Friday, November 27, 2009

NaNoWriMo Countdown - 3 days!

It's cold outside, there's a fresh coating of snow, and tonight we unpacked our Christmas boxes while putting on our first Christmas CD of the season - King's College Choir's "Noel" (classic!). A lovely Friday evening...
On the more panicked side, there's only 3 days until the end of NaNoWriMo! My blog challenge will continue, but my mad race to 50,000 will be over, although perhaps I'll just pretend it's on all year so I keep spewing out words!
I don't know if I'll make 50,000...I had this brilliant idea that, if I were to type up 5,000 per day from yesterday to Monday, I could do it. But, I only did about 3,000 today, maybe 1,000 yesterday. So...slim chance. BUT, I have 33,000 words! I'm so excited! And, most of it's pretty organized. I just can't wait till I type the last word and say, there's no more to add!
Then comes the really hard work - redrafts and editing. Hmm...tackle that battle when I reach it. My novel is slow to write now because I'm trying to avoid massive rewriting, by have the narrative work NOW.
The burn on my wrist is ok today, still slathering it with Polysporin and wrapping it up to keep it clean, but it's not causing me any issues other than the fact that it the bandage seems to have a homing device for my dog's tongue (what is it with her and licking things ? You should see her with hand cream!).
Here's keeping the fingers crossed for massive word count tomorrow, and more snow, and more holiday cheer!

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