Merry Christmas to all!

 
 

day 20

Ten days left.  Yikes.  Well more than halfway to go and with the holiday coming up I seriousl doubt that I'll make it.  Slow and steady wins the race.  I'm still rolling the thousands...just not that many in one day :(

Oh well.  I've invested too much in this to not finish....but it just won't be done by November 30.

Word count 14500.

day 19

wow.  19 days.  too bad i'm not as far along as i should be...but i'm enjoying the story....enjoying too many other things outside of writing also so i guess i'll get it done when it's time to get it done :)

word count 13246

Day 18

Fell asleep early last night.  10:30.  That's very early for me.  Anyway.  Got some writing done this morning.  Mostly slogged my way through a boring transition scene.  Later I'll get to more of a plot driven scene.  Hopefully I get that written before going to work.  I need to keep rolling the thousands :)

Word count: 12210

Day 15

Well it's offically week 3.  Wow.  I'm behind.  But I'm not undaunted.  YET :)

Chris Baty from NaNoWriMo sends out weekly pep talks and I have to say that one section is what keeps me going:

The more you write, the more inspired you're going to feel. If you're feeling pokey now, it's because you're not writing enough. Push yourself to write every day, and make a point of adding something to your word count any time you're within striking distance of a keyboard. Harness the power of micro-sessions.  If you're far behind, stop figuring out where you're supposed to be each day. Instead, just dive into your story and write until you've rolled the word counter up by a thousand. Then take a twenty-minute break, and go after another thousand. Don't worry about getting caught up - that'll take care of itself. Just keep rolling those thousands.

JUST KEEP ROLLING THE THOUSANDS.  It's good.  With that in mind I wrote for a while this morning.  Had a bit of an Abby interuption and then wrote some more.  Now if I could just convince the housework to do itself I'd be free with more time to write.

Word Count:  10987

day 14

Wow.  Is that possible?  Day 14?  You'd think I'd be a lot further along.  I've had some set backs at home.  But I'm determined to ignore my kids for a while so that I can try to get more writing in.  This last weekend was a bit rough.  Didn't get anything in until now Monday morning.  Frustrating because Friday night I was able to finally plot out where everything is going to go.  I had several images in my head and wasn't sure where things were going to fit in.  Finally I got it all meshed together and then I didn't get anything done.  Oy vey.  Some of it is my fault.  I won't deny that.  But I guess part of it has to do with the idea of being set back so you just want to give up.  But I can't do that.  This is the 2nd part to A night of Poker.  Not that anybody has read that yet but once they do they'll want to know more.  Anyway.  Enough blog rant for now.

Word Count: 9790

day 8

Well I've lost the battle for the moment.  I didn't write anything for Monday.  OY VEY that sucks.  Tuesday was pretty much just as bad.  Wednesday I need to really get my shit in gear.  But.  BUT here's the brainstorm I had tonight.

Bored with where I'm at I've decided to create a new character and see where that leads. It's not that I'm actually bored with the characters I've created so far I'm just anxious to keep going. I shouldn't be but I am. Oh well. So I have thought of an interesting new character slash plot device that will help to make for even more interesting scenes further into the novel. I was procrastinating and searching for ring tones for my damn cellphone instead of typing when I thought what if Sylvia is being followed by a reporter. He has some information that he wants to clearify for a story. Of course she doesn't know what the hell he's talking about and she's scared by the thought that something has happened to her and her two boys. So what if this reporter keeps following her hounding her until she finally relents to listen to him. He tells her about what he knows to be the truth. Russell is still alive or was the last time he had heard and of course he knows that she had Micah. Micah being the third son. The whole reason why Russell is gone.

Of course I'll keep you posted as this new idea progresses.

What should his name be?