If you’ve noticed the new badge on the side of the site (or you know me in real life), then you know that I am participating in the first ever Camp NaNoWriMo this month. It is very slow going as I am learning to touch type Dvorak at the same time. I know where all the letters are now, but my typing speed is around 15 words per minute, and that is hella slow. So my writing is going crazy slow and it probably doesn’t help that I’m not out of the ‘oh god, who are my characters?’ stage of the NaNo writing. My goal for today is to just reach the day two word count goal, which by my math is 3226. I’m at 2729 right now and I am counting this blog post. I figure the easiest way to improve my typing is just to keep doing slow freewrites until my typing improves. I do truly enjoy Dvorak and knowing that I am capable of touch typing, since I’ve never done it before. It’s just very frustrating that typing a hundred takes me so damn long! My problem used to be that I would get stuck with story ideas (that problem definitely isn’t gone), but now the bigger problem is that typing takes forever.
I think I’ve been working on this blog post for at least half an hour. I handwrite things faster than I can type them right now.
However, my characters are cooperating with me when I do get to writing. Which has been in bed with my ‘all things NaNo’ notebook, then I type it the next day. It’s been pretty nice because my main character looks like Matt Bomer. And my main female character, who was the main character before Mark (Matt Bomer looking) decided he was far more interesting, looks like Piper Perabo. They aren’t a bad looking couple for my novel couple, not that they’ve actually met yet. I’m still working on introducing Mark , but I did already introduce Jessica when I thought she was going to be the main character.
Outside of writing, things are going well with my guild. We ventured into Blackwing Descent last week as a guild. We only have 8 interested raiders so we had to pug two healers to help me keep people alive. One of the healers we got was a 15 years old and extremely annoying. We had a shaman healer the first night who was very quiet in vent but seemed to be a competent healer. The second night the shaman wasn’t online so we pugged a paladin healer who we since gotten an alt of into guild. She’s pretty cool. I’m very pleased by how we did in Blackwing Descent. Most of the people from guild had never been in there. Magmaw took three tries to kill, which is not bad for our first Cataclysm raid boss aside from Argaloth. We one-shotted the Omnitron Defense System. That one was surprising and a lot of fun. We really didn’t explain the fight very well, but it was apparently well enough. Maloriak was a one shot as well. After that we went to Chimeron where we wiped for several hours over the two days. We switched to Atramedes to see how we could do on him. On the first night we were winging it and wiped on his trash several times. By the second night I had done some research and we were able to one shot his trash. Atramedes took several tries, but the blind dragon finally dropped! We weren’t able to take down Chimeron but there’s a ton of time for that. For a first Cata guild run it went really well.
The only thing I would like to improve on is my guildies talking over me in vent. It was very frustrating trying to lead a raid with several people talking over me. Or even offering to explain a fight that I just explained “better.” It’s something I can work on with them though.
Well, other things to do tonight! Thank you for reading.
