Before I have written a word today, I have hit 10,007 words. That’s the expected minimum on day six and it felt good to get that done last night. The goal is to get today’s word count again so that I will only be one day behind when I get back from my [...]
Posts Tagged ‘nanowrimo’
3 Oct
Pants or Pants-less?
It’s that time of year again, when writers across the globe get itchy-fingered because the start of National Novel Writing Month is just a few weeks away.
Have you signed up?
I’m pretty excited this year. After winning NaNoWriMo the first year (though by “winning” it only means you managed 50,000 words), I wasn’t [...]
29 Sep
The Mouse Has Me
I seem to have developed a growing fear of the end of my novel.
When the biggest a-ha moment came to me, about a month or so ago, I could see the whole end of the novel laid out before me like I’d crested the hill and could take it all in with one sweeping, cinematic [...]
27 Nov
Demons excised and wireless incarcerated!
‘Cause that’s what it takes, apparently.
I’ve finished Fable 2, again, so that it no longer sings sweet siren songs of doom that lure me away. I will shortly be turning the wireless off, so that I can no longer linger on message boards were I do not post or spend the time endlessly refreshing reddit.com. [...]
23 Nov
Regrouping (a.k.a. NaNoWhatNow?)
The drought continues.
I messed around with a tree-shaped mindmap at work the other day, though wasn’t satisfied with the results. And I journaled at work today, old-school, pen and paper, since it’s been a couple weeks since my last entry.
I didn’t go to the last write-in, but then again with the snow that night I’m [...]
20 Nov
Not Going As Planned
At all.
But then, I’ve sort of abandoned the plan.
Work has gone haywrire. What we all knew was coming, i.e., the death of the inbound telecom customer care campaign we were all employed on, has come. The thirty-odd agents still on this campaign are given the option to move to another campaign within the company. We [...]
17 Nov
Word Count Hat Trick (NaNoWriMo Day 16 & 17 +0 words)
I am very, very far behind.
I’m at around 17,000+ words of NaNo output. Combined with what I had brings me to 33,000+ words on Spirit Cat altogether.
The last three days I have come to the computer, I have stared at it, and done nothing.
Either I can pull this out on the 19th and 20th, or [...]
15 Nov
Grumbly and Vexed (ie, NaNoWriMo Day 15: 0 words)
For the first time in days, it was too busy at work to get even a paragraph done. We were back-to-back calls, and the number of nutters I had to deal with well outside the usual parameters. Bottom line is that I’m cranky, really tired, and just want to call it a night at this [...]
15 Nov
NaNoWriMo Day 14: +2,026 words
I wrote some 550 words at work today, many of them terrible but enough to go on to get out my words for tonight. And this was after stopping to watch a horrible movie that had so much potential, Diary of the Dead.
Could have been awesome. Should have been. Instead every line was delivered like [...]
14 Nov
NaNoWriMo Day 13 (b): +2,034 words
Which means a grand total of 4,458 words for one day. Not too shabby. Not anywhere near 10,000 words, but I’m pleased none the less, so much so that I think getting to the 50,000 NaNoWriMo goal is possible again. Not an easy thing, but graspable.
I don’t know why this is true but it’s become [...]
