month of insanity, day twenty-seven

I win!!!!!!!!!!At 9:38 p.m., my phone rang. When I hung up a few minutes later, I looked down at my word count and saw that it said 50,008. I immediately called Stubes. Then I sat down to wrap up my novel. At 10:45, I uploaded a scrambled version to the NaNoWriMo website, and this is what I saw:The official NaNo word count is 50,718.Yippee!!!!!!!Tonight,...

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month of insanity, day twenty-three

I'M CAUGHT UP IN MY WORD COUNT!!!!!!!!!!!!!Finally! I've discovered that 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. is my optimal writing time. I can crank out words like nobody's business during that two hour time period. Unfortunately, I also require sleep, but I'm not getting too much of that during the week.I just looked at the word count meter on the left side of my blog. I'm more than 75% of the way there. That's so crazy!I'd planned to cover a year in my novel. At...

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month of insanity, day seventeen

Things I've learned in the last seventeen days:Watching my word count meter go up on the NaNoWriMo website is addicting. I have to fight the compulsion to update my word count every five minutes.My dishes won't magically do themselves. Yet I continue to hope they will.Most of my television viewing is extraneous. When I have to decide between watching a TV show or writing, I almost always pick writing ... and I don't miss the TV. I am keeping up with...

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month of insanity, day fourteen

By now, you all know that I'm writing a novel. In a month. The title of my Word document is "Insanity," which has absolutely nothing to do with the plot and everything to do with my mental state when I decided to do this! As I write this, I'm at 12,967 words--just over a quarter of the way there. However, this is the 14th of November, so I should be approaching 25,000 words! I have managed to write every day except yesterday, when I didn't get home...

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my continuing countrification

For a limited time, Amazon is offering a free mp3 download of a song by a CMA nominee. The promotion runs through November 22, and there are hundreds of songs to choose from. I know. I spent far too long previewing songs last night! Of course, it helped that I knew that I should be writing, thus making listening to 30-second clips of songs I'd never...

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month of insanity, day seven

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month of insanity, day three

It's day three, and I'm still in it, but I'm struggling.Yesterday, I basically started over. I kept what I had already written, but I totally changed the way the story was headed.Today, I had great intentions. In the nearly six hours since I left work, I ...got a haircutate supperwatched NCIS with Valsang through all of my Singing Christmas Tree songs ... some more than oncedownloaded a free mp3 album from Amazonwatched the first half of V (I quit...

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christmas can-can

In case you were too lazy to click over to the Straight No Chaser website to watch the Christmas Can-Can video the other day, here it is. Enj...

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month of insanity, day one

NaNoWriMo began today. I started at 12:01 a.m., and I wrote 787 words before I went to bed. At this point, I think my novel is headed towards being really, really terrible. But the point isn't to write a good novel! (I didn't know what I was going to write until I actually started writing. I'm now questioning the wisdom of going with that idea, but...

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