Nano 2010 Day 30

While i may have technically finished NaNo 2010, I probably won't be stopping just yet. Indeed i have a full day to continue writing. Which means that I might tap out a few hundred more words or find any excuse in the world to not write.

I mean, my apartment is a disaster. I have piles of clean laundry waiting to be folded. I need to run about a dozen errands. My refrigerator could use a clean out. I have remnants of a Mario brick that i made for my friend Kenny that need to be cleaned up.

I'm getting the feeling that the first half of December will once again be the clean up Anne's apartment marathon.

I'm rather apathetic about the status of my story. It's not finished, of that i'm sure. And while this series sounds exceedingly interesting in my head, getting it out onto paper was a chore. Too many things fell into the realm of "no way would my character do that" and no man's land of "how would they do this without it being totally contrived?"

I know where i want the series to go, and i've noticed it falls along the lines of one of my favorite author's series:

Which in the process of finding these images....found out there's another book *gasp*. Good series about how humans can adapt and find ingenuity even in the most strange ways.

Nano 2010 Day 29 - WINNER

At about 8:30 pm Monday, November 29th. I crossed the 50,000 word mark. See my pretty badge to the left?

My story is far from over. I'm estimating that i have somewhere between 10k and 20k more words before the story is actually finished. The reason for that wide range...is that I'm not entirely sure what my resolution is. It could make the story more convoluted, or it could be simple and straight forward.

Truth is; I don't really know how to end my story. (whimpering noise)

We'll see how it goes as i think it through. Still have one more day to make a decision before i officially hit the end of NaNoWriMo.

Nano 2010 Day 27

Word Count: 46,670
Today's Quota: 45,009

Three days left.

While i'm very confident that i'll be able to weasle my way through the remaining 3k+ over the next three days.

What i'm not confident about is being able to finish this story satisfactorily on time.

The first year i did Nano, back in 2008, I remember seizing my cousin's hand when she arrived for thanksgiving and exclaiming, "Oh my god, I have absolutely NO climax."

Well this year, on Black Friday, i saw my cousin again and this year i said "I have a climax but NO resolution."

The fact of the matter is that i can in no way create an empirical question that will cause the characters i have spent the last 46k words building....to give up her little brother for a very handsome man. It just ain't gonna happen no matter how much i want it to happen and not sound completely and utterly contrived. And i cannot think of a way to resolve the divide between the two sides.

So it appears that by Friday, i will have a very good story put together with no ending....again. At least i haven't spent most of November wanting to throttle my pathetic main character. We'll see how i feel about finishing the story in December.

Nano 2010 Day 26

We're down to the pickle area of the home run of NaNo 2010. Just four days left.

Word count: 44,001
Today's Quota: 43,342

Today i would like to spotlight the amazing amount of success that Boyfriend Jon has achieved. I'm so proud of him that today at the write in, Jon was able to not only surpass the 100k word mark, but also to complete his story. While i am extremely jealous of this, he is fully deserving of a moment of fame on my blog. I am so proud of him.

At the moment i am neck and neck with a married couple who are also competing in Nano. But we are all on track to pass the 50k mark on time. We also had another new comer to Nano win recently and still have people well on their way.

To any fellow Nano-ers who are reading this, regardless of wether you are going to reach 50k or not...i am so proud of you. This is a crazy thing to attempt and even if you've only written a couple hundred words, that is more than you would have written. This is not easy and many people won't even take the plunge to attempt such a daring adventure. Major koodos to you for trying.

50k or bust.

Nano 2010 Day 24

Here's what you missed the last few days.

• I'm about a day and a half behind quota.
• It snowed in the Seattle area and with the temperature dropping down into the TEENS....froze and the whole area became pretty much a disastrous mess.
• My Jury Duty was canceled due to the weather after I had already set out to try to get there
• I was labeled "Ice Butt" by Boyfriend Jon because I stupidly hadn't layered clothes on the bottom half of me turning my derrière into a ice cube.

My muse outright refused to cooperate last night. I managed to get about 600 words written before i was hung up on details for writing a male character. So i have quite a bit more to write tonight in order to get caught up and then more to get ahead for tomorrow. I'm thinking i'm going to write a quick outline of what i want to happen and then switch back over to my other MC so i can keep the story moving.

Given how much i slipped and slid and very nearly pinwheeled down onto said ice butt while walking, i couldn't believe how many people in the Seattle area tried to drive in cars that seemed, to me, to be obviously a bad choice from the get go. Many sub compact and sedan cars that couldn't possibly have 4 wheel drive were out trying to keep up with chained trucks and SUV. I was reminded yet again that common sense was not so common. Most interesting was the SUV who ran a red light and came within a foot of T-boning a turning car.

I was thankfully excused from Jury Duty on Tuesday since the courthouses closed down due to weather and didn't have to make it up the next day. I decided to walk to Boyfriend Jon's place instead of the several additional miles to get to work.

Thanksgiving this year will be a break with tradition. I am not going to be spending it with my immediate family and traveling out to the peninsula in this weather. That just ain't happening. Instead i have invited Boyfriend Jon and Kenny to do a simple regular sized meal with brownies as desert and work off the meal by playing Call of Duty Black Ops. I'm excited because A) a lot less stress, a lot less food, a lot less leftovers and B) i haven't played that Call of Duty yet and have really enjoyed the previous versions.

I'll review it when i have time.