How did you spend your weekend?
I spent mine keeping mother company at the hospital. She’d come down with vomiting and purging; all the residents at GT Heritage caught it, beginning with Madam K who’d been in the hospital and brought it back with her, and infecting even two of the workers, one so bad she had to be hospitalised.
Two days after mother was hospitalised, she passed it to me so, yeah, I spent the long weekend sick.
Apparently, it was going around, and there was even an article about it in the New Straits Times.
What was it? Gastroenteritis, aka gastric flu.
So, no, I didn’t get to work on my NaNovel during the long weekend.
It’s three days to the start of NaNoWriMo 2006. A few months back, it hit me what my NaNovel will be about this year. I was so amazed I started writing up notes about the main character and her story. Then, the preparations got put aside. That’s how it’s always with me - start something in a fit of enthusiasm and then … nothing.
Actually, this year, I’m a little more prepared than previous years’ NaNovels. Apart from the characters, I have more than an idea of what the story will be about. I even have some situations, conflicts, etc.
Now that I come to think of it, I haven’t done much beyond the first burst of enthusiasm because I was afraid I would end up writing the story. And we all know, for NaNoWriMo, the actual writing doesn’t begin until the stroke of midnight on 1 November.
