kirstyes

I’ve not been on here much because I’ve been embarrassed about my non progress in NaNoWriMo. As of the end of today my Word Count is 31010. [Validated through the site at 31027!]So I’ve got 18990 words to write this weekend (I need to finish ideally by Sunday night because otherwise work get in the way). Splitting this makes the task 9495 words each day.

I kind of already feel like a winner because I’ve already written about 10 times more than on my previous attempts (I’ve been signed up since 2004) and more on one thing than ever before (and this has been while on holiday, at work, while ill etc).

But I am doing this for charity, I do have sponsors who have paid up so I will succeed, I need to. Please send me your good luck and non procrastinating vibes (the kitchen is cleaner today than it has been in a while).

I have noted some glaring errors while I was combining all my files into one for validation, mainly an immediate tense change – but do you know what I’m not going to do anything about that until I’ve finished.

And pretty please if I do make it please consider adding to my sponsorship.

And then keep nagging me from time to time to check that I haven’t just left the story in a file on my hard drive and done nothing with it. That would be a waste.

(Ps. Though I haven’t used my free Scrivener Beta for Windows it looks really good and I will be having a play next week before the licence expires. If I ‘win’ and get a 50000 word novel validated I can get Scrivener for Windows in Jan I think for 50% off. And you can get a free copy of your novel through CreateSpace and not to mention the cool web badges saying winner, the t-shirts, etc. and the real badge from my No Plot, No Problem Novel Writing Kit that says Novelist.)

Finally a huge well done to my fellow NaNoers who have crossed the finish line, validated and gone purple with winner and good luck to the rest of them still waiting to cross that elusive finish line.

Brief update on progress so far:

Day 1 – beat daily target of 1667 words with 1698

Day 2 – life got in the way – 0 words

Day 3 – Day 14 – Will make most of being away from work and will try to stay away from internet, faceboook and twitter. May add occasional updates on word total.

Day 15-30 – will try and balance life and writing with work and hope I’ve managed to get ahead in the previous days.

On the plus side I am happy with my story

I also have some brief character outlines.

Have been asked some questions on the hot seating forum which I have noted down (not had time to answer but the answers will be integrated into the story).

Have a series of 30+ sentence starters/scene ideas.

Have enthusiasm to write this.