Come One, Come All, To DecNoEdMo!

A couple hundred? Sheesh! You're making me look bad!

Well, those 38 will probably keep me busy for another few years yet. I just don't have time to read for pleasure when Uni's going.

Yeah, a number of mine came from book sales, such as "10 for $30!" or whatever. They had a huge sale at the show grounds a few years in a row near Christmas, and while their selection wasn't great, I came out with about 5 books each time.

Go go go EM!

I made some more notes on my Christmas Creeper short. I think all I have to do now is figure out details about some characters, then write it, then edit it to death... Before December 24th. Eep!

Eh, it's only 3k... I can do that easily enough.

ETA: Got some characters worked out for the short story now. Trying to decide on a style to write the story in... Do I want it to be darkly funny or just dark?

Just typed page 20 of grandad's story. 7 pages to go! The end is in sight!

ETA: Wrote 700 words on my Christmas Creeper short. It's going pretty slowly so far, as in the plot is moving slowly, but I can fix that in editing. I think I'll still be able to pull it in under 3k by the end.

ETA2: Typed page 21 of grandad's story. 6 to go!

ETA3: Edited chapter 11 of WIP#1. Lost another 1k in the process... I think that's the last of the big chunks I'll be losing though. It's all because I changed the plot around a bit, so things happen in different places now, and some superfluous things used to separate the characters so they could talk about each other are gone. Instead, I have the characters arguing a fair bit in front of each other. Hopefully it's better now...

Anyway, I'm past the middle of the story, where everyone's together and working out what to do, and I'm coming into the end part, where things start getting sorted out properly. So yeah, I don't think I'll be losing huge chunks anymore. Which is good, because the novel is now only 58,123 words, instead of the 64k-something that it used to be.

Typed page 22 of grandad's story. 5 to go!

Yeah, getting through his story pretty quickly. But it's at the expense of my own stuff... The past 3 days, I've edited 1 chapter and written 700 words on my Christmas Creeper short. Not a lot of progress there.

ETA: Typed page 23. Only 4 more to go! I'm going to relax for the rest of the evening, do some reading. Tomorrow I intend to finish those last 4 pages. It's up to 18k now... So it might reach nearly 22k by the time it's done. Not quite as bad as the 25k I was expecting...

Read chapter 12 of WIP#1 in preparation for editing. I was right - I'm past the parts where I needed to cut things out. I may even add a little to this chapter... And it's officially the first chapter of this book whose first draft I actually really like.

Yup, having wisdom teeth out sucks. When I had mine out, it hurt for a week or two afterwards. (It didn't help that I caught the flu in that time...)

He'll definitely need someone with him for the first 24 hours or so, I'd say.

Maybe your wisdom teeth turned into vampire fangs?

Ugh. I've gotten NOTHING done today! After reading chapter 12, I just couldn't be stuffed editing... And so far have done virtually nothing else.

I live to serve.

Well, I've just typed a little bit of grandad's story. 1 paragraph, to be exact. Keep in mind, though, that grandad's paragraphs range from 8 lines to about 20 lines... And this one was closer to 20 than 8.

ETA: Page 24 typed. 3 to go! OMG, 3 left!

ETA2: Typed page 25 and part of 26 (long paragraph connecting the pages). So I now have slightly less than 2 pages to go! I may just finish this tonight, even after wasting half the day!

Not that I'll get anything much else done today, but still... Oh, and grandad's story just passed 20k. Meaning I've typed about 15-16k on it in the past week or so... Egads!

ETA3: 1/3 into the final page! Stopping now to cook dinner, but this thing will be over and done with soon.

I wasn't leaving you hanging on purpose... I only *just then* finished writing it. Finished! Woo!

It came in at just under 22k, meaning I'd typed about 17k on it this past week. *collapses into heap*

I think I'll spend the rest of the night reading.

Thanks EM.

In other news, I'm nearly 2/3 through reading this book now. I'm hoping to get it finished tomorrow, which will put me back on schedule for my "read 2 books per week" goal.

Thanks bd.

Okay, it's a new day! Need to get lots done! I'm behind on editing because of all that typing, so I guess that's my #1 priority today. After I finish checking AW for the morning, I'm gonna have to get cracking.