So, the madness that is NaNoWriMo is over for another year, the TGIO Party last night was a blast (great food, and all the winners got little plastic trophies!), but it's time now to think about the months ahead.

Back in October I decided to start a LiveJournal blog to replace this one, the better to communicate with my writer friends on Forward Motion. Unfortunately I stopped updating it once NaNoWriMo drew near, and I've since realised that I just couldn't bear to consign the ongoing record of my writing progress to a website that has no backups.

However I've already paid for a year's worth of LJ, so I decided to make the best of the situation. I've revived this blog on my own webspace, which I can back up as often as I like, but I've removed the entries that weren't related to my writing in any way. That sort of personal stuff - non-writing news and trivia - will go on LJ, where it doesn't matter too much if it disappears, whilst this will be the place for recording my writing progress and anything else I want to be able to look back on.

This week I've been concentrating on conlanging, starting with the ancient language of the Antilians, Avirmalyi. Truth to tell, I haven't had much time for writing, since work has been busier than usual: a website release to get out, the campus Christmas newsletter to edit, the office Christmas lunch to attend (not as ghastly as it sounds!). However, being busy has given me a chance to let the ideas mull in the back of my mind instead of trying to force them into existence, so overall it's been very successful. More info on my wiki!