NaNoWriMo...

[altivo]

Heh. Well, I'm still planning to do it.

But... At the urging of a couple of friends, I joined nanowrimo...

Ack. Piles of empty angst, hand-wringing, moaning. C'mon, this isn't that important. And if those guys put all the energy into writing their novel that they put into worrying, complaining, etc. they'd be done with 50,000 words inside of a week. I swear...

I haven't dropped a community after only a couple of days in a long, long time, but this was just too silly.

If anyone's curious, it looks like I'll be writing the life story of Menander. No, not the ancient Greek playwright, but the winged horse character I created for Cat's Haven.

Comments

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noticed that there was a lot of hand-wringing in that community. (I read your friends page, see; that was my main exposure to it.) Sure hope they settle down and get to writing instead of whinging tomorrow.

Good luck with Menander.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

*snickers*

You must really be short of stuff to do if you're reading my friends' page as well as my own driveling.

Thanks for the good luck wish, though all I'll really need is stamina. Horses are supposed to have that, right? Menander will write his own story, fed by a few historic facts and dates. He's now about 2300 years old, I think, so he has no shortage of material. The get of Pegasus are long-lived, obviously, though not quite immortal. He's definitely showing his age these days.

Pegasus is really a proper noun referring to one flying horse, the one that was tamed by Bellerophon. There seems to be no traditional generic, the assumption being, I guess, that there was only ever the one. I suppose we could coin a word using Greek roots, which makes either hippopteros or pterippos. The first sounds like a flying pig to me, and the second like a dinosaur of some sort. ;P

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

You must really be short of stuff to do if you're reading my friends' page as well as my own driveling.

Heh... you have some pretty interesting friends. 'S how I ran across hellmutt, actually. Now sie can't get rid of me. ;-)

Seriously, it's part of my LJ addiction. There are a couple of friends whose friends pages get read regularly, even though I know very few if any of these second-degree connections.

"Hippopterus" sounds like it could be a very large and bulky critter of a fearsome sort.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Well I have to agree that hellmutt is interesting and certainly clever. I won't pretend I understand everything sie writes, but I'm glad to be included.