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NaNoWriMo Day 5
Nov. 5th, 2009 11:48 pmToday was both good and bad. Good, in that I went out to get lunch for myself and Twoson at the local bakery, and when I returned I found an email from Cobblestone Press with a contract offer for "Queen Bee". That makes my third sale to them! The editor's email was very ego-boosting, too. She really liked it. So that was a very welcome surprise.
On the other hand, I just barely exceeded the daily minimum for NaNoWriMo today. That's not so bad because I'm well ahead of schedule--I'm 25% of the way through my novel and we're only five days into November. But I'd hoped to double today's production. But it was not to be.
Part of the problem was that we had a crew in today to thoroughly clean the furnace and heating ducts, so as to minimize my lovely and talented wife's exposure to allergens. I doubt the ducts have ever been cleaned before, and certainly not in the many years we've been living here. It was well worth the time, expense and noise--but it was very distracting and made it hard to do a lot of writing.
I admit, I might have done more writing this morning but I worked on other projects. I have my journals (this one and the livejournal of the same name), my Facebook and Twitter accounts, and I'm subscribed to a number of Yahoo groups of one sort or another. These are all personal accounts. Then there are the Facebook and Twitter accounts I've created in my pen name, along with the numerous Yahoo promo groups I've joined under that name.
That's a lot of accounts, and it means constantly signing in and out to use the right name with the right account. It got tiresome. So I installed a secondary web browser (Seamonkey) in addition to Firefox and did some organizing. Now all my personal accounts are signed in via Firefox, and all the accounts I access via my pen name are segregated to Seamonkey, so I don't have to be signing in and out and in and out all the time. Plus, when I open Seamonkey it puts me in the "this is business" frame of mind. I think that'll make it easier to juggle all those accounts.
Tomorrow, though, I need to buckle down and produce some serious wordage. And more cliffhangers. I'm trying to end each day's writing session with a cliffhanger, just for the practice. Today...not so much. But there's always tomorrow. I'm learning from this experience, and that's really the point.
Project: Strange Attractors
New Words Written: 1,736 (meh)
Present Total Word Count: 12,746 words
Goal: 50,000 words by November 30
Stories in Circulation: 12 <---one less today because...
Rejections: 20
Stories Accepted: THREE! <---...I sold another one!
On the other hand, I just barely exceeded the daily minimum for NaNoWriMo today. That's not so bad because I'm well ahead of schedule--I'm 25% of the way through my novel and we're only five days into November. But I'd hoped to double today's production. But it was not to be.
Part of the problem was that we had a crew in today to thoroughly clean the furnace and heating ducts, so as to minimize my lovely and talented wife's exposure to allergens. I doubt the ducts have ever been cleaned before, and certainly not in the many years we've been living here. It was well worth the time, expense and noise--but it was very distracting and made it hard to do a lot of writing.
I admit, I might have done more writing this morning but I worked on other projects. I have my journals (this one and the livejournal of the same name), my Facebook and Twitter accounts, and I'm subscribed to a number of Yahoo groups of one sort or another. These are all personal accounts. Then there are the Facebook and Twitter accounts I've created in my pen name, along with the numerous Yahoo promo groups I've joined under that name.
That's a lot of accounts, and it means constantly signing in and out to use the right name with the right account. It got tiresome. So I installed a secondary web browser (Seamonkey) in addition to Firefox and did some organizing. Now all my personal accounts are signed in via Firefox, and all the accounts I access via my pen name are segregated to Seamonkey, so I don't have to be signing in and out and in and out all the time. Plus, when I open Seamonkey it puts me in the "this is business" frame of mind. I think that'll make it easier to juggle all those accounts.
Tomorrow, though, I need to buckle down and produce some serious wordage. And more cliffhangers. I'm trying to end each day's writing session with a cliffhanger, just for the practice. Today...not so much. But there's always tomorrow. I'm learning from this experience, and that's really the point.
Project: Strange Attractors
New Words Written: 1,736 (meh)
Present Total Word Count: 12,746 words
Goal: 50,000 words by November 30
Stories in Circulation: 12 <---one less today because...
Rejections: 20
Stories Accepted: THREE! <---...I sold another one!