Tuesday, November 8, 2011

NaNo update and a little thing called vacation

So, nano'ers, how's it going? How do you feel now eight days into the month? How's the word count coming along?

I won't lie, my word count is crazy high. I pulled something like 17K+ words out of my brain from Friday night through Sunday. It was intense and awesome and so much fun. And my brain is still in recovery mode. I left my MC just as she was kidnapped and for now, that's a good place to leave her since I'm not too sure how she's getting out. I guess I'll figure that out later.

I really do believe the only way I was able to push out 17K words over the weekend was through Twitter. I've had an account for a while but never really knew what to do or how to use it. You can even ask Sommer Leigh. I had to email her to figure out hashtags because I wasn't quite sure if I was going to use them right or not. Now, I simply don't care. I have writer friends. I can reach them. They can reach me. And we challenged each other. A lot.

I never in a million years thought I'd say this, but I don't know how I would've done this without Twitter. Gah! I'm becoming one of those people! Sorry, friends!

Anyway, I should be participating in a word sprint right now, but have I mentioned my brain is mush? Yeah, NaNo and pounds of M&Ms will do that to a girl. Plus there's a little thing called "OhmygodI'mgoingtoIreland" vacation to stress over.

So this is where I leave you, but only for a few days. I have to take off my blogging hat and focus instead on reaching my 50K goal and enjoying the heck out of my vacation. I should be back online around Thanksgiving. I do believe this will be a good time for me to share some things I'm thankful for and ways in which I realize I am truly blessed.

So this is not goodbye. Instead, it's more of a "I'll see you in a few weeks" announcement. Unless, of course, I blog before then.

Happy NaNoing to all who are participating. And a special thank you, again, to my phenomenal guest bloggers the past two weeks. Your posts were excellent and I am now officially indebted.

15 comments:

  1. have fun in Ireland! lovin' the high word count you've got going on!!! make sure you blog about your vaca once you get back!

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  2. Have a great time on your vacation. Soak it all in...and take lots and lots of pictures.

    And, WOW, congrats on that word count. Amazing numbers!

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  3. 17K in 3 days? With a Twitter distraction? Holy smokes! I'm at 17K, too, but it took me all week. I want to do it again this week, so the rest of the month is a measley 1000 words a day... or sumpin...

    Great job! (I love a WriMo)

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  4. I saw your wordcount zooming and i was all "look at her go! DAYM!"
    Have so much super fun in ireland!!!!

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  5. PS: I'll work on the dancing Cornish hen's video. haha. I don't know when I'll cook them -- maybe this weekend? ;D

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  6. When you get there, raise a pint and celebrate a job well done!

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  7. Yay Twitter and yay awesome word count!

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  8. 17k in one weekend, wow. You are killing it. You deserve time off.

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  9. Thanks, everyone! The word count absolutely surprised me as well. I realized that if I really dial in, put on headphones, and go for an hour solid, I can push out just over 2K words. Sure, I'll cut half of them later, but hey, that's the point of nano, right?

    And yeah, I never thought I'd say it, but Twitter is kind of fun! Who knew?!

    Zeki--cornish game hen videos! I can't wait!

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  10. I'm so going to miss you while you're away! Be careful but have lots of fun and we'll save you a seat in the Twitterverse!

    Also, I love your emails, even when they are like "What is up with these hashtags??!?" :-) I did not think everything we did on Twitter last weekend would turn out to be so darn productive. Who knew?

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  11. Nice going!!! I'm actually going really slow. Not sure what is up this year! But it's only the first week and a few days so I have hope :D

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  12. Oh my gosh, I so understand how you feel! I'm taking a lift for Montreal tongiht, because tomorrow morning I'm leaving with my friend and flatmate and fellow ML, chomsky-rabbit, for ATLANTA. We're off to meet some of the most kick-ass and amazing MLs in all the NaNo-verse! SO EXCITED.

    I was surprised at the twitter too! I started mine a wee bit after NaNo last year, so I had no idea how good it was. And I never expected you guys to tweet me things like "hey, I have more words, neener-neener". It brought the competition in me out.

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  13. Awesome with the word count! I'm doing NaNo too and so far my pace has me set to finish before Thanksgiving--which will be great.
    Have fun in Ireland (one of my favorite places!!) and happy writing.

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  14. Yay Ireland! I bet it'll give you some great inspiration for your return. Enjoy!!

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