BETTER TODAY

Perhaps it's due to my scanning tasks being over for the moment...or little Tofpot being tired today!

Anyway, I've got the daily word count of 1667 done - actually did 2235 today. My total is still a long way from what it should be - it's now 11,355.

I have a personal target of getting it up to 14000 today (another 2645 words), but although I started early, I don't think I'll have time to get back to it today.

For those interesting in the scanning process. I did some timings last night - it takes 1min 8 secs to scan a page on my printer into word on the pc. Although I worked out a speedy efficient system , the pc stops accepting the scans after so many pages, necessitating a full reboot. I typed a page for comparison - even at my speedy best I could only do it in 3 minutes, 48 seconds. I know I have to do further work on the scanned pages - correct punctuation and change the formatting, but it's still much quicker (for me) to scan!

DISAPPOINTING

For Tofpot as well, cos I only picked her up for a couple of quick hugs any time she asked, so she had to make do with her only soft rugs to sleep on.

Nano is half way over today - I should be at 25000 words!

I decided I would be ambitious but not too much so - I'd try and get my word count up to 12000 in total today.

Alas I only made 9120...

On the upside, I guess I got my "daily" word count done. Don't seem to have got anything else done today though! :(

There's always tomorrow...

FINALLY MADE MY DAILY WORD COUNT!

Not, I quickly add, the total I should be at today - which is almost half-way, at 23,338 words.

No, today I finally wrote the required 1667 words plus an extra 66 words.

I now have reached the grand total of 7, 389 words!

Well, could be worse, I suppose.

Today Tofpot did her best to disrupt my writing by pleading to be allowed to sleep in my lap instead of on her mat. Auntie P always picks her up, she said, so what could I do? :)

No news today (or should I say tomorrow?) yet from our travelling Nanowrimo, and sadly no word wars. 2008 will be the big year - to beat our record and all other records!

WORD WARRING - ACROSS THE UNIVERSE!

Not quite, just across the globe!

Yep, had fun last night with Inkpot in NZ - I thought I did well with my word count but she beat me hands down.

Must be that pure clean NZ air!

NOTHING DONE

I mean that - literally!

Entering two competitions recently has taken up all my time.

Also the start of the book has not gone well - it's ratehr dull! :)

I should be at 15000 words today - I'm not even at 5000.

But I don't care - there's plenty of time yet. And what would I do all month if I was ahead by now?

Disastrous Day!

Well, perhaps I exaggerate...

Didn't get much done to speak of. Only for a couple of word wars with Inkpot, my word count would be nil.

I'm out for the evening so I won't be able to improve on my score. And yes, I didn't make my 1667 words today!

On the up side I came across a competition for unoublished childrens novelists so I spent some time getting ready for that.

IT'S ARRIVED!

Yep! November 1st - and the start of NanNoWriMo!

I was up early (for other reasons) but after breakfast decided to do some gardening before starting my new masterpiece.

Procrastination, and all those other horrible words, I think.

Anyway I eventually buckled down and have written today's quota.

It's always nice to know that this is all about quantity - and not quality, which is seriously lacking!

I tried to get into the NaNo site to post my word count but it threw me out. I think we're going to be having trouble with it this year!