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Well, I didn’t finish the novella like I hoped - but I’ll take my 26K+ and build on it next month.  I’m 10-15K from finishing, a very doable task the first week or two of May.

A few things slowed me down these last few days.  I had a major commitment at the Evil Day Job ( Read more... )

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I admit, I’ve been getting a little discouraged with these 1K days.  That’s not “Fast Draft.”  Plus the month is almost over and I have at least 1/3 of a novella to write yet.  Then I remember that I have made great progress this month, and if I need an extra week or so in ( Read more... )

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Yesterday was a bit of a bust - I didn’t even break 1K.  I’ve had a touch of some kind of stomach bug the last couple of days, and my energy levels were just too low yesterday, even though I did get up Dark & Early.

I told Raelyn this morning that I’m in the dreaded middle ( Read more... )

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I’ve lost a few days in there somewhere, so “013″ is a guess.

As if 5:00 AM on a rainy Monday isn’t enough fun, my brain decided to dream that the alarm was going off at…. 4:45 a.m. instead.  I didn’t want to fall back asleep for fear I wouldn’t get up again, so I went ( Read more... )

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Oh, so hard to get up this morning.  But I made it.  I set a goal of reaching 20K.  And I made that too.

Today:  1,666

Total:  20,026

Snippet:  Tecun living and breathing in our world for the first time.

I cringed at the volume of Natalie’s voice.  When she got scared, she ( Read more... )

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You know it’s going to be a long day when you finally wake up to the alarm…and realize it’s been going off for four minutes.

This morning’s D&E was sporadic at best.  I got up slightly late.  The family had to be up earlier than usual, and since Mom = official timekeeper ( Read more... )

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I got all messed up on my days after taking Sunday off, and then posting twice yesterday.  I didn’t bother changing “day 008″ last night because it was late and I was tired - so I’ll just flag this as 008b and go from there.  It’s not important in the end, other than ( Read more... )

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Oooh, I’m so going to regret staying up this late tomorrow, but I had to watch the first episode of Game of Thrones! Loooooooved it.  I’d forgotten how much I love this series (I read book 3 when home on maternity leave with the youngest - who’s now almost 8!)!  I did ( Read more... )

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Technically this is “day 8″ because I decided to take yesterday off.  Days off during Fast Draft (or NaNoWriMo) can backfire by breaking rhythm.  I definitely do better when I’m in the story every single day.  However, That Man had to work yesterday, so getting the monsters ( Read more... )

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I hoped to break 15K today but it just didn’t happen.  I slept in this morning, which I needed desperately, but that put me behind.  Between fending off starving monsters, climbing Mt. Laundry and destroying the kitchen for dinner, I just didn’t get as much done as I hoped.
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