{"id":2055,"date":"2009-12-15T00:54:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T04:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2009-12-15T00:54:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T04:54:11","slug":"nanowrimo-2009-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=2055","title":{"rendered":"NaNoWriMo 2009 Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just after 11:30pm Eastern time on November 30th, I crossed the finish line at 50,088 words.\u00c2\u00a0 To be honest, it wasn’t until near the end of the month that I thought I might make it.\u00c2\u00a0 A challenge was thrown down and I took it.<\/p>\n

I was averaging about 1000 words a day and was well short of making the goal.\u00c2\u00a0 Chris Baty stated on Twitter he was going to go for a 5kday on Thanksgiving and wanted to know who else was in. I figured if he was crazy<\/span> ambitious enough to do it then maybe I could be just as crazy <\/span>ambitious.<\/p>\n

On Thanksgiving my starting word count was 25664 and by the end of the day, my word count had jumped to 29969.\u00c2\u00a0 I was short of the 5k goal but it gave me a confidence boost.\u00c2\u00a0 With my\u00c2\u00a0spreadsheet to do the math for me, I could\u00c2\u00a0tell I was not out of the running.\u00c2\u00a0 During the next few days I wrote 4,000 to 6,000 words a day.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

I ran out of story.\u00c2\u00a0 My fingers were cramped into claw-like things.\u00c2\u00a0 I had books I read in September that were waiting for reviews.\u00c2\u00a0 My team, Team Calliope, on NaNoLJers needed my word count to win word wars against the other teams.\u00c2\u00a0 My sweet husband kept the\u00c2\u00a0Resident Corgi distracted and he\u00c2\u00a0picked up dinner or helped me make it.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet something in me made me keep writing until I hit the end.<\/p>\n

My reward for winning this year is a desktop edition of Write or Die!\u00c2\u00a0 It helped me win this year and will be great for freewriting on word prompts all year long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just after 11:30pm Eastern time on November 30th, I crossed the finish line at 50,088 words.\u00c2\u00a0 To be honest, it wasn’t until near the end of the month that I thought I might make it.\u00c2\u00a0 A challenge was thrown down and I took it. I was averaging about 1000 words a day and was well… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2009 Wrap-Up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,54],"tags":[67,804],"class_list":["post-2055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","category-writing","tag-nanowrimo","tag-writing","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t