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I am made of win! Four years in a row, for 200,000 words. Four stories, one complete. This one is almost there. Just one more "chapter" and I'll be done. Then I wonder what I'll do with it.
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Time for dinner, at 10 pm. Ah, writing.
I am 1200 words from finishing NaNo 2007 (aka I'm 97.6% done). The story might be done. Might go a few thousand over. I'm pretty happy with it, though like all first drafts it has some very wonky moments and discontinuities, but those can be fixed.
Apparently in my even-numbered years of doing NaNo I will be able to complete the challenge by not only writing 50,000 words in November, but finishing the story. Woot! Now if I could only figure out what the heck to do with them after they've been edited up. I'd really dearly love to submit something to magazines or contests next year. My problem is that I don't write short stuff...I'm not very good at being concise when it comes to non-technical writing. Oh well. There's a few ideas rattling around in my head that could conceivably be short...ish...
in the end it's better to say too much
Than to never to say what you need to say again
(John Mayer, Say)
Now it's off to sleep, and one more day of the crazy insanity that is NaNoWriMo 2007.
It's snowing, a little, this Thanksgiving night. Not a lot, and it won't stick. It was in the 70s yesterday, after all. But that's St. Louis for you.
Thought I'd make a note of what I'm thankful for. Even though I'm still about a thousand words behind in NaNo and I don't know when they're gonna get writ. They will though. Oh yes, they will.
Most of all, I'm thankful for my family. I am so grateful that I have parents that love me and that I can wholeheartedly say that I love them back. We have our issues and who doesn't, but we get over them. I love my aunts and uncles and cousins and grandparents, and thank God so much that we can get together on days like this.
I'm thankful for the friends I have. The number is small and I still get lonely, but I'm working on both those things. Here's to friends new and old.
I'm thankful that I can write. Sometimes awfully and sometimes not so awfully. I'm glad I have a dream, and I hope I never ose it. And I hope that my gift (I have to think of it that way, or NaNo would kill me) will lead to some small recognition.
I'm thankful that I'm healthy, for the most part, and still in possession of a relatively fast metabolism. Though I need a workout buddy.
I'm thankful that I have a job and a car, and (usually) enough money to pay for the things I need. And some that I just want.
I hope you had a good Thanksgiving. Stay warm and give someone a hug. They say you need 5 hugs a day to stay healthy. I got that today. Hope you did too.
Check this out: I have written 11724 words of Forging the Forest (working title, anyway), and I needed to hit 11667 today. Go me! I'm on track and ahead by a few. I believe, in the four years that I've been doing NaNo, this is the earliest I've ever been ahead, if indeed I've ever been ahead before the month was almost over...let's see if I can't stay this way.
My cousin's wedding was wonderful, I got my dress sewn and was complimented numerous times on it (though they're all family, so dunno how much of that was just familial bias or awe at the fact that I actually, yanno, took the time to sew something versus an actual appreciation of the design of the dress), finished knitting the fingerless mitts (though they, and the HP scarf, need to be blocked), and my mom's show went well last weekend. She's got another one this weekend, so if you are in the Lou and need some christmas presents, stop on by...
and I finished Elemental Magic, a romance anthology which includes a short story by my favorite author Carol Berg. So sweet to realize the characters are (SPOILER) characters we (sort of) know. Hers was quite the best in the book. I could be biased, I realize.
I wrote 2400 words today. Not quite as good as yesterdays almost 3k, but pretty darned good. I almost don't know what to do with myself. Guess I'll get a little extra sleep.
What did you do today?
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Guess I should return Austenland to the library. Back to Leven Thumps 2.
