I’m out of the loop

Posted on November 13th, 2008 by Ing

I just realized it’s been…what…a week and a half, almost two, since I posted anything on the ol’ blog. I’m sorry about that. You must really miss me a lot.

I’ve kind of been out of the loop on purpose. (No, don’t worry, we’re not breaking up; I just needed some space, and I thought it’d be good if we did…er, saw other…er…stuff.)

I have been out of the blogging loop, but that’s actually because I’m back in the writing loop. Well, not entirely because of that, but partly. I decided to give NaNoWriMo a serious try this time around, and I only have so much time and energy to spend, and something had to go.

Work is still kicking my ass (the giant report I hoped I’d finished off a couple weeks ago is back for another round of editing…if my job was a zombie movie, this report would be that one zombie that you think you’ve killed but it JUST…WON’T…DIE). I do need to spend at least a little time with my family, even if all it amounts to right now is tucking the kids into bed and then saying goodbye in the morning. And so on, and so on…  And it’s not like I ever had anything useful to say on the wide wide world o’ web anyway, so blogging got the axe (temporarily).

So I might be little scarce on the ol’ blog for another couple of weeks–but I won’t abandon you. I’ll pop in when I can and at least update my writing journal page. And if you’re in the Word Counters loop, you might notice that I’ve been putting in my word counts at the WCB site again.

So far, NaNoWriMo has been going well. I’m having a lot of fun writing my story, and I’m only slightly behind the pace to finish with 50,000 words by the end of the month. A couple good writing days could actually put me ahead of the pace (which I’ll need to be, cause I’m going out of town for the entire week of Turkey Day, and I have no idea how the hell I’ll be able to get to a computer).

Anyway, that’s where Ing is these days.

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National Novel (what are you) Writing Month

Posted on November 1st, 2008 by Ing

Today is the first day of National Novel Writing Month, in which the goal is for participants to write a 50,000 word novel by the end of the month. I just made use of my handy calculator, and that comes out to 1,666.66666(ad infinitum) words per day. I think on my best day with the Word Counters Union I might have gone a little over 1,000 words.

Dunno how I’m going to do that extra 666 words, let alone the .6666ad-infinitum part, but I’m going to give it a shot. I guess this means my Word Count hiatus is over. Ing is back!

(Applause happens here…wait for it…it’s still going, fine, of course the audience loves me…okay, just another few seconds…okay, now that’s enough…stop it, please…I know you love me, but I have a blog post to finish!)

A lame post, but hey, I’ve got my mind on other things. Like that .6666ad-infinitum I’m going to have to tack onto my 1,666 words per day if I want to finish this thing.

Also, I’m wondering how many of you-all are doing National Novel Writing Month. In the comments a couple of posts back, Ben said he probably wouldn’t, Kel said she would, Riotimus said he might… Anybody else?

If you are doing NaNoWriMo (and even if you’re not), what are you writing about? (I’m writing about cats.)

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