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Less than 2K

Posted by Sarah in Blog 365 2009, NaNoWriMo 2009, writings on November 11, 2009

I still have to write more than 1667 words a day, but I have to write less than 2K to reach the 25K goal by 11:59CDT on Friday.

Last night, I struggled. For the first time, I really struggled with my novel. I pushed on, and completed what I needed to, but goodness, it was HARD. And it is going to show in the writing. But, I don’t care. I am not going to fix it now. I will not fix it now.

But I will continue to write. I will reach my 50K by November 30th. I’m in this far. Nothing is going to stop me now!

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Setting Lofty Goals

Posted by Sarah in Blog 365 2009, NaNoWriMo 2009, advice, working, writings on November 10, 2009

Okay, I’m already 369 words ahead of the minimum writing goal for today of 16667. I’m setting the goal for myself to have a total of 25K words by the end of Friday. That would mean, literally, writing 7964 words in a little under four days. That would be writing 1991 words a day. That, I’m pretty sure I can do. I’m actually getting into my story, and I’m loving it. Plus, I have people going “can I read, can I read, can I read” constantly, so that really is helping keep me on track.

I am noticing though that I write more when I’m on a time crunch. Meaning, I have to write during commercials of my favorite shows. Otherwise, I can’t force myself to do it. I need to work on that. If I really want to become a professional writer, I need to not just float on the current way that I am. I need to push myself harder.

For now, though, I have a few other commitments I need to work on. Ciao!

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:P Word Count updates

Posted by Sarah in Blog 365 2009, NaNoWriMo 2009, writings on November 1, 2009

Because I can’t think well enough to write a post and my story!

Im sick, this sucks

I'm sick, this sucks

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What? Huh?

Posted by Sarah in Blog 365 2009, to-do lists, working, writings on September 8, 2009

I took too PMs last night and DAMN! I’m still out of it this morning. Slept GREAT though. Didn’t wake up until my phone alarm went off at 7:30, :lol:. Still kind of tired, though.

I’ve got a bunch of crap to do today.
:pill: Laundry, of course. I keep putting that off for tomorrow. Need to stop doing that today.
:pill: Do some digi scrap pages.
:pill: Hunt around for some character sheets.
:pill: Work on the new look for WCS. Still working on deciding the template for that.

What are your plans for today?

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It’s Morning Again

Posted by Sarah in Blog 365 2009, bitching, writings on August 14, 2009

I’ve been up awake since about 8am, but didn’t get out of bed until about 8:30. I think that’s pretty good. :yawn:

Yesterday, Josh and I, plus the kids, hit Sams and Walmart. Sams was just supposed to be chips for lunches, but we ended up picking up apple sauce (36 individual servings), fruit snacks (36 pouches), and juice boxes (36 … seems to be a theme, :rotfl:). We saw a 1TB MyBook Essentials external hard drive as well. Had to keep myself from grabbing it, :lol:.

At Walmart, we picked up some extra groceries that we needed, including fish because Julie is coming over for dinner tonight.

And I just got notice from Josh that all PTFs and unassigned regs are getting “excess notices”. That means they can get shipped anywhere. If the distance is further than 800 miles, the post office has to pay off our lease and the start-up of another lease for us. Yeah, that’s the way to cut costs. Gah. They need to offer the early outs with incentives already and that would cut a HUGE chunk of the workforce, considering the average age of the postal carrier is over 46 years old.

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