I've just won the NaNoWriMo. Made wordcount although the story has a lot more to be written before it's finished.

I'm staying more or less on target this year, with a current wordcount of 14913 words. According to the website guidelines, the suggested wordcount at the end of the 9th was 15000 words, though sometimes I'm writing less and others more.

In other news, I do not recommend leaving pyrex on a hot stove element. It makes a very pretty and noisy explosion when it breaks (and a heck of a mess to clean up).

I made it to over 5,000 words. I've managed to catch up on the story, although its' not exactly going anywhere just yet. The main character is still writing the school paper she was writing at the start of the story. Thing is, there's a lot of backstory to set up and the paper seems to be working as a way to get it out there without just "telling" it to the reader (although I'm not sure this story will see the light of day outside of my harddrive).

Orange Skittles taste just like orange flavored tic tacs.

At work they've started playing Christmas carols already. Not even the malls have started that yet to the best of my knowledge. November 2nd is far too early for Christmas carols I think. Everyone will be tired of them by the time Christmas rolls around - especially the staff who have to listen to it all through their shifts.

On the NaNoWriMo front, I'm still badly behind, having yet to break 2000 words. I'm at 1978 words and counting at the moment. Not sure how much more I'm going to get written tonight.

I'm really struggling with my story idea this year. I'm only nine hundred words in, and plodding slowly. I'm sure I remember last year being right on target, if not a little ahead of the game on the second day. Not sure if this is a bad omen for actually meeting the goal of 50,000 words for the story. It's just not flowing yet.

623 words into the story. Behind on the first day. Not a good sign for this story, but I'm too tired to push on tonight. Hopefully things will progress a bit better in the morning (and maybe there'll be an answer to a couple of the questions I ended up posting to the forums).

Signed up for NaNoWriMo again this year. Unlike last year though, I have no clue what I'm going to be writing.

Snow, snow, and more snow. eleven and a half inches in about fourteen-sixteen hours! I've just been scraping off the deck, and the snow was eleven and half inches deep. And, I had to scrape it again after I'd shoveled all the snow off - it was already white again. No question about it, we're having a white Christmas this year.
Everyone has canceled and I've been baking up a storm for the season: butter tarts, jam tarts, lemon tarts, a square, peppermint chocolate candy and rum balls. Oh well, we'll have lots of goodies for New Years - provided the weather improves.

I'd promised a while back to post on my NaNoWriMo experience.
It was tons of fun, enough that I might do it again next year. I made the wordcount, which tells me that I can actually write stories longer than about five thousand words. However, every book I've read says to 'show not tell' what's going on. That I couldn't manage, and I'm sure the story is riddled with cliches, even though I'd been trying - I read a book on writing character emotions before starting.

It's fifty thousand words of nothing. No drama, no tension, nothing happens to the characters, it's all backstory. There are some passages I like, but most of it. Well, I'm not inflicting the story on anyone as it stands.

However, I did it. I made fifty thousand words in thirty days!

I only need to get another two thousand words to make the NaNoWriMo goal tomorrow. I can do this. Honestly this week there have been times when I doubted it. I'll express my thoughts on what I've written this month on Monday. Right now I'm making at least one typo per word, and my fingers are tired.

Just broke twenty-five thousand words. I'm past the half way point, and this is the longest story I've written to date. Not sure how good it is though, but I'm having fun.

I just broke 10000 words!

Of course, I'm behind on my daily word count, although technically I'm not. There was a long passage I had to remove from the story, though I'm pretty sure I can put it in farther along.

I set a new personal record for word-count in one day. This is one of my best ever: The day's count is 2761 words, giving me a grand total so far of 8990 words on my novel. That leaves me about two thousand words ahead.

I hope I don't get too many more ideas tonight, or that if I do, I'll remember them tomorrow. I need sleep.

I've also posted this to the nanowrimo community on LJ

This is my second time trying NaNoWriMo, and so far I've gotten more words than I did in the entire month last time. As of now, I'm at a grand total of 6333 words.

What's happening though is the story is taking off in entirely new directions from what I'd planned (the little planning i did). That's great, except I've now entirely switched viewpoint characters after the first chapter and a half. Go with it? try to write things back to my original character?

And, nearly all of what I'm getting is from the past. How do I get the story moving forwards again? The society I've created for the back-story is starting to make me uncomfortable to say the least. I'd like to get the characters to their new home sometime soon, rather than dwelling on bullies and a society where the arts are penalized entirely.

In terms of my NaNoWriMo, I'm ahead of the game again today. The count for the day is 1713, over the daily minimum needed again. My grand total is 4133 words.

I saw the new Tolkien calendar at work today and it looks great. I can't wait to have it gracing one of my wall. It however isn't the only spectacular calendar I've seen. There are a lot of nice ones for 2009 out there.

I'm trying NaNoWriMo this year. So far, and I've got more writing time today I've got 899 words. Its' a science fiction piece.