Word count at 44,239 as I go to bed on what is for me still Day 28. I just need to write at least 3000 words between today and tomorrow and I will make my goal.
My fingers are tired and I am barely awake as it is; I know I will be the walking dead on Friday, and I can’t wait.
Funny thing is, at 50K, I will still have some 30K more to go before I have a complete story. For someone who had never written a story longer than 8000 words, this is pretty unbelievable.
Got back today from our Thanksgiving Weekend getaway to the mountains of western North Carolina. The place was beautiful, the scenery truly breathtaking, but I have no idea how city folk can live up there. I can see the allure of the country; I had a lot of fun hiking and visiting a great cavern and only one of hundreds of awesome waterfalls, but I can’t quite deal with the isolation from civilization for more than a few days, let alone the issue of there being almost no Jews up there. Considering we were in prime Billy Graham country, I’m not surprised there aren’t any Jews outside of Asheville. I should have pictures up on Flickr by tomorrow.
NaNoWriMo will be done in 4 days and I am way behind in my writing. My word count while in NC was a bust; I wrote as regularly as I could, and I certainly got a number of words in, but as Day 27 is about to come to a close, I am barely above the 40K mark, having only 3 days to write 9,000 words. I will do it, however, I will succeed. I did not get this far to fail within spitting distance of the finish line. I am taking a short break right now, having some cereal, and then it’s back to the grind with me, trying to complete at least 2,500 words tonight, if not a full 3,000.
Good night and wish me luck.
This is it, the last week of NaNoWriMo; just 9 more days to complete the more-or-less 18K words I am missing at the moment, which means every day from now until next Thursday I need to write 2000 words, no excuses. I’ve come too far to quit or fail now.
The manuscript has morphed a couple of times during writing this last week. At one point it was the mix of travel/spiritual memoir I had originally envisioned, then the travel part sort of took over, then the spiritual journey asserted itself. At this point I’d say it’s the spiritual journey that has taken center stage, and I forsee a read-through of the eventual first draft will only confirm this, which means there’s already a lot of editing and rewriting in store for the second draft, whenever that time comes.
Tomorrow I leave for North Carolina for the weekend. I’ll be taking my laptop and intend to write at our friend’s house as well. This isn’t quite like last year’s trip to Paris, where the time is far better spent out exploring the city, so I’m expecting, aside from a couple of activities we do have planned, finding time to write won’t be a problem.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Today marks 13 years since my father passed away, Nov. 19, 1993.
I miss him like hell.
Just wanted to say Happy 4th Anniversary to my wife and to myself. 
How she has put up with me for 4 years I still have no idea, but I hope it goes on for many more years to come.
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