Day 28 - Almost done, but not really!

Still ahead! :D

Today's total: 1972

Total: 47275

Left: 2725

Coming up with a favorite sentence is kind of hard tonight. I had the scene written. It was maybe about 1000ish words. And when I looked back at the beginning, I realized I was missing a huge opportunity. Kassia is running away from a fight gone bad and found a motel to hole up in for the night. My intro basically went like this: she found the hotel, got the key and then went inside. Once inside is where I found that first 1000 words of the night.

But the opportunity staring me in the face when I looked back to figure out how to make the scene longer and more interesting to the reader was when she arrived at the motel. I mean, surely I could come up with something interesting, but not necessarily life-threatening, to happen, right?!

NaNo Quickie! Day 18.. er 19

Ok - it's after midnight, so this should be short and sweet.

My night started off with:

1. Burnt pizza
2. Broken pot lid when I slammed the oven door after said burnt pizza
3. Tried 2nd pizza. Cooked it on preheat for longer than the time it was supposed to cook on bake. It was over done on the edges, under done in the middle. Ate it anyway.
4. Spilled pizza sauce on my sweater after taking a bite of pizza.
5. Decided 500 words made a good time for a break, so I played Rock Band 3 to get out of bad luck streak.
6. Much better mood. Wrote a lot.

I think I have a tendency to be visually distracted. Even a few times in conversation, I've had SQUIRREL!! moments. So, I've been testing some theories.

Surprisingly, in a way I guess, I can type better with my eyes closed. Or at least I can get the story down with my eyes closed. I'll fix the typos later. I got 600 words in 45 minutes at one point. Of course I can't keep my eyes closed that entire time, but it's better to close them for short bursts, get words down, give myself a few minutes of distraction and then close my eyes again. Worked so much better than the past few days where I sit and stare at the screen until I get pissed off because I have no words. :p

Today's total was 2090.

Favorite part:

“Kassia,” Maddox’s voice was right next to my ear. I froze, just wanting to hear him speak to me again. It was so soft, that when he spoke again, I almost couldn’t hear it over the rush of energy. “I lo—”

Pain shot through, replacing all of the pleasure I’d been feeling. I screamed out, and shot up - or tried to. Maddox held my shoulders down. “For the love of hell, Tehanier!!” And then it was all gone, pain and pleasure. “What did you do to me?”

Day 14 - almost halfway there!

I'm not really sure if this is a glass half full or half empty sort of thing.

I spent a lot of last week fighting a sinus cold that only now seems to be going away. Unfortunately, that means that I fell a little behind in my writing. I'm starting to catch up, but the catch up is super exhausting.

So far, I've learned that characters seem to have a mind of their own sometimes and come up with things that I didn't think of first (at least it feels that way), and sometimes the characters seem to echo my feelings and thoughts exactly. Especially when I'm kind of blundering. Take a bit of tonight's writing:

#1

Ace was laughing quietly after he placed his hand on the back window. “You have no idea, Kas. None at all.”

I actually had no idea what he was talking about.

#2

I held my swords nervously, palms sweating, hands shaking. I literally had no idea what I was going to do next.

You guessed it. I had no idea what I needed to do next for the fight about to take place. So, after slogging through the haze over the future of my character, I finally made it to my daily goal for today: 2000 words.

Here are my totals:

Total today: 2166

Total: 22342

Favorite sentence(s):

Then I realized what he thought he was going to do. “Oh, hell no! You put me down right now. You are not going to fly me around like Lois Lane.”

Maddox grinned at me. “Hold on,” he repeated and then pushed off the ground.

Day 9...

Ok. I know it's stupid and for this doesn't matter because all we're supposed to be doing is writing down the ideas, get it out there, get to 50,000 and worry about clean up later.

But I'm seriously feeling like an anxiety attack is hitting. Not because I don't think I can ultimately meet that goal, but because the scene I'm trying to write now is supposed to be epic.

Seriously epic. Epic with a capital E.

My Ambitious November

As I posted earlier, I've signed up to participate in NaNoWriMo this year. The goal is to write Draft 0 (meaning unedited/unrevised/gibberish) of a novel. This draft is supposed to be at least 50,000 words long by the end of November. But, according to published authors and publishers, actual printed novels are between 75,000-100,000 words. So, this won't be a real novel, but more of an exercise to get me writing and on some sort of schedule.

I decided to do this because, #1 - I'm crazy, and #2 - I wrote a 10,000 word short story a few years ago and my husband has periodically told me that I should do it again. The biggest difference between the short story I wrote (besides the number of words) is that it took me a year to write those words, though that time frame does include re-write, editing and formatting. But still, 10,000 words in a year compared to 50,000 words in a month is kind of crazy.

A week of planning and ceiling messes and surprises!

Last week was probably one of the busiest and funnest (yes, I said funnest) week I've had in a really long time. I was lucky to have my best friend visiting to keep me on my toes and moving towards what needs done. :)

Beginning
Airport and driving. Exhaustion hit both of us before we even got started! Nap time! But after that, it was video games and a bit of Masquerade Ball planning. Oh, and more games - yay for Lego Pirates of the Carribean!

Middle

We've been busy! Lots of last minute stuff needed done. Some of the things we worked on were cards, pens and a basket. Of course, this is involving cutters, sticky tape and feathers. Love crafting - and Anna has the best ideas!