all the live long day….

Hey, I finally got caught up. and all it took was 5426 words in one day.

47,000 / 50,000 (94.0%)

This is more than the minimun required for today, which is 46666.

Yahoo! Nano, you will be mine, once again!

Tuesday Night Writing at Goblin Fern
Tonight I’m heading out to Goblin Fern Press’s donated space.
5-8pm

I will likely show up between 6 and 6:30

Come join me for another push to finish our novels!

http://www.goblinfernpress.com/

The Write Place
3809 Mineral Point Rd.
Madison, WI 53705

Madison:
608-442-0212

Toll free:
888-670-BOOK
(888-670-2665)

A Song for Evan – Completed.
Originally uploaded by Metahari.

Yah! the commission is done! I’m so happy with the way everything turned out!

Had a good day today, finished my 3 day, 10k word sprint.
I hit 30k+ today for my nanonovel! woo! only 5000 behind now.

30,443 / 50,000 (60.9%)

18,807 / 50,000 (37.6%)

Wow, last night just plain rocked.
I got to see my mom and dad for dinner, mom made this awesome eggplant parmesan and we watched Clean Sweep on tv, and then checked out her digital pictures from their vacation.

Then, I headed out to Muddy Waters and had a great nanowrimo writing night, not only did around 7 people show up to pound on their novels, I personally was motivated to write, and got almost 3000 words done! Also, had very good coffee and juice, and conversations with loverly writing people. OCR wrote 6000 words!

Realized I’ve known Eric and Jane now for a whole year, and also that I’ve known Heather for 3! It was interesting to be sitting in the same cafe, with the same people working on the same project, just at a later time.

Plus, happily my muse was concentrating, and I don’t feel like the words in chapter 6 last night were all that bad, so my infernal critic had to just be quiet and sit in the corner.

I was up too late though, I went home for a nap over lunch. Good day at work too, lots of things getting done.

Excited about tonight. Hope to get to 20k on the novel, and finish ’s commission. And my husband is home! He’s been working away from here all week.

16,022 / 50,000 (32.0%)

Writing is going slow, we traveled for a family thanksgiving up north last weekend, and I took friday off writing and did art. (Which was lovely really, I’m almost done with ’s commission, and excited about it’s direction), so for the last three days, friday-sunday I wrote about 2300 words. Thankgiving with my husband’s family was nice though, we got to catch up with his younger cousins, who schooled carlo, and I, and our friend ana, all at the same time in Halo2, after seeing the game for the first time. And the Packers won. yay. I actually wrote in the car on the way home.

Last night I pulled myself away from the Halo2 and after a very long time sitting and staring at my monitor, and much futzing around with iTunes,(there were 4 people sharing music at Company of Thieves), I actually got just over 1000 done, which is good because I wasn’t certain I’d get more than 60, and really really wanted to go home to more Halo2. But I stuck it out, and went through 2 italian/french soda’s ( look what you’ve done, I now have at least three of these a week, and more this month because of all the coffeeshop writing I’m doing)

I think I’ll feel better when I hit the 20k milestone, and then 50%. According to my Nano report card, I only need to do 2265 words a day to make it by the end of the month. Which isn’t really all that bad, and I’m fairly sure I can do some catch up this coming weekend. Pushing forward.

12,536 / 50,000 (25.1%)

Yahoo, made the first quarter. I’m using http://www.bartastechnologies.com/products/copywrite/ to write my nanonovel this year, and openoffice to run the nano reportcard.

Copywrite is really cool Mac writing software, instead of just making one document, you make a project, which lets you link all sorts of documents together, in categories like; chapters, ideas, premise, places, ect. But all the documents can be linked together and exported if you have the paid version. You can also set the status on each document, like; new, rough, draft, final.

But the best part is… every document has a little notepad you can use, to meta-write, things you want to remember to add, things you are working out, it’s like writing in the margins. AND there is also a linked scratchpad for the whole project notes, so while the document notes are only available from each document, the project notes are accessible by all the documents!

And the best feature for nano is… i can set my goal(50,000 words) AND have it count the notes and the documents, so i don’t have to put all my theroretical notes in my main story document, but still have all my words count! Wow! cool! And I did do a lot of note-ing last night, about a thousand words on what if’s and what about’s and how people see each other. I discovered some very cool stuff that is totally going to help me fill in the blank spots in my nebulous outline.

8,510 / 50,000 (17.0%)

I wrote a lot this weekend. Not quite caught up, but moving along swiftly, I anticipate reaching 10k tonight, which is nice. I’ve just introduced my two main characters.

Saw the Incredibles (awesome) and Casshern(wow!), this weekend, while type typing away.

Had great time on friday also, got to hang with in honor of her new domicile, and a group from the carrying party went to Ella’s Deli, where I had the best autumn sundae with pumpkin icecream, mmm.

Halo 2 comes out tommorrow. Crazy time is here again.

The kickoff went well, we had about 15 people show up, and I made sure to pick up more pens, notecards and pads of paper for everyone, pre-official swag. Happily, My new nano t-shirt came in the mail, so I was able to wear that also, which made me quite happy. There was a little issue about when we had the room reserved. A.M. vs P.M. but that figured itself out too, and we had plenty of people ready to pounce on the tables before I arrived. Yah! NaNo. I’ve got a couple pieces of software setup on my iBook, kotoko, CopyWrite and OpenOffice. So happy, someone ported that awesome Nanowrimo reportcard to OpenOffice, that helped me so much last year. So, after all the excitement, I got about 360 words in. No sweat though, I’ve done this before, I can do it again.

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Voted today, had to register at the polls, because we’ve moved since the last ones. I didn’t get a sticker, but I got the whole thing over with. Seriously, all this stuff is making me stressy and sick. I wish I could sit back and think, hey, my vote can’t possibly be the lifechanging decider, but we live in a swing-state. So all I get is stressy, and oversaturated by all the stupid campaigns. grr.

But my part is done. I voted.

Hey! I’ve been waiting for some official flyers to materialize so we can poster the town, but they’re not due to hit till this weekend!

Cal and I will be postering up around town too, but if you want to help, take this unofficial poster
http://www.soundchasers.com/filemgmt_data/files/nano%20flyer.jpg or

http://www.soundchasers.com/filemgmt_data/files/nano%20flyer.png

and print it out, write our kickoff info at the bottom (Cool Beans Coffee Cafe, Nov 1st 7:30-9:00 ) at the bottom, and put them up in your dorms, gas stations, coffee shops, office boards that you frequent!

If everyone can do 2-5 around town, perhaps we can persuade even more people to join in this seasonal challenge!

Thanks!
dreamling

p.s. If you love this kind of thing, you can see all sorts of other awesome stuff to print out and hang up here.

http://www.soundchasers.com/filemgmt/viewcat.php?cid=1

Kickoff Nov 1st! Cool Beans Coffee Cafe
Alright Novelists!

The kickoff place and time has been decided, and posted in our local calender as well.

Kickoff! Cool Beans Coffee Cafe
Nov 1st, 7-9pm

Come out and learn what this whole Novel in a Month is all about, meet winners from previous years, chat about time management, best places to write and your novel ideas!

Can’t wait to see you all.