• 08:27 The goal today is no less than 2k. I'm already behind where I wanted to be by now. That's life. Onward. #nanowrimo #
• 11:19 work is going pretty darn smooth today - even with housework breaks. yay! #nanowrimo #
• 15:34 my villian just decided he doesn't want to be the villian. He wants to save the girl instead... hmm. #nanowrimo #
• 16:13 14434 and it's just getting interesting. Going to take a lot of work later but for now... just the draft ma'am. #nanowrimo #amwriting #
• 16:33 @Lenneth Thanks - it helps a lot that I don't have a 9-5 to interfere. Just kidlets and housework. #

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• 07:31 didn't get as far yesterday as I wanted. Fussy babe. Probably won't today either as same babe decided to be wide awake between 1-4. #
• 21:35 exhaustion and mad crazy headache put a big damper in my nano progress today. Did manage to get about 1500 though. #nanowrimo #

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• 06:51 Oldest going back to school today! Hoping to match yesterday's count. It seems to be coming together now... #nanowrimo. #
• 08:16 boy off to school, babe content, time to write. #nanowrimo #
• 09:55 only put in 1k so far today. not bad, not great. certainly not on parr with yesterday. #nanowrimo #
• 10:56 nearing 2k for the day but it's time to take a cuddle break with the youngest. Will write more later #nanowrimo #
• 16:20 @Lenneth I totally hear that! Fortunately my youngest was clingy so I had a great excuse to do nothing but cuddle and plot #
• 16:26 magic - the fantasy writer's duct tape. #amwriting #nanowrimo #

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Which is good. Even if this story gets trunked, it's good to be writing again. I'm nearly caught up to the minimum of where I need to be to have a first draft by the end of the month. My firsts are generally longer than 50k, so while 50k might be the nanogoal, my goal is actually a complete first draft. I need to have a couple really solid days to be able to manage. I have no doubt I'll be able to make the 50k though. This one is a little out of my comfort zone genre wise. I tend to play in the fields of scifi and old school fantasy. This is urban fantasy - I think. Watch me be wrong. I don't know yet where it's going but I'll figure it out.

I did have some ideas for the fix of Purgatory's Queen - where the plot kinda died on me in the middle... But I've written down some notes and filed it away until after this draft is done. What I need to do is sit down two or three times a year and pound out a rough draft. Everything can be fixed in the edit process. If I'm ever to come close to reaching the goals I have for myself - I need to refocus, to dedicate myself a bit more to them. It's been a tough year for writing because of everything else going on and I just really need the peace that comes with writing. I tend to lose myself a bit when I write, when I'm really in the zone. It makes all the rest of the troubles I'm obsessing over take a seat in the back of my mind and be quiet for a while. Back to getting boy ready for school - then it's writing time!

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• 07:03 might be back in the nano game... I'll know by the end of the day. There's potential though #
• 09:29 OK. Up 1700 words. I have a lot of catching up to do but I'll manage. I just hope the story hold out long enough. #nanowrimo #
• 09:52 2300... want to hit at least 5k today. Better if its 7. then I'll no longer be behind. #nanowrimo #
• 10:30 Time to take a break for housework and phone call. up to 2700 #nanowrimo #
• 12:03 3255 - about halfway to where I want to be by the end of the day #nanowrimo #
• 16:10 made it to 5600 words. a bit over my minimum and I'm not yet done. Yay! #nanowrimo #
• 16:35 feeding the snake today. Youngest decides first that the rat is a rabbit. Snake takes the rat and babe says 'rabbit all gone' #
• 16:36 I found it funny anyway. Would be less funny if we still had the burmese that actually did eat rabbits. #
• 19:48 ok - made 6440 words today. will come back to it after V. Really want to break 7k today. Then I'll be all caught up. #nanowrimo #

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• 06:38 ok, not getting easier today - boy home sick one more day. Plus I woke up hating the project. figures. #
• 07:13 found a loose sketch I prepped last year for the nano I didn't do... it might could work... maybe. worth a try at any rate. #
• 16:05 today was a total nanobust... no words at all. But so long as something starts sticking tomorrow, I'm not worried. #nanowrimo #

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Well, the first day was a lot of wasted words. Wrote 3200, cut about 1500, added that 1500 back... woke up this morning hating it. Figures. But, at least it's only the first day gone. This morning, I went through all my notes files - the places where I put brief ideas, snippets, lines I like etc - and found the file I'd started prepping for last year's nanowrimo. It doesn't suck. and it might work a little better. of course, likely as not, tomorrow I'll hate them both... I'm not too concerned about it. Once something sticks, the 50k isn't too hard for me to actually do. The hard part for me is finding something that I don't hate the minute the words come up on the screen. I've had that problem a lot this year. It's a large part of why I haven't written very much.

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• 06:43 I'm up early and ready to begin #NaNoWriMo. Must just hope muse is in a cooperative mood. #
• 07:59 Support #NaNoWriMo, add a #twibbon to your avatar now! - bit.ly/3DdbZo #
• 08:00 first 1k down... 49k to go. #NaNoWriMo #amwriting #
• 11:28 I do NOT like my opening... at all. but it can be cut out later #nanowrimo #amwriting #
• 15:21 apparently I'm starting over... #nanowrimo #
• 15:34 ok. not totally a restart. only lost about 1k words. easy easy to make up. feeling better about it now. #nanowrimo #
• 17:25 Made up most of my cut words. Tomorrow will be easier with one kid back in school. #nanowrimo #
• 17:25 @Lenneth Thanks! It's coming along at a decent clip. How are you faring? #

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Well, it has begun and I've hit the first 1k mark. It's something. More than I've written at once in a good while. The story may suck but at least it's there. Besides - anything sucky can be unsuckified. I just really need to get a draft down this year. Something complete. I can worry about its saleability later. I can worry about it being any good later. This is just a splat. A less than zero draft. Just to get the muse accustomed to working again. Besides, if I can't write about witchy people I may as well turn in my pen now...

Back to work. Have a little while longer before my natives get restless and want their mama.

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