Happily Knackered!

"40,000 he said nonchalantly."

My NaNoWriMo 'Progress for Camy' says:
Current word count: 40042 (80.08 %) with 3 days left, with current pace, expected to finish in 8 days.

Ha! If they think I'm going to finish in 8 days they have another think coming. I'm doing this, and that's all there is to it. I am going to finish this novel in a month malarkey even if the heavens start raining frogs, or gold bullion. I will not be hoist by my own petard, I just won't. Besides which I don't own a suit of armour anyway.

So there!

Oooooooooh! Dear Lord hear my prayer.

Yep, cutting it fine is a family tradition, and though I might not look like Uncle Whojy, or Aunty Wors'e'name, they'd be proud. Proud I tell you! *wipes tear from eye*

As a good friend has just told me in MSN chat (another great way to lose years of your life - add it to a weekly count of the hours spent watching TV, and time spent on the computer and you might be tempted to end it all now) I only need to write 3,500 a day to get there. Yep thanks Kitty - wail howl gnash. ;)

Where was I? Oh yeah, cutting it fine.

Ave.

Sunday Sansho Shima

How's that for an semi alliterative title?

Being woken on a Sunday morning at 7.30am to be picked up at 8.30am to go to a Buddhist event and play two songs when you aren't a Buddhist is pretty impressive. I think so anyway.
Naturally I had a sore throat: tried to wimp out, then didn't. What I should have been doing was writing - which is what I should be doing now, rather than writing a blog entry.

Must get on...

My Problem is...

... that finishing is not a huge problem, but validity is.

I've written some good 'bits' but as far as 'novels' go I know that a lot of this will get dumped, and I'm absolutely sure there are some major plot problems.

If I was writing this without a deadline I'd stop, now, and take time and re-read and tweak before continuing. This is logical. But I can't if I want to finish the 50,000, I have to carry on writing.

So I guess my question is: do I stop now? Or do I carry on hoping that what I'm writing will have a place somewhere in the finished 'Lord Of The Marsh'.

Gah! *tears hair* I'll stop thinking and carry on. Finish it, then write 'Blizzard' and then go back to it later...

Yep, that's what I'll do.

Useful things blogs. If only I could persuade it to paint the house.

less than a week to go, and I have an underlying feeling of hysteria. Oddly this is not being caused by NaNoWriMo, but by real life concerns. I'm ... well what I am is inconsequential.

Paniced

I didn't write anything yesterday. didn't feel like it.

Instead I went up to the woods and hacked apart a fallen tree, for firewood. Then I had to drag the bits home, and finally cut them up into small fire sized pieces.
Knackered I was, and ruined this morning ... trying to get out of bed was worthy of a news item. Ok, so a local news item. Not national.

Lordy lordy do my muscles ache. Still.

Just over 1,000 words today which leaves 9 days and 19,000 words. Doable if I care.

Meh.

Creeping to 30 - ok, ok, 28,436 then.

12 days to go and still a shed load to do.

My prose is getting flowery, my dialogue verbose
I should become a poet, but my iambs are atroc ... ious

If pentameters have five feet where do they buy shoes?

... and why do they have to show 'Return of the King' during November. Grrr.

Bed methinks.