Nano is, so far, going very well.  I've not yet ran into many problems with regards to writing 2k a day, with 5/6k over a weekend.

I'm currently ahead, i think, with 15, 242 words, and I'm aiming to get to 20k by midnight on Sunday. This is good, as the end of this month is going to have so much happening, I'm not going to have the time to write much, if at all.

I think this one flows, for me, much better than my other novel, for jonowrimo. the structure is much more flexible, being told from the PoV's of two women, a Norse Witch, and a Roman Prophetess (or at least analogues of those cultures), as well as occasionally the Pov of the witch's guide; a witch herself, the goddess incarnated as the prophetess, the journal of another noblewoman, and a female captain on a very strange journey, slowly being stripped of herself. They are intentionally female,  and, unlike my other novel, all have a relevant role in the novel, and actually do stuff, instead of always being pushed into doing something for someone else.

The styles are also all very different, so If I get too bored, i can just switch VP and go off on a wild flight of verbal fancy.
Valente has really affected my writing style lately, I'm going to have to be very careful of that.

In other news: Very, very happy Obama won. Much less happy Proposition 8 got passed.

I've decide to drastically cut back on the amount I'm writing for jonowrimo . I really can't cope making myself write 1000 words a night. I don't want my writing to become a chore. I also think I need to spend some time over half-term sorting out world-building notes, character lists (I've lost count of several name and people), and a few plot issues, which I don't have time too right now.

On a happier note, English Lit has drastically improved since one kid dropped it.  I was surprised to find I'm doing better in the class on Romantic Poetry and use of Narrative, than I am in the Death of A Salesman class. (A* to A I think). Which is odd, as I'm already bored with the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Keats' rampant misogyny is really stating to irritate me. Though trying to argue that La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a feminist poem is fun.
History remains, at least in one class, dull and full of idiots (the idiots are in the other class but they just sit there in stupefied silence in that one. Why, hello there intellectual elitism!) But still 3 and a half out of 4 subjects being enjoyable is good.

Oh, oh. I have found (well, been recommended), a Victorian cello-rock band! And they are mighty!

Entered jonowrimo . Having rather a lot of fun so far, I've only written 800 words, but I've mangaed to establish two of my four viewpoint characters, and set some of the plot in motion. And I'm writing in a lovely, shiny new notebook *Squee*

6th form is less good at the minute, History is a little bit shit, both the class and some of the subject matter. English Lit also has a pretty crap class (if you have to ask "Why is the poem so long?", maybe you shouldn't be doing English Lit). It would've been so much better if I could've swapped to the other groups, but because I do RE, I can't without dropping history, whuch I really don't want to do. Still, talking to people in the other English group, and the rather wonderful head of history made me feel a bit better. I'll give it a couple of weeks and see how it goes.