Today is the 27th of November. I am sitting on a couch with a very small and furry kitteh sleepy soundly in my lap. When she is not sleeping soundly she is often slightly pointy. Yes, Man has a kitteh. I'm not generally a cat sorta girl, but this one has grown on me a bit. What can I say. Man is typing up a storm. He has been Nanoing for 27 days. He will probably finish in about 10 minutes.

You might ask, if you know me well, why am I not Nanoing. Tamara, you'd say, your a competitive girl and you only have 3000 words left to go. Finish tonight. You'd have a point. But Man is a very good typer and I am just a deligent one. Plus, I've already written 3000 words today. So I planned a plan. I'm going to finish tommorrow. In less than 24 hours. It will be grand. Yes, I won't finish before Man. but I sorta figured that when he had a 6000 word day while I was still in a turkey coma. So alas. not tonight
But tomorrow. I finish this.
or else I DINE IN HELL!

THIS IS NANO!!!!

I haven't posted much since Nano started, I threw up the widget to the right and called it good. But, I feel something momentous has occured and I should post about it. (Also Man is down in word count and I've reached quota so I need something to do while he Nanos ((yes it is a verb now)).
I reached the halfway point yesterday. 25,000 words in 15 days. It is a heady feeling. I've written half a novel. It is mainly exposition and extremely circular but still, I've written it. As someone who wants to write novels for a living, well, I've never actually written a novel. So, this is a big thing for me. I think, as a new writer, the excercise of Nano will be great.
Meanwhile, I'm going to give you some highlights of how I got to this point:

Sitting in a dog park, squinting at the poorly reflected screen while other people play with my dog because he has been looking at me with sad eyes since the experiment began,

Finding that Jack Daniels and coffee ARE a good combination. (Man says that it goes with anything)

Drinking the coffee that Man ran through the machine twice and LIKING it.

Hating Village Inn for not having outlets for Nanoing success

There have been others, but most of them actually only involved me in front of a computer with vclicking sounds coming from my fingertips. Because apparently, thats how novels are written. With lots of hours logged.

Thats all for now folks. enjoy your nights filled with sleep and not typing.

Word count: 3867

Trying Nanowrimo for the first time this year.

For those of you who don't know, Nanowrimo is short for National Writing Month. Yes that means I am going to try and write 50 000 words and one story begining middle and end. It's a big challenge, and in alot of ways, one without a reward. If I manage to do it, I don't win anything for it and I've lost quite a lot of sleep for it.

On the other hand, I've been having a lot of trouble finishing anything lately. So maybe this will help.

I don't know how much I'll be updating this over the course of the month, but as of now.

Day one: 2369 words