NaNoWriMo 2009
November is a way off yet, but I have an idea for National Novel Writing Month. Actually, I had the teeniest grain of an idea, I tossed it out at Hubby, and he handed me a fantastic idea to play with. I'm a big fan of outlining the
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NaNoWriMo
A collection of 141 issues
Starting the year
I only made a couple of resolutions for 2009 and I believe both are do-able goals:
* Spin on my new wheel at least twice a week.
* Get my karate orange belt.
My first ever karate lesson was on November 17th, on December 11th I signed up for five months
Just rewards
I ordered some fibre from Susan's Spinning Bunny as my reward for completing my NaNoWriMo novel this year, and it has arrived:
(I'm having a hard time taking good photos because the sun is setting earlier, so the colours you see are not necessarily accurate.)
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Back to the Routine
I took a long-neglected, half-knitted sock to the final Sunday NaNoWriMo write-in and chatted with the other winners. The sock came to work with me this week instead of my laptop. The cable isn't as visible as I'd like, but this yarn has
Winding down
It was all drama this weekend, Hubby was right down to the wire. He wrote four thousand words on Saturday at the final St Charles write-in, and over ten thousand words on Sunday night to squeak over the finish line around 10pm. I am so proud of him for
The End
Went to the final St Charles write-in today and finished my NaNoWriMo story at the Crooked Tree Coffee Shop. I can actually type "The End" without feeling guilty. 51,785 words and it ended at a really good point.
My December writng project is to write the
Green!
I crossed the threshold at lunchtime, my NaNoWriMo 2008 novel is at 50138 words. I'm writing chapter eleven of twelve, so I still have some story to get done, but it's a good feeling to see the icon change from "Participant" to "WINNER&
Novelling Snapshot
Reached 40,000 words on Wednesday 19th and I'm only partway through chapter nine of twelve, looks like I'm writing a 60,000 word story. But it's moving along nicely and I hope to write "The End" by November 30th.
The story
NaNoWriMo week three
Crossed the magic 35,000 work mark on Sunday night, it's all downhill from here. The story threads are coming together nicely, though my bad guy did something inexplicable again. He'd demanding a much bigger part than he's supposed to have. Unplanned things are
What Week Two slump?
Traditionally, week two of NaNoWriMo is where it all goes downhill. Plots fail, word counts flounder, characters flail uselessly. Week Two is where it gets "interesting".
Wash: This landing is gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting"
Wash: [deadpan] Oh God, oh God, we're