Day five started out on the wrong foot for us. We woke 10 minutes before the bus was to come, and clearly were going to miss it. With no cab fare here and no car, Gideon stayed home. It’s just as well, really, we had a busy night and he’d have had no time to play as it was. So, we had a mommy Gideon day, which was fine by me.
Of course, this meant a slow, well, let’s be honest here… a non existent start for my novel. It’s okay, I was ahead and nearly at the minimum as it was. Of course I’d like to stay ahead, but it was okay if I fell behind a bit. I expect to fall behind come Saturday anyway.
Gideon decided he wanted some online games, so I gave him the desktop - the only PC that has online access - and I went off to look for the laptop adapter. I’m happy to report that I did find it and I had the laptop up and running. (Without frazzled nerves, might I add. Sammie thinks litfic might be my thing because I’m so darn calm this time around, LOL)
Gideon, of course was like “I want to use your computer” haha. I was unable to get a network on it, so no online access, sadly. But Gideon did decide he wanted to work on Tux Paint, so he did.
While he Tux painted I took the desktop a few feet away and started to type away. It took a while to get the few hundred words to get to the daily minimum, but that’s ok. I watched Gideon paint and we talked about his pictures between writing.
Gideon’s been real curious about all my pink post-it notes on the PC. Those are my word count notes and I explained it to him before, but he’s a real number kid, so it fascinates him. I told him and showed him my NaNo profile, too explaining it to him. And then on whim I told him about the YWP for kids. Showed him their site and told him it’s like what mommy’s doing but for kids like him. He was interested and said he’d like to try it. I stressed how It’s ok if he doesn’t make it and it’s just for fun. He chose a word count of 300 to aim for, which is the suggested minimum for a first grader. I told him I’d help him if he needed help getting his ideas together. :)
If anyone has younger kids doing NaNo, feel free to add him as a buddy. He seemed to like the idea of friends all doing this together. :)
Sammie got Write or Die’s desktop edition and reported back to me how it was. Needless to say I, too got it and it’s great. Hopefully she will stop in here and giver her success report of how well she did on it last night. I, too did quite well with it. I made my goal of 10K and PASSED it. Considering that I had a slow start to the day this was really impressive work. Needless to say, I, too will back Write Or Die. Get it. Best $10 you’ll spend. (and it amuses the kids when it punishes you, LOL!) I was punished once when Gideon needed some help and he was all curious what that sound was. Haha. Clint just doesn’t get why we writers want to be stabbed in the bottom with pitchforks.
All in all, a great day (albeit sad) novel wise. I’m now ready to write the fateful accident today and have hit my plot points. I expect to soar today… hopefully, unless the deep emotional scenes take too much out of me, that is. By midnight local time I had surpassed 11,000 words. The minimum to finish in 30 days was 8,335 words. This puts me ahead by two full days.
How are you all fairing as we finish out week one and head into the week two blues?
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I do indeed love the Write or Die program. It took me probably 4 hours to write a meager 1k words in the morning before I got the program. That put me at 3k total, way behind where I should be.
After I got the Write or Die, I'm up to 12.5k. :D So I wrote about 10k words yesterday, 9k of that thanks to Write or Die.
Which reminds me Jenn, you still owe me a couple of Word Wars!!! I'm gonna hold you to that.
Keep us updated on how Gideon's doing, too. I'd love to see it. Sounds super cute. ^_^ I think it's great that he can participate.
Word wars? BRING IT! Shoot me your ID and I'll challenge you.
I'll update any progress Gideon has, of course so far that's no progress, but that's fine, too. :)
I'm hoping to get in maybe one war tonight, but that depends how late they keep me until and how exhausted I am by the time they let me out!
You'll catch up soon!
As for me, sadly, I haven't even started yet. This week has had me frazzled.
I can even let him look at my Story Sparkers book for children writers. He might find an idea in there that he wants to write about.
Oh, I hope you get started soon so you don't fall behind by too much!
Give Gideon a hug from me, just on general principles, since my "baby" is all grown up.
Haha it's funny though when it turns read and warns you then makes some sort of obnoxious sound to get you writing (it only stops when you write lol)
Will do on the hug. :)