There are some days when your brain just comes up with something simultaneously horrific and genius that you don't know whether to pursue the idea or not. It does this while I'm supposed to be writing my NaNo, thank you very much, currently at 14,847, a shade over 1700 words behind where I ought to be by the end of the day ( Read more... )

I appear to be marginally ahead of the game :o) I now have 5,149 words, one cadaver, and one date-turned break-up. I have dissolved the USA and merged parts of it with Canada. The identity of the cadaver remains a mystery. I'm over 10% done. I have plenty of plot left. This is good ( Read more... )

Well, 1686 words of drivel. And I still haven't figured out where the BMW came from.

Lookit everybody:

Document count: 10029 words.
(56456 Chars in 571 Paragraphs.)

Woohoo! Now I'm only 1400 words or so behind. (I spent a good deal of the time I should have spent writing over the weekend creating a spreadsheet which would update me minute-by-minute on my progress.)

If I get it down to 1,000, I'm allowed to have a bath.

I'zh drunken as a shkunken. Wazh meant to be back by 10. Rolled in at 2.45. Bah! Zhat putsh my wordcount behind :o( Will have to write all weekend to make up.

This entry brought to you by the numbers 3, 7, 7 and 7. Constituting (doubles and changes comma to decimal point) 7.554% of a completed NaNo after less than two days. Unfortunately I'm running out of plot rather fast, but still... I do have a plot ( Read more... )

Word count: 1677
Body count: 1

Coffee... 6am start... almost two hours of reasonably solid typing and a conversation with edithmatilda and bingo! Ten words over my daily quota. I was actually only aiming for 500 this morning, planning to do the bulk of it this evening.

You can read an excerpt here, at the bottom of the page.

I just ran three miles, and feel a great deal better for it. (I made an iPod playlist consisting of songs about 4 minutes long (for running) alternating with songs of one minute (for walking/recovery). I am tempted by a charridy 5km on Saturday, even though it'll be on the back of (counts) four days' training ( Read more... )