*sigh*

Unfortunately, life has kind of gotten away from me this time.

I think I've written about 10,000 words this month, some original, some fanfic. So--better than I thought, anyway.

But there isn't any way I'll get to 50,000 by Monday night.

Maybe next year, I'll have more enthusiasm for it!!

Day 2 Continued!

1689 is my total for today for my original story.

So I'm up to 3369 for the original story and 2609 for Secret of the Mansion.

Not too shabby for two days' work.

Although I really am going to have to get more...I don't know. Something between my two main characters to make them less vanilla. Bah. *G*

Hope everyone is doing well on Day 2!

Day 2

Slow goings so far!

I contracted with myself to get 6 pages of the Secret of the Mansion done each day. I did 9 pages yesterday, which left me with only 3 to do today, 1 3/4 of which involves Trixie without Jim and Honey, so I didn't have too much writing to do there. *grin*

So, total word count for Mansion today: 576

I have done about 400 words so far of my original story. I'm trying to drum up enthusiasm for writing more. The 400 words have mainly been rewrites and additions into the part I wrote yesterday.

I have a plot, but I'm just trying to get it moving.

Okay. Just did some exercising. I figure--perhaps if I do a little physical, it'll help stir the mental.

One can only hope, eh?

More later.

Day 1 - Continued!

Hurrah! I managed to make myself churn out 1680 words on my non-fanfic story. I have some characters who intrigue me, so that's good. They're agents, recruited to help solve the murder of their beloved superior. And, of course, they have a past romantic history between them that may cause them problems. *G*

This story is what I'm actually "counting" for my total. I'm just trying to drag Secret of the Mansion along the way.

But my, that was hard to get those words out. I'm so distractable!

1680 down, though! A good first day!

And so it begins!!

We're back to November and another month of madcap writing!

I am going to make myself insane by trying to finish my Secret of the Mansion story AND write a fresh new story that isn't Trixie fanfic. (Yes, I'm crazy.)

I do have a lot of days in November off--including the weekends and Thanksgiving and taking 3 1/2 days of vacation--so I'm hoping that will help me accomplish this crazy quest.

To get myself pumped for writing, I figured I'd start with my Secret of the Mansion assignment. Based on what I have left of the story to tell, I need to get through about six pages of the book each day. That, of course, might be easier some days than others, depending on how many "other" scenes take place outside of Trixie's POV.

But I forged forward for the last hour and 45 minutes, and I now have Chapter 7 done. More than 6 pages, but I was pretty close to the end of the chapter, so I figured I'd just finish it.

So...Day 1...Secret of the Mansion - 2033 words!

Now a break for lunch and then hopefully, I can get to work on the first segment of my non-fanfic story.

Yay for NaNoWriMo! :)

Back later. *grin*