Day 14 -- Rolling Along

Rolling, rolling down the river. Well maybe not. I'm rolling along with the writing but not anywhere near the goal. The half way mark is tomorrow night and I'm short right now by a still whopping 10k. I have also written more than I ever thought possible. So I'm just going to go with the flow and see what happens. Oh and I have been cheating again but only by a little. I have used everything I had previously written and from this point on everything is new. So after I slap my wrist and pat my back I will get back to work.

P.S. Doesn't that picture make you think calm thoughts? Now let me turn up the rock&roll.

Day 13 -- Going Nowhere Fast

You get the idea. I'm definitely going nowhere fast. I'm so far behind on my word count I don't know if I will ever catch up. So I change my goals a little and keep going. I may be a turtle but I never give up. Two days till the halfway mark and I'm only 10k behind. But my mind is running wild and I'm having a hard time catching up. I'm not a fast typist at only about 30 wpm. So I slow myself down stumbling over the keys. I really need to fix some of my spelling mistakes or I will never know what I was writing about. Time off is extra time but never enough to truly run this challenge to the ground. So it must be time to pick it up and put the petal to the metal.

Day 12 -- Hump Day again?

Well I made it through another day. No wiser and no further along on my
word count. I did do some writing but not nearly enough to catch up. And to top it all off I read the note from the man in charge (Chris) that for those of us who make it to the 50k word count by the end of it all will get their writing printed and bound by a very generous company. I'm having trouble keeping up as it is and then they go and throw in that incentive. Even if I do make it to the final total I'm not sure I want what I have written printed up like that. Then people will expect me to let them see it or, god forbid, even read it. And it is mostly garbage with a little plot and some outline thrown in. If I really want it printed up then I at least have to go back in and correct all the spelling mistakes. It is a goal and that is what this is all about. So lets wait and see if I can even get to the end.

Day 11 -- Veterans Day

Today is Veterans Day and I have it off. I don't normally get holidays off so I will be spending the day with my son. See you tomorrow and please don't forget those that should be remembered on this day. I salute you all.

Day 10 -- The 2nd 1/6 or 1/3

Elementary, My Dear Watson.

So today is the second 1/6th of the month or the end of 1/3rd of the challenge. Or as the WriMo official site proclaims it to be, the beginning of the second week and the end of the second weekend. But no matter how you slice it the totals for today are a staggering 16,660 words. I'm still under 9000 so that makes me more than 7000 words behind. It should scare the hell out of me but it seems to stir me up even more. I grew up in a tough world and became a tough woman to make it through each day. Why should this be any different? So once more into the breach.

Day 9 -- Slip Sliding Away

Yea I know. After a week of counting and hoping that the numbers come out bigger then they really are I know I am "slip sliding away" from my commitment. I am letting my outside life continue to rule and my inside life is scared to death that everything I am writing is crap. So what do I do? I keep writing even when my brain is sliding away. I write down the bones. The skeleton you could say of my story. I can skip around. Write what I feel for at that moment. Add a new scene anywhere because I can always move it around later. Its a shame you can't do that with real life. I would love to rearrange a few things in the past to see how they would turn out now. Anyway back to writing.

Day 8 -- Falling Behind

Yep! That's me. I'm just falling behind, way behind. But I see an extra block of time to work today. My children are away for the week-end and even though I have to work both days I will have the evening and early morning to myself.