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Am I going crazy or is our thread gone?
Carter-Orange:
I agree with treating yourself to something when you finish a story. Chinese takeaway or bottle of wine sounds good :)
mare:
Okay wish me luck, ladies! Tomorrow is the big day, and I am mega anxious! It'll be my first time just using the wheelchair. I'm not used to it. I'm treating this trip like a leg of the Amazing Race. (I bring up the Amazing Race a lot lol)
Leave Buffalo at 7:30 - arrive at Penn Station at 3:45
Take wheelchair taxi to hotel at 5:00
Play is at 8:00
Take Wheelchair taxi to Penn Station at 8:30 am
Leave NYC at 10:30 am - Arrive in Buffalo at 6:45 pm ???
nicksgal:
You've got this, Mare! I've been lurking on your journey on Twitter and I think it's going to go great!
I attempted NaNo like five or six times during my life and only won one year, the year I started writing PNecklace again. But when you go way over what's "industry standard" for word counts, that ended up only being 20 chapters and a little less than halfway through the story. haha.
I think that year was just lightning in a bottle, since my work-load was a lot lighter based on what I was teaching that year. In the years since, I haven't even been able to keep up with a "write anything a day, even a sentence goal." Though that's probably a combination of child and work more than just work. But every day he's getting more and more independent, so I'm hopeful he's nearing being more independent soon (in an age appropriate-way, not like leaving him alone at the house and working at a coffee shop)!
As an aside, I hated the in-sentence parenthetical when Faulkner did it -- could your sentences be any longer, sir?
RokofAges75:
So exciting, Mare! I hope all goes well, especially with transportation, and I hope you get to interact with Kieran at the stage door. Can't wait to hear all about it!
Welcome back, Dee! I'm still feeling a little lost without NaNo. I never even did it for real in November because that is one of the busiest months of the year for me, but even in the summer, 50k in a month is very ambitious for a slow writer like me LOL. I didn't even hit 100k words for all of last year. Some years are better; I was writing more when I was in the honeymoon phase of my current story. I love those rare "lightning in a bottle" times when you get the right combination of inspiration and time. Hopefully more of those are coming now that your son is getting more independent!
nicksgal:
I'm back! I've clearly been very busy watching mundane documentaries about Big Foot and the Bermuda Triangle, so attempting to do something slightly more productive with my summer schedule.
It's definitely sad, but from what I read about it, it sounds like there was a lot of issues on the back end and lawsuits and things going on that weren't great. I think it's a shame that the young writers program is gone, if for nothing else but to inspire future writers. Maybe teachers that did it in the past will keep doing a loose version without NaNo's oversight.
I agree, 50K is an undertaking! You almost need to make it your full-time job. And even if you get those lightening in a bottle moments, there were definitely days when I didn't hit the minimum suggested daily word count. I always felt like when I looked at 1,667 I always thought it wasn't that much, but there were definitely days where I would stare at the screen and think "I will never be able to write 100 words, let alone 1,667!" And then there were days where I forgot to eat lunch and chunked out several thousand words without pause. Writing -- a fickle master.
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