Success!

Well, I did it. It’s 9:54 PM and I just hit the 50,000 word mark. Actually, I have 50,040 words written on my novel. It feels truly great having accomplished this. I honestly did not expect to make it to 50,000 words, or really even come close. This has been by [...]

Kate Rusby-Sir Eglamore

I don’t have much time today, so I thought I’d mail it in and post something from youtube you all might enjoy. This is from a singer named Kate Rusby and the song is called Sir Eglamore. I think it’s pretty great. Enjoy!

48,775

It’s 11:30 PM and I am calling it a day at 48,775 words.  I could probably keep going, but I need some rest.  Barring a horrible setback, I’m going to actually finish this thing.  I can’t believe it.  My previous NaNoWriMo best was 14,000 words.  I never truly thought I would be this close.  I [...]

Ignorance Sometimes is Bliss

My local newspaper has been running a series of stories about people in the area who are living “paycheck to paycheck”. People who are having a hard time in this economy. It has been a very good series, and I think these stories need to be out there, because the reality is even though [...]

Eye Had Troubles Today

Horrible pun in the subject line of this one. I’m sorry about that.  I am definitely feeling the fatigue of all this writing I have done.  It will be well worth it, I’m sure.
I hit my word count today, though I did have some troubles. First of all was the car, which killed my mood.  [...]

Can’t Ever Get Ahead

Do you all remember when I told you last month that I got a promotion at my day job? Well, this promotion came with a modest raise. Nothing huge, but probably enough to cover rising gas prices and health care cost increases. I get paid monthly, so I have yet to see this [...]

Done “Early”

Well, it’s only 10:50 PM and I have hit my word count for today.  That leaves me at 45,080 words.  I could write a little ahead, but I think I’m gonna call it a night.  I might just do a little reading tonight.  Maybe pick up The Hobbit since writinggb mentioned it today.
The writing is [...]

A Day At the Museum

The day after Thanksgiving my wife, her dad, and I took my daughter to The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh.  We had a lot of fun walking around and looking at all of the exhibits.  My daughter had a particular fun time playing with the train set they had.  Judging by the amount of kids lined [...]

Another Late Night

Well, it’s just after midnight and I’ve finally met my quota for the day.  I’m at around 43,300 words right now.  I’m up so late for a couple of reasons.  For one, my daughter didn’t fall asleep until 10:00,which seems to be the new norm. Yay.  Secondly, I stopped briefly to watch the last two [...]

NaNoWriMo Excerpt

Well, a few of you have asked for an excerpt from my NaNoWriMo project, so here it is. Again, this is the first novel I have ever attempted to write, and this is also a rough draft, so I apologize in advance for the quality (the first couple sentences here are particularly garbled, but [...]