I am going to make this post short and sweet because I haven’t
got a lot of time to write it. For starters, my internet was down for several days,
and I wasn’t about to get much writing done since I couldn’t access the cloud
or anything.
Then of course there is the fact that today is the day
before Thanksgiving, and I have some baking to do before tomorrow.
I admit that what baking I have to do is nothing compared to
how busy Konnie is preparing for her Thanksgiving dinner. At Konnie’s house, everything is fixed from scratch, and I mean everything, including the bread
for the stuffing.
At my place, I’m only providing a couple of desserts. Yes,
from scratch, but well, there aren’t going to be a lot of people at my sister’s-in-law
tomorrow. There just isn’t room over there for a lot of people, so I won’t need
to make a bunch of pies, which Konnie is doing.
As far as Nano goes, I actually finished the challenge on
the 12th, much to Konnie’s surprise. I did post that fact on
Facebook, and Konnie thought I was just posting that I was participating again
this year.
No, I made my goal.
I have since added a few more words to my novel, just not a
whole lot due mostly to my internet issues, but I can also blame the write-in I
attended Saturday where the entire group got distracted when one of our members
was having trouble finding the answer to a research question she had.
That took up a large chunk of the time we had for our
write-in as everyone tried to find the answer for her.
One of the other members went so far as to call a friend and
ask her if she knew the answer. She didn’t off the top of her head, but she
managed to find the answer just as we were packing up to leave.
The problem was solved, but I went home to find my internet was
down, so I wasn’t able to have what had become my usual weekend marathon of
writing. And my internet was down until last night.
I guess I should be happy that I am already past the 50k
mark, I was just hoping I could manage something along the lines of what I did
when I wrote book one of this series. That was the year I got over 90k in November. And I was doing so well! After
all, I did make 50k well before the 15th and when I wrote the first
book, I was at like 30k on the 15th. Yeah, I did a ton of writing in
the last half of that month.
At least there is still time to get a bunch more words and I
do have another weekend to do another marathon of writing.
On another note, a librarian friend of mine asked for a copy
of the first book so she could read it. She was very excited to read it and
even offered to get a copy for the library once I felt it was polished.
I had told her it was a rough draft.
I personally think she has too much faith in my writing as
she made that offer before she read the manuscript.
Anyway, I need to get a bunch of stuff done before work today,
so I’m going to say,
“Happy Thanksgiving! And happy writing everyone!”
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