No, not in my word count. I'm at 8,430, which is fine for four days. I'm not trying to beat those barn-burning crazies who are already past the 25K mark (or even done, for that matter).

What I'm disappointed in is the NaNo site itself. All this hoopla about their brand-new forums, and yet some of the functionality that made the site so fun is just ( Read more... )

I realized yesterday that only discounting books on Amazon doesn’t help those of you who don’t own a Kindle or use a Kindle app. So Breath of Life and Bad Vibrations are also discounted at All Romance Ebooks, and discounts are soon to follow at B&N as well. (That is, I’ve updated the prices, but they’re not showing yet, whereas at ARE changes seem ( Read more... )

Say that ten times fast!

I’d meant to post this yesterday, but thanks to Yahoo web hosting not updating its MySQL and .php back end to work with the new version of WordPress, I blew up my entire site instead. They restored it, but it ate my post from Monday. Sigh. (For anyone who might be wondering why their favorite author doesn’t put out more ( Read more... )

...I just signed up for NaNoWriMo again. It's an addiction, I swear.

Blame it on NaNoWriMo - which sort of made me drop out of the world for awhile. But what a great excuse! And since I now have a shiny new graphic in my sidebar that announces to the world that I did lose my mind even more so than usual in November, it’s time to get back to business.


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I'm all over the place with what I'm using for my word count (I keep thinking Chris Baty is going to show up on my doorstep and smite me for so blatantly disregarding the rules), but hey, words are words. Today I worked on the short story I owe for the Winter issue of Dark Valentine. I should probably be able to finish it tomorrow, which is a good ( Read more... )

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Neither storm, nor sleet, nor hospitalized fathers, nor mashed Mercedes could keep me from my appointed writing!



50057 / 50000 words. 100% done!

OK, so not done, though. Maybe halfway? I'll keep writing and will probably validate my word count next Sunday.

But here's where I'll wax philosophical about What This Year's NaNo Taught Me:

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...we're very, very close.

I'd like to say that I'll hit 50K tomorrow, but Tuesdays are always bad for me, as my manager is in a full day (she works part-time and has a very weird schedule). But if not tomorrow, then most likely Wednesday, and as long as I've kicked Nano's ass before Thanksgiving, I'm fine.



48370 / 50000 words. 97% done ( Read more... )

Seriously, that's what I felt like yelling at Erik yesterday after he spent pretty much the whole day farting around on his computer (you know, if I ever meet the asshole who invented Mafia Wars, I'm going to put a horse's head in HIS bed!). So, because of said cock-blocking, I didn't get a damn thing written yesterday. By the time he'd cleared out ( Read more... )