Margie broke her ankle last Monday, and working with that (and working around working with that) has been … highly distracting and disruptive to my schedule and creative juices. It’s my intent (and Katherine’s) to continue onward, but … maybe not right this moment.
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Amazingly cool story about a guy who tried to “vanish” as part of a Wired challenge — about both the communities that gathered to try and track and find him, and his own efforts both to stay undiscovered and to, effectively, taunt the pursuers.
Given how Graham starts things off in the current novel, it makes for some interesting reading (and, likely, interesting revision …).
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So I’m continuing on with my NaNoWriMo story. I’m not going to try for 1700 or 2000 word chunks. If I do 500 words a day, I’ll be quite happy.
Tonight, 700+. Yay. I’ll have to figure the best way to announce and/or track that.
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Kay reaches her 4K target! Woot!
And Katherine blew through her 4K today, getting up to 4,330 words.
Well done, Kitten! We’re very proud of you.
(And, yes, she, too, admits that her novel is hardly started …)
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NaNoWriMo 2009 Winner!
A major push today at the Tattered Cover write-in, and here I am at 50,070 words. Woot!
Many thanks to Margie, who made it all possible by letting me do it and putting up with me in the process.
Thanks to Suzanne, one of the write-in buddies, for taking the picture here.
Thanks to the NaNo staff and Denver support team for holding these Write-Ins.
Thanks to Doyce for all his advice posts (which I’ve been woefully poor about posting about).
Thanks to Kitten for being a trooper today and finding some way to entertain herself while I was NaNoing. We’ll catch up on your story tonight, Kitten!
My novel is, of course, seriously undone. Major plot complications today, a big battle, and I hit my word count (and am stopping today) in the middle of a digression.
So the real challenge, in the days to come, will be to continue with the writing, then the editing, and the etc.
But … for tonight … I’m done. And I’m very pleased with having hit my 50K and being a winner. Woot!
More about all of this later ….
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Katherine cranked out 400+ words today, so she’s well on her way to crossing the finish line Sunday, too. (I’m targeting Sunday myself largely because I’m traveling on business Monday and really don’t need the grief of fitting in Major Writing Effort that day).
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2717 words, to over 47K. Woot!
Plus, a bar brawl, and more of Kansas-Oklahoma geography than I cared to know.
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From the news:
SAN FRANCISCO—Noveller, the online macroblogging service that lets users post their impromptu narrative ruminations on modern life, society, and the nature of existence itself, celebrated its millionth post late last week, officially making it the world’s most popular prose-sharing tool.
Social media experts said they’re not surprised so many people have subscribed to the exciting new site, as it’s the only online service in which users can post a major multivolume epic in the morning, and have it read, critiqued, and reNovelled by thousands of other people around the world before lunch.
“You know, before we came up with Noveller, we had all these friends creating these great 75,000- to 300,000-word works of fiction, but there was no quick, easy, fun way to share them,” cofounder Chuck Gregory said. “To be honest, we were stunned there wasn’t already anything like it out there. It seemed so obvious.”
At 10 a.m. Pacific time on Mar. 13, Gregory and his team of programmers launched Noveller. By 10:03 a.m., the first-ever Noveller post—a primitive but vigorous account of an insurance salesman who becomes obsessed with his father’s boyhood on a Philippines naval base—was put up by user johnnyK_67.
Within an hour, more than 300 user-generated “Novels” had been posted.
Read the whole thing, and be sure and visit the Noveller home site to sign up for your own account!
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Wow. Six days left, counting today. Whew.
Okay, I’ve been slacking a bit. Last night, I worked a bit while Katherine was in karate, but was too distracted by the TV at the rec center, and then blew off doing anything when I got home.
Today, though, over 2K words, bringing me to a bit under 45K. Even if I take Thanksgiving off (which, given the work to be done prepping for guests for dinner, seems likely), I should be able to get to 50K by end of Sunday, which means I don’t have to worry about NaNoing on my business trip which starts Monday.
The story won’t be anywhere near over, of course. But more on that in a later post.
Katherine wrote tonight! Woot!
I basically told her we were doing a 10 Minute sprint. She insisted on reviewing what she had written last time first, but after that, I basically just took dictation.
She blew through the first ten minutes at high speed, then did another ten on top of that, and a bit more.
When she gets going, she gets going!
She kicked out 800 words. She’s behind her curve by 300 words, but she’s at 3K of 4K target — if she produces at the same rate, she’ll hit her target easily, too. Which I knew she could.
Huzzah!
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A big chunk tonight, with only a little cheating (drawing on some material I’d previously written, but fairly heavily edited). Makes up, mostly, for slacking off yesterday.
The past two stints have been pretty backstory-intensive — I suspect they’ll be broke up in next version of the story, but I wanted to get it out there. Next time, back to our cross-country jaunt to Chicago, though there may be a stop in St Louis along the way …
Katherine … hasn’t been writing. I’ve had some conversations with her about it, and she’s clearly frustrated and feeling blocked and distressed over how long it’s been since she wrote. But I can’t get her to take the next step and let me (or someone) work through or around the problem.
I’m not going to be the Cheerleader Mom and force her do to anything, but I want to balance encouragement with useful pressure with being willing to let her do her thing (or not).
Frustrating.
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