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The NaNo Progress Meter site seems to have disappeared, so I will post totals here throughout the day.

9:45am: 47672 words, 2400 to go. This seems entirely possible. Even though I still don’t know whodunnit.

10:00am: 48001/1999.

11:15am: 49121/879+ to go. It would have been a while ago, except from 10 to 10:30 I played Spaceward Ho. (Why? Why do I do that? In the middle of writing, gotta go play a game. What’s up with that?) In other news: I now know whodunnit! Which requires me to put in a lot more stuff to set it up! Which should take care of those 879+ words no problem! The only down side is that I have to go pick up the kids soon and I won’t get a lot of writing done once that happens until Darin comes home tonight.

11:30am 49341/659+: Awk! I have no steam! Part of this is having already done 2500 words this morning, sure, but I could be done. But the end is in sight. What’s going on? The whole “And then they get run over by a truck” thing is looking more and more appealing by the second.

11:50am 49653/347+: A little over a page to go, but I have to run out and go get the kids. Maybe Simon will fall asleep on the ride home from school and Sophia can be talked into watching a show so I can finish up!

2:07pm 49963/37+: And I have to get Sophia to her dance class! But I can clearly do 40 words before midnight tonight. Unless I fall into a coma from exhaustion the way I seem to be threatening to (didn’t I get sleep last night? what’s going on?).

Comments

  1. My NaNo Progress Meter disappeared, too. Pity; it was a cool little thing.

    Oh yes, girl ONLY 2K left! You can definitely do it, no sweat! Either a killer will appear, or it can be left as a cliffhanger maybe. Or you could do something cheesy (not that I’d suggest that, you understand…) and have an alien responsible.

    Or you could just end with, “And then they were all hit by a truck,” which is, I think, what Neal Conan suggested as a “wrap it all up nicely” ending line in his Talk of the Nation piece on NaNoWriMo last Tuesday.

    Going to the TGIO tomorrow night in SF? You really should, you know. And … congrats!

  3. Wow! You’re almost there!
    Write! Write! Write!
    You’re gonna finish it today and it will be brilliant.

    Attaway, Diane! I’m very impressed. ::hugs::