If you follow my blog you may have noticed that I missed three posts this week: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, which should have been one Accountability post and two “642 Things to Write About” posts. And if you’re a follower you would also know that for me missing posts doesn’t happen very often, so I hope you’ll sympathize when I say that there just wasn’t any time. I traveled home from my shift out West on Monday/Tuesday, and though I normally would have gotten the “642 Things” posts written and scheduled during my layovers, I was actually feeling quite unusually nauseated and motion sick during my flights, so I instead spent my layovers curled up in the fetal position on the seats at flights’ gates. Then I got home and threw myself immediately into decorating for Christmas, which may seem like something that isn’t exactly a panic just yet, but since I fly back to work for two weeks on December 1st I really wanted to get the Christmas stuff out of the way so that I can actually enjoy it a bit before I leave again. And on top of all that my daughter’s 4th birthday is next weekend, so I’ve been running around getting stuff together for that. On the upside of all of this, I’ve only been home for three days and I’ve got quite a ton done. Today I should get a ton more done, and then I should (mostly) be able to relax a little for the rest of the week.
In the meantime, here’s a couple of things you’ve missed because of my sporadic week:
Authors Answer #3 is up, and it’s a pretty interesting one! In this installment the 10 other authors and I discuss how easy or difficult it is for us to write characters with a different set of beliefs from our own. Check it out!
My goals are a bit scalded from being on the back-burner, and I refuse to step on a scale today, but I can tell you that social media has been my friend, I’ve sold a few more copies of the book, and my arm is damn near broken from all the handwriting I did while I was out at work without my laptop.
NaNoWriMo has also been put on the back burner due to all the stuff I’ve been trying to get done, but it’s not as bad as all that. Before my sickly travel day I managed to get my (HANDWRITTEN, remember) word count up to 30,000 words. That means that as of today I’m 5000 words behind, but you must remember that I’m also home now…where my laptop is. If I could HAND WRITE 30,000 words in 18 days, I’m sure I can use my almost 100-words-per-minute typing speed to bang out the last 20,000 words in 9 days.
Maybe.
We’ll see. >.>
I feel like I’m missing a thing or two, but at the moment I can’t think of anything and I really should go about trying to get the rest of my nonsense done so that I can have a bit of time to myself, so I’ll leave it at this for now, and I’ll say that I’ll try to have proper posts up for next week, but I’m sure you’ll forgive me if I don’t. Because you’re all awesome. You know it. ❤
No Page Left Blank 
I’ve done no writing on my computer for NaNo. It’s all on paper. But not pen. My pen is being an idiot these days. I’ve been writing in pencil. However, I only have one page done. Definitely not making 50,000 words.
Well, if it makes you feel any better I’m not going to win either. While trying desperately to work words in between everything else I had to do yesterday I determined that I was being foolish and stressing myself out needlessly. I’ll finish the manuscript, just not this week. 😛
Since mine is my WIP, it will get finished. I just can’t seem to find the time for it. I need a babysitter while I’m home alone. I need a private room. I need to find a really good place to go before work or during my lunch break to concentrate. I still have only one page written.
That picture of the dead pen you killed is classic. Seriously. 😀
I was quite surprised when I realized it was dead. lol Poor pen…may it rest in peace. 😛