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I’ll not keep you in suspense and let you know I won. :)\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
I have a short attention span when it comes to just sitting down and writing.\u00c2\u00a0 My mind wanders.\u00c2\u00a0 But put me in a room with other people writing and the words usually flow.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
This last week I had the good fortune to attend a write-in at The Mustard Seed Retreat<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Pam, the owner, was hosting a write-in for all area writers.\u00c2\u00a0 For some reason, I\u00c2\u00a0thought we were writing in the barn and I couldn’t figure out how to get in – all the barn entrances were locked!\u00c2\u00a0 The write-in was actually inside the farmhouse.\u00c2\u00a0 When I saw the outside cats I was worried my allergies were going to get the better of me.\u00c2\u00a0 Fortunately, they are outdoor cats and not allowed inside.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a productive writing\u00c2\u00a0day for me.\u00c2\u00a0 I must confess seeing all of those writing books in the classroom area made me want to start reading each one but I didn’t.\u00c2\u00a0 My focus was on writing.\u00c2\u00a0 I knocked out 6594 words that day.<\/p>\n On Friday and Tuesday I was able to attend other write-ins.\u00c2\u00a0 Each one helped me cross the finish line.\u00c2\u00a0 My husband let me borrow his laptop and frankly, it convinced me I need to be good to myself and buy last year’s reward.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve picked out a Dell and a HP and will likely order it in the next week.\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks to the Tuesday write-in I had my largest word count day.\u00c2\u00a0 Ever.\u00c2\u00a0 12451 half of this was written during the four hours there.<\/p>\n I crossed the finish line on Tuesday with 8 minutes to spare.\u00c2\u00a0 My final word count was 50160.<\/p>\n How was your writing week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ll not keep you in suspense and let you know I won. :)\u00c2\u00a0 I have a short attention span when it comes to just sitting down and writing.\u00c2\u00a0 My mind wanders.\u00c2\u00a0 But put me in a room with other people writing and the words usually flow.\u00c2\u00a0 This last week I had the good fortune to… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2010 Check-in #4<\/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":[54],"tags":[413,67,804],"class_list":["post-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-mustard-seed-retreat","tag-nanowrimo","tag-writing","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2989,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions\/2989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}