dogearedgirl

Close, but not going for the cigar...

Well, I made it to 39,614 afew hours ago. I didn't pull an all nighter- just a part- nighter. I have decided, though, that 40,000 will be good enough for this time around. At the moment, I can't even see my way to typing out 386 more words to hit 40,000. I just feel- done. It's a bit of a cop out, I know. But I figured out some things that I will, hopefully, do a little bit differently next year.

My NaNo graph, though? It looks pretty cool. I hit 25,000 on 11/25. So, the spike in the last couple of days makes it look all 'wowza.' If you disregard that it falls short by about 10,000 words.

I have more to say, but I am brain dead. I think I'll leave it there for now. Thanks, all of you, for your faithful readership.

Now, I must go sit down, and do something that is not typing for a while.

Ta.

A Quandary about words

Hello, Blog world!

I know, I have left you all hanging, as of late. Sorry about that. One reason, among many, for my lack of blogging this month, is that I, with some level of secrecy, have been doing NaNoWriMo. Not secrecy, so much as having adopted a "don't ask, don't tell," policy. (Because, you know, policies like that work so darn well....) The NaNoNovel has been exciting, when I have had time to attend to it.

(Wow! I realize this blog is just over one year old now, as I started it with the inception of NaNoWriMo last year. Though, for some reason, those months no longer show up iin my "archives," column. Ack. Another day...*)

So, in my spare moments, I have been writing on my NaNo project. Problem is, the spare moments have been just that- spare. Or sparce. Or...scarce. The current situation is this: I am, as of this moment, at 32,380 words. Which is substantially more than the 18,066 I had last week. Which is great.

Now for the quandry. While 32,380 is a lot of words, (and not all of them suck! Only some...) 32,380 is not 50,000. It's not even all that close to 50,000. Being as the whole deal with NaNoWriMo is to have at least 50,000 words- submitted and officially counted prior to midnight on 11/30/07, (yep, tomorrow,) I have a decision to make. I can-

A. Pat self on back, and say, "good job, you wrote 75 pages of a novel." Cuddle with Wifey tonight, get a lovely nights' sleep, which hasn't happened for days... generally have a low key, uneventful night.

B. Intraveinous caffeine drip- have short, cuddly evening with Wifey. Then, when Wifey snuggles into the tempting, fluffy, loveliness that is bed, type like mad. Type like mad, and when that's over, type with absolute fury. After mad and furious, a possible stage three- type with absolute outrage. Finish the damn thing- or at least, finish the next 17,620 words. Which I could totally, theoretically do.

C. Delete this post, and pretend none of this ever happened.

Option A. appeals to my sleep deprived, Wifey deprived side.

Option B. appeals to my, "remember when," side. Those romantic all-nighters back in the college days- hallucinating from lack of sleep, but feeling darn proud of pulling a twenty page essay out of my butt in one evening... even getting a descent grade on it... feeling like I finished what I set out to do.

Option C. Huh? What are you talking about? NaNo... what now??

So, blogsters. I ask you- shall I go for old, but really comfortable? Or wacked out on zero sleep, but with a sense of pride and dignity?

I think I know the answer, but wanted to query y'all, too.

I am fully aware of the similarities of my NaNo- predicament last year, and my current NaNo-ambiguity. You are very patient with me, dear readers.

Feel free to send me cheers, pep talks, coffee beans, general inspiration. Also, feel free to send me 17,620 words that will jive with my existing half-novel.

I would say, "oh, hey, check my progress on my NaNo- widget, here in my blog's sidebar. Isn't that sooo fancy?" However, as you may recall- I am *completely* widget impaired. However, if you shoot me an email, I promise to update you. I'll be up. (Provided I went for Option B, and the ZZZZZ's didn't win.)**

Congrats to those of you who have finished! I know a few of you, and you ROCK!!

Thanks, blogsters. Happy Thursday.

*(added later) Umm, yeah. So, I happened to glance at my blog page, hours after publishing the above, only to observe that, indeed, there is a "more..." link at the bottom of the archives list. Was it there before? Who knows. But it is there now. Phew.

**(later, still) I set up a ghetto- widget in the sidebar of my blog. It is so old school, it isn't a widget, at all.

Memories, a little writing, and more...

Tulle Skirt made me remember a little piece that I wrote last November. I read "Picture Day," and it got me thinking about overalls. Even though the snippet of text it made me think of is just a teeny part of a much bigger story, I thought I'd share it, rough draft though it may be. Brave Overalls. This will take you to my other site- pantsinhand. Which means you will likely notice surrounding entries, revealing that I am attempting a writing system that The Knitter has been using. She got it from Pomo Golightly, and now I am borrowing it from them.

So, there you go. I am outing myself to you. Happy reading, and let me know if you like the Brave Overalls entry. I need to add to it, and work on it's surrounding stories. But I wanted to give you a little sumthin' sumthin' on this lovely weekend.