You'll Be a Song I'll Sing

Today was a good writing day. I am happy with my number of words written and didn't feel like I gave up too much today. I was able to watch a few programs on the DVR and have meals with my husband.

Total Written Today: 5899 (yeah - I guess I couldn't squeeze out one more word. lol)
Total Word Count: 38911
11089 Words to go or... 5545 words written the next two days.

I did not take advantage of any Black Friday sales and stayed away from most shopping places. I wrote a little bit this morning, went to see Fantastic Mr. Fox with in-laws, aunt and husband. Then we had a late lunch at Tip Top, and ended up at the North Market where we got Jeni's ice cream for dessert. I bought a pint of Dark Chocolate, which I've never had, for home.

Once home I got sucked into internet time and then took a two hour nap. Writing commenced on the crappy non-power saving laptop. When it began to lose power I switched to upstairs. (I am saving money for a new laptop.) Fortunately, all of my words were still in my document on my USB Drive.

3043 words written today. Total word count is 33012. I can still finish my Nano project but I need some big pushes. I am going to try and get as much done in the morning as I can so I won't find myself at 10pm wanting or needing to write another 3000 words.

Happy Thanksgiving! If you're not celebrating then I hope you have a good day!

I'm going to update the maps on the Garmin and get some writing done before I head out for the Thanksgiving feast. Total word count as of midnight is 25664.

I am still plugging away at my NaNo Project.  At 24,020 words, my Excel spreadsheet estimates I will be done on December 11th.  I will keep writing one word at a time to get to the finish line.  My goal is still 50 thousand words before December 1st.

Because I spent very little time getting to know my characters beforehand, I do get surprised by my characters or the plot.  Tonight my main character revealed something personal about himself.  Apparently he was an aspiring Olympian in his younger years.  He never made the US Olympic archery team and quit practicing after college.  I should have known a nickname like “Dead Eye” might have something to do with his aim.

At 48% of the project done, I am almost finished with the uphill climb.  Soon I’ll be on the downward slope.  Before I know it, my worry will not be “where will I find all these words” but how to tie up the story before I reach 50k.

Mirrored from Amber Stults - Book Reviewer and Author.

It was the first day to pick up my meat CSA and it didn't go as planned. I did get to get my hair and eyebrows done like I had planned. My shampooer was a man and I can now understand why some women find a man washing their hair sexy. However, all I could think about was how he was massaging my scalp using the same techniques (and some of the same places) as I massage Sammy to calm him down.

470 words today brings me to the precipice of 20k. My total word count at the end of today is 19917. Only 30083 more to go! :)

Yesterday was an all around odd day.

I woke up at 4am to the sound of Sammy getting sick. I cleaned it up and he wanted to cuddle. Surprisingly, he was still sleepy. I became a sandwich - Sammy on the left and husband on the right. For an hour I was wide awake. I went downstairs to write and spent about a half hour on the novel. At that point I got sleepy and I could hear Sammy getting restless. I went back to bed and woke up in just enough time to get ready for work. I nearly called in sick because when I was walking Sammy I had that sleep deprived almost drunk feeling.

However, I went to work which wasn't so bad. After work I came home and cleaned. We had someone clean half of the house in September right before my mother's surprise party. Starting today we're having the same cleaning done once a month. I honestly never understood it in high school when my friend would have to clean the house before the cleaning lady came. Now I do - if the surface to be cleaned is covered with papers or books then it can't get cleaned, can it?

I'm using Dr. Wicked's Write or Die (online version) to get larger chunks of words written at a time. Today I wrote 1344 words (smaller than my new daily goal of 2k to "win" by the 30th). My total word count is at 18088.

My rewards system this year has kind of gone by the wayside. I've been stuck on unique rewards. It's good to have a little something to look forward to which is why I am only half heartedly still doing them. Any other month and I would not be rewarding myself for writing. One thought I had was to buy a laptop this year when I reach 50k but I'm probably going to buy one anyway in the next six months. It's more difficult all the time to get the old (as in 8 years old at this point) one to run on AC power.

Last night I made chili and corn bread for dinner. There were a lot of leftovers. I'll bring some for lunch tomorrow.

Words written today - 1452. Total Word Count (according to Word) is 16744. I went over 15k this weekend like I had hoped I would. But I was secretly hoping to get to at least 20k. I had ample opportunity and time but I am just not feeling this particular novel this year.

Wonderful day so far. Slept in, saw a good movie (Lorna's Silence), had lunch at Katzinger's Deli and then stopped at Pistacia Vera for some goodies to take home.

Wrote just over the minimum yesterday so I'm starting at over 13k. I want to be to at least 15K before the weekend is over. If I get more than that I will be really happy.

It's a pretty fall day today. The sun is out and only a light jacket is required. We have the french doors and some of the windows open. Now I'm off to write - no more procrastinating.

Edited to update my total word count is now 15292!

Had a few hours to write but just couldn't produce. Total word count 11419. Still not out of it this year.

Yesterday I flew through my daily word count and closed the gap a little.

Today I let the gap widen.  Total Word Count is 10804.  Still not out of it!

Sammy got a Peanut Butter flavored Frosty Paws today.  He loved it.  In fact, he loved it so much, he wanted to eat the paper cup it came in.  Instead, husband and I crumpled it up and played Keep Away with Sammy.  It was a solid 15 - 20 minutes of play.  I think we all loved it.  Sammy would run back and forth between us and while he would try to grab the cup in the air or on the ground, he was very well behaved.  No biting and no getting ouf of control.

Saw Where the Wild Things Are this afternoon.  Had fish and chips at Old Bag of Nails.  Dinner was from Smackie's Traveling Smoker stand.  They ran out of brisket so we had a pulled chicken and a pulled pork sandwich.  Yummy.

Wrote 1074 words today.  Total Word Count is 8293.

Yesterday I did no writing on my NaNo.  After work I went to husband's work where I saw some short films by Robert Beavers.  Interesting stuff.

Today was Sammy's Gotcha Day.  We didn't really do anything to celebrate it but he let us sleep in until 11:30am and he rewarded with a long walk.  As usual, Sammy did climb into bed at 6:45am looking for cuddle time and some belly rubs.

I am still behind on my tv watching but am making progress in getting caught up from watching shows while my husband and I were out of town last month. 

And today I had my best writing day for the month to date.  3188 words.  This still leaves me behind but I am catching up to where I should be.  My total word count is 7219.  I knew I wasn't out of this yet.

For dinner tonight I made a sausage/bean risotto which was yummy.  Very perfect for a cool day in fall.

Watched some of the World Series of Poker (down to about 19 people, I think) and then got to writing.

Wrote 1251 words for a total of 4031.  I am still behind but am starting to build some steam to catch up over the weekend.

2780 Words total. 

I figured out something about writing in my office.  I can't do it.  Sammy gives me the sweet Corgi eyes to let him up on the chair.  Then I can't get completely comfortable since I have a Corgi at my back.  If I don't let him up, I'm still not comfortable and I often have a cruising Corgi who comes by for pets and belly rubs.

So I wrote in the bedroom last night before I got sleepy.  Went to bed at 10:30pm which is early for me.  But I still wrote!

Total Word Count: 2333

So why I didn't follow my plan to pick something with action and start writing from there I don't know.

My supervisor at work knows I'm doing this so he checks on me every few days to find out how I'm doing.  :)  For some reason, I feel like the month should be almost over.

Part of the problem with writing from nothing is that I've spent most of this time getting to know my character.  Kinda boring.  I think I'm going to get straight to some action tomorrow.

2168 words total.  Still behind.

Sammy was at the groomer today with Olivia.  An aggressive Wheaton Terrier was with Barb.  The Wheaton Terrier snapped at Barb so Sammy growled at him.  Then Sammy wanted to bark but he let out the high pitched bark/whine as Barb put the Wheaton Terrer into a muzzle. 

Barb, Olivia and the other ladies just love Sammy.  They were laughing and carrying on about what he did.  Sometimes I think they know him better than I do.  When I got there, he'd conned his way into walking freely around the back part of the grooming area.  It's so funny when they say he's a sweet boy and how much they love him.  He has been acting better lately but he's not sweet on a consistent basis.

1372 words down.  Not the minimum I should be doing but a decent start to NaNoWriMo.

I spent it doing nothing around the house. Then we saw A Serious Man which was really funny.  We went to Cuco's for dinner afterwards.  We invited my parents for the outings and they had a really good time.  Churros were our chosen dessert at the restaurant but we stopped by Jeni's.  I picked up some of their special flavor for Breast Cancer Awareness month - rose petal with vanilla beans and red pepper.  Had a scoop later.  Nice!

While driving around one goofball went down Dodridge the wrong way.  Part of the street is one way and it's a common sight on game days.  We saw two guys by a huge tree.  One was on his butt trying to get up with no success.  The other one was hugging the tree and getting sick on the other side.  When I first saw them I thought it was an elaborate Halloween decoration at first.  I couldn't see puking guy's head so I thought he was a decapitated dummy.  I seem to spot the oddest things around bars and drinkers, don't I?