mootmom (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mootmom) wrote,@ 2003-11-23 10:37:00 |
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November is sliding past.
Heading into the home stretch now.
After Day: 22/30,
I have a Word count: 40,541/50,000.
I am not worrying about crossing over now, although it's going far slower than it did last year. I finally gave in and wrote down about 10 scenes I need to write on little notecards and am plucking them out of the pile randomly and going to write those scenes. I am really enjoying some of this and I think it has potential as a story others might want to read, so I'll try to stick with it even after November. For the present, I'm planning to take Gandalf to OVC around 1 today (earlier than I usually go on a Sunday), have some saladic lunch and caffeine treat, and then write write write. I want to try to get to 45K today, although that may be wishful thinking.
What I'm really looking forward to is the rest of the month. I don't go back to work again until Dec. 1 (the consequences of having use-it-or-lose-it vacation and a 20 year tenure) so I can actually RELAX some this coming week and write whenever I'm moved to do so. I have all the foods necessary for a ridiculously delicious feast on Thursday, and have made Mama Stamberg's Cranberry Relish (recipe here: I use extra horseradish for ever more tanginess, and revel in its shocking pinkness) so there's not much planning left to do. I'll cook the wild rice on Wed. night, assemble the stuffing and put the bird in the oven before 8:30 Thurs. morning, go to yoga to start the day off right, and then come home and watch what we used to call "The Macy's Day Parade" (one of the few things, with the Rose Bowl Parade and Six Feet Under, that I can be counted on to watch on TV), sip some wine, and forget about my WeightWatchers points for a day. (Reminder to self: get the November weigh-in out of the way on TUESDAY!!) Once Christine gets here for dinner, we're likely to retire with our laptops and do some NaNo'ing in the den... unless the fire or the hot tub are too warm and attractive (with the bevy of males that will be assembling at both locations...)
In other news, I haven't said anything to the object of my yummy dream the other night, so I guess I won't. It was fun to entertain the possibilities, though. :) And it's fun treating all my fellow NaNo'ers with a little extra love and attention, and letting those of them who've read about The Dream here wonder whether it might in fact have been them. (Note: It might. :) )
Heading into the home stretch now.
After Day: 22/30,
I have a Word count: 40,541/50,000.
I am not worrying about crossing over now, although it's going far slower than it did last year. I finally gave in and wrote down about 10 scenes I need to write on little notecards and am plucking them out of the pile randomly and going to write those scenes. I am really enjoying some of this and I think it has potential as a story others might want to read, so I'll try to stick with it even after November. For the present, I'm planning to take Gandalf to OVC around 1 today (earlier than I usually go on a Sunday), have some saladic lunch and caffeine treat, and then write write write. I want to try to get to 45K today, although that may be wishful thinking.
What I'm really looking forward to is the rest of the month. I don't go back to work again until Dec. 1 (the consequences of having use-it-or-lose-it vacation and a 20 year tenure) so I can actually RELAX some this coming week and write whenever I'm moved to do so. I have all the foods necessary for a ridiculously delicious feast on Thursday, and have made Mama Stamberg's Cranberry Relish (recipe here: I use extra horseradish for ever more tanginess, and revel in its shocking pinkness) so there's not much planning left to do. I'll cook the wild rice on Wed. night, assemble the stuffing and put the bird in the oven before 8:30 Thurs. morning, go to yoga to start the day off right, and then come home and watch what we used to call "The Macy's Day Parade" (one of the few things, with the Rose Bowl Parade and Six Feet Under, that I can be counted on to watch on TV), sip some wine, and forget about my WeightWatchers points for a day. (Reminder to self: get the November weigh-in out of the way on TUESDAY!!) Once Christine gets here for dinner, we're likely to retire with our laptops and do some NaNo'ing in the den... unless the fire or the hot tub are too warm and attractive (with the bevy of males that will be assembling at both locations...)
In other news, I haven't said anything to the object of my yummy dream the other night, so I guess I won't. It was fun to entertain the possibilities, though. :) And it's fun treating all my fellow NaNo'ers with a little extra love and attention, and letting those of them who've read about The Dream here wonder whether it might in fact have been them. (Note: It might. :) )
