Goal!!!

Look at those word meters on the side.

We are the bomb!!!

Sprinting to the Finish Line

Day 29 - two days to the finish line.

We have two winners so far; Kelly Boyce and Christine D'abo have crossed the finished line early and are still picking up words.

Cheers for them

What's In a Number

Just to give everyone a heads up, the word count on your computer might not end up being the same one reflected when you drop your manuscript into the trusty NaNoWriMo word counter. My computer word count reads 49,254 words, but when I put the manuscript into the word counter over at NaNo the final world tally was 49,198. Not a huge difference, but if anyone is hovering just around the 50,000 word count, you might want to give that extra push to build in a bit of a cushion, just in case the difference puts you under the 50K instead of over.

Day 23 - Final Week

We're driving into the home stretch of NaNo.

Some of our participants are snapping at the heels of 50,000 words.

Some of us are sweating through the middle - will we make it?

And some of us have written more and faster than we ever have before.

I'm headed out this morning to the coffee shop to put my head down and write until my hands hurt.

Day 17: The Mob Mentality

I can't write in noisy places. I can't write with people around me. I don't do well in crowds.

These are the words I've always told myself. Usually when anyone else had the nerve to tell me I couldn't do something, my response was, 'Oh yeah? Watch this."

I seem to have told myself that too. Because after two write-ins at Starbucks under my belt I've discovered I can write in noisy places, I can write with other people around me and I couldn't care less about a crowd.

All I need is a few other writers (aka - the mob) and Nikki the Drillmaster with her 30 minute timer (setting up the write as fast as you can mentality) and an incredibly unhealthy amount of sugar and caffeine.

4,100 sugar and caffeinated words later and I've proven the mob mentality works even for those of us who were certain it wouldn't.

Day 15 - Week 3 Begins

Happy Half Way Day!

Day 14 - Last Day of Week 2

Two weeks into NaNo and have you learned anything about your writing?

Has your concept of what is possible for your writing changed? After this month is over will your expectations of what you can produce in a day? or a week? change.

I know I've slowly but steadily increased my word count over the past year. I'm hoping at the end of NaNo that the bar will be higher.