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Welcome to December

Allison — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:07:51 +0000

I’m a day late and a dollar short, but that’s not unusual. I figured that since I took November off from blogging that no one would mind if I took one more day to not write anything at all. As you can see from the flashy badge and neat little widget on the right, I made it to my goal. I needed 50k to “win” NaNoWriMo but my personal goal was 80k to finish my book which I did at approximately 12:30am on Monday, November 30. Yay me!

It was a great month. I did more and better than I imagined I was capable of and it feels great to be able to say, “I wrote a book.” Now that I’m used to writing every day I’m planning to keep up the habit so hopefully you’ll be seeing a lot more posts from me. At least until I start editing the book or outlining my next project.

For right now though I have hours and hours of television sitting on my DVR and I haven’t read a book since October. And it’s December so there’s lots of shopping, cleaning, decorating and baking to be done. I’ve also got a small indoor triathlon in January that I need to train for. Oh, and we’re getting the house prepped to go on the market in February since we’re planning to move. I’m going to be busy but I’ve got a lot on my mind that’s just been rattling around waiting for November to end so I could examine my thoughts and put them in order to share. All in good time.

Today, if you think of it, raise a glass and toast to a successful NaNoWriMo and many more to come.

P.S. Kudos to Melonie over at The Original Drama Mama for winning her first NaNo with me. She’s a rock star!

Word count update

Allison — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:21:09 +0000

Since my widget still isn’t working I’m adding this post to update my word count. From now until the widget appears in the right column I’ll just continue to edit and update here for those who are curious.

11/3 @ 7:20pm – 13,366
11/5 @ 12:30am – 19,582
11/6 @ 12:02am – 22,086

Crazy November

Allison — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:45:31 +0000

NaNoWriMo has begun. More than 100,000 people across the world are now frantically trying to write novels of at least 50,000 words by the stroke of midnight on November 30th. While this has been going on since 1999 I’m participating in the madness for the first time. Eventually there will be a widget in the right column of the blog letting everyone know how many words I’ve managed to spout but it’s not working yet.

For those who are curious, I don’t know if I’ll be sharing my finished product with anyone. I may post some excerpts here but probably not until I’m finished. For now just please wish luck for me and sanity for DH who is going to be starting a new job next week while holding down the fort so I can be a noveling machine.

Oh, and for those who are curious, my current word count is 7108.