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Name: Sian
I paint, write, and dance. Also cook vegetarian food.

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Saturday, 26 November 2005

Nanowrimo... Five days left!

I am still behind. I still have to write more in the next five days than I would really like to, and then I have to find a way to drag it down to a functional computer and put it through the word validator, and.... and.... and... Well, actually, it averages out to about three thousand words per day, so not quite twice what I was going to have to write, if I hadn't done any procrastination. I'm at 163 pages as of this very moment, and nearly 38,000 words. Which is not enough, and which may never be enough.

Worse than that, they've already started validating the novels of people who are already finished, and their profiles have turned from green (which was annoying enough) to purple, with the word winner printed accross it in great big letters. Isn't that depressing?

I managed to get through the last semester of college world in one piece. The only grade I still haven't picked up is my Latin grade, and I'm fairly secure in the delusion that that should be an A, so I'm not too concerned.

I finally started getting paychecks from the new job, which is a huge, huge relief. Yay! Now I can write and eat!

I spent most of yesterday writing long hand for nanowrimo, and today, I've been typing the results. Now, I'm working on doing a little bit of editing, and trying to tie the peices together as something coherant.

Good luck to that. But it's still wonderful for the word count.

In case you hadn't guessed, I'm moving back and forth between this and my manuscript, and updating as I go along. 166 pages. If I can make it up to 40,000 words, I would only be one day behind, going into tomorrow. Plus I can send out my 40,000 word shout out while I still don't have to dig for the thread. Always nice.

I've gotten to the point that it actually takes a few seconds to save my manuscript. Wooo hoo.

Oh. And in case you didn't catch it, that was 39,000 words. So, by tomorrow, I really might only be a day or two behind. It's a good goal.

The return to optimism.

Somehow, it helps to know that you're out there, watching me fail. It makes me less likely to.

Todays sponsored links for my blog on technorati include three variations on novel writing software and a link to lesbian fiction.

At least I know that I'm not being entirely monomaniacal. That's two whole interests. Although, I can't for the life of me remember the last time I mentioned lesbians on my blog.

So.... obviously, I need to write posts about other things besides nanowrimo.

The quantity of information that comes at you if you just plop yourself down in front of a computer and stay there for a few hours.

And yes, I am procrastinating some more. I just took a test to find out which movie I've never even heard of that my life is like. Total waste of five minutes.

But all in all, pretty decent progress for today, even if some of it is going to require massive rewrites.