Progress Report

81,252 words as of right now. I did not really write on my novel for about four days this week. It was disappointing but I finally caught the thread and was able to make good progress today. It is getting to the point in the novel that I need to start wrapping some stuff up. I still have no idea how I'm going to finish my novel....but each day I make progress is good. I have to remember, when it gets "done" doesn't mean I can't come up with a better idea later and work on that. I'm still on pace to make my goal of finishing by the end of this month. The 40,000 word goal that I set shouldn't be an issue at all. I'm only 12,750 away from that. I can do that with much issue between now and the end of the year.

New Update

I'm currently at 63,500 words. I'm gaining on it. I think my novel is going to really start progressing to it's finish here pretty soon. I'm thinking another 25-35 thousand words will get me there. Yeah, I know. That is another 30-40% to go but at least I have an idea where it is going. So on ward and upward (in word count). I know that it isn't the most important thing (that is kind of the story) but it what motivates me.

Whatever works right?

November Stats

I finished November with 54,035 words which worked out to be about 155 pages of stuff.

I made it

Holy crap!!!! Ah ha ha ha ha ha. Do a little dance for me. Sing a little ditty. I wrote and wrote and wrote and I made a goal that I NEVER thought I was going to make. And I did it two days early!

Ah ha ha ha ha ha!

<----------- Ain't that cool?????

I'm so almost there. I have that hunger in the pit of my stomach to bear down and try to hit the 50,000 tonight. Another 1867 words? That's nothing write. And plus I am in a section of my story that I have been looking forward to writing for a while. I there and just starting. I just had one bombshell laid on her. I have to explain and work my way through this section and then lay the next bombshell on my main character.

Then my novel will take on a whole new level of urgency.

But as for hitting 50,000...not tonight. I will feel good about hitting the goal tomorrow and I have a bottle of wine all lined up for making the feat. As I said before, I'm shocked that I have been able to do this. I'm also upset that I haven't been able to do anything like this prior to this month. I now have around 150 pages of a story written. Amazing. Another 50,000, which is realistic at this point, and I will have a work of 300 pages. Insane. I want to have it completed by the end of the year. I should have anywhere from 54,000-56,000 words done by bed November 30.

You want to know what I am thankful for? I am thankful for the new confidence that NaNoWriMo has accorded me with this months work. It has been liberating and exciting. It hasn't been as hard as I thought it was going to be. I thought it was going to be impossible...remember? But I am intrigued that there are those who have doubled my word count in the same period of time. Are they for real? Wow.

Happy Thanksgiving all!

NaNoWriMo

44,000 done tonight! I have an outside shot to make 50,000 by Friday night, which is the mini challenge posted on the site by Chris Baty. If I can put 2000 words out on Thanksgiving, which may be possible, I'll hit it on Friday. If not, then Saturday will be the day that pass the 50,000 word mark. Insane. I never thought I would make it. It will be an awesome feeling.

At the same time, why has it taken me so long to do this? It has been there the whole time. The ability to create and write is there. I know it. My short stories, when I wrote them were polished and normally well received at online sites. I didn't spend enough time with them before publishing, that was all their issues were.

It's excited and disappointed in myself all at the same time. Wild right?

Next Update

You can see that I added my word count widget to the blog. I am so proud of this! I'm 75% there now and can smell the finish line. I want to be at either 39,500 or 40,000 by the end of the day!

A week to go and I feel great. I'm going to make it. I've come too far not to reach the goal. I'm not patting myself on the back yet but I am surprised at myself. Honestly, I never thought I was going to have a chance to reach even this word count. I thought I would have run out of things to say long ago. I don't think I'm quite to the half way point yet. I bet I will reach that in the next week. 50,000 words as my half way point? Weird.

Want to know what is more odd? It hasn't been difficult. I was thinking about that last night getting the dishes done. This hasn't been hard. It was a wild sensation. I have NEVER written this much before. At this time at 37,500 this is about 3 times longer than anything else I have written. What is the difference? I have a goal and a deadline. I should have known. My boss gives me deadlines because she knows that I struggle if I don't have a defined end date. I should have been pitching word counts in my own head all along. But now that I know I can do this....I can do it again.