1) This is very exciting!
2) Dan has poured on more server juice, and the sites are humming! (I put up a statsy post about yesterday's historic spike on the blog.)
3) We're still sorting out the email queue backlog, and until we do, things coming to you from the site may take a little longer than usual. I just got the October 31 pep talk from myself this afternoon.
4) The "collective word count" on the front page of the site still says zero. Do not be fooled! We've written many more words than that! We'll fix it as soon as we can.
5) Same for widgets!
6) We filled in another book on the fund-o-meter. Thank you so much, donors!
7) And please remember: If you write a paragraph or chapter you don't like, just put it in italics (or change the font color to white). Do not delete! After you write your way across the 50,000-word finish line, you can double back and clip out all the parts of your book that make you cringe (I think you'll surprise yourself with what you decide to keep). For now, just keep moving forward! There's an old folk saying that goes: Whenever you delete a sentence in your NaNoWriMo novel, a NaNoWriMo angel loses its wings and plummets, screaming, to the ground.
Where it will likely require medical attention.
These are words to live by. Resist the tyranny of the delete key! Onward! Upward! To Day Three!
Chris
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