NaNoWriMo Week 2

Hi all,
It’s been a busy week of
writing and frustrations about writing and technology. I have wondered if
technology would intervene in my attempt to get to 50,000 words for National Novel
Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Although I have had no computer mal-functions so
far, trying to solve problems with my email (Bravenet) have taken time away
from writing.
My email has probably been
doing the worse thing it could possibly do: telling me it has sent messages
when they haven’t been. I was debating edits to an article I had written for
Divine, and suddenly he stopped receiving my emails. He ended up ringing me to
find out if I still wanted the article published. I did.
I have contacted Bravenet to
see if they care enough to actually fix the problem. They took months to fix a
previous problem where my word attachments were being turned into a mess of
symbols at the receiver’s end. Needless to say, once I have time, I will be
moving my website and email hosting somewhere else.
New Article on DiVine.  
I have a new
article up on DiVine today and it is about weight loss
. It is particularly
aimed at people with disabilities. One thing I knew, which was reaffirmed by my
research, was that many weight loss programs have a physical exercise element.
Physical exercise can be very difficult for people with certain disabilities. I
found a very interesting site in Sparkpeople
which is a bit like a Facebook for people who want to lose weight. It has
groups for people with disabilities and groups for chair exercises. Because
DiVine is a Victorian Government site, I had to severely reduce references I
wanted to make to Sparkpeople.
NaNoWriMo.
My goal for the second week of
NaNoWriMo was to write more words on each day of the week than I did for the
previous week.
Day eight:
I spent a while discussing (at least I thought) edits on the DiVine article so
I did not get to writing to
2pm.
I still managed to write 1788 words
which was a fraction over the previous Tuesday’s total. I had written 14416 words in total.
Day nine: I
was very angry when I started writing; not the greatest frame of mind to write
in. I did some research and found a suitable point in space for the story to be
set in. I finished chapter six and then wrote up a lot of notes. The novel’s
plot is looking very good. I wrote 1740
words for a total of 16156.
Day ten: More
quick research, this time on the brain and what parts of it do. There were no
interruptions as I was blissfully unaware that my email wasn’t working. I wrote
1771 words for a total of 17927.
Day eleven: I
felt like crap all day, with a sore back of the head, sore hands, even a
splinter – which I removed – in the tip of a finger. If I was going to concede
defeat on writing my daily quota, this would have been the day. Instead, I
wrote until I finished chapter nine. With lots of small chapters, this novel is
different from the other two I have written. I wrote 2100 words to scrape over the 20,000
words.
Day twelve:
I was distracted by finding my email wasn’t working. Again I didn’t start
writing until after
2pm.
But I still made the quota and I still bettered last Saturday’s word count. I
wrote 1839 words for a total of 21866.
Day thirteen:
And I failed to better last Sunday’s word count. I finished chapter eleven and
thought that would be a good place to stop for the day. I figured out I am
writing at about 500 words an hour, but I am not going back past the current
sentence I am writing to edit. I also spend about half an hour a day sorting my
notes out. And many hours thinking about the novel. I wrote 2059 words for the day and a total of 23925.
Day fourteen: Again I was distracted by my stupid email. I am fed up with Bravenet and
I sent them an email telling them so. I would not recommend Bravenet to anyone,
their customer support is probably the worst I have encountered – and I have
dealt with Amazon to get a Kindle replaced. I managed to settle the mind and do
some writing. I wrote 1879 words and
passed the halfway mark for a total of 25804
words. 
I only missed bettering the
previous week’s daily word counts on one day. I am now 2471 words ahead of schedule.

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