Annnd…I work 11-9 tomorrow.
Haha! This was poorly planned [well, it wasn’t planned at
all, actually!], but I am TRULY going to try to do this 50,000 words thing. I am
not the most competitive person, but if I am honest, I really want to
have one of those little “winner” ribbons on my NaNoWriMo profile [which you
get for writing 50,000 words in November]. They just look so…eeep!
…Ahem. Anywho.
I have already written about…well, I’m a little under 1,000
words right now for today [which, admittedly, does not count toward this
challenge], but I am just getting started. I have a few more hours before work,
and I AM going to use them well!
[Though I need a shower sometime in there. …Which is still using my time well!]
In order to reach 50,000 words by the end of November, I need
to write 1,670 words a day. The average is really more like 1,667, but…I have
to have things end in either zeros or fives, so…I rounded up. …I am so weird. I
may even make it 1,675, which is better than 1,670. …Either way, I am hoping I can
actually do this. It doesn’t seem like much when you break it down…but it averages
out to 120 pages for the month, 4 pages a day. …I was struggling with 2 pages a
day. Eek.
…Sorry for the explosion of numbers in this post. Sheesh.
ANYWAY. I am working on book one today…and I really do not
have much left in it. I mean, I am not going to rush it, and I am NOT going to
skip over parts that should be in it just so I can be done faster. Uh-uh. It
will be all it is meant to be. …BUT. I have about fourteen pages in chapter 18 right now; and about…crap. Hang on. Sixteen in chapter 19. And I don’t know
how many will be in chapter 20. But basically what I am saying is, “OH MY
GOSH I AM ALMOST DONE!”
Regardless of whether or not I complete the NaNoWriMo
challenge, whether I get 50,000 words and “win” it…regardless of whether or not
I actually finish book one by the end of November…I just want to finish book
one.
I have written a book before. My elf story is complete,
cute, like 600 pages, it took me a year to write…and I finished it in 2007. …That,
uh…was a while ago. And yes, a LOT has happened to me since then [meeting my
husband, everything with our relationship, getting married, personal stuff,
working more, etc.], and I have written a LOT since then…and this story is way
bigger than that one…but sometimes I have wondered if I can actually do it. If I
truly have another book in me. I mean, it is one thing to finish one book.
Yeah, not a ton of people do it --- but how many people only write one book,
and have nothing else in them? …I don’t want to be that. I mean, I have NO idea
how I will ever write anything after this story…but…who knows. And yeah, finishing
book one isn’t like a massive accomplishment --- it is basically like finishing
the first PART of a story, instead of finishing an actual stand-alone story ---
but…it will just be nice.
Nice to have it written, totally.
Nice to have accomplished some of the goals I have set for myself
[and I am bad at both setting goals and meeting them].
Nice to be able to move into the aftermath of the inn,
instead of it being right in the corner of my eye.
Nice to be able to have some NICE characters for once,
sheesh. [If you don’t count the H-guy guard as nice, which, I mean, I do because of course I love him, but…few
others will.]
Nice to just…I don’t know…be able to really…see that I am a
writer? Haha! Is that lame?
Well…here’s to November being super productive --- let’s do
this, Angie!