NaNoWriMo

50,041 according to the site and I'm right in the middle of my big climactic scene too.  But I be a wiener!

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that I am not going to win this year. Note that I am not giving up, I just am conceding that I will not finish by 11/30. I knew this was a possibility when I got into it; with my birthday and thanksgiving eating up the last full week of the month, I only had three weeks that I could really write during the month of November.

I thought I might not win my first year anyway, since I'd never tried before, but I was surprised at how the juices got flowing when I got down to it. I got stalled twice with plot development; if I had spent the time in October plotting it out like I said I would (on the two 11-hour flights to and from Ireland!) I probably would have had a little of a better chance.

Unfortunately, I didn't even know exactly where my novel was going when I started, and I'm pretty pleased with how it shaped up. I've managed to jot down the remaining plot notes, so I think the home stretch is in sight.

I am still going to finish, for sure by the end of the year. That's my next self-imposed goal.

Good luck to everyone still tapping out the final words!

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Just wrote a particularly sappy scene too.  Daugher 2of4 approves.  She liked it.  The only thing it's missing is sparkles...  

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Passed the 50,000 word mark.  Novel isn't finished yet and I still have lots of editing but I crossed the nanowrimo finish line.  

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I am at 46,200 words.  I'm hope to do some more tonight.  Kudos to everyone on their counts.

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That's 4,308 words so far today... I really needed to catch up though.

No exerpt this time.  Though I did write a really cool scene at the Maria ad Gradus. 

He fell the XXX feet/meters to the floor below.  It is unknown whether he managed to push himself away from the edge, or if somehow a draft of air came up, but he landed some thirty feet from the floor directly beneath the catwalk.  Tourists and onlookers screamed as his broken body lay within a roped off area.  Jacque  had landed at the feet of one of the great treasures of the cathedral, the three magi.  His body was broken, his frame facedown in front of the sarcophagi? (CORRECT WORD?)  His arms outstretched in front of him, holding out the box as if it were a gift.

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Riding in the car on the way to Monterey and back, I managed to eke out a few more words. Not as many as I had hoped, but still kicking. An excerpt:

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But it was a witness statement for work.... although it did have a police chase in it!

Mad props to all of you taking part in NaNowrimo! wish I had the skills (and the motivation!) 

Found some time this evening to write a little more. Almost 4,000 words today total. That's quite a bit for me, and I think the most in one day so far. Anyway, here's an excerpt:

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Barry got out of his car, locked it, and walked towards Ivy, where he could cross the street. As he approached Ivy, the traffic light for his direction turned yellow, then red. He would have to cross Middleton first, then Ivy. As Barry waited for the pedestrian crossing light to turn green, he pulled out his cell phone. He figured he should check in with Linda; he wanted to make sure she was ok. He dialed her number and waited on the street corner as it rang.

"Hello? Barry?" Linda answered. She was outside somewhere, from all the noise.

"Yeah, hi Babe. How are you?" Barry winced at the insincerity of the question.

If she was bothered by it, Linda betrayed no sign. "Oh, I'm ok. I called in to work and told them I wouldn't be in for a while. I also called a funeral home, and made an appointment to check them out. I just got here and am about to go in. What about you, what have you been doing?"

"I went to go see the detective, but he wasn't in. Linda, I found someone who actually saw the person who...did it." Barry was speaking excitedly, but still balked at saying killed out daughter.

"What? What do you mean?" Linda sounded confused, but also distracted, like she hadn't quite heard what he had said.

"I met someone who was a witness. He's going to meet with Detective Simms and give him a statement." Barry was fairly bursting with excitement. He was hoping she would brighten at the news as he had.

"So he knows who it is?" She asked, seemingly giving Barry her full attention once more.

The light turned green, and Barry started crossing Middleton. "Well, not exactly. Anyway, it's more information than we had yesterday. I'm hoping this will turn into something concrete. I-I don't want you to get your hopes up too high, but I've got a feeling we're going to get this guy."

"O-Ok," said Linda. She really seemed in shock. "Don't...don't do anything rash. Make sure you let the police handle it."

"I will. I'm just going to find out a little more information and then get back with the detective so I can give him an update." Barry stepped onto the curb and faced right, waiting for the light at Ivy to allow him to cross.

"Ok, well, I'll see you back at the house," said Linda.

Barry heard a weird echo, and put his hand up to his opposite ear to try to block out the distracting ambient noise.

Linda continued, "I have to go..."

The echo was very strange. Attempting to get a clearer signal, Barry turned around, squinching his face up to concentrate as he tried to move out of the weird cellular phenomenon.

"I don't want to keep this guy waiting," Linda finished. Her words echoed oddly in both of Barry's ears.

"Ok, I'll talk to you..." Barry had turned around and was facing an outside patio of a small trattoria on the corner of Middleton and Ivy. There, not 15 feet away from him, sitting at a table with another man, was Linda. She was holding her cell phone in one hand, and looking at a menu in the other. Smiling, she looked up, right into Barry's eyes. Her smile faded, and her face flushed red as she lowered the phone away from her ear.

"Soon."

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Just make some time to write and see what happens.  When you get on a roll, thousands of words just come on out.  I wrote over 8,000 words in one 17 hour period...  which is actually pretty lame.. cause i hit 10,000 words last year in about 14.  And one guy hit 15K in a day... it can happen.  Just give it the chance.  If it doesn't that's fine too.  finish when you finish.

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I was really discouraged about missing the write-in. I'm way behind and I know that I won't get as much done next week with all the family stuff going on.

But -- things look better today and I'm going to continue. It may take me longer than Nov. 30 to get to 50K, but I am going to keep going. I Promise.  

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