A.K.A. It’s That Time of Year Again…
Wow.
October whooshed by with as much gusto as the SIDEWAYS rain we’ve been having on the homefront.
Finally in the groove with this whole full-time student gig, so what do I do? I joined the annual festival of masochists as we all write 50,000 words. Natch.
WRITING:
SavvyAuthors: Entangled Smackdown and NaNoWriMo.
When my butt wasn’t kicked, I, too, kicked butt when it came to November’s writing challenges. A couple thousand words shy of 75K, the writing continues.
Plenty of writerly activities to keep me busy during the zaniest month of the year. I can already hear those sleigh bells as I draft this post.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
Or turkey. Or something vegetarian. Heck, for many of you out there, yesterday was just a Thursday. No matter what you did or whom you were with, hope it was a good one. 🙂
As for NaNoWriMo & SavvyAuthors: Entangled Smackdown, I won because I met the word count goals, but the story ain’t over yet, kiddos. Here’s the skinny:
Week One: 17,850 words
Week Two: 16,383 words
Week Three: 18,820 words
Week Four: 15,822 words
Running Total: 68,875 words
These numbers are up until yesterday’s total. Scrivener seems to be messing with my mind because the project stats show the figures and the session word count. The session number made sense so when I went to plug in the project total into the NaNo site, it said I wrote more than 2K above my total which I still don’t get. Wrap your noggin around that one.
Either way, I’m still rallying to up the count and will continue until the story’s done–dur. That would be the wise choice, yes?
After a month of slaving over the words, we’re left wrought with emotion. To borrow a line sung in a show I watched, once upon a time, “Where do we go from here?”
WRITING:
Last Wednesday for NaNoWriMo & SavvyAuthors: Entangled Smackdown.
I passed 50K last week and verified the word count Monday night to get the Winner’s Goodies. I’ll rest when the story’s over. Until then, I’m taking part in the writing sprints for bonus points to help my #Fire_Divas team for the Smackdown. It’ll also help get this story finished even though the word count goal’s already been reached.
WRITING:
I can’t believe there’s just one week left in the writestravaganza I’ve immersed myself in for NaNoWriMo & SavvyAuthors: Entangled Smackdown.
As of yesterday, I’m at 57,458 words.
The writing continues. I want to see how many more words I can hammer out before the end of the month.
READING:
Does listening to books count? I’ve been listening to Robert McKee‘s Story to keep me on track. More audiobooks to follow as we pull into the final stretch of the month. It’s a great way to multitask because I’m running out of hours in the day to get everything done, ya know?
Textploits of the Writerly Persuasion 