Well, folks, despite a full-time job, four kids, two cats, two dogs, holidays, illnesses, and carpal tunnel syndrome, I MADE IT TO 50K!
So I'll take my morning writing session tomorrow off and only do 6K words this weekend. :) The book has about 15K more to go, so I can't stop now. Just have to pause a little.
WOOT!
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Chris "Stealth" Barili




50,062 / 50,000
Nov 22, 2009 - 22 19
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!
----------"Do it or do not - there is no try." Yoda
150,086 / 50,000
Nov 22, 2009 - 23 06
Rock on stealth!
----------Thirteen Deaths At Knife Point: A mix of lovestruck, poetic prose and paranoia-induced, bloody visions.
Cluttered Noises: Experimental Modernism.
90,267 / 50,000
Nov 23, 2009 - 07 19
Congrats Chris!!
I feel your pain! 3 kids, 3 jobs, 2 dogs, and a sick husband, and I made it too!! I am almost at 60K now. I am reaching for that 100K goal!
*Stacie
----------"Courage is not the absence of fear. Instead it is the realization of something more important than that fear." (Can't remember who said it but I love it)
68,269 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2009 - 07 39
Thanks, everyone. I was hoping to have this book wrapped up in about 65K words, but it looks like it'll take closer to 70-75, which means I'll be working on it until early December. Oh well.
I can honestly say that NaNoWriMo is the best thing to happen to my writing in a long time. No way I'd have found the motivation to get this far this fast without it.
I guess I need to verify soon, eh?
----------Chris "Stealth" Barili
50,176 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2009 - 08 51
Way to go, Chris!! Keep working at it.
I'm going to walk away from my 50K for a day or two before I get back into it.
Any word on a "Thank God It's Over" party in the region?
Congrats,
O'Dell Isaac II, aka Sailor Ike
50,525 / 50,000
Nov 29, 2009 - 19 17
I just finished and verified--and the novel is actually done! We had a blast here at Panera tonight with two of us winning (in another few moments, it will be three!) and two others who are far past their 50K already!
----------Sara, Princess of Narnia and ML for Colorado Springs
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. ~ CS Lewis