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Chugging down the fifth
November 8th, 2008
The good news: I hit 10,000 words yesterday. I’m officially a fifth of the way done. Woot!
The bad not-as-good news: I’ve lost my lead, ending the day about 500 words behind the 1,667 words-per-day schedule. But I’m not worried because this weekend I am channeling Chuck Norris. My word count shall blot out the sun.
Work has been ridiculously stressful lately. You’d think that the timing of NaNo would make things worse, it being another source of pressure (albeit self-imposed) and all…but it’s actually been nice to have something totally different to focus on.
It is physically impossible, against the laws of nature, to be utterly absorbed by two things at once. One cannot write and worry at the same time. Unless one’s character is worrying, but then it’s about whether you’ll be able to thwart the bad guy’s evil plan for world domination. This is much more exciting worry than whether the legal team will get back to you in time to have the technical documentation done by the deadline that they themselves imposed because you really don’t want to work 24 hours straight on the last day and still have it be half-assed by the time it goes out because that just causes more fires to put out and god knows we wouldn’t want to prevent them when we can run like chickens with our heads cut off for the next month, now, would we?
I really need to get back to my novel now.
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I totally need to channel Chuck Norris to help with my word count this weekend, too. There is no ctrl button on Chuck Norris’s keyboard because Chuck Norris is always in control. Heh… Go Nanos!
Writing by hand? RESPECT! Good luck this weekend! And thanks for stopping by. I like your blog!
Thanks! Good luck to you, too.