NaDruWriNi 2020: November 7 2020

[the_siobhan]

You know, I signed up for this Write Every Day host gig thinking it would be good timing because of vacation at the end of the month. I completely forgot about NaNoWriMo and NaDruWriNi and if I hadn't I might have changed my mind - acting like a fool is one thing in front of people who know me, it's a little daunting in front of an entirely new audience.

But hey, the risk of falling flat on my face in public has certainly never stopped me doing anything ill-advised so far, so why start now?





So for those who are unfamiliar with it, NaDruWriNi is National Drunk Writing Night. Back in 2005 somebody came up with the idea of having a marathon writing-while-drinking session on the first Saturday of of NaNoWriMo. Maybe it was a way of getting past the first-blank-page brain freeze of starting a new project, maybe they were just tired of hearing people talking about their novels and wanted to be a dork about it. The answer is lost to the shadows of time.

Anyway I heard about it shortly after the second annual and I've been doing it every year since.

The rules as copied from the original source are here. I have a couple of add-ons.

If you don't drink, that doesn't mean you can't participate. I would suggest though, that you do something to shake up your regular practice. In the past I have done this gathered around somebody's kitchen table, in a bar, in a cottage (where I basically just rewrote the plot of Evil Dead featuring my co-cottagers) and once while eating pizza along with a group of friends who had just finished helping me sledgehammer a wall in my house. (They read along and made comments the whole time.)

Everybody is invited to play along. If you bothered by mention of alcohol or drinking, I will be putting everything behind a cut and will tag everything with NaDruWriNi so it will be easy to skip those posts.

Comments

[solo]

This sounds relevant to my interests. :)

[the_siobhan]

Excellent. I am always happy to be a bad influence on others.

[solo]

♥

[inulro]

I'm getting my flu shot on Saturday, so if I'm not asleep it will be very much like I'm drunk.

[the_siobhan]

You don't react well to the shot?

Apparently there is a shortage here. Technically I should be able to get it anyway because my asthma makes me high-risk, but that requires finding a new doctor as my old one retired at the start of the pandemic.

[inulro]

Variable, but my auto-immune bullshit means that my immune system usually goes apeshit when I prod it with a stick. One year I had no reaction and Jason did, though, which was weird.

We *do* have a shortage here - I had an appointment a month ago to get it done at the pharmacy but they couldn't get doses so I've had to go through my GP (I'm entitled to a free one because of my asthma) which has meant a month's wait and a less convenient appointment).

[cincinnatus_c]

With no real exaggeration, this has become the fulcrum on which my whole year turns. :)

[the_siobhan]

Lol. I have to admit, it's one of my favourite things.

[cornerofmadness]

somehow I've missed that this is a thing. I shall have to do this

[the_siobhan]

The more the merrier!

[cornerofmadness]

nice