Twas the night before Nano

Hi everyone, the wrimos at the meeting yesterday asked me to repost this poem I wrote last year... so here it is....

Twas the night before nano, when all through the house
nothing was stirring including my wireless mouse
My laptop lay open on my desk with some care
In hopes that a novel would soon be on there

My children were nestled all asleep in their beds
While plots invaded their dreams as they slept
and my partner in bed had been snoring so bad
that I turned over and reach for my brand new IPAD

Downstairs in my study I heard such a clatter
So I ran down the stairs to see what was the matter
Across to the laptop I ran like a flash
Keyed in my password (including the hash)

The laptop popped up with my windows logo
and I logged onto the website for NaNoWriMo
When what to my tiring eyes I should sight
My laptop clock said it was a min to midnight

I sat in my chair, all lively and quick
feeling so great, I felt almost sick
Reaching for sweet snacks I recalled my plot
then checked out the time- midnight- time to start!

Now this verb and that noun and that sentence too,
Of dialogue, and prologue and punctuation too
To the bottom of the page and down the other side
Now type away, type away, enjoy the ride!

As a writer and his craft know all to true
The only one to stop you writing is you
So I wrote till my hands hurt and my fingers went stiff
Determined to get my word count I was very swift

And then in a twinkling. I noticed the count
at one six six seven,-Great the right amount!
But I could do more, I heard a voice state
so I wrote down yet more words- five hundred and eight

Too tired to write more, I reached for the 'net
Nanowrimo dot org are you up running yet?
You've been down all day long and now it's really late
I want to go to bed but I need to update

I reached for my keyboard and typed the address
Nano are you working?- the answer was Yes!
I typed in my number of words that I'd done
I watched the blue line grow- and it was such fun.

Then onto the forums I clicked with a smile
not feeling guilty as I knew I'd be in a while
Procrastination's bad when you've got words to do
but I'm at my target, so there and woohoo!

I'm meeting the others from my region with luck
what time's the meet? Yes it's still in Starbucks.
I check out our page and am pleased to see
That everyone is doing, just as well as me

We are all ahead and this do I tweet
My editing can wait, so I don't push delete
I check out our chat room, but no ones online
they're all typing away whilst they've all got the time.

Now that I've finished for tonight at least
It's time to go to sleep, after a late midnight feast
But I must exclaim one thing before asleep I do fall
Good Luck NaNoWriMo's and good luck to you all

Love it! :)

Anyone else freaking out? :o

Brilliant!

Just over 3 hours to go and I'm getting very excited.

Me too!