Tonight both Simon and I won NaNoWriMo yet again.  For me it wasn’t as much of an accomplishment as it was for Simon.  I usually write-by-the-seat-of-my-pants whereas Simon creates a somewhat comprehensive outline with dates, corresponding word count, etc.  This year he didn’t get around to doing that.  Unlike me, he also didn’t seem to have muse to guide him as this text message from five days into NaNo suggested:
For a while things weren’t getting better and he was tempted to just give up, but then he switched gears (topic, genre) and things started to hum along a bit better.  Obviously this change made all the difference because he did manage to finish and one day early.  He told me that he will never pants it again and he was unanimous in that. 😀
I have to admit I was concerned that I wouldn’t have been able to complete NaNo this year. Â Since I started working full-time back in September, I’d been feeling like everything was getting so behind at home (groceries, laundry, cleaning, everything else) that I couldn’t afford the luxury of writing every night. Not to mention I didn’t think I’d have the energy or ambition to do it either. Â It was tough in the first week, but I persevered. Â We both did and it paid off. Â Congrats to us!
Don’t forget the tendinitis! 🙂
I’ve done the second half of the month dictating into a microphone. The funny thing is I’ve gotten decent at it, and can do my nightly word count faster than if I was using the typewriter.
Open quote Hi comma how’s it going question mark close quote asked Kate period
That’s right! You even tried to have a Fear and Loathing moment in Brooks. 😀
It was just bad karma this month.