Nanowrimo: made it!

Current word count: 50,164

I figure I'll try to finish this scene, at least, before pasting it together, submitting it to the word-counting software to prove I've done it, and then going on writing.

But I've just written 50,000 words of fiction in 27 days, and some of them are even good. The book isn't close to finished, and it has various inconsistencies that need fixing, but it's real and I can keep going.

Wow! I had no idea if I could do this, or what I was going to write about. I'm still not sure--this wasn't supposed to be nearly so cozy a book, and the main characters surprised me by falling in love, and major plot threads are still hanging--but wow.

UPDATE: When I put it all together, the word count came up slightly short, so I had to write a few more paragraphs before I talked to their robot. And now:

Nanowrimo: made it!

Current word count: 50,164

I figure I'll try to finish this scene, at least, before pasting it together, submitting it to the word-counting software to prove I've done it, and then going on writing.

But I've just written 50,000 words of fiction in 27 days, and some of them are even good. The book isn't close to finished, and it has various inconsistencies that need fixing, but it's real and I can keep going.

Wow! I had no idea if I could do this, or what I was going to write about. I'm still not sure--this wasn't supposed to be nearly so cozy a book, and the main characters surprised me by falling in love, and major plot threads are still hanging--but wow.

UPDATE: When I put it all together, the word count came up slightly short, so I had to write a few more paragraphs before I talked to their robot. And now:

meanwhile, back at the gym

I went to the gym yesterday, for the first time in over a week. Mostly it went pretty well, but the crunches felt difficult after the layoff.

( numbers )

Meanwhile, my Palm seems to have lost input in the upper right corner--which is among other things the place I'd need to click to tell it to adjust the input. And either my trackball is going south, or my manual dexterity is. I really hope it's the trackball.

Update: It was the trackball. Cleaning this device involved removing four tiny Philips-head screws, and then discovering a large and ugly amount of cruft, to be removed with care and Q-tips. And now it glides, it sings, it's great--I wonder if it will give lessons to the Palm.

meanwhile, back at the gym

I went to the gym yesterday, for the first time in over a week. Mostly it went pretty well, but the crunches felt difficult after the layoff.

( numbers )

Meanwhile, my Palm seems to have lost input in the upper right corner--which is among other things the place I'd need to click to tell it to adjust the input. And either my trackball is going south, or my manual dexterity is. I really hope it's the trackball.

Update: It was the trackball. Cleaning this device involved removing four tiny Philips-head screws, and then discovering a large and ugly amount of cruft, to be removed with care and Q-tips. And now it glides, it sings, it's great--I wonder if it will give lessons to the Palm.