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.

Update

Ok, ok, ok, I know. I haven't written one update on my NaNoWriMo experience. One word explanation? AWESOME. First off, I have never written anything longer than thirty pages of so. Today I passed 31,000 words, that's getting around 100 pages. I'm actually sitting at 31,556 words. It looks like I am going to be able to make the 50,000 word count.

Here is how everything is breaking out. Tomorrow is volleyball night. My word count is not going to go up a huge amount. Goal for tomorrow...500 words is likely, 1000 words tomorrow would be a bonus.

If we assume likely that will put me right at 32,000 words. My goal for Friday is 2,000 which should not be any issue. That puts me at 34,000. Saturday and Sunday, low goal is 4000 words by the end of the weekend. No problem with that. I am going to try to write 3000 words each day. If we assume low end...that puts me at 38,000 with 8 writing days to go. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday should be 2000 apiece. That puts me, low end estimate again, at 44,000. Turkey day my goal is only 1000 but I may be able to write more. That would put me at 45,000 with 3 days left. If I can pull of the 6000 word weekend I would like to, it would be 47,000 with 3 days left.

Either with 3000 or 5000 remaining in those three days, there would be nothing stopping me from getting there. I don't see my story running out at all.

In fact, I haven't gotten to any of my three plot twists I have been thinking about. I am about to introduce the first one starting in my writing tomorrow. I'm planning on plowing right into December and set my own goal for that month. I would like to put 40,000 words out by the 31st. We'll see how that goes.