The thing is, all I really want to do is play with the Wii. Writing is one of the last things i want to do, but I'm going to see this book through to the end. There's only ten more days in the month anyway, so I figure what the hell! Why not. Also: compacting my story to get it done in the month. Will be expanded heavily in far off distant ( Read more... )

Did I meet my 50K-by-Sunday goal? Hell, no. That's because I just introduced the biggest NaNo hurdle I've ever had ( Read more... )

A rough writing day. Well, let me clarify. The writing wasn't tough, it was making myself sit down and write that was the problem. Tomorrow morning I have to renew my now-expired drivers license and I'm going to take the time in line at the God forsaken hellhole to outline my next chapter or two. I breached 35K, and the next mini goal is 40K in ( Read more... )

I was very bad and took two days off to really do nothing. I was just kind of feeling low in general--feeling bad about work, feeling bad about my book, feeling bad about blowing off the gym to write, that sort of thing. But today I had a super-productive day at work and at the novel. The only reason I stopped when I did was because it was ( Read more... )

I cut my noveling by half tonight because I stopped at the halfway point of what I had outlined. Still, half an outline to get me to nearly 30K is nice; I think I like just coming short of the round numbers each night, because it's something nice to hit and blow through the next night (so probably tomorrow I'll end at around 34,500 words, or ( Read more... )

This week, my whole life conspired against me to keep me away from my computer. I was planning on taking Friday night off, so that wasn't a big deal. Mike, Katie, her boyfriend Matt, and I went out to dinner at Dave's Italian Kitchen in Evanston, and then saw "Stranger than Fiction". A GREAT film, and brilliantly written. And let me tell you, ( Read more... )

So last night I wrote about my MC having her birthday and her two remaining friends in the office getting her balloons and cupcakes, and taking her out to lunch ( Read more... )

Ugh, the words had to be forcibly pulled out of me tonight. I posted another 3K+ night, but it was uphill, the entire time. I've got all of my Wednesday shows to catch up on from last night--I went to my friend Karen's birthday party and stayed pretty late, and got more than tispy on various types of wines proferred. And...I'm hungry again, and ( Read more... )

As this is my third year doing NaNo, I can definitively say what is normal for me and what is not as far as this event goes. What is not normal is my crazy word counts in one sittings as I've been doing. My personal goal is 2,500 words/day, and I'm exceeding that by a ton, by both writing faster (100 words per hour fast than last year, which is ( Read more... )

A guy I work with moved to Chicago from Nashville last year, and he's a pretty okay guy. Last week, he quit smoking and we're all (meaning me and my fellow coworkers) trying to be really supportive of him. However, and as could be expected, he's in a terrible mood after six days of no smoking and is biting the heads off of everyone he goes near ( Read more... )