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NaNoWriMo 2009 – Day 6

Zero writing done. Was busy from dawn to midnight. It was a bad day for NaNoWriMo. Much ground to make up this weekend.

NaNoWriMo 2009 – Day 5

Day 5 stats: Min. Daily Average Word Count: 1,667 Word Count Goal: 2,500 Actual Word Count: 3,219 Daily Word Count Score (words in excess of min daily average): +1,552 Total Word Count Score: 11,954 Chapters complete: 5 Running out of pre-plotted chapter breakdowns, but also seeing some expansion opportunities for act two. Dropping in world […]

NaNoWriMo 2009 – Day 4

Day 4 stats: Min. Daily Average Word Count: 1,667 Word Count Goal: 2,500 Actual Word Count: 2,488 Daily Word Count Score (words in excess of min daily average): +821 Total Word Count Score: 8,735 Chapters complete: 4 Had my first “what the heck did I get myself into?” thought today. Ignored it. It finally went […]

NaNoWriMo 2009 – Day 3

Day 3 stats: Min. Daily Average Word Count: 1,667 Word Count Goal: 2,000 Actual Word Count: 1,076 Daily Word Count Score (words in excess of min daily average): -924 Total Word Count Score: 6,247 Chapters complete: 3 Still ahead in total word count, but losing steam in keeping my comfortable lead. Really hit a wall […]

NaNoWriMo 2009 – Day 2

Couldn’t make my updates at the nanowrimo site yesterday. Jungle Drive ate my homework. Really. I had wrapped up chapter 2 of the Mia novel in my office at home last night and headed upstairs to continue working, when I started getting Jungle Drive connection errors on my laptop. Attempts to open the virtual directory […]

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