I'll start (as I'm one of the more insane...). So, tomorrow at about 10 in the morning a good friend is coming to help me move into his condo. Very nice of him. Very NaNo of me, I'm still pounding away on this novel, trying to get 20k in before the end of the night. I'm about 30% through with the packing, and I foresee a move full of puzzling black plastic garbage bags, with mounds of stuff requiring unpacking and sorting. Hopefully I won't break too many things. Like my computer (strokes computer fetishistically*).
DaShlom
* Yes, during NaNo works like fetishistically are real. Just look: they're made from letters, right?
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Help, my keyboard's wearing out!!!
My NaNo blog for the year: http://nnwm09.blogspot.com/
50,500 / 50,000
nov. 7, 2009 - 21 48
Forget to eat, while we're on a bender with nothing but water or tea for drinking (took me about 25 hours to get it all out, and even now, I'm not ready to stop)
50,021 / 50,000
nov. 7, 2009 - 22 30
Decide that the month of November is the best time to do the following:
- Help run a big plot at the online writing group I'm in (I'm a staffer)
- Be involved in (at last count) 9 different threads in said online group, 3 of which require rather timely replies
- Work 60 hour work weeks at the hospital because it's almost Christmas and it would be nice to buy presents (thank goodness for a desk job at the hospital, I can write and work...)
- Book several photoshoots for different points in the month, meaning that there's time lost to the photographing and processing of the images (and production, oh boy)
- Work on a skeleton website for the photography company I'm officially co-running starting in January... After all, if we get the website up NOW (and I'm the webmaster rather than my other business partner, since I've been doing design for the last ten or more years), people could order prints for Christmas, and we could hit the ground running with steady work in 2010
- Be taking a rather difficult and highly specific medical class online, and early December is finals, which means all of November is crunch time, but at least it's just the one class
- Secret Santa for work and the writing group
- Drink more tea than any one bladder could possibly contain in the evenings
- Drink more coffee in the mornings than any one bladder could possibly contain
- Teach at the hospital, and attend several conferences to improve my scope of knowledge (time I could spend doing NaNo or any of the hundred OTHER things on my list!)
....Yeah, I've added a lot to my list for the month. Because life isn't hellish enough with going to school (okay, so it's just ONE class), working full time PLUS overtime, and running a writing group where most of the members are equally bonkers and not only maintain normal posting at the group, but are also doing NaNo...
----------Pots of tea consumed: 4
Hours slept: 112
Hours worked: 109
WW won / total: 14 / 24
Characters killed: 2
Parts completed: 1.25 / 5
Daily count max: 9000
[[as of day 17]]
Overachiever Goal: 75,000 words
751,009 / 50,000
nov. 8, 2009 - 04 43
Work an average of 55 hours per week, as I've got two code freeze deadlines coming up fast.
Go to a conference all next week, in Las Vegas.
Head for a large family reunion starting the 22nd.
Yeah, I'm insane.
----------11,022 / 50,000
nov. 8, 2009 - 05 51
Schedule major foot surgery in the middle of November, and before I go to check in to the hosptial, have my netbook and notes packed up and ready to go with me. Noveling on IV pain meds could produce some interesting plot twists and dialogue, no?
----------Tabitha A. Miller
(otherwise known as Brandi)
7,345 / 50,000
nov. 8, 2009 - 18 54
Today is my 6-year anniversary with my husband. Our son is in bed, so what am I doing? I'm sitting down to write. I got "the face" from my husband until he remembered that there's a Cowboys game on that he was missing.
----------Kathryn S
http://fangstories.wordpress.com
131,131 / 50,000
nov. 8, 2009 - 21 06
A few more...
- Recruit and encourage our teenagers to write for nano, again (my daughter's second year).
- Debate the merits of the mother or the daughter dying in a knife fight bewteen an enraged teen and a homicidal psychopathic mother. Her novel, not mine.
- Not just allow her to have but actually purchase for her such delicacies as iced mochas, chocolate fantasy cake, cokes, banana breads, funnel cakes, and other manner of sweets and caffeine.
- Allow and even encourage her to stay up past her bedtime on school nights to get the last 200 (or 300 or 500) words in. And we won;t even discuss the weekends! *heh*
And last but not least...
----------- Post this knowing there are a great many other teens doing nano in Austin thes year, and with the knowledge that any of them may read it too!
" ... but what the hell, I'm not Salinger or Pynchon. I can't be. I'm here."
-- Guy Gavriel Kay
50,014 / 50,000
nov. 9, 2009 - 05 08
katrose reminded me of this one:
My husband and I officially switched our wedding anniversary from November to January so neither event would get in the way of the other.
That, and giving a 30-day party for about 500 of my dearest friends.
----------ML Captain of Capital Ideas & Austin, TX Municipal Liaison
45,303 / 50,000
nov. 9, 2009 - 05 35
Health issues are requiring me to sleep this month. I know, whoever heard of sleeping during NaNo? But alas, I must. I went to take a quick nap on Friday so I could play catch up on my writing and woke up 12 1/2 hours later. I was supposed to start taking some medication but I am afraid the side affects while I am adjusting to it the first few days might put me further behind. So the bottle sits on my counter (no, it is not life threatening if I don't take it - I have Epstein Barr which is more annoying than anything else). I look at the bottle everyday "Pills or NaNo?". So far NaNo has won out. But wait...if I do have side effects maybe I could work that into my word count when I can write. Hmmm.
As a side note - last year's NaNo idea came from when I was walking around the halls of the hospital the first time I was in. I am getting NaNo mileage out of being sick so it is not all bad.
----------2006 Winner
2007 Winner
2008 Winner
Proud member of The Trebuchet Club 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
7,345 / 50,000
nov. 9, 2009 - 07 54
My husband and I officially switched our wedding anniversary from November to January so neither event would get in the way of the other.
That, and giving a 30-day party for about 500 of my dearest friends.
LOL! Can't do that, my birthday is the 7th of January and my due date is right in there. It'd be impossible to get a sitter for a 1-week old...nor would I even consider it.
----------Kathryn S
http://fangstories.wordpress.com
43,502 / 50,000
nov. 9, 2009 - 20 43
I'm not sure how many years in a row I started a new job or added a job in November. This year I'm unemployed and not looking so that one's out of the way.
In past years, I've managed to plan vacations in November. Bad for NaNo. Bad. This year there are no vacations planned but one may happen at the last minute so I really need to up the word count.
Both of my children's birthdays are in November. Now, had I known about NaNo when they were conceived, I would have planned better. Alas, they arrived before NaNo was begun. I have no control over this. At least they are now old enough to say that all they want is cash and no party --- they'd rather have the additional cash. Go figure. Darned 20-somethings.
This year. The only issues are semi-homelessness and medical. Both of which are temporary. Since NaNo is only once per year and I can deal with the other stuff later, NaNo wins.
42,791 / 50,000
nov. 10, 2009 - 17 57
Uh, I can't think of any reason I would cloister myself on the smoking patio at Epoch (North Loop and Guadalupe, thereabouts) for over twelve hours overnight other than NaNo. The past two weeks I've gone after I get off work on Monday evening and stayed at least until seven in the morning on Tuesday, since I have to take the bus home...think I might do it tonight as well. Yay for weekends :3
----------NaN'05: Pyk, 5696
NaN'06: Guiding Twilight, 50K
NaN'07: Screamer, 56K
NaN'08: The Absent Butterfly 50K
NaN'09: Some Sort Of Gay Romance, and also Screamer: Revisited
37,714 / 50,000
nov. 10, 2009 - 19 16
I wouldn't necessarily call this insane (except for the bad effect it had on my word count) but I spent the last weekend in San Francisco at a food blogger festival where they fed us amazing food and plied us with at least 30 different kinds of wine and spirits. Needless to say it was fairly impossible to find a good solid hour to pull out the computer. A fantastic time, but I hope next year it isn't in November!
----------No one told me there would be *work* involved.