Knitter in Progress

It's the wee hours of Sunday morning and I am done! Phew! I love Nano!

Yeah, that's right, because I don't have enough to do---HA!---I am going to try and get through Nano again. For anyone keeping track this will be my fifth time and, God willing, fourth finish! I was a finisher in 2005, 2006, and 2007, I tried in 2008 but didn't finish(I wasn't feeling it with my story by mid month so I bagged it). 1700 words per day!

Feel free to completely disregard this post if you do not want to read my National Novel Writing Month Ramblings. I am having a crisis of sorts because I am absolutely NOT feeling "it" with my story right now. I have written 12,300+ words so far and so I am not behind but I have not written in the last two days. I think the first problem is that I am trying to bridge my story from my first year with a short story I wrote over the summer containing the same characters just in the future from where the first story took place. The bridge itself is not the problem. I have an outline of major storyline things that are supposed to happen along the way. The problem is that I need to focus on two characters. Two characters that need to develop a very serious relationship so that the bridge to the short story will make sense. I am just not in the "building a relationship writing place" if there even is such a thing. Also, I have a character in the story who I happen to love ...

write 1667 words per day for a month! For the last three years, I have spent the month of November participating in the madness that is National Novel Writing Month (nanowrimo, for short) and this year will be no exception. I've loved doing it(and hated it on some days--when things aren't flowing particularly well). I look forward to completing my fourth year. Why do I put myself through it year after year? **I love the challenge it presents. **I love staying up really, really late at night--just me, my iPod, my computer, my characters, and my story(it's worth being exhausted by the end of the month) **I love that I can just let everything go and write completely getting lost in my story while letting my characters guide the way. **I love that it allows me to explore genres that I normally would not try. **I love having a 50,000 word novel at the end of the month that is just for me :) **I feel like I have to earn the T-Shirt I treat myself to each year. So, anyone out ther...

I finished just after midnight. And got it verified. And got my winner buttons and certificate. Year three of my Nanowrimo is complete. And it could not have come a moment too soon--finishing my story this year was tough. I ended up with 50,900+ words and when I verified there were 3157 others who had finished too. That is pretty cool considering close to 100,000 had started off the month. It will be interesting to see how many actually finish by midnight on Friday. I have enjoyed my celebratory cupcake and now I am going to bed and I am going to give my fingers a bit of a rest. Then it is back to knitting, stitching, and blogging. Hurray!! I have missed all of them :)

I'm not dead. Just writing. Writing, writing, writing in a majority of my limited free time. Ah, Nano time. I did a teeny, tiny bit of cross stitch this weekend. I'll post my meager progress tomorrow. It also just hit me that the Christmas with kiddos clock is ticking--if you know what I mean. I've got some work to do :) 19,084/50,000--current word count

For Nanowrimo 2007! I'm going for the three-peat this year. The first year I won I had written a novel from a very well though out idea in my head. I had pages of outlines and notes and research. The second year I took an idea and a basic outline and flew by the seat of my pants. This year I'm thinking of trying my hand at fanfic . 50,000 words, here I come!