Ooh, Shiny!

...we're very, very close.

I'd like to say that I'll hit 50K tomorrow, but Tuesdays are always bad for me, as my manager is in a full day (she works part-time and has a very weird schedule). But if not tomorrow, then most likely Wednesday, and as long as I've kicked Nano's ass before Thanksgiving, I'm fine.

48370 / 50000 words. 97% done!

I won't get into the part where I'm pretty sure I'm barely halfway through this thing -- I've just finished setting up the complications that are going to rocket us through the second part of the novel, but at least I know where it goes from here (I even took notes! Go me!).

Gunther is at the auto-body place; I assume we'll know sometime tomorrow whether it's thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Our guy at Progressive totally has those dinks at Mercury's number, so he's not going to get them get away with much. He told us to go ahead and rent a car, because we'll be reimbursed for that, so I have my reservation in with our local Enterprise (they've been such gems in the past; I can't say enough nice things about them...and no, I'm not being sarcastic!).

Dad is out of ICU and back into a regular hospital room. They discovered an embolism in the same lung where he had cancer, but the cancer is still gone and they're treating the embolism with some pretty aggressive medications, so he's doing a lot better. No idea whether he's going to be home for Thanksgiving, but he's still with us, and that's good enough for me for now.

My manager was out today, so I got in my 2K. :-P (And I don't even mean that in a slacker way...she doesn't really pay much attention to what I do as long as the work gets done...but both printers in the building are in my office, so whenever she prints something out, she has to come into my office to get it, and that's just a wee bit disruptive.)

40146 / 50000 words. 80% done!

In other news, we got sprayed by a skunk like whoah! this morning. I have never in my life smelled such a bad skunk spray. If I didn't know better, I'd think someone pelted the side of the house off the deck with about 50,000 pounds of rotten onions. I heard this very odd screeching noise this morning while I was lying in bed, and I thought it was a bird that had gotten caught in one of the bushes outside the bedroom window, but it got much louder when I went out into the main part of the house. I looked out the French doors to see what it was and didn't notice anything, but all of a sudden, WHAM! the worst skunkification I have ever smelled in my entire life.

I'm hoping it will start to dissipate soon, but in the meantime, if y'all have any suggestions for neutralizing it, I'm all ears.

...at around 2K a day. That's pretty much my max for regular work days. I sneak in some at work, and then finish up when I get home. If I keep going at this rate (knock wood), then there should be no problem with taking Thanksgiving Day off, and also the Saturday afterward, since that's when we plan to go to Loscon (local F/SF convention).

37138 / 50000 words. 74% done!

Wasn't feeling terribly motivated today, but I still got in my 2k. Middles are always the hardest parts for me with everything I write, so I don't see why NaNo should be any different.

33078 / 50000 words. 66% done!

In other news, the Archive of Our Own is now having open beta testing. I requested an account and got one really quickly. Not sure why I feel the need to have stuff up on yet another archive, except that I like the idea of this one, and I'm guessing a lot of the people on it will be more from LJ and not necessarily ff.n, so they might not have seen my stuff. I put up Blood and Ashes first -- it's one of my shorter pieces, and it's always gotten a good reception. Besides, I felt like I needed to get something het up there, because out of 61 Star Wars fics, only four were het (some were gen, but still the slash outnumbered the het by an amazing proportion). I don't think I'll ever quite comprehend the whole slash phenomenon, but then again, I don't understand how some people can like Brussels sprouts, either. ;-)

It's going to take a chunk of time to get all my stuff uploaded over there, because holy crap! do I have a lot of fics (and most of them are loooong), but I think it'll be a nice background project for the times when I feel as if I should be doing something productive but am too brain-dead to write.

Thank you to everyone for all your well wishes! I really appreciate it, and of course I'll post updates here as I travel through the publication process. I need to take some time this weekend to go over the contract and the rest of the paperwork they've sent me, but it looks like a pretty standard epublishing contract, as far as I can tell.

Luckily, I was able to pound out a little more than 3k to get back to work after two days in a row of no writing.

28797 / 50000 words. 58% done!

I'm really hoping to hit 35k by the end of the weekend, but we'll just have to see how things go.

...but the flesh is telling me I am done. Somebody stick a fork in me already!

23605 / 50000 words. 47% done!

I was kind of hoping to make it to 25k today, but that's a lot in a day (a little over 3,300 words). I should be able to get there tomorrow with no problem, though. That's good, because I don't know how much writing I'm going to get done on Wednesday -- I have the day off, but so does Erik, and we're probably going to go out and do fun stuff instead of having me glued to my computer. Still, maybe I'll be able to squeeze in a little bit while he's in the shower. ;-)

OK, not really, but I am doing so much better than the previous two years, it's not even funny. Guess it goes to show you what a difference it makes when you have a project you're really excited about.

15161 / 50000 words. 30% done!

So far, so good.

 

10672 / 50000 words. 21% done!


Also, now with cover art!




I think doing the cover art is my favorite part. ;-) Okay, not really, but I like visual aids.