I’m gradually getting used to the extra hours at work, and I’m just barely keeping up with the minimum word counts for NaNoWriMo. I’m at about 37000 words, and trying to get over a cold.
10+ hours straight at work, about 1.25 hours commute time, 8 hours of sleep, an hour to get ready in the morning… That leaves less than 4 hours out of the day for everything else – writing, eating, errands, spending a bit of time with my husband, etc. Forget housework – I certainly have 
But I will not give up! I’m gonna make that stupid 50,000 words this month if I have to type in excerpts from the phone book.
I don’t think it would do much for my plot – especially since they don’t usually have phones in pseudo-medieval fantasy, but hey, it’s supposed to be the last refuge of the desperate. I’m not planning on sinking to that level though – unless it’s really, really necessary. Hmm, maybe a time portal opens and drops a phone booth back in time? Nope – that’s been done (see Bill & Ted)
And now back to my regularly scheduled story, where my heroine has just been accused of being a thief and threatened with having her hand cut off….
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