Out Of My Tree

So I remembered something today in the midst of all the posting horrors.

I am currently writing all my posts offline and then hurriedly copying and pasting them whenever I get a signal from my wireless.  Then, as this is usually quite late, I click publish and drift off to sleep hoping for the best.  Imagine my horror when I saw that not a bloody one had gone through for the last week.  Grrrr…

What is worse is all this copying and pasting has reminded me that I am supposed to have been copying and pasting bits of posts over to Holidailies to show that I have posted everyday.  Yeah, I think I have done that three times this month.

AND, Blog365.  I haven’t copied a post over to that page since… oh God… Novemeber 20th.  The difference being is I can post the last 40 odd posts over there and back date them so the days are covered.  Holidailies?  Not so much.  You can post once every 12 hours and I haven’t got the patience to wait that one out.  I will do better on that next year… Probably!

I have been thinking about the posting everyday thing year and may be comign up with some sort of schedule so that I give myself a day off every so often and use that to write.  One thing NaNoWriMo taught me was you have to give yourself time to write and not just expect it all to come to you as you fit it in between the rest of life.  Somethign else I will work on for next year!

Another thing I must add to my steadilly growing resolution list is to read other blogs.  I have been hopelessly rubbish about this recently.  And while a lot of it is going to be blamed on the wi-fi badness, most of it is just me.

I am dreading opening my feedreader.

I really do miss you all.

Okay, so today would have been about the rest of my holiday but for two things.

One – I haven’t finished uploading what are the world’s most uninteresting to anyone but me photos and

Two – I have been having a last ditch day to try and snap up as many words as possible for my first NaNoWriMo attempt.

Beautiful ladies and too gorgeous to be around gentlemen my final figure is:

23,204

Yep, not even half way.  But, do you know what?  I feel proud that I got that far… and I may even be able to use this ’start’ and get somewhere else with it, and in a way – isn’t that the point?

I would like to offer my congratulations to those who are Winners and I would like to offer my congratulations to those who started and persevered.  I, for one, certainly don’t feel like a ‘loser’ just because I didn’t get the magic number of 50,000!

Next time, people, I will get it next time!

I know it’s only a smal burst but I had a writing blitz today.  I used Freedom and kept offline and wrote another 4,000 words.  My total is now 11,567.  Yes, not great and I know technically I should be kicking the 25,000 word total around now but I don’t care.  I have broken 10000 words and I feel good about that.

Tomorrow is another day and should work not happen again then I shall be offline and parked in front of the story which is going quite well… at the moment.  I may even want to go further with it afterwards BUT one step at a time and all that.

In other news, on Facebook today the darling Neilochka posted an event for the 2nd Annual Blogger Holiday Arts and Crafts Fair and also the sign up sheet for the 2008  Blogger Christmahanukwanzaakah Online Holiday Concert which means the annual bout of fear about what to sing begins again.  I will not be revisiting last year’s disastrous O Holy Night but will try and go for something a little less… squeaky!

But for now I’ll stick with the writing!

So my totally awesome plan to finish catching up on the rest of your mind blowing blogs fell apart in a panicky stress-head-er of a day.  I realised I had loads of things to do for Monday and then the day disappeared.  I did, however, manage to watch Merlin – which was fantastic and something I really must cobble together some kind of a post for SnackieTeeVee which I would if I had any words left in my head (yes, Hilly, I know, I suck).

I also managed to load up my NaNoWriMo thing and look at it long enough for it to depress the ever living crap out of me (also known as about 2.6 seconds.  I have been sitting and typing for so long now have a small rub mark where my arm meets the laptop.  Yep, I am causing myself physical pain right now – that’s how much I love you all.

But one of the things I did was put together a new flyer for the Scout Group begging people for donations for the Christmas Fayre.  I foresee a long night or ticketing prizes for the Tombola and wrapping presents for the kids when Santa comes a-calling! I can’t believe the damned event is only 3 weeks away… Sigh… Does anyone know how to build an indoors Grotto cheaply?

I have absolutely no idea where I am going with my NaNoWriMo thing.  It was going quite well and then wall, road block, big canyon, horror horror horror.

I now have three different stories going on and am hoping in some odd way that they will fit together before I completely go insane.

Thank God, I have a week off at the end of November… so I will get all my writing done then.

Yes, cats and kittens, For 7 glorious days (from the 22nd – 28th November) I will be hanging out in the middle of no where.  Lovely.

And I am only 50% sure I will be able to get online during that time – which scares me a huge amount – which is weird – considering how much I am not online at the moment.

Ugh, talk about repeating myself over and over.

Words

Words.  Lots of words.  Lots and lots of words.
Totally fresh and new.
And pouring out of me.
But not here.
Is this NaNoWriMo fever?

Word Count: 5,064

I am, this year, going to do it.

November.  It’s that month and I’ve already started.

Yes, I know I am so very very busy this month but if I don’t do it this year then…

I have to.

So I have signed up at NaNoWriMo and I am on my way.

Word count: 1,775