Day 25 & 26: Slogging on

I'm so close now, but my momentum is slowing. Not sure why. I guess I'm tired from the five day vacation. Anyway, I managed to write during naptime Saturday afternoon, but that was all the writing I could do before midnight.

I did get four 10-minute writing sessions in here after midnight, which will be reflected in my counts below.

Words to date: 44,535
Words to go: 5,465

If I want to finish before Nov. 27, that would be Nov. 26 which is technically today. That leaves me a goal of 5,465 words before midnight today. Hm...

I'm going to sleep.

Day 24: Slow & Steady

I've been able to write a couple thousand words for the last two days using two writing sessions of two 10-minute timed writings. If only I could find a way to put in a couple more of those per day, I would be golden to finish before the 27th. As it is, at this rate, I'll finish a day later than my personal goal--but at least still before Nov. 30.

I do have time for another one or two writing sessions this evening as it's only 11:40 p.m., but my daughter has been begging me to get to bed, and we DO have to wake up early tomorrow. So I'm off. Here's hoping for more writing opps tomorrow.

Words to date: 41,113
Words to go: 8887 (huzzah!)

It's so awesome to see the "to go" number below 10,000. There's no stopping me now. And there is absolutely NO quitting either.

Day 23: Closing Figures

Hope your Thanksgiving was all that it could be! Ours was great--great food, good times with family, laughs. All nice stuff indeed.

I'm really glad that I wrote this morning and accrued about 1580 words because I only got one more chance to write today, and it was just not long ago around 11:30 p.m. I did a 10-minute writing session and got 539 words written, which helps get me over the minimum hump.

My daughter will be taking a nap here in the hotel room tomorrow, so I'm hoping that I can get more noveling done then.

Words to date: 39,032 (so close to 40K, but I'm too wiped out to keep going tonight.)
Words to go: 10,968

Day 23: Happy Turkey Day!

I plan for today to be a monster noveling day. Sure, it's only 12:48 a.m., but I have a big plans! I've already written almost 1600 words in the last 30 minutes, and I'm confident that I'll be able to write more later on, after the festivities of Thanksgiving, so that will add to my count.

It's the beginning of week 4 and I really only have seven more days to make it to my mark. Gotta get hustling! Especially if I want to beat my Nov. 27 finish date of 2005.

Here's to breaking 50K and before the long weekend is through! Woo hoo!

Days 20, 21, & 22: Close to nil

I had two zero days in a row and nearly dared myself to have a third. But I with 10 minutes left in the day, I wrote 508 words, so technically, only Days 20 and 21 were without words. :oP

Words to date: 36,913
Words to go: 13,087

Day 19: Getting closer

I had a pretty good writing day today, though it wasn't all that I was hoping. My dream would have been to hit 6,000 yesterday and today, but it turned out to be a cumulative for the entire weekend. I'm not down hearted however, because I still managed to write 3,021 words today using an hour's worth of timed writings at Einstein's and then some.

Words to date: 36,405
Words to go: 13,595

I can't wait to see the "Words to go" read 10,000 or less. :oD

In other news: Two of my teen writers on CleanPlace finished their NaNo novels today! Congrats to Eowyn of Rohan and Telpenen! Funny, neither of them kept up with blogs over this month. Could this be the reason they had more time to write in their novels? LOL

Day 18: Lazy Saturday

I guess I could call it that. But I did get an early start. Somehow I was tricked into getting up at 7:15 this morning.

My husband was borrowing my alarm clock, so I asked him to reset the alarm for 8:00 for me. In his tiredness this morning, he set the TIME ahead instead of the alarm. So when I checked my clock, it said 9:15, and I thought, "How weird. I didn't even hear the alarm."

I then mustered up enough energy to get up and start the day. Well, as I washed my face in the bathroom, I noticed that the clock in there said 7:15. So I checked another couple clocks, and sure enough, I was early! What were my first thoughts then? Time to get noveling!

So I got in a couple 10-minute sessions this morning before my fingers went numb. (Typing and writing in the morning don't go well together for me.) Wrote some more tonight at Panera Bread, and my daily count has come in at 2,250.

Words to date: 33,384
Words to go: 16,616 (How sweet that is!)

Day 17 comes to a close

Day 17: Final, final
Just got in a 10-minute writing session to push my daily count over 6,000 words. I only needed about 50 and I wrote and even 444 for that session. So the final tally for the day was 6,391. I don't think I've written that many words in one day since last year's NaNoWriMo!

Words to date: 30,834
Words to go: 19,166

It's so satisfying and highly refreshing to see that 19K there at the "to go" entry. I realized as I drove home from Panera this evening that I have 13 days left to write 20,000 words. At first, it sounded liked a lot. But really, it isn't much considering I have been able to write around 5,000 words for each good day of writing. Just 4-5 more of those and I should actually be done. Imagine that!

I finished on Nov. 27 last year. Maybe I can beat that in 2006.

Day 17: Panera Update

Just finished three 10-minute sessions here at Panera and I'm about to head out, but I thought I would post this just in case I don't get another session in tonight. I'm about 50 words away from having done 6,000 today though, so I'm pretty sure I'll be writing at least a little more this evening after my husband goes to bed.

First 10 minutes, 538 words
Second 10 minutes, 653 words
Third 10 minutes, 519 words

Total for 30 minutes was 1,711. Over the daily quota! And it helped me break 30K. Hooray! There's nothing like breaking those 10,000 marks. :oP

Words so far today: 5,947
Words to date: 30,390

Days 15, 16, & 17: Number crunching

Days 15 & 16
Midnight came around on those days and both became big, fat zeros. But you know what? That's okay. I was super tired on Wednesday night and had other things to do before midnight, and Thursday, I was settled in on a mean game of Scrabble with my good friend MightiMidget. So I regret nothing! ;o)

Day 17
Is proving itself to be all that I wanted it to be. I spent a couple hours at Einstein's and did a total of nine 10-minute writing sessions. My stats came out thusly:

First 10 minutes, 369 words (Off to a slow start)
Second 10 minutes, 521 words
Third 10 minutes, 472 words
Fourth 10 minutes, 425 words
Fifth 10 minutes, 420 words
Sixth 10 minutes, 463 words
Seventh 10 minutes, 460 words
Eighth 10 minutes, 457 words
Ninth 10 minutes, 646 words (Whoa! Keep in mind, this was after probably five refills of Coke. LOL)

All this, for a total of 4,233 words in about 1.5 hours. Not too bad, I'd say. See why I'm not stressing? I have total faith in my make up days. :oD

It's funny how November brings out the number cruncher in me. Suddenly Excel is a friendly program, and I'm all about the daily figures. Still, it's all in relation to writing, and that's what makes it okay. One month out of the year is not bad to keep in touch with my left brain for the rest of the year, we pretty much try to avoid one another.

Now I'm at Panera Bread for a few more writing sessions before picking up a House Latte for my husband and heading out for dinner with the family. (We have to connect some time today, don't you know.) My husband works early tomorrow, so he's planning on going to bed early. I plan to take full advantage of that and write a bit more tonight.

Words to date: 28,751 (more than halfway now!)
Words to go: 21,249