Fiction Foxtrot

I'M THE WINNER! After eight years, I finally conquered the NaNoWriMo beast! ...I'm now going to go drown myself in booze. XD

At 42,500 and slogging towards the finish line. Gonna try to get there by tonight.

NaNo isn't going to beat me again!

Words Written: 5,450
Words Total: 19,512

Let myself fall behind over the work week, but I'm catching right up again! Shooting for 25k by the end of Thursday.

( Day 11 Excerpt: In Which Kael Has More Unsettling Dreams. )

Words Written: 0
Words Total: 14,062

Rest day for me. It's nice to have a buffer. XD Up bright and early tomorrow to try and sneak some in before work though.

Words Written: 501
Words Total: 14,062

Shitty day at work = very small count. Still ahead though, nothing to sweat yet.

No excerpt today.

Words Written: 1,746
Words Total: 13,549

Another fantabulous day! Had another write-in today, in which one of our Wrimos got kicked out for bringing in a slice of cake (he went to the wrong coffee shop and only realized it after he got his cake) so that was a bummer.

I had a steak sandwich, two mochas with whip, a latte, and a piece of brownie cheesecake all in the space of three hours. I feel like a blimp. A happy, thoroughly caffeinated blimp.

Back to work tomorrow, alas, so the wordcount will probably be slowing right down. Sad times. :(

( Day 5 Excerpt: In Which Cerise Doesn't Get It. )

Words Written: 4863
Words Total: 11707

A very productive day. I now have enough of a buffer that I could be a slackbag for three whole days and not fall behind. I won't, but it's awesome to not be straggling behind like I was in years prior. =D

( Day 4 Excerpt: In Which Valyn is Extremely Awkward. )

Words Written: 2307
Words Total: 6844

Today was easier than yesterday, but hoo boy, am I tired.

Bad excerpt is bad.

( Day 3 Excerpt: In Which Kael Has Unfortunate Dreams )

Words Written: 1434
Words Total: 4509

Definitely not the productivity rate I was hoping for today, but the way things went it was probably a miracle I got anything down. If nothing else, at least I'm still ahead on my count.

No excerpt today, got nothing I wouldn't be completely embarrassed to share. Here's hoping it goes better tomorrow.

Wow. It's only the second day, and I'm already having a NaNo crisis. I'm having some extreme difficulty getting into my MC's noggin, and the story and my word count are suffering badly for it.

Need to find a way around this, and fast!

Edit: Crisis averted, more or less. Novel is still horrible. Am pretending not to care. XD

Words Written: 1285
Words Total: 3063

Not too shabby for the first day! Not quite the 5k I was shooting for, but it's nothing to sneeze at either. I kind of had to take an abrupt direction change, but I'm much happier with, and the quality or my writing improved leaps and bounds once I did.

Let's see if I can hit 7k tomorrow!

( Day 1 Excerpt: In Which Kael Does Something That Really Sucks. )

So, the kickoff write-in for my region was today, and I planned to go forth, drink coffee, and accumulate words.

The coffee, I drank. The words...not so much.

A fellow Wrimo popped in (ostensibly just to say hello), and three hours later everyone had left and we were still gabbing away. We chatted about everything from video games to serial killers, which was neat but didn't boost my word count at all.

I also didn't get a sandwich, because by the time she left, they'd stopped serving food. I had to settle for McDonald's instead. My sadness is as vast and deep as the ocean.

I'm still ahead of the game, but if I want to hit the 5k mark like I was hoping for, I'll have to hop to it!

Words Written: 1778
Words Total: 1778

Two hours in, and I'm already over my minimum for the day! Off to a great start, and I'll only rack up more words at the write-in tomorrow (or would that be today?). Ah, a bunch of writer-crazies getting together to elevate both word count and caffeine levels. Doesn't get much better than that. :)

Off to catch some Z's.

Until the start of NaNoWriMo!

Another month of noveling insanity lies just around the corner, and I'm prepared for the midnight kickoff with Halloween candy in one hand and an energy drink in the other.

Oh, and an outline. I hear those help. ;)

"I want to be a writer when I grow up."

Those are my childhood words, spoken with childish seriousness. Words have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. I was giving mice cookies and going on adventures where the wild things are long before most kids could do more than spell 'cat' and look at the pretty pictures. Stories have always, always been my escape, a portal to the amazing, fantastic, and frightening Elsewhere.

( Cut for long-winded rambling. )