Okay I show up for the kickoff! I am hyped I am ready I will start writing at midnight do my first 1600 words and i will get up do my errands and do my second 1600 words..yes i will be rolling.
The Gods start snickering as I start getting a headache by 10:30 pm Saturday. I surrender take my headache med(I do et migraines) and head off to bed. I can still write 1600 words before I head out at 10 am and another 1600 after dinner.
I get almost 500 words written when phone rings. My friend wants to head out early so we do and the snicker becomes a chuckle.
Off i go and a call to my cell while out from home nd the honey do starts 90 minutes turns into 4 hours and the chuckle deepens.
Home to find laundry is being done and my work surface is gone but I can wait what is 2500 words after dinner and the laundry?
Do I hear a delight chortle?
Dinner and the headache is back and I have a fever and the chortle becomes a laugh of pure amused delight. No appitite by 7 pm I am off to bed feeling like death. No writing done no idea about the story nothing accomplished but three pretty paragraphs written this morning.
Monday morning and I am burning up and sick with the flu very sick with the flu. Everything hurts..even my fingertips can't type because they hurt, my head is a wash of pain and getting worse and looking at the computer. The delight and amusement is now out and out laughter and I can hear it as day two vanishes in a trail of gingerale, broth and kleenexes.
Tuesday is a bust also still sick still running a fever coughing so hard i can't type and the laughter reverberates around me.
Wednesday I am now trying to play catch up and I will but i want all to know that if you are to overconfident the Gods of Writing will make you their plaything and laugh all the time do.
Yes the Curse of Nanowrimo strikes again...and has nothing to do with a flu epidemic here in Hamilton
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39,285 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 10 16
Argh. I hope you feel better soon, M-S. Have you been assessed for H1N1?
*non-contagious cyber-hugs*
----------Gale . . . www.ThornesQuest.com . . . or . . . www.stringingwords.com
17,073 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 11 30
I lost basically everything I wrote last night after class, about 2 hours worth of writing or 1400 words. I just now caught up and have to now go back up to my 1667 words for today.
11,071 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 12 33
Could you dictate and have someone write it out for you? ;)
I do hope you're feeling better soon, though :(
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I'm from Hamilton, land of hysterical fiction filled with flying monkeys, dancing bananas, and sexy, cozy, violence
11,071 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 12 33
Could you dictate and have someone write it out for you? ;)
I do hope you're feeling better soon, though :(
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I'm from Hamilton, land of hysterical fiction filled with flying monkeys, dancing bananas, and sexy, cozy, violence
6,779 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 08 46
so far <> both my macbook and my iPod are working correctly. Last year, my first NaNo, the iBook with my novel outline died near the end of October. The same day I found my iPod in the dryer - after going through a wash and a dry of some workout clothes.
I have only lost about 500 words from a short betweene the ears - I forgot to save a chapter before closing Appleworks. Megh, whatever.
But people, please BACK UP YOUR DATA NOW!
Gale, perhaps you might remind everyone of that during your next pep talk.
Other than the 500 words, things going as well as they can.