Carol Moncado

At least for me. For now.

I feel a bit like I cheated. See, I’m a NaNoWriMo purist. 50K words on a new manuscript in November. When I went to bed last night, I had about 4K to go. When I woke up this morning, I had a stomach bug that left me, to quote my husband, looking like hell (he even changed his travel plans to tomorrow instead of tonight).

So how did I cheat? I wrote over 5K on another manuscript at the beginning of the month. Between the two, that puts me at 52K. NaNoRebels do this on purpose. I joined the NaNoRebel ranks today because I had to.

I did legitimately write over 50K and if I’m feeling up to it will try to get that other 4K in tonight, but I’m okay with not. I literally don’t remember the last time I was this sick. I’m feeling somewhat better but have either been puking or asleep all day so I’m not holding out much hope for getting 4K in.

I’m okay with it. I don’t think I have any NaNo purist friends who will berate me for it, but if you are one, keep your opinion to yourself, please.

Thanks to those who encouraged me all month (I know I’ll forget some):
Jan Glaze Christiansen, Janice Hanna Thompson, Melanie Dickerson, Laurie Tomlinson, Ginger Venturoni, Joanna Davidson Politano, Jerenda Ford, Pam Jernigan, Karen Thompkins, and that’s where the stomach flu forgetfulness takes over…

(And I totally stole this post from the one I put on Facebook. Deal with it. ;))

Because it’s very, very am on the 30th… Hubs is going out of town by mid-afternoon/early evening and the kids’ll be in bed earlier tomorrow…

NaNoWriMo today: 2002 [better…]
NaNoWriMo total: 46026
NaNoWriMo deficit: 3974 [Needed to finish]
NaNoWriMo WPD to finish on time: 3974 [See how those numbers are the same?]

Busy day with the fam etc today. Not much writing :(. Here’s hoping for a better tomorrow… Like a 4k day tomorrow…

NaNoWriMo today: 758 [even less than yesterday :(]
NaNoWriMo total: 44024
NaNoWriMo deficit: 4319 [Yeah – dunno that I see that happening on Friday – sigh]
NaNoWriMo WPD to finish on time: 2988 [at least it’s under 3K…]
NaNoWriMo current anticipated finish date: 12/3/2013 [at least that didn’t change… Sigh]

Sigh. House. Cleaner. Turkey prepped. Etc. Words?

Notsomuch.

Sigh.

NaNoWriMo today: 788
NaNoWriMo total: 43266
NaNoWriMo deficit: 3410 [that’s what I need to write on Thursday to catch up – possible… but unlikely]
NaNoWriMo WPD to finish on time: 2245 [up 12 words a day]
NaNoWriMo current anticipated finish date: 12/3/2013 [a day later… sigh]

We did get the basement mostly cleaned though and I did surpass the minimum daily count for generic NaNoers. I *almost* passed the amount *I* need to finish on time.

Almost.

I will have to find more time to write tomorrow, though I don’t know when, not with all the Thanksgiving prep…

NaNoWriMo today: 1819
NaNoWriMo total: 42479
NaNoWriMo deficit: 2530 [that’s what I need to write on Wednesday to catch up – definitely possible and less than yesterday]
NaNoWriMo WPD to finish on time: 1881 [up 12 words a day]
NaNoWriMo current anticipated finish date: 12/2/2013 [unchanged… which is kinda nice]

[This was supposed to post at midnight- oops]

If I had another thousand words in me today, I’d be caught up.

Today, as in Monday, 11/25 because it JUST NOW flipped to midnight.

But I don’t. Maybe by Tuesday night [which will be the 11/27 post] I will be.

I’m giving a test tomorrow so you never know…

NaNoWriMo today: 2575
NaNoWriMo total: 40659
NaNoWriMo deficit: 2683 [that’s what I need to write on Tuesday to catch up – definitely possible]
NaNoWriMo WPD to finish on time: 1869 [so close!!!]
NaNoWriMo current anticipated finish date: 12/2/2013 [It was 12/1 until it flipped over after midnight because I haven’t written anything for Tuesday yet :p]

Not as much today as I would have hoped but it’s all good. Plus I got to IM with my good buddy, Ginger V. and Val C. and, probably most importantly, I got a new nickname for Laurie Tomlinson.

I *did not* [sadly] catch up to where I SHOULD be for NaNo, but I’m getting there – I was above my WPD count, so it’s all good. And I passed 38K!

NaNoWriMo today: 2271
NaNoWriMo total: 38084
NaNoWriMo deficit: 3591 [that’s a bit more]
NaNoWriMo WPD to finish on time: 1986 [under 2K!!!]
NaNoWriMo current anticipated finish date: 12/3/2013 [Only one day closer but I’ll take it!]

One of these days, I’m going to get a real blog post written again :p.

Until then…

NaNoWriMo today: 10270
NaNoWriMo total: 35813
NaNoWriMo deficit: 4195 [that’s down A LOT!!!]
NaNoWriMo WPD to finish on time: 2027 [that’s down over 700 a day!!!]
NaNoWriMo current anticipated finish date: 12/4/2013 [Again, ten days earlier than yesterday! Getting there! Tomorrow, it may be to NOVEMBER!]

Technically, it’s still yesterday. As in Friday, 11/22 and I already blogged today. So I’m going to write this then post it from my phone later ;).

I LOVE days when I get in the zone! A couple more like this [especially ones that start earlier in the day ;)] and I just might get this sucker done! 😀

At least to 50K by next Saturday anyway ;).

NaNoWriMo today: 5079
NaNoWriMo total: 25543
NaNoWriMo deficit: 12798 [that’s down a fair bit!!!]
NaNoWriMo WPD to finish on time: 2718 [that’s down over 500 a day!!!]
NaNoWriMo current anticipated finish date: 12/14/2013 [Ten days earlier than yesterday! Getting there!]

So not going to get that post about Christopher’s surgery, but I did get some words in :).

NaNoWriMo today: 2023
NaNoWriMo total: 20464
NaNoWriMo deficit: 16210[that’s down some!!!]
NaNoWriMo WPD to finish on time: 3282 [that’s up a bit more sigh]
NaNoWriMo current anticipated finish date: 12/24/2013 [THAT’S BEFORE CHRISTMAS!!! WOOHOO!]