Ah, that 4-day weekend, potentially filled with good food, family, friends, and frivolity. But will it also be filled with words for your novel?
What do you predict will happen to your word count? And what are you going to do about it?
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poetT / Teri
the ML in the black hat
United States::Missouri::Kansas City metro area
50,036 / 50,000
Nov 21, 2007 - 22 56
THANK GOD IT'S BREAK. I was actually productive today. Not only did I write essays, read textbooks, and do laundry, but I wrote 3k in under two hours. (Granted, they were the two hours before midnight-- can I ever procrastinate!)
My fingers are crossed that I can catch up tomorrow. I'll only be gone for a few hours in the afternoon to see my sister, so if I don't sit around NOT WRITING, I should get that pesky backlog out of the way with little trouble.
100,281 / 50,000
Nov 22, 2007 - 04 33
Might want to uncross those fingers first, silverdolphin...
::now feeling compelled to see what happens when typing with fingers crossed::
"Now is the wnter of oir disojtenrt mame glorioius sumkmer by thus son os york"
Ah, you can see where I tried to pick up speed...
Have a happy one!
I am not going to snub my husband's cousins by writing in front of them this year as I did last year. Also, if we don't stay out there late, I have promised a real family night to October Sky. Still, there's this morning and the car ride to and from Leavenworth...
And if I just don't go shopping. (I don't mean ugly 6am shopping to get that blender for 4.99, I mean browsing in Lawrence, in case It's About Time still carries those Moon-Lily mobiles...) Hmmm.
And Sunday has a cold wedding in a park and I hope a cool enough (not heated--oh, dear, bracing for backlash from newest feud) reception inside a community center. Maybe I can just get them both on the climbing wall. heee
50,237 / 50,000
Nov 23, 2007 - 15 20
I planned ahead and wrote farther than my daily quota on Wednesday. I managed to get home and wrote almost the full day's quota before I ran out of steam. Today I started early and have nearly complete two days' quotas. Now that I have hit the 40,000 word plus, I am invigorated to keep going till I have finished the project. I know I am going to have to do a lot of cut and pasting, refining and rewriting when the month ends, but if I can just get enough words to count, I can do that later.
It helped a lot not to have a housful of company and that my daughter had the feast at her house. I did my few things to take to the dinner and didn't have the hostess duties to do, house to clean, etc.
I made it thorugh a four-day lapse to see my mother who went into a nursing home in Denver just in the middle of the month and had some big adjustment problems and now the holiday has come and gone, and I am still on target in spite of a head cold that came on after the flight.
My biggest surprise so far is that my husband has been most supportive though I am pretty sure he will never read anything I have written. He never has. He doesn't realize what he is missing. Grin!
Sunflower Sage
50,237 / 50,000
Nov 23, 2007 - 15 21
I planned ahead and wrote farther than my daily quota on Wednesday. I managed to get home and wrote almost the full day's quota before I ran out of steam. Today I started early and have nearly complete two days' quotas. Now that I have hit the 40,000 word plus, I am invigorated to keep going till I have finished the project. I know I am going to have to do a lot of cut and pasting, refining and rewriting when the month ends, but if I can just get enough words to count, I can do that later.
It helped a lot not to have a housful of company and that my daughter had the feast at her house. I did my few things to take to the dinner and didn't have the hostess duties to do, house to clean, etc.
I made it thorugh a four-day lapse to see my mother who went into a nursing home in Denver just in the middle of the month and had some big adjustment problems and now the holiday has come and gone, and I am still on target in spite of a head cold that came on after the flight.
My biggest surprise so far is that my husband has been most supportive though I am pretty sure he will never read anything I have written. He never has.
Sunflower Sage
358,001 / 50,000
Nov 23, 2007 - 21 50
I find my total today (345,678) extremely amusing ... it really shouldn't be, but it is!
50,067 / 50,000
Nov 26, 2007 - 08 29
me I did not survive. I am dead here in my dorm room. I thought hey I'll get writing done this weekend...but no it did not work. It seems that when ever I took out my laptop everyone saw my sticker on the back of it and they tend to start to read over my shoulder. "What ya writing, Kendra?" My novel mother... "oh can I read it..." me shutting the laptop and sighing, "Why you close it." All break I got that from my mother.
Really in truth I should have been doing my moutain of homework the teachers just insisted on giving us to "catch up" over break. Which I didn't start till midnight today. lol. Which I didn't get done till five minutes ago...so take your bets. But I did hit finally 43K