Some brief writing-related thoughts:

1)  I've found it a little amusing that after title of their novels, some authors feel the need to put the words A  NOVEL.  You know, like: "The Host: A Novel by Stephenie Meyer."  It's almost as though if the author doesn't put those two all-important words after the title, I'm going to mistake their book for a ( Read more... )

Everybody else was asleep and since I was wiiiiiiiide awake, I decided to go through the photo archives and see what I could do about making a quick and dirty book cover.  Ten minutes later, this is where I arrived:


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57,639.

That's my final word count after getting the last scene typed.  57,639 words in twenty-three days (I took six days off in a row on November 21st after hitting 50K), and winner winner chicken dinner, The Final Nine has been finished.

Now that I have pulled it off, can I get an Al Pacino-like HOO-RAH from my peeps?

52994 / 50000 words. 106% done!

The book itself is not yet done, maybe 2,00 or so words to go, but I hit the mark.

Go me.

44666 / 50000 words. 89% done!

The goal is to be done tomorrow. I had much housework to do today, so the 11 AM deadline has been shelved. If I can get the last 4500+ words in before bed (and I should), I'll have officially finished nine days early, or six days earlier than last year.

Go me.

41710 / 50000 words. 83% done ( Read more... )

32384 / 50000 words. 65% done!

Yes, I am putting my time to good use.

29208 / 50000 words. 58% done!

Being almost two-thirds done with only a little more than a third gone by in the month is damned encouraging.

23022 / 50000 words. 46% done ( Read more... )

20288 / 50000 words. 41% done!

The idea on this is not to be done in the first week, but to finish in the allotted amount of time *and* still have fun doing it *and* still do things outside of NaNo *and* make sure it's quality material.

Hopefully I'll post an excerpt in a couple days. Until then, keep rolling.