- I work best between the hours of 2 a.m. and 4 a.m.
- I write best under pressure.
- I require either absolute quiet or instrumental music to get serious.
- I frequently read passages I’ve written out loud to myself.
The key point is that I am constantly revising and thus it takes me an enormous amount of time to finish any fiction/nonfiction. By participating in this year’s NaNoWriMo, I hope to break free of some of that self-imposed burden and finish something I’ve been working on for months. I’m already about 4000 words behind—but I’ve got a good feeling about catching up. The catch, however, is that you may see the frequency of posting at Unbearably HoT slow down for a bit—but you can bet I’m going to haul tail to 80.
If you have questions about what I’m working on (and no, it has nothing to do with WoW or any other fantasy-based world), feel free to drop me a line. I will also be leaving AIM on more than normal, and if you’d like, you can shoot me an instant message at Runyarusco.
Smirkfang
Oh, what are your thoughts on the mangle vs shred. I’m in the boat that you mangle to buff up your shred. But not too sure still. I think it depends on where you are gear wise and what situation your in.
I was going to start writing a story once, it got as far as … then i couldn’t think of what to write, so good luck with the writing and I hope you get it finished in time.
When it comes to mangle or shred i must admit, when i do the cat thing, I’m more for the shred. Also they changed the tooltips for mangle and shred, i think thats because of truma and the fact it has the same debuff as mangle. I tried a spec out the other day that was all about burst dmg, using rend and tear along with every talent for increasing shred and fb dmg, was funny to kill someone with 416 resiliance and 11 or 12k hp almost within the time the pounce stun lasts.