The End is Nigh!

Its the last day of NaNoWriMo.   I am not a winner unfortunately.  I do not have a final word count yet, as I still have a couple hundred words to type up.  But I’m hoping I’m close to the 10K mark.   Its been a great experience and I’ve learned a lot this month about how to schedule my writing time (something I didn’t do very well this month).   I did come up with a number of great story ideas though, the creative juices they have been a-flowin’.    Now I know what to expect for next year.  I’ll be better prepared for next year.  Now I know how far in advance to start prepping, and that I need to outline because my jeans have tiny little wings that just weren’t strong enough to lift me (and I’ve lost weight for crying out loud…).

I’ll update with my final word count later this evening.

Slowly but Surely

I managed to cross the 7K mark earlier this week.  I have 7022 words typed.  I think I have a few hundred more hand-written.    I’m taking a day off work today and plan to spend a few hours writing this afternoon (in between taking my cat in for surgery and trying to clean up the house which is a mess).  I’d love to make the 10K mark by the end of the weekend, but I’d be happy with 8500.   I’ll check back on Sunday to let you know.

I’m kind of stuck on a scene right now.  I’m not sure how to wrap it up and move on.  I had another scene like that already.  I wasn’t quite sure what happened next.  So I just typed in “SOMETHING MORE HAPPENS HERE,” skipped a line and continued writing the next scene.  Looks like I may have to do that again.   I feel I’ve spent too much time on this scene already and its not progressing the story.   I needed to draw the other main character into it more, but I got caught up on the details of the setting (brutal crime scene).  I made a note to go back later and add more of her in.  I figure its better not to dwell on it now, as that will only trip me up further.   I think I will just have to bend to the will of the writing gods and skip to the next scene, coming back later to fill in the final details.    The anal-retentive control freak in me really wants to continue and to start edits, but so far, I’m doing well at keeping her locked away in the mental attic.  I can hear her pounding on the door though…

Well, I have some dirty counter tops to attend to now.  But first, I need to go wash these purple ink spots from my hands.   Thanks for stopping by!

Crossing the 5K Mark!

Well, I should have more than double that by now, but that just hasn’t happened.  However, I did manage to cross the 5K mark on Saturday (5247 to be exact).  5000 words in a week is pretty good for me, and I’m happy with that.  I’m not going to stress about my word count and I’m just going to set smaller personal goals for myself.    My goal is to reach 6500 words by the end of the day on Saturday.   We’ll just have to wait and see

I opened my Week Two Mascots from the Swap-Bot swap.  It was box full of small sticky rubber frogs!  I love frogs so it was perfect.  They’re currently hanging out on my keyboard and around my writing work area.  Now I have to figure out how to work both a the pink sheep and sticky rubber frogs into my novel.

Time to get back to work.  But first, i need to go this purple ink off my hands.   Thanks for stopping by!

Day Five Update!

Well, I had that great first day, but Day Two I wrote absolutely nothing!!  I made up for it on Monday and Tuesday and now have 3,283 words typed.  I have 300-400more handwritten, and hopefully I will get a chance to type that up tonight.  I would like to be closer to 5,000 words by now but I’ve been pulled in a couple of different directions the past couple of days.  I know, I know, if you want to write you have to make the time for it.  And I have.  But I’ve also had to make time for household duties, family, work (darn that work), and I sold an item in my Etsy shop so I’m working on getting that packaged up to ship later this week.  So I’m okay with my word count, considering all that I’m juggling.

So, what’s the story about?  Angels and Demons.  I have a general idea of where I want to go with this, but I know that the characters could decide to send me in a whole different direction half way through, so we’ll just have to see.  I have to keep reminding myself that this is not a short story, that I have time to develop characters and create scenes.  Its challenging, that’s for sure.

Well, the pen and notebook call.  I have a goal of writing at least 300 more words tonight.

thanks for stopping by. Now I need to go and wash off these purple ink spots and make dinner.

NaNoWriMo Mascot for Week One

As I mentioned in a previous post, I participated in a swap for mascots for NaNo.  My partner sent me four mascots, one for each week.  I opened the week one mascot this morning and just laughed. Its a small ceramic that fits perfectly on the upper right corner of the keyboard of my laptop.  I’ll try to get a photo of it up on here later, but for now, let me describe this little guy for you.  It is a pink sheep.  It is ceramic and painted a lovely pale pink.  It has a red nose and holds a red rose.  But it gets better.  The body is covered in pink fluff (think Fun Fur).  Its adorable and whimsical and just plain funny (in a cute way).  You can’t help but smile at it.

I have decide that I have to somehow work it into my story.  Somewhere in my novel a character will make a reference to pink sheep.  I’m not sure just yet how that will happen, but I figure I’ll surprise myself with it.  I just can’t resist.

Photos coming soon!  But first, I need to go and wash this purple ink off my hands.

Day One!

I woke up this morning about 7:45am.  I hid under the covers for a bit, snuggled with the cat.  But then my story started to run through my head.  I jumped out of bed, went out to the living room and grabbed my notebook and pen.  Then I sat down for half an hour and wrote enough to cover 8 sides of composition book pages.   You could say I was inspired.

I did try to stay up last night to be online and type up my first scene at midnight, but at about 20 minutes to midnight, I just crashed and had to go to bed.  I must be getting old.

I’ll be writing some more later today and then I’ll type it up tonight to get a final word count.  I’ll post it here and on the NaNo site (if I can log in, it has been crazy busy over there).

Thanks for stopping by.  Now I need to wash off these purple ink spots and get back to work on a website.