Alex's Journal

Plan for today:

-Do morning prep (shower, breakfast)
-Meditate

Starting at 11am:
-30 min. paperwork
-15 min. NaNo
-30 min. cleaning
-15 min. break

After 1 cycle, eat lunch

-Continue cycle at 1pm, removing things as goals are reached + add that time to remaining in other categories

-Dinner at 6:30
-Client at 8

Let's see if I can keep to that plan...

Update, 2:30pm: Have done two cycles, no lunch yet (off to do that now). Made the mistake of starting A Slip of the Keyboard during most recent break so am weepy mess now. So, probably a good time to take a break, anyway.

Update, 11:59pm Actually managed to keep to that schedule, more or less. Finished paperwork, solid start on cleaning, not perfect NaNo count for day 1 but better than I thought.

And, for old time's sake:

1044 / 50000 words. 2% done!

Someone please explain to me why I thought it was a good idea to write a gothic story set in Victorian-era London, when I know nothing about gothic writing, Victoriana, or London.

And especially none of those three combined.

Well, except for Dracula, which I'm now contemplating ripping off EVEN MORE THAN just poaching Van Helsing (like everyone else in the world).

Rar.

For Katie!

Ideas for NaNo sources, if you can't think of anything:

• Characters based on:
  
  • Tarot cards
    
  • Star signs
    
  • Sims
    
  • People you know
    
  • People you wish you knew
    
  • Porn
  
  
• Plots based on:
  
  • Tarot cards
    
  • Real-world events
    
  • Science facts recently come to light
    
  • A rewrite of your favorite non-copyrighted work
    
  • Alternate history (AKA a game of Chrononauts)
    
  • Dinosaurs
    
  • Robots
    
  • Robot dinosaurs
    
  • Cute robots wining and dining dinosaurs, then taking them to have sex at their place, and having cupcakes for breakfast the morning after
    
  • Porn
  
  
• Moods and themes:
  
  • Ganked from LJ
    
  • Ganked from your favorite novel
    
  • Based on your mood of the day
    
  • ...do I even need to say it?

Any other suggestions out there?

115 pages. 40 of those actual novel-style prose, which means that probably, if I'd written the rest of it novel-style, I probably cranked out between 90 and 100 pages total.

That sound? My brain breaking.

Just under 8000 words to go and seven days left. (I wound up being able to write on Thursday because Pat was reeeeally late.) I'm really tired right now, but part of me is saying "do it... write at least SOME of that!"

I mean, according to my wonderful little spreadsheet program here, I can bang out about 900 words per hour (and that's including the 0s - if I don't include them, I go up to just over 1000.)

Because I know if I don't write today, I won't write at all until around 10PM Sunday... and really, that's a big hit to take, even this late in the game. I mean, I CAN recover from it, but it's like last-minute essay rushing, and I want to be done well in advance.

Besides... lesbians.

So, I'm going to take at least half an hour for me and my lesbians. Maybe try and hit 43000 even, giving me 1000/day to go when I wake up. Yeah... that sounds... *head hits keyboard*

*zzz*

I never did post my Tuesday update, did I?

Tuesday day end was

Though today I am already to 38,362 words, and hoping to expand.

I will write more about Gilda's Club and Russell Peters (who is from Brampton! Woot!) later, but suffice for now to say it was AWESOME.

Building that cushion a little bit at a time...

For the record, I "should" be at 26,667. So I'm just under 3% over the needed, or one day worth of work.

I'm figuring I'll probably miss tomorrow (as I won't get morning time to work on it, and Pat will be over and mom on the computer), so Saturday at Pat's may be a 4000-word bonanza to cover for Friday and Monday. We'll see.

Today is the end of week 2, and I am keeping onto schedule. Technically, this wordcount is a lie - I went 15 minutes over time - but fuck it. If I'm not allowed to fudge my time for the wordcountometer, who am I allowed to fudge it for?

This was in part because I slept from about 6:30 to 11PM. Of course, now I feel grotty and groggy and just overall like someone shit in my mouth.

Today (the 15th) is the day that I should hit 25,000 even. Wish me luck; I have 1497 words to go.

No new words today. Tomorrow I will catch up. (No... seriously.) Werewolf seriously impeded my progress, sadly. But that's what class tomorrow with Rob is for! (Though I absolutely love Rob and his class, multitasking is a necessity for me.)

Didn't get nearly as far today as I have on other days, but, well, I guess that's what the buffer zone is for. This week is probably going to be a tough one to write in - I'm trying to finish a script for class on Wednesday, plus a bunch of stuff for group work, so... I'm glad I have that buffer zone. Even so, I added another 1070 words to my count - only about 500 shy of my current "needed in order to finish on time". If I boost productivity tomorrow/tonight, and I work on it after I finish my MNIE script, I should be able to keep on track.

The words have stopped flowing quite so freely, but I think I've decided to change my focus from the naive protagonist to the slightly more jaded not-an-antagonist-but-if-this-idea-had-one-it-would-be-her character. For a little while, anyway.