Meagre Worker Bee Shout Out Thread

I am with you on this one.

I read everyday, and I buy books obsessively(257 unread titles on the shelf to date, not counting the anthologies, references, and coffee table books that are stacked on separate shelves). I feel like I'm on a mission, part of a battle, a general in a war whose objective is to meet head on each and ever literary challenge and consume it whole. It's also as if I were a dragon hoarding jewels, which may seem odd to those that don't share in my Bibliophilia, but to those to do, it's not out of place to devote large amounts of both time and space to our treasures.

But when it gets to writing, which is what I wish to do professionally, I have trouble putting the time in, or rather, finding the time in the first place to put in. Of course I could turn off the t.v. , sign off the internet, etc. etc., but still, once you sit down there is that "little editor" in us all that is putting in quite of lot of time on the backspace button.I have notebooks set aside all around to write in as I go about my day, but all I seem to do each day is read, and read, and read, and wait for the inspiration to come.

As Tony Danza says in Ep.107 of Bored to Death on HBO, " Yah well its easy when your inspired." How many of you have written an entire story or large section of a novel in a single sitting as if you were channeling it out rather then going through the tedious hack and slash of self-conscious writing? It's the greatest thing in the world, but it doesn't come to often.

So, I'm with you on this one, and today is my first day in, so I guess I need to play some catch up.

Me, too! Thanks for starting this thread. I always say I'll build up a big cushion in the beginning of the month, but you know what? I've met my word count goals three days in a row, and that'll get the job done. Keep going, everyone!

(Historiast: your to-be-read pile sounds a lot like mine! :) )

Hey, if you get something every day, then NaNo is working. The whole point of this program was to get people out of the "one day" mindset and to get butt in chair and words on screen.

Kudos for doing it!

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I may not be meeting my word count, but i think I've already written more this month then the rest of the year put together. So, hooray me!

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Yay! I'm slowly but surely catching up to where I ought to be. I think after this weekend, I'll be golden.

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I got sick last night and there was no way that I was writing anything, but I thought I could write something and not call the day a complete loss. So I tried write at least half of the daily word count. And I did! In fact, I went a little over half. So I was only a little behind when the day ended. Go me!

2008: Wrong Turn

I did it! I've written every day this week and made the word count of the day. Even yesterday, with all kinds of craziness. For someone like me who is the worst procrastinator when it comes to writing this is almost as huge a victory as getting published.

Almost.

Yes, definitely go you! That is huge.

I knew I wouldn't be able to work this weekend because I had company coming and literally every hour was spoken for. And I was afraid that having neglected work for two days I would fall out of the habit.

But I'm patting myself on the back because I made myself sit down today in spite of not feeling like it and wrote not only my 1666 required but then a little bit extra to start to make up for what I missed. And it's good writing, too. Not tossed-off krep to fill out my obligation.

So anyway. I'm as proud of that as if I had finished. But still working toward finishment.

Yeah; this is totally my thread. My personal goal, from the beginning, was simply to work on the novel daily. This is way better than what I was doing, which was letting my novel notes gather dust in a drawer. And coming back to the story daily really works -- I've already figured out some thorny plot problems that seemed impossible when I wasn't really working on them.

Once again I have managed to force my butt into the chair and work, even though I didn't feel like it. (I've got really bad Rheumatoid Arthritis and just had a painful flare.)

So I'm happy. And I'm glad I've got this thread and that little blue progress bar to keep me honest! ;-p

Yes, this butt in the chair thing really works! :-)

So far anyhow. On we go!

Okay, I managed the butt in the chair thing today, but only for about 45 minutes. Since I had said I couldn't work at all I guess that's better than nothing, but I only got 1000 words.

I have a friend who twitters about his writing and this usually spurs me on to write as well. He's super supportive. Definitely that extra push I need to write when I don't feel like it.

Still keeping up with word count, which amazes me more than you could imagine.

2008: Wrong Turn

I guess the Coke I had with dinner helped, because I had a burst of night-writing. Yahoo! I'm finally caught up to the daily word count. Just in time to take Saturday off. ;-p

In the years I've won, I have had to resort to weekend sprints, and especially the Thanksgiving 4 day weekend. For some reason, the last few years work has exploded in November, and keeping my employees working is priority one. But I think I'm close enough that a good weekend and one Thanksgiving will put me ahead. I'll take the time to have dinner on Thanksgiving day with my fellow "Widows and Orphans Holiday Club" members. but will otherwise dedicate this years book to them. This one almost looks readable, although it will force me to try and rewrite the "prequel" from a few years ago.

And it does not help that I keep getting ideas about my two other halted-for-Nano projects ("Solandar, Warrior-Princess of Helium" about a lost shuttle astronaut and "The Divine Sitcom" a novelization of my failed first Script Frenzy script) but I just stuff them into the notes sections of their respective Liquid Story Binder directories and get back to my current thriller / mystery.

LSB might just save this thing!

I hate to let Nashville down, so I will get back to work.

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2006 - Mayhem in Music City
2007 - Murder in Music City
2008 - Solandar, Warrrior Princess of Helium (not a winner)
2009 - Down In

I did it. I wrote my way out of an ugly hump earlier in the day and came back for more. My reward is to have made it to the first love story of the book.

And I love nothing more than writing love stories that are, um, abnormal. So the buttinchair is finally starting to pay off.

I thought I'd never write another word, but I beat the blahs and got some good work in today. I'm pleased!

HOORAY!!!!!!!! :-D

HOORAY!!!!!!!! :-D

I hear ya. The last two years something huge has come up each November that threw me entirely off track. This year? No matter how bad and crazy the month has gotten I've been pushing forward. :) I think talking to more friends who are also NaNo-ing is helping quite a bit.

I think I might make it this year!