The Parade

My dad was in a car accident tonight. He's ok (tiny bit of pain to the chest from the seat belt), but a Corsa killed his Skoda. Yup, its the Rottweiler vs chihuahua joke ("How did your chihuahua kill his Rottweiler?"/"He swallowed him!").

I don't want to say too much on here, but I do need to say something.

If I see you driving over the speed limit, I judge you.

If I see you driving over the speed limit in a slightly crowded area, I judge you.

If I see you driving over the speed limit on the main road of a residential area, I judge you... hard.

If it hadn't have been for a few little things (the car being less than a year old, side airbags, decent doors), my dad might not be at home right now. Heck, he might not be alive right now. As it is, all he has is slight chest pain (I was hugging him and he was there saying you're hurting me now, and I thought he was joking... Until I let go. Then he was panting and I realised he wasn't joking), but that could easily have been head trauma, a busted hip, a myriad of other things all rolled into one...

So please, if you are a driver, please watch your speed. Not everyone has a decent car.

5711 words between now and midnight, with a break in the middle to make dinner... Do able? I think so too! :D Write or Die, here I come. :)

(I have spent most of this month not writing, so if anyone ever tells you you can't write 50k in fifteen days, give them the finger! :D)

So, it's November sixth. I should be getting 10k by the end of the day. That's not bad, I hear you cry.

I'm at 5k now.

Yes, I am 5k behind. I have never been this far behind (but then, I've never really been this mildly apathetic towards my novel before) and it's sorta worrying me. If I want to catch up I either write 5-6k today (well, I want to get over the whole, 'Argh, I'm so far behind!' thing) or I write almost 1800 words every day between now and November 30th.

Epic writing of catching up starts as soon as I have brekkie.

Today I'm having Coco Pops. :D

So, according to NaNo's site, I've won, but I haven't, because I have the two figures below as my word counts:

35553 / 50000 words. 71% done!

16342 / 25000 words. 65% done!

I'm sorta on target with the full 50k, but I'm 2543 words behind on the fanfic, which is turning into a beast of a thing.

On top of that, I need to back up my hard drives, because I'm gonna re-install Windows and I don't want to lose anything (better safe than sorry!) and I'm spending tomorrow with my mum. I could cancel tomorrow, but she got me some jeans and I need to exchange them (I hate that different shops have different sizes. I feel like a whale in one place whilst another makes me feel like a wood sprite with the wood shaved off!). Also, I don't get to spend much time with my mum, and she's awesome. :)

So, to catch up with word countage, I need to write 2064 words per week day to win the 50k, and 4329 Saturday and Sunday (but if I win the 50k before the weekend, which would mean writing an average of 2890 words per week day, I could finish the 25k of Glee/It before November 30th).

Have discovered, the way I'm writing the fanfic, I'm either gonna cut load from it before posting it, or write loads more through the year on it. Cause that 16342 words? I've had two deaths, six people called, a flashback and a first hanging out with them sorta dealy. And I've only had Pennywise there once. Something is either majorly wrong, or majorly right! :D

Anyways, bed, so I may get up early, shower, get him to take out the rubbish before going to Carmarthen with my mum. :)

Rach xxx

33470 / 50000 words. 67% done!

12767 / 25000 words. 51% done!

Saturday is mum's birthday, so I think I might be pulling another 6k outta my bum on Sunday. We'll see how things go. :)

Bed. Sleep. ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

40004 / 75000 words. 53% done!

Getting there... Whew...

I think I'm growing carbuncles on my bum. Oh well. Night everyone, and I hope your word counts are looking super awesome! :D

Also, I'm 6k+ into my Glee/It fic. So happy! :D

So it's the weekend. I've written almost 13k in five days, which is pretty awesome (and I've passed my man made target, but not reached day 6 figures... It's not too bad though...) and I'm happy with that... I'm just kinda worried for the morning.

I'm starting my halfling, the Glee/IT crossover... And I'm killing someone off almost straight away... Well, I'm killing one person straight away, but then a main character like 3k in so I'm a bit worried... I mean, what if people think I just killed her off cause she's a person of colour? I shouldn't be writing for other people, obviously, but still. It still kinda gets me...

Although, to be honest, I don't wanna kill anyone off, cause I don't like killing people off... Unless I have to, or the serial killer in my NaNoWriMo is telling me he has to strike again or he'll start self harming.

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Actually, he never told me that last bit. I'm gonna go note that down on the print out of the year before last's novel. :D Awesome.

Love you all!

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A cheer pyramid all for you! (Knowing my luck it'll all be fucked up so don't be surprised if it disappears. :D)

So, hit 10k before midnight? Sound like a plan, doesn't it... I best make dinner now then. :D

Cliff notes of Stephen King's It? Anyone got anything like that?

Also, can I have a faster computer plz? Kthnxbaii!