This month wins _anyways_

[sorcyress]

So, I was doing NaNoWriMo this year. But it was slow going, and I had everything else ever going on, and between the sudden rush of Splash and Thanksgiving and applying to jobs and getting more meds and being an adult because oh hell do I need to, I kinda found myself giving up somewhere around 26000 words.

I mentioned this to Sparr, who'd been interested in my progress. I believe the exact phrasing I used was something like "if I walk out of this month with a job and a psychiatrist, but novel, I'm gonna call this a successful month."

Well, Dunkin Donuts hired me --I've got one more day of training, and then I get to start as a real live employee of a coffee mega-chain, smiling at customers and repeating their order back to them approximately several billion times. It is not at all glamorous, but they will give me paychecks, and it even pays (a little) better than I was expecting.

(Don't you fret, I've got other things on the backburner as well. There's a long-term sub position I'm really crossing my fingers for, despite all the consternation and gossip it will cause at Squares.)

And I managed to call my old psychiatrist, and he was generous enough to send me one more month's prescription of the ADHD meds. Actually being on my Concerta again (the BEST THING omg) has given me the wherewithal to call and make an appointment with a psychiatrist out in Central Square, who will hopefully be willing to work with me, and make sure that I don't have to run out of Concerta for months at a time. I'm really excited about this.

So that's what I wanted from this month. Plus, I got to spend several awesome days with my roommates and family for Thanksgiving, and I ran some kick-ass classes at Splash, and I started the Cooking with Cat Ears project, which is pretty great.

Oh yeah, and according to the NaNoWriMo website, To Feel and to Hurt is 50795 words long. Guess who spent the last three and a half days writing more than twenty four thousand words¹?



This guy. I hope you are all aware that I am a sexy shoeless god of writing. Now if you'll excuse me, I believe I deserve an ice cream cone for this.

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1: I would just like to note that I had to write a tenth of those words twice because I managed to be a complete idiot with a computer yesterday, and lost 2500 words entirely. So close, and with my schedule so ridiculously tight, I damn near broke down right there.

~Sor
MOOP!

Comments

[marcmagus]

Congratulations, on getting the stuff done that lets you get stuff done easier, on getting the thing done that will let you have income, on getting cool stuff done, and on getting the thing you wanted to do but didn't think you'd have time for what with all that other stuff done on top of all that. You definitely deserve ice cream. Also a nap.

[tirerim]

Guess who spent the last three and a half days writing more than twenty four hundred words1?

Did you mean twenty-four thousand words in three and a half days? Wow. I think the most I've ever done in a short period was something like 4,000 in fifteen or twenty hours, for part of a paper in college.

[sorcyress]

Yeah, I did. Fix'd!

4k is nothing in my world. The last day of WriMo in 2009 remains my highest recorded day of writing, at 8739, but I probably pass 5k once every two or three months, just getting on a roll and getting a _lot_ of words down (although not usually all on the same topic.)

This has definitely been my most writing intense set of days. I really can't sustain a 6k/day average like this, not without letting everything else ever drop by the wayside.

~Sor

[ms-hecubus.livejournal.com]

I used to work in a donut shop. In fact, I've worked in 4 different donut shops when I was in high school and college. I thought it was fun, but the smell of donuts clings to your hair like nothing else. You have to shower, it won't air out.

[leenah.livejournal.com]

these things sound GOOD!!!

[merseine.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the multi-thousand word days! Part of what Nano is about is proving to yourself that you CAN put words on a page when you need to. Well done!

Oh, and the smokehouse sandwiches at Dunkin'? TASTY!

[worn-synapses.livejournal.com]

that's great about a paycheck.

so, you've finished?! i love it when people write all the words in a short period of time. because it can be done.

[dodger77.livejournal.com]

Congrats, Sor! I can't remember though, have you won before or is this your first?

[lex-of-green.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! *high five*