Kat's Tales

WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!! IT'S DONE!! FINISHED!!! COMPLETE!!!!! *does happy dance*

Ahem, sorry. Got a bit excited there. :D But dang, I am SO flying high here!!

Here's the final widget-thingie post for this year:



So I am now three for three at NaNoWriMo, but I only have *two* unfinished novels!!! *does more happy dancing*

Tomorrow I will get back to finishing the SGA kidlet-fic as I still have...*checks calendar* seven more days of November left! So more frantic writing will commence at various write-ins until I run out of story or month, whichever comes first, lol! And now, tis off to bed for me, as this will be one HECK of a busy week here. Hope you all have had a great weekend and will have an even better week ahead!!

So before I go face plant (and hopefully onto the bed because the floor is not good for face planting, trust me on that one *wink*), I had to share the good news for today.

I hit--and passed--the halfway mark!!! *does happy dance to end all happy dances* The word count is currently sitting at 28303--yay!

Here is my little dashboard widget-thingie to prove it:



I managed to write 6252 words (or somewhere thereabouts--math is not my strong suit when I am this over-caffeinated and sleep-deprived, lol) today. I celebrated hitting the 25k barrier with a Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate from Starbucks, btw. It was *heaven* in a cup, I tell ya! :D

So, enough rambling. Hope you all have a terrific start to your week and those of you who are feeling under the weather...FEEL BETTER FAST!!! *huggles all of flist to bits*

I finally called it a night around 3am, but I did manage 2k before I stumbled off to discover where I left the bed yesterday morning. *grins* Had some family stuff going on, so I missed the election hoopla but I also didn't get to settle down to write until around 11pm. :P

So here's my nifty dashboard widget-thingie:


I'm at 12061 right now, but there is a write-in at Starbucks tonight and I'm hopeful of breaking the 15000 word mark by the time I head home from there. Will need to make a pitstop at WallyWorld after the write-in, so I'm not sure I'll be home in time to catch anyone on YIM. Again. :(

Hope things are going well with all of you out there, too. Happy Wednesday!!

So. Day 2 is now behind me. Things did not exactly go according to plan, but I managed a fairly respectable word count anyway. So there. *sticks tongue out at Fate like 2-yr-old*

The plan: hit the write-in at Starbucks this afternoon and get or exceed my word count target for today, have dinner with R & Kidlet #1, take said Kidlet back to her father's (a half hour drive each way), and then come home in plenty of time to hang out on YIM and chat with peoples, and MAYBE work on finishing up an SGA pinch-hit ficathon story. (Think Team Sheppard as kids wreaking all sorts of havoc on the adults--seriously WAY too much fun!!!)

The reality: unexpected company, a fall foliage photo-op field trip for R so babysitting Kidlet #1 falls to me, and only an hour at Starbucks in the afternoon with aforementioned Kidlet in tow because, you know, babysitting.*headdesk* By the time R wandered into Starbucks around 4:30, I had managed a whopping 400 words. (No, there are no zeros missing there. *cries*) R then, of course, proceeded to fill me in on all the details of the photo-taking field trip so by the time 5pm rolled around and it was time to leave for dinner, no more writing was accomplished. *mumble-grumble* So went and had dinner, drove the kidlet home, dropped R off at our place, then headed BACK to Starbucks at 8pm for a serious word count session. Left at 11pm when they closed with a total count of 8016 words for the weekend. Not bad, especially considering how little I'd managed before that last session at Starbucks!

Here's the official little widget-thingie:


So, now to buzz through my flist and email before hitting the hay for tonight. I'm hoping to manage at least 3300 words a day, which would put me in the winner's circle by mid-month. R is taking vacation the week of Thanksgiving and there are some things we really need to get done during that time off. This, of course, means there won't be much time for writing, so I need to get my 50k in before that week starts. I just hope I can keep up the current pace, lol.

Hope you've all had a fantastic weekend!