Novel in a month

[House of Mustard]

Okay, I got 1476 last night.  I should do better today - I already have 1074.

[EUOL]

SE--Personally, I don't mind the competitiveness.  It's all in the name of the greater good, for (hopefully) it will keep everyone writing.

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

ok, I'll do the math on that. If you have a quick way to do your total word count since your start date, that's easiest. Otherwise, exact wod count for the day is great.

[House of Mustard]

Total written yesterday and today: 3781
Total cut: 17,344
Grand total: 21,125
Rootbeers drunk while writing: 1
Grape sodas: 2
Number of chick flicks watched between writing sessions: 1
Number of chick flicks featuring Colin Firth wearing leather pants and playing air guitar: also 1
Making lists instead of writing: Priceless

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

well, I got much less done than I expected

I blame the children

Also, an irrational agreement to go to Roy Rogers and get their milkshakes (the strawberry ones have real strawberry bits in 'em, these are GOOD!) and then an interruption to pay some pesky bills on Saturday so we wouldn't a) be done on Sunday or b) fall overdue

And then Red Alert beckoned because I was frustrated over having my groove interrupted. ("Beware the groove!")

So while I'm back in the lead, I'm in the same boat as everyone else: I need to bust some hump on monday to be ahead of the goal. I also need to recalculate my daily minimum to finish before Thanksgiving. (it is now 2,650 each day to finish the day before Turkey day)

[Mistress of Darkness]

You're not in the same boat as me!

/me sighs

I only got a little over 1,200 words on Saturday and none on Sunday. I'm not giving up though! I will continue to type! I think Thursdays and Fridays (which have historically been very bad writing days) will become, eat out and go straight to the library. I should be around people who are feverishly working on papers or projects or studying, rather than my husband who is killing Chinese or Dark Elves, or slaughtering solitaire. Strangely, this rampent distruction does not modivate me to work. I am hoping that going to the library works/helps.

My biggest problem is that I struggle through these difficult scenes rather than following my original intention of stringing loosely connected words together.

[Fellfrosch]

I did something horrible to my neck this morning (maybe the shower was too hot? I don't know) and now I can barely type this message, let alone an entire book. My wife offered to take dictation, which is the true sign of love, but I don't know how that will work. For now, just assume that I'm dead today and (with any luck) will be alive again tomorrow, and way behind.

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

instead of dictation, ask for neck massages. I would demand my wife do it the entire time I write if I could (I suffer from chronic neck/headaches from what I believe are tight muscles), but she wouldn't understand chatting or checking on msg boards while I do it. She understands I still do it, but she won't massage while I mess around like that.

Anyway, work has been insane. I was hoping to get 1k done here, but it's been mad crazy. Lots of mail, lots of calls, so I've gotten maybe 300. Lunch also made me angry, but that's a different rant.

Late night, hopefully I'll still get it all.

[fuzzyoctopus]

You know I can't understand why neck massages and back rubs haven't been written into modern wedding vows yet....

[Lieutenant Kije]

I haven't written one single word in five days, and guess what?  I'm still not giving up!  Hahahahahaha </maniacal laughter>

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

I've done about 1200 today, but I'm reachign a point where lots of cool stuff happens, so it should be more. I'm going to shower in a minute, then see if I can write more, or if I'm just too tired.

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

OK, well, i've written 2700 words SINCE work, but since I'd written 2-300 words there, and forgot to send the document back home, I don't have an exact count. Just ~3000. I updated the calendar with what I have since work though, so I'll update that again when I can do final count.

Hope the rest of you had a productive day too!

[EUOL]

2452 for me.

[Entsuropi]

instead of dictation, ask for neck massages. I would demand my wife do it the entire time I write if I could (I suffer from chronic neck/headaches from what I believe are tight muscles), but she wouldn't understand chatting or checking on msg boards while I do it. She understands I still do it, but she won't massage while I mess around like that.

In other words, you don't want me to pop up on screen, considering how foul mouthed i am?

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

actually, Gemm is worse with language than you are. I just explain to her that you're just Scottish.

The fact that Gemm is just a freak doesn't seem to soothe her.