I'm pledging myself to something very eccentric. I'm going for 50K by 3:00 PM on Nov. 20.
Reasons: I want very badly to win 2009 NANO, with a worthwhile novel (as I thought 2007's was, except that in two years I've lost some copies and what I retained wasn't complete). Then I just discovered, or realized, this afternoon that the three older grandkids have not 4, but 9 days total, vacation from school for Tgiving: Nov. 21 – Nov. 29. Well, that's a potential loss of 9 days' Writing Time, as it's difficult to Write in a household of 5 adults and 5 children, ages 11 months to 10 years, and my only computer is a reconditioned desktop in my daughter's living room. The children's bedtime is 8 PM, so no computer use after that; and I usually try to escape to my separate quarters when they arrive home at 3:15, as my babysitting day (which begins at 7 AM on weekdays and 5 AM on weekends) is usually over. I may have to start (THE HORROR! THE HORROR!) writing in my bedroom, in illegible longhand. (O please O Writing Angels, deliver me from that!)
I don't have a working laptop so couldn't participate in a write-in, don't have transportation, and babysit all day 7 days a week. Whee! So my determination must be cranked up to Intense to do this. I will.
Hanne-Marie
The Happy and Eccentric NANO'er
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“Even the Dead have business, there on The Other Side, and it doesn't always concern us.” Mary Grace Hicks in Mediumistic Mary at the Old Railroad Trestle (2007 NaNo Project)
"She was dead and still wouldn't stop giving advice."--Stephen King, UNDER TH
