Lift-off… liveblogging my wordcount

Ok, so I said I’d start writing at around 4 this afternoon. It’s now almost 6:30, and between backache, hormones, emptying the dishwasher, hormones, ravenous hunger, hormones, answering a few emails, hormones hormones hormones, the distraction of the Internets, and making tea, I’ve not written a word on my novel (by the way, to anyone I’ve been especially prickly to today, I apologize – it’s just, um, hormones).

And did I mention hormones? (Small Monster, you’d better come out soon, or your mother is going to lose it…)

Anyway…

So I’ll be updating this post all evening with hot… NaNoWriMo… action, with the Internet forbidden to me otherwise, starting… now.

6:27 pm

Starting point for today – 30958 words (pathetic!).Tea? Check.
Updated novel draft? Check.
Internet ready to be banned for at least the next hour? Check.
Cookies? Damn, I knew I’d forgotten something. Oh well, no time to bake them now. I’ll find something.
Off to the races. Post to be updated as the evening wears on.

7:34 pm

32241 words. It goes slowly, but it’s going. I hate it when I do flashbacks to backstory though – I go on forever (just like in real life, now that I think of it…)

8:07 pm

Bad me. Answered e-mail for 30 minutes. Now need snack. And then back to the grind.

9:47 pm

34809 words. And I’m a slacker, totally managing not to respect my Internet ban. It’s Olbermann time, so I’ll be back later to hack on it some more.

10:12 pm

Boo. No Olbermann tonight. I’m sorry, but who can watch so much To Catch a Predator that they can actually watch a To Catch a Predator marathon? Distinctly creepy. Keith would have been much better. 2 pieces of cinnamon toast later (as close as I could get to cookies) and I’m back to the grind.

11:47 pm

36526 words. Still going slowly, as I’m trying to slog my way to a certain point in the story and advance some side-plots at the same time and I keep having to talk about things I don’t know about so I have to look up information on the Internet. Bah! But still, words are being written. And my main characters are even more miserable than before. Muahahahaha.
Now, off for a walk with the husband and a movie. Walk might, perhaps, lead to cookies. Muahahaha. And then maybe I’ll write more tonight, and maybe not. We shall see.

2:48 am

Post-walk, post-movie, and, um, post-cookies. Writing a little more before bed

3:48 am

38111 words! I’m getting a little tired of the story for the evening, but I’ll push on a little farther before I crash. I slept really late, so I’m not all that tired yet…

5:49 am

Bunches of writing and a few conversations with Christian later, and I am now at:

40196 / 50,000 (80.4%)

Good night Internets! (Er, good morning, but I’m going to bed, knowing that I, impossibly, am officially caught up as of now!!!)