Novel in a month

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

you put Strawberry Shortcake on my paper and I'll bite your hand off

[Mistress of Darkness]

/me slaps a Strawberry Shortcake sticker on Saint's forehead.

/me runs away, giggling madly

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

/me writes a death scene for Natira.

[Mistress of Darkness]

/me approves of the death scene

Here. Have a Cabbage Patch sticker too.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

even though she's killed by a little boy holding a butter knife and can't get out of it because she doesn't know how to defend herself, so she dies crying?

[House of Mustard]

Well, I got a big old fat zero yesterday because the battery on my laptop was dead.  Hopefully today will be better.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I did about 300 wednesday, 1k yesterday. Which still leaves me in the lead, but man, what a poor week for all of us. C'mon folks, lets kick some but today.

[EUOL]

That's the mantra of many a professional writer, MoD: crappy first drafts.

Samuel Beckett kept a note above his desk to encourage him to keep writing.  It said: "Fail.  Fail again.  Fail better."

Good advice for any writer.

Anyway, sorry, I haven't been posting my wordcounts this week.  I'll do better, I promise.  I'm at 29,804 right now.  (Stupid FFX-2...)

[Lieutenant Kije]

Writing is proving a little more difficult these last couple of days.  I'm finding I have to do research to make sure I'm not talking nonsense when I take my characters into the moons of Jupiter.

[House of Mustard]

Well, after a fantastic two days, my total is up to 37,841.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I'll update that calendar eventually. Maybe even sometime today. I just feel like crap right now, so when I get motivated, I want to reserve that for writing. Game Day pre-empting my usually prodcuctive saturday, and yesterday being sunday.

Looks like it will be immensely difficult to finish BEFORE Thanksgiving. *shakes fist* But I've still got an excellent shot at Nov 30

[House of Mustard]

Not great yesterday.  I did 1098.  New total: 38939.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

hey you, I just barely finished updating that.

[House of Mustard]

Sorry.  I'll just add the 1098 to my total today, and pretend like I did really good.

[Mistress of Darkness]

Fell. Thanksgiving is almost here. Where should I drop off EUOL's laptop for you?

EUOL, your $15 is in the laptop case. I stuck it in the small pocket in the row of three pockets in the laptop section. I hope you can find it. I also hope Fell doesn't steal it.