I finished my 50,000 words for National Novel Writing Month on Thursday night. I still had a few scenes to rough out to get to the end of the story but I finished that over the rest of the weekend.

I learned that if you just sit down and start, it’s not nearly as bad [...]

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 [...]

I’m halfway to the NaNoWriMo goal of 50,000 words in a month – two days ahead of time!

Now I just need to keep that buffer. Things like grocery shopping and real life seem to eat away at it quickly. But I’m in good shape.

I really think I’m going to do it. I [...]

Twenty three thousand words, almost halfway to my goal for the month, and I don’t know what happens next. Aacck! I just have to keep telling myself that this is a rough draft. It doesn’t matter if it’s not perfect this time around. I can always restructure it.

And it’s allowed to suck

This weekend has really helped. I needed 16670 words to stay on track for today, and I just passed 21000. Things are going well although I think my story has taken a twist from where I expected it to go. I was going to strand my princess in a peasant village for a month or [...]

I’ve just passed 15,000 words. It took me about four years with a few days now and then to get around to writing that much on the last book… And this was just eight days.

I’m sure it will get harder but this has been helpful already. It helped me see that the key to [...]

10494 words and a reprieve! I don’t have to go in for jury duty on Monday after all. I’m still in the jury pool and they can call me whenever they want, but at least I’ll have Monday free

I’m a fifth of the way there and on schedule. It’s both easier and harder [...]

I got all my words for yesterday in the morning and took the evening off to do some grocery shopping and spend some time with my husband. (He’s such an awesome guy – he cleaned the kitchen and everything this morning.)

So, at 8631, I need to get to work for today