Doing the happy dance

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goals, NaNoWriMo challenge, postaday2012, word count, writing goals

Today I wrote the last 3000 words, I typed the last word at 11:00 and I uploaded the entire 50,140 words, 70 pages in total, onto the NaNoWriMo website and then I got up and did a happy dance, hooray! I am relieved to be done for now, I have to get back to my novel to finish it, I know, but for now I am taking a few days to relax.

A light snow has been falling all day here in Blandford and little Jack was non to thrilled to be dragged outside to do his usual walks, even with his coat on. If you could hear me talking to Jack over my shoulder, trying to egg him on saying “come one Jack, Maman is getting snowed on as well and it isn’t that bad. Come on Jack, the faster you walk the faster we’ll be home and it’s not as if I’m making you walk all alone, I’m with you getting cold as soon as we get back I’ll make you a fire”

In the midst and in between all that drama, the drama with Jack was each and every time we went out. I loaded up the library with wood and the baby boy came by to check on his Maman and helped me bring in a huge mess of firewood into the garage, out of the snow.

I am not thinking about my novel for a few days instead I am going to finish the Christmas tree and finish decorating the rest of the house.

I feel good about what I did today,:)

NaNoWriMo challenge, getting there

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difficulty, NaNoWriMo challenge, postaday2012, word goals, writing

I’m getting there with the NaNoWriMo challenge, I am definitely committed to achieving my goal of 50,000 words by November 30th. Yesterday while watching a Sunday morning political program, I almost never watch them because I get mad at them, the host Bob Schieffer had a panel of book writers, writers who don’t just write one book but many, many more. There was one who is relatively well known David Baldicci, who has written twenty five books. Heavens to Betsy, I am struggling with writing for more than two hours at a time and these writers churn them out out like little cakes out of a baking machine. I am hideously jealous of them, not so much for their obvious talent but the seemingly ease at which their words flow.

I powered through 10,000 words today. I am not going to lie, it was hard. I took the usual breaks, eating, walking Jack several times, bathroom breaks and feeding the stove firewood breaks. It wasn’t until the last thousand words that it graduated to impossibly hard. I am not exaggerating one iota, I nodded off three times while I was typing. I was dreaming the story and it got confused so that Is what woke me up, I think, I knew I had fallen asleep because my fingers were still moving and typing gobbly gook and my head violently snapped up and I deleted the meaningless string of letters. It then happened again and then again, at this point I was at 46,760 and I was thinking, I am going to do this, I am going to get to 47,000.

Tomorrow, the goal I have set for myself is the remaining 3000 words and then upload them to the NaNoWriMo website and I will break out into a little dance. My brain is now mush, after I publish this post I am going to watch one of my favorite shows, Bones and then go to sleep.