NaNoWriMo 2011 !!

[Sopdet]

it is a bit slow at work today, so after lunch I'm going to throw some words on a page

[Jellyfish]

Hooray, I made it to 20000 starting to feel confident again!

[Sopdet]

argh why is it the minute I decide to do some at work we get busy!!!!!!!!!!!!! So none done today at all - will get stuck in over the weekend, right now I'm on my way out

[peanutter]

well done, jelly!!! you're on your way

no good, sop ... but maybe tonight will give you some awesome inspiration, and you'll be up all night.

writing.

[Sopdet]

well done, jelly!!! you're on your way

no good, sop ... but maybe tonight will give you some awesome inspiration, and you'll be up all night.

writing.

haha - I spent all afternoon writing letters about stupid occupy melbourne - I think I was up to 20 before I got roped into doing secret squirrel stuff for 2 hours

Nah no chance of that brain not working, but I know we'll be having really full-on in-depth conversations which may be used in the story later on.

[AnyDream]

ha - sadly, no.

I'm finding recurring thoughts about my birth injury and the subsequent crap and trauma distracting.

If there's an app I can download for that, please let me know

No app, but there's an excellent book called 'Writing through the Darkness' by EM Schaefer that you might find helpful in the place you're in. The book is about using various writing techniques in the context of depression but is also very useful re writing as a healing practice in a broader sense too.

Well done ladies, and KEEP GOING!

[Sopdet]

I'm the only one in the office today, so have pulled up my story and going to write as much as I can today (of course work takes precedence so will do what I need to do there and write around my workload)

I've also started jotting down ideas for two totally unrelated books that have been floating around in my head for a while.

[Jellyfish]

Eeeeeeeeeeh 29746 words! Getting closer to caught up now and only have to write 2000 a day from now on. Considering I've had a few 3-5k days in a row, feeling pretty good

Hope you got a bunch done today Sopdet!

[Sopdet]

argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just after I wrote the post about getting stuff done, got hit with a pile of work, have written about 1,000 words today on the story and about 6,000 words for work (would be so nice if I could include every single brief & letter I have to write into my word count!!!!)

[Jellyfish]

Doh! How are you going now?

I'm just about to hit 40k so right back on schedule but considering no weekend during the month have I done more than 500 words, I'm going to try and keep pushing out a little bit of a buffer. Story isn't anywhere close to complete though which is a bit disheartening, I figure it will be around 70-80k when done. I read back some things I had written though and impressed myself haha funny how you forget what comes out sometimes...

[Jellyfish]

Anybody still out there? I've just passed the 45k mark and am on the home stretch. As predicted I did nothing over the weekend but had a 3k day yesterday and hoping for a similar one today... I'd really like to buckle down and bang out the entire 5k today just to be DONE although not really done since the story still has a bit to go! I just want my purple 'validated and complete' bar haha.

Eeeeeek I'm going to do this yay!

[peanutter]

you go girl!!!


monster effort you'll make it easily, now





we salute you.

[Jellyfish]

Just hit 50153 this morning

[AnyDream]

JF, that's FREAKIN awesome! Well done!!!

[Miss.September]

JF congratulations!

[Jellyfish]

Thanks! Feeling pretty chuffed

There is still about 20-30k to go until the draft is finished so I'm hoping to bang out that before the baby arrives (34 weeks so could be as little as 4 weeks or as long as 8, DD came at 38 weeks but that doesn't really mean much in the way of planning haha) and then can spend the next year editing while dealing with newborn antics and toddler wrangling... realistic?? Guess I will see how I go, no real pressure but now that I've come so far I would like to get it done, done even if it takes me a while... I'm 50k ahead of where I was a month ago right

[peanutter]

well done, jelly!!

that's seriously awesome

[Miss.September]

Just putting this in here in case anyone has anything they want to try and get published....

Saw this on Penguin Book's FB page:

The Monthly Catch

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We are only accepting submissions electronically – all hardcopy submissions will be recycled. And we are only accepting submissions in the first week of every month; anything that comes through outside of this time will not be considered.

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