30 | November | 2010 | Polilla Writes

Tuesday, Day 30 of NaNoWriMo — I’m SO TIRED! Last night I stayed up and wrote until 4 AM. As I posted yesterday I did what I said I would do … wrote until I couldn’t stay awake to write another word. That is just what happened. (I’m glad I did this because I had several interruptions today that would added stress to completing.) So at around 4:30 AM I had just relaxed beside my husband and his alarm went off. I went to sleep and slept until my alarm went off around 8:30, then I was up and wrote until I finished NaNo. So I WON! It’s a feeling of accomplishment and relief that I actually completed it and got my ‘novel’ validated on time on the site. I did use the program that generates paragraphs and words. When I finished the challenge and posted my word total, then I generated the number of words I had recorded – which was 50265 – and submitted that to make it official. (I’m actually having trouble staying awake right now to write this post.) I have the NaNoWriMo challenge 101% completed!

Even though I completed the 50K challenge, my story is not completed. I left a major conflict unresolved and hope to continue writing to finish the story.

PiBoIdMo ended today, too. I completed with 44 ideas. It was a wonderful experience for me.

Have you pushed yourself beyond what you thought you could do?

Thanks for readings, and … Creative Musings! 🙂

Monday, Day 29 of NaNoWriMo is the best day for me yet! The pressure is on and I have to finish this! I spent most of today writing, thinking, writing … and writing, thinking writing some more .. but mostly writing. Just writing. whew! I wrote 5073 words today! Can you believe that? One more day of this challenge and I can write no more that will be counted. My total word count stands at 44257 which means that as much as I managed to put on paper today I have to do that and more before tomorrow at midnight. 5743 more words should do it, but to be safe in case of miscounts I will try to write 5800 more. I will not be stopping tonight until I just can’t stay awake to write another word.

A very good thing is that I found a program that will generate the number of words I need posted to the NaNo validator once I reach 50,000 words.

As for PiBoIdMo, today I came up with two cute ideas, so now have 43 to my credit. Surely something of all those will be worth turning into a picture book manuscript! The PiBo challenge ends at midnight tomorrow too, and then there will be winners announced soon after – winners who are chosen among those who finished with 30 PB ideas. I would be thrilled to win something, but I already have from one of the daily blog posts of encouragement. (Remember the bug caricature from Day 19, Nov. 20?) And, besides that, I am so much further ahead now since doing PiBoIdMo in discovering what I can do and how to brainstorm for picture book ideas. So, yes, this has been a very good experience for me.