Category: NaNoWriMo 09
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Coming faster now
With just a little more than 8,000 words to write to hit the 90K mark needed for a single-title contemporary, I’m finding words are just pouring out of my head an onto the page. Where was all this enthusiasm last week, when I needed it to end the NaNo with a less-pathetic word count? Oh […]
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They got it!
I just checked my delivery confirmation via the U.S. Postal Service and nearly had a heart attack: No record of that number on file. It turned out, I incorrectly entered the tracking number from my receipt. When I typed in the correct number, the computer told me my GH entry was received. Woo-hoo! That’s a […]
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It’s in the mail
This time, I mean my Golden Heart entry — all 246 pages of it, plus the disk with my full MS on it. I dropped it off at the post office sometime between 11 a.m. and noon. It felt like such a momentous occasion. I was so darn proud of myself I had to call […]
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Down but not out
Today I thought I was ready to print my full MS for the GH entry. Unfortunately, it was the first time I’d noticed that all my pages were 1.5-spaced instead of double-spaced. That’s ALL the pages — in the full MS and what I thought was getting close to a perfect GH entry. When I […]