10k 3 days.

I have three full days left in which to write 10 000 words.

This time last year, I had 11 300 words left, a massive 7 500 of which I wrote on the last day.

This year, I'm very much hoping to be finished in good time on the 30th, because the last thing you want if a boy comes to visit is to still have a sizable chunk of NaNoWriMo left to complete.

The problem is that I have hit my 30k slump 10 000 words too late, and even though I'm so close to the end, I am finding it so hard to be inspired to write. It's even worse when this is the ending to a story I have been writing for 4 years. It's been in my head for so long that it should be almost effortless to put into words, and yet, I find myself sitting down to write and hours passing by with only a few new words on the page.

Even worse is how, in reality, my three full days are really only one and a half. Tomorrow, I'm sending off friend who is going on a working holiday, so that;s one day out, and I need to be finished ASAP on Friday.

I'm not without a plan though. I'm going to wake up early tomorrow to write before I go out. I'm going to write when I get home and not sleep until I have hit 43k. I'm going to spend all day on Thursday writing and not go to bed until I have reached 48k. That leaves 2k for Friday morning and to finish the story.

Loosing NaNo is not an option.

NaBoWoDraK-Po

So it's not been easy getting back into this blogging thing, especially now its November and I'm pretty sure that I should be donating every letter that spills from my fingers on to keyboard to NaNoWriMo. I convinced my aunt to do it this year and she is absolutely annihilating me ... I've been doing quite well as well! On track and everything. I don't think I've ever been on track.

We'll just gloss over the fact that next week I'll be having 5 days off and need to get ahead.

So what else to tell you? Just talked to the boy on Skype. Its been a week and a half since I last saw him in person. That doesn't sound that long. In reality it seems like an age. I'm heading back down on Friday, or it might end up being really early Saturday, as he found out that he has to work Friday night. That sucks. He had a whole evening date planned, apparently. I like him. A lot. The other day he sent me a text that just said '6 days'. I think he likes me too.

Finally started moving in to my work room - only took 4 months! I'm glad, I was worrying that I would have to go back to my Gran's, and I'm not sure I could handle that any more. Next step is to buy a blind and maybe a rug of some sort and figure out every thing's place. Then start listing up and selling the mass of stuff we have waiting for eBay. My sister had a sort out too, and she's going to bring me her unwanted things to sell as well. I'd feel bad for pocketing the money for her stuff, but I think most of it will be mine anyway. I also have a meeting about going back to teaching and a job interview as a D&T technician, so I may be very busy pretty soon. I may also be turned away from both of them and therefore have nothing to do.

I haven't mentioned Asian drama in a while! I was supposed to be starting on Love Rain, but when I checked the charts, a Japanese series called Rich Man, Poor Woman had jumped a place, so I had to start watching that one instead. It's OK so far. Its pretty stereotypical and its not really blowing me away, but its good enough to keep me watching. We'll see I guess.

OH and Leeteuk, SuJu's leader, has now enlisted in the army. Sad face.

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Nano 2010

I was just reading my posts about NaNoWriMo last November. They amused me.

At this point of the month in 2010, I was on just a fraction over 2000 words, and had just decided that finishing was totally feasible. Talk about optimistic.

I'm freaking out now because I have only just hit 20 000 words, leaving me 30 000 words to write in 10 days as opposed to the 10 000 words I have managed in the same time frame through out the month, although at least I'm not fooling myself into thinking it is achievable when it is not. Its going to be tough, but it is do-able. Its only a little over 2 500 words a day.

I know you're thinking that maths doesn't work, but I was rounding the numbers down and up, OK? Smart arses.

Anyway, time to stop wasting words on blogging.

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Drama: Yankee-kun to Megane-chan ep 6 (last nov I was still watching anime, oh, how I've grown up)
Manga: Hana Kimi 57 / Love so Life 7 / Black Bird (reread, again) 17
NaNoWriMo Backlog: 12 092 words (eeek)

TARGETS

20TH NOVEMBER -      6,500 WORDS (6089)
21ST NOVEMBER -     11,000 WORDS (8282)
22ND NOVEMBER -    15,500 WORDS (11344) *
23RD NOVEMBER -    20,000 WORDS (11344)
24TH NOVEMBER -    24,500 WORDS (ERM)
25TH NOVEMBER -    29,000 WORDS (*IGNORES GUILT*)
26TH NOVEMBER -    33,500 WORDS (LET'S)
27TH NOVEMBER -    38,000 WORDS (JUST)
28TH NOVEMBER -    42, 500 WORDS (NOT)
29TH NOVEMBER -    47,000 WORDS (GO)
30TH NOVEMBER -    51,500 WORDS (THERE)

EDIT: EPIC fail when I realised that November only has 30 days .... 

* This is more depressing than encouraging. I'm slipping behind by quite a lot, and it'll be hard to catch up, if not impossible. I tend to get in the swing of it and be doing really well, then I take a break to eat or make a drink or pee or something and then cant get back into it. Ergo, maybe I shouldn't take breaks.

NaNoWriMo

Here follows an extract of my attempts at convincing Elle to do NaNoWriMo this year.

Me: You best have started nano-ing today missus.

Me: Eleanor. Please tell me if you are nano-ing of not.

Me: Eleanor.

Elle: Shh classes.

Me: Eleanor.

Me: ... ARE YOU NANO-ING?

Elle: ...Ah nano no no no no - I have no story ideas no time and I haven't registered is it too late?

Me: You should write about the book you have to read, turn your reading and notes into a novel! ....

Elle: ... I'm not writing a story about pulling fur from cats etc its too upsetting.

Me: You could. .... Replace cat with drawer and fur with socks. Pulling socks from drawers isn't so upsetting, is it?

Elle: Okay your mind is strange ...


I amuse myself.


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Anime/Manga: Ouran Ep 16 / Watashi ni xx shinasai ch 14