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Well, that was strenuous.
By my own calculations using MS Word's word count tool, I only overshot by 123 words. The validation thingy at the Nano website tells me I overshot by more than 2K. I'm pretty sure that just means that, in cutting and pasting from my chapter files to make one big file for validation purposes, I grabbed some of my notes from before November First, along with the vast swaths of legitimate November output. Here, I'm only claiming the stuff I know is legit. In any case, I've done it.
I spent the afternoon over at Turtle Hill hanging out with G, who's recovering from lung cancer surgery. He spent most of the day zonked out on painkillers; I spent most of the day typing furiously away on those last 2000 words.
G says, "Lung cancer was easy. It's the pneumonia that almost killed me." And it's no exaggeration.
During the last of the many weeks when G was in the ICU at Sloan-Kettering fighting for his life, I was safe at home with my complete original set of internal organs, whining about my word count.
It puts things in perspective, is all I'm saying.
Anyhow, tonight there will be champagne with the covenfolk, and we'll plan our solstice celebration, and when I go home, I'll sleep when my husband sleeps. Tomorrow, I'll be free to read whatever I want. Newspapers, Clausewitz, Making Light, anything. I'll be free to go through the ms and cut all the stuff I marked for deletion but left in brackets for word count's sake--give the good words some breathing room. I'll be free to play with the big book, or the short story I was working on in October, or the four other short stories I toyed with but didn't quite start in October. I'll be free to stare into space until the right sentence comes to me, no matter how long I feel like waiting.
It's good to be alive.
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Date: 2005-11-30 02:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-30 02:51 pm (UTC)DW just finished creating our solstice invitations, but was too busy hitting her own 50k to send them out yet. And DD hit her goal of 10k and is very happy.
Hope your Yule plans go well, have a glass of bubbly for me!
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Date: 2005-11-30 03:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-30 03:08 pm (UTC)if you decide to hold random writing nights at B&N, let me know... I had a lot of fun coming out to write with friendly strangers and nummy desserts!
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Date: 2005-11-30 03:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-30 03:19 pm (UTC)Congratulations.
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Date: 2005-11-30 03:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-30 04:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-11-30 04:23 pm (UTC)Now that NaNoWriMo is completed, how far is this book coming to be completed?
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Date: 2005-11-30 05:09 pm (UTC)By the way, your manuscript is officially heroin. Do you have any idea how hard it is to look at Sallust when there are spicy crabmeat sausages and rebellion RIGHT THERE?
I'm dropping out, and my mother will kill you.
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Date: 2005-11-30 06:27 pm (UTC)Indeed, I whole heartedly agree.
Congrats. And please send out the results of this fine (and psychotic) little marathon as soon as you feel that the public can consume it.
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Date: 2005-11-30 11:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-01 11:18 am (UTC)I knew you could do it!
And thank you so much for introducing me.