Six thousand...

[byslantedlight]

31713


...words to go to catch up for NaNoWriMo - and I got barely a thousand written yesterday, and that as a last minute blast, again! *sighs* These lads just aren't getting the job done... Maybe I should have had a much more firm plan for the chapters etc. - and stuck to it more than I have the bits that I did have planned... Maybe I just don't know these lads well enough to describe them properly (although it's nice getting to know them, it's taking far too long!) That word count above should be at 38,333 by the end of today - eep! And then there are only 7 days to finish, a single week (although that does include another weekend, so phew! So I'm going to post here today as well as watching my own NaNoWriMo page, and see if I can make a big difference to it by the end of the day...

This may or may not happen, because I have a cold! It turned up on Friday night, just in time for me to be all plagued-up for my first Photography Club, and for E's party last night when I met everyone from around the yard here. Gargh! Ah well... It's actually not raining at the moment, which its forecast to do most of the day...ooh, no it's not! Auntie Beeb has changed her mind since last night, and there will be no rain today! 0C tonight, and frost, and tomorrow will be sunny (yeay, cos I'm collecting the two sofas). Rain was going to help with the staying-in-to-write, but I'll have to leave that up to willpower after all...

ETA - eventually, 3648 words written today. Which isn't bad, and catches up a day's writing, but oh, it should have been so much more. I had the whole weekend - and it was lost in the fug of having a headache-y cold! Of course now when I'm sleepy enough for bed, my head has finally cleared and I just have a cold...

Hmmn - or another way of looking at it that doesn't sound quite so scary: 2092 words to write each day for another seven days. I can do that, right?!

Comments

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Oh what a scunner, having a cold just in time for the party - hope you were able to enjoy it in spite of that!

And you may be 6k under where you wanted to be at this point, but hey you're almost 32k over where you started! And believe me, I'm really looking forward to any future opportunities that may arise to read some of the results of your various projects! :-)))))))))

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh I know - a scunner it was! (I've not heard that for ages... *g*) To be honest parties of people I don't know aren't my favourite things at the best of times, but on the bright side I'll mostly know who I'm saying hello to in the yard now, when I move into my place!

And thank you - I like your way of looking at NaNoWriMo! And it's true, I have 32k more than I did to start with... but I really would like to "win" and get to 50k again this year! I'm not entirely sure you'd like to read this one, mind, not only is it not Pros, but it's really just plodding along at the moment! Maybe if I can get to 50k and put it away for a while, and then give it a good edit (you know, down to maybe 30k again... *g*) it'll be better!

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

It's a real bummer when the words won't come. They're finally coming to me, but I can't imagine how hard it would be if I didn't know the characters that well. Is that part of the NaNoWriMo challenge, that you have to pick an unfamiliar pairing? Forget that!

And then a cold on top of that! Maybe it'll help with the writing, since you can no longer count on the rain.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yeay for you, that's you have words coming! *g*

It's not at all part of the challenge that you pick an unfamiliar pairing - pairing's don't have anything at all to do with it, you can write about anything you like as long as it's a novel. It's not fandom-related at all, just writing-related. I've done it three times with Pros stories, and I rather wanted to see if I could write non-Pros (non-fandom!) to any great length. The answer may in fact be a resounding no at the moment... :( (Especially since I haven't yet started writing today after all - gaaaargh! Having a cold (and attendant headache) is definitely not helping...)

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

I hope the willpower was strong today and you were able to get some more writing done. It's always hard to sit inside when the weather is fine, though. You could always tell yourself that you need to take things easy and nurse your cold....

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Cold-with-headache ended up trumping willpower unfortunately, though I'm going to try now and see if I can come up with at least today's number of words... Just - gargh! Cross fingers for me...

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Oh, rats and bummer for the cold, and go you \o/ for the wordage.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Ah, I am entirely your icon today too - gargh! No words at all so far today, instead headache-with-cold... *sighs* But I swear I'm going to write now - there must sure be at least today's words today... *sighs more*

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

Go you!
You'll do it inspite of everything, I believe in you!

Hopefully your cold and headache will be gone today, or at least bearable.
All the best wishes!