So some things are going on with my job – hello unemployment – and so I need to concentrate on the revision my current project needs, instead of getting another one done. Thus, with a heavy heart, I have to stop with Pariahs and move back to this project, getting it finished up so I can start trying to proactively get a new agent.

Also, for those of you that got TGWWBK packages at the $50 and up level (or will be getting them soon) you know thanks to the secret blue envelope that I’ve got a lot of other things to work on too!

So here’s a final image from Pariahs. So sad. I will finish you one day, book!

So. I think I just have to accept that I’m not going to get the daily counts I need on this project until I’ve finished the mailings for TGWWBK. Which is fair.  So I’m going to put less pressure on myself and focus on getting through.  I’m hoping to mail everything for TGWWBK (except a few stragglers I’m sure) before the Thanksgiving holiday, so I guess I’ll just try to push through on word count over the Thanksgiving holiday and hope I can make it. Still going to do the daily word count, and still going to keep on the writing, but going to be less pissed when I only put up 500 words…like today!

Today’s word count: 502

Today word count: 32,289

Inspirational image for the day:

Grrr.

Today’s word count: 606

Total word count: 31,787

Inspirational image for the day:

Another brutal day for poor Pariahs. Between podcasting this morning, working on an overdue article, and making an exhausting TGWWBK post office run (on less than 5 hours sleep) and the words that came out were not so great.

Where was I for Day 10 last year you ask? Ouch. A cool 53,001.

Today’s word count: 580

Total word count: 31,181

Inspirational image for the day:

Day was entirely lost to doing TGWWBK related things. I’m sure those of you waiting for TGWWBK books are glad in this!

Today’s word count: 0

Total word count: 30,601

Inspirational image of the day:

Again, I did a fair bit of writing today, but very little of it for Nano. It’s bumming me out to be failing so hard on these deadlines, but I honestly worked all day either for my job or on The Girl Who Would Be King stuff – preparing things to be mailed and what have you. Speaking of TGWWBK – you’ve only got about 24 more hours left for the 99 cent sale, so get it while it’s uber cheap instead of just regular cheap! 😉

Okay, so here’s the sad little count. I really have to carve out some serious time for this tomorrow.

Today’s word count: 562

Total word count: 30,601

Inspirational image for today:

Well, I wrote over 2,000 words today, but none of them for this project. 

I will do better tomorrow…this I swear!!!

*shakes fist impotently at the sky*

Today’s word count: 0

Total word count: 30,039

Inspirational image for today:

(sorry I let you down today Grace Jones!)

Oh book. Stop being so troublesome. Election plus having to write a review unexpectedly, plus needed to get more sleep than last night equals no words tonight. Will try to make it up tomorrow, definitely running behind this year – gotta focus!

Today’s word count:  0 (BAH!)

Total word count: 30,039

Inspirational image for the day:

Don’t worry Grace, my lack of words has nothing to do with you…in fact, I hope your badass self will inspire me for tomorrow!

Gah. I forgot how tough this book is. I remembered (too late!) the difficult world building choices, and that in my first 25k I jumped around a lot – something I swore I would never do again after how tough THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING was to edit.

Today’s word count: 906

Total word count: 30,039

Inspirational image for the day:

Yikes. Bad day for writing. Had to spend a good chunk of the day with Kickstarter spreadsheets, and then of course needed a column for She Has No Head!, it equaled most of my time being eaten up by non-Nano things and some Nano research. So, yeah, all that to say, very low word count, again. Oh, I did rename the project, which is good, but I’m keeping that under wraps for now.

Word count for today: 745

Total word count: 29,133

Inspirational image for the day: