jlhufflepuff

On Friday night, I went to the all night write-in. I wanted to be a bit fashionably late, but I ended up being later than I wanted to because of traffic. Anyway, I was kind of nervous walking up to the church where the event was held. Would I be the only "uncool" person there? Umm... as soon as I opened the door to the over-stuffed, narrow room that we started out in, I felt completely at home. Lots of teacherish/writing/glasses wearing nerds populated the couches that lined either side of the room.

All the couches were full, so found a link to a powercord and squeezed myself into the back corner of the room. After a while, some others came in late and set up shop back there with me. It ended up that about five of us were crammed into a tiny space as we waited for the wedding rehearsal elsewhere in the church to finish so we could move and be more comfortable for the rest of the night.

After we moved into a more spacious room and set up tables and power outlets and such, it turned out that I sat with two of the people I had "bonded" with in the crevice of the other room. One of them was wearing a shirt that said, "Geek." When I commented on it, she said, "Well, I'm a librarian, so I think it fits." It turned out she graduated from the same online program as me at TWU and just obtained a library job in a small district nearby. Small world.

Soon we were joined by a woman with a huge fistfull of pencils and a notebook, and the three of us had a wonderful time acting like complete idiots.

I ended up writing over 6,000 words that night and left around 1:30 to go home because, well, the stress of the rest of my life outside this novel was encroaching.

Basically, yesterday and today I had to finish grading essays, complete the CSS project part of my webpage for a class, help my mom babysit my nephew and niece (that was the fun part), go to church (which I skipped a lot of today), clean up the house a little bit for when my husband gets home from out of town, do laundry, and plan stuff for what I'm teaching tomorrow.

All of that is done now, and hubby is home! YAY!

The higher my word count gets, the easier it seems to be to keep going.. I guess it's just a confidence thing. I am getting into some areas of my plot that are kind of vague. I know basically what I want to happen, but I'm not sure how much of each thing I want... I'm not used to pacing myself for this...

Also, guess what I found myself writing today? Oh, yeah, that's right. Visions of Greatness. I can't count any of those words for NaNo, but I had a little extra time at work ... and did I grade some extra papers or try to get a few hundred more words on this novel? NO! I suddenly became unblocked on Chapter 16 and just wrote for a while. Weird, I know. I decided I'm not going to do it again, but that probably means that I will...