A Nano-ing We Go....

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Today is Day 24 of Nano. My stats are as such:

Nano words: 36,043
Total wordcount: 71,657
Nano thinks I won't hit 50k until December 3rd. Hmph! Not true!
Plotpoints yet to write: 12
Estimated final wordcount: 90kish, a little higher than I had thought, but still under 100k, which is good for me considering last two novels were over 250k... :)

This is the first year of ALL the many years I've stabbed at Nano that I will actually get 50k. I am pretty floored about this. There's alot of differences w/me this go round that I think have made a difference: I have a project that I love, I have alot of reasons to get this thing done NOW, I have a local support group that is always asking 'how you doing?' (and incidentally? all of them have already reached 50k and beyond. Woot!). I have also had minimal hand/arm pain. That stopped me cold last year. But not this year. I do not know why but I am not questioning it.

Am at work today but not really working hard. There are four of us here today, as was yesterday and Monday. Not much else to say about this place.

Thanksgiving for us will be quick and easy. Spinach quiche, orange juice, croissants, jelly, bacon. 10-11:30, then MIL is out of there for other festivities with her friends, the daughter is off to work, the son has been invited to go eat dinner at a couple of different places so he is headed out. And I will stay at home with my pupsters, writing. Thanksgiving isn't a big affair in our house obviously.

Tonight though? HARRY POTTER! With mah kids! Plus two! Plus probably a couple more! Whenever I go see a movie 'with my kids' it usually means about six kids. No, not complaining. Much. LOL. Tiff was bad and saw it on Monday--she tried to sneak-watch it and wasn't going to tell but guess what? I woke up, realized she wasn't home (yes she is 21, but she always touches base with me, we just do that), so I texted her. CAUGHT! She had just got out of the theatre, bad girl. LOL. Oh well.

Busy days--Nick and Tiff both are in the throes of job hunting, so I am getting hit from both sides. Grin. I continue with my SPN rewatch, and am going to start watching Buffy as I have never seen it. It never appealed to me back then, but maybe now?

Not much else. I am so happy with how things are going writerly-wise, that that is really my main focus in life right now. Then once this is done, I'm diving straight into Yuletide. I really really like the fandom I have chosen from my recipient's list; I will be writing something I never have before, and that will be fun.

After that? I am challenging myself to a three-months, start-to-finish manuscript writing marathon. I want to get the next one to Loose-Id as quickly as I can. This one will have alot of fun built-in, and I can't wait to work on it. WHEE!

I guess I should get to work?

Comments

[theemdash]

Woot on Nano! I totally understand the appeal of something you love. It's much easier to make this insane drive when you like what you're writing. ;)

I fully support you watching Buffy.

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

LOL my sister has been after me FOREVER. Absolutely loves Buffy beyond reason. I am trying to get her to watch Supernatural, since I am giving in to Buffy. :)

Yes--this ms was the one I started w/GYWO. Got the first 30k in and it sat for over a year, untouched. This will NOT happen again. TWO YEARS is PITIFUL.

[theemdash]

Shhh, KL and I have been working on the steampunk for about that long.

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but it is A HUGE PROJECT! Mine is just a little ol' romantic suspense novel. So you get a wee bit more time...

[dremiel.livejournal.com]

My kid hated the movie for Goblet of Fire si much that he gave up
on the franchise and won't see it. Sigh. He also won't go see Tangled
or Megamind with me and there us nothing else showing around here. Stomps foot! I want to go to a movie today!!

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

Awww oh Tangled, my daughter wants to go see too. I had not heard of it until she told me and then there was a commercial! What!? LOL.

yeah--it is nice having a daughter so into such movies. But then, she is moving far far away, waahhh.

[cthonus.livejournal.com]

Kudos where it's due for 50k. I seem to be stuck in a rut with ideas that beg to be put down on paper but never get beyond the lying in bed and daydreaming phase.

Haven't seen my muse since his birthday in February. He was always good at unbalancing me enough to want to write and in his absence I've fallen back on the easy excuse of photography for taking up my time.

Buffy was always a regimented pleasure - I had a friend who'd make a point of asking me about the last episode aired so I always felt obliged to watch it. (She's no longer with us, and the world is a less vital place without her, but I can't watch a rerun without thinking of her and grinning at how much she adored it.)

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

I seem to be stuck in a rut with ideas that beg to be put down on paper but never get beyond the lying in bed and daydreaming phase.

This has long, long, LONG been my problem, quite honestly. It has been a difficult process to calm my brain enough to focus on ONE thing. I have alot of incentive for this one though--it is more than likely a sure-sell (spinoff from my previous book with Loose-Id) and dammit, I need the money. Flat out.

What has helped me though tons was finally succumbing to my doctor's wish that I try Wellbutrin. I don't think it has killed off my worries and blues, but focus has increased ten-fold.

But then again, it could just be the money thing... :) Really though, concentrating one and only one thing at a time has been the key. I simply can't do more than one story at a time. This one has taken almost two years to write--the next one WILL be written in three months. I AM SERIOUS. LOL.

BUFFY--ahhh can I skip to the second season? The first one is annoying. LOL!

I saw your tribute to your friend. She was way too young to be lost. :*(

[fictional-one.livejournal.com]

You need a secretary to type for you, or Dragon Naturally Speaking. Happy Thanksgiving to you and the kidlets!

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

I don't know if my brain would work like that!!! I don't' talk nearly as eloquently as I can type. LOL.

[samueljames]

Hope you enjoy Buffy, it's a great show.

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

I am not sunk into it yet but I vow to give it the best try possible. My sister is making me regardless. LOL!!