Okay, it is so late. I will make this quick. The Word count is 31,743. Not a lot over the goal of 31,673 but still a little above. Yay, me!
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Writing Can Be Hard Work!
There one line! Today was difficult in that I no longer have any main characters to develop. So it was all story. And then the electricity went off. Thank goodness it didn’t stay off. It’s going to cold tonight. 29 degrees Fahrenheit. Not the coldest but without heaters would be uncomfortable. Apparently, there was a blown transformer. I’m grateful the people get on things like that right away. Isn’t it funny how the family gathers and gets a little antsy as we are all out of our element without our electronics to work on?
Okay word count: 30,065 words. Barely made it over the goal for today of 30,006.
I’m still trying to get my Scrivener version up and running so I am not just reliant on yWriter or WriteItNow. My eyes have a harder time with Scrivener. I have had to use a text-to-speech program to read the instructions to me. And it has taken me a couple days to get through the QuickStart. Imagine how long it would have taken to get through the whole thing? But it does have features that look like it would help me be more organized. And I think I can change the backgrounds and fonts to make it easier on my eyes. By the way, there are videos on the Scrivener website that bring it down to what I wanted: How do I get started. Boom! There is was. Tutorials.
One-Liner Wednesday is a fun prompt brought to us by Linda G. Hill.
It was a busy day but I did manage to get to 29,043 to date. So far so good. Today’s goal was 28,339 words. Yay! I still want to write a bit more before bedtime.
Happy Tuesday!
Despite everything, I have managed 27,549. What I had to rewrite I wasn’t nearly as happy with. But today’s writing was fun. So I am happy. And quick math of the goal equals 26,672. So I am still a little ahead.
Meanwhile, I found my Scrivener’s license, so I will copy and paste the whole story to both WriteItNow and Scrivener so that there will be a lot of copies of the story. Tonight was writers group and one of the writers there, who has been published, said that she printed out her work as she went. I don’t know if I can afford to print out the draft. But I don’t want to lose bits as computers haven’t been the most reliable for me of late. How do you all do that?
Stream of Consciousness Saturday
This has been a crazy day. I got so frustrated several times that I shouted. It seemed I was caught in a fighting ring of madness. It was so cold in the living room that I moved some of my stuff to the bedroom. I have downloaded yWriter7 onto my Fire, and so I could continue writing on my project there.
I couldn’t get my Bluetooth keyboard to work. The mouse worked, but I needed to type faster than the Fire’s built-in keyboard, even with all the word suggestions, could let me. I tried to go into Word because I knew that I could use the microphone and dictate my story. That worked for a paragraph or two. It misunderstood half of the words. So I copied and pasted what I did get done into the scene open on yWriter. Then I noticed that there was a mic on that keyboard, too.
The problem was that as I added more to the scene if I needed to edit something, the new edits didn’t show up where they were supposed to. Ring around the frustrated rosy! So I saved and went and got my laptop from the living room to start again.
Dropbox did save it properly. I was pretty happy with that. But then I started writing and had a great five minutes of the story growing. The battery had died and the laptop shut down. Nope, that last part didn’t get saved. And the bits I tried to make up were not at all the same. URGH!
As I had moved my laptop into the bedroom, I accidentally dropped the mouse. Now when I had a picture I wanted to include for the story, I couldn’t right-click. I yelled, swear words. I’m sorry if you heard them.
I tried to get the Bluetooth mouse to work with the computer, nope. More yelling.
My husband is a saint. I swear! He came in and asked what was wrong. He helped me by getting the mouse fixed and getting the story back where it needed to save parts. By the time he was done, I was back to being the me I know and love. So that ring of patience from him started a new feeling for me.
Here’s the word count: 25,826. How about that more than halfway there! And a day early!
I developed that mother of one of my main characters, Liz’s mom. AZZ is her nickname. She has been told she is a goddess. She looks like this:
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Per Linda G. Hill: Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “ring.” Use it as a noun, a verb, an adverb, or an adjective…use it any way you’d like. Have fun!
I hope I got it! Posted this before midnight but had to edit after. SMH Hope you had a better Saturday than I did.
Developed Monty, one of Violet’s favorite brothers in the town. That brought me to 23,679. This story is nearly writing itself. I love it!
Remember how I use random numbers to select the characteristics? Then I put those in Google to see my characters look alike. I think when NaNo is over, I will draw all of my characters as I don’t want to violate copyrights.
Here’s Monty’s look-alike:
My word count is 23,679
So tired!
Well, this morning I finished tiny sock number two.
It almost looks like a gnome already. But my cousin has given me ideas and the vague pattern I saw that got me started is in my head to do more. I cant wait to see how it turns out. By the way, working on the itty bitty socks was so much fun, I wish I could make tons of them!
Nano word count at this moment is 19,558 I need 500 words to take it over the requirement. Sorry, me. I had to watch Grey’s Anatomy crossover. And the living room got so cold I had to move to the bedroom with everything. Hopefully, the snow coming with warm us up a bit.
Behold the boot of a gnome.
That was fun working on a keychain loom. I’ve started the second but I knew I had better get busy writing.
On that front, the word count is now 19,395.
Head over to Linda G. Hill’s site to learn more about this fun prompt.
17,381 And it is snowing beautifully outside.
Well, there haven’t been a lot of words today. Less than 400. For some reason, I never got settled in front of the laptop enough to do anything. But I did find myself challenged by Gnome hats. I wanted to see if I could make a hat without sewing. Just decreases. And I was successful at that:
It worked! Yay!
I also finished the hat I mentioned yesterday.
Here is just off the loom and on the head. It’s a small adult or child’s size. I do love doing the cables on the Flexee loom.
Now I am either going to get a second wind and write for a while or hit the hay. I don’t know why I have been so sleepy today. Maybe the cold is causing me to want to hibernate!
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