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Yes I am a 2010 Nanowritmo Winner..   what do I win, well it’s not what you win that counts ( nothing really other than the knowledge that I am awesome)**  This also means more blogging, and just for your  torture enjoyment I have a post already written to post after this one so this can be skipped if you’re not interested.

I could cry.  It was hard, and easy. It’s the journey and I am tired, and I have icecream in the freezer as a reward,  but routine, and lots of little goals made it easy to obtain.   I have discovered I write best when I am not at home.   I tried it over the weekend.  First I needed a better chair because my ottoman was too low for the dining table, so I had to use a dinning table chair,  then I needed coffee, and had none,  so I had to use two chi latte sticks from a box I had bought for fussy guests, then I felt like chocolate,  then the cat tried to jump on the laptop,  then I wanted a glass of water… check my email..   laptop wanted to do a diagnostic,  then it wanted to update something,  then I had to  pick a song to listen to while writing.

I wrote most of this novel on the train, and at my desk at work with my earphones in, oh and in City Extra.  ❤ their raisin toast.  I like their booths, and I love that they left me alone to my coffee and raisin toast with real butter “WRITER AT WORK…”  and was able to type furiously away.  Taptaptaptaptap..  back space back space..  taptaptaptap

You can see from my graph that I kept on and just above my goal for most of the ride.   The flat bits are weekends where I needed to have a break, and not think about it.

The word count is strange.  Open office said it was 51097 as above, word says its 50,591 and nanowrimo’s verifier thinks its 50627 so I AM CONFUSED.  But three different word counts says I did it.!

I’d publish an extract,  but I don’t want it googleable, and really its a mess.  Needs mass amounts of cleaning up, and a very thorough spellcheck  because I typed too fast to fix those squiggly red lines.  ( and using a trackpad on a laptop is  a pain.)

** Awesome only for the purpose of meeting this goal.

Well its day two of NaNoWriMo and I have written my daily allocation for the two days and then some. If I can keep my motivation through being woken up by someone elses noisey aircon motor at 4am in the morning – meaning I had to sleep on the uncomfortable couch
*note to self. Get a comfier couch for sleeping on. My friends must have lied to me when they told me it was comfy…

and I know this post is not wow related.. and neither is my story. I went with writing a story that has been bouncing round the back of my head for some months. ( no – nothing was ever put to paper or screen ) though I did promise to name a character after a friend. It was going to be set in Sydney, but for now I have made it a generic setting as I would like to see if i could get it published after maybe – Its along the lines of a Supernatural thriller / to use a coined phrase Urban fantasy.

The Genre is not really a unique Genre anymore. I’ve read Anne Rices Vampire books to Laurell K Hamilton, to Kelly Armstrong and Kim Harrison, Lilith Saintcrow and every other series that comes up inbetween.. I think I’ve read all the good ones in the Genre, the reset seem to be more paranormal romances with hot strapping werewolves or Vampires with no unique themes. I worried that the genre its self has become to predictable, and I now I have read about Vampires, Vampire hunters, Demon Hunters, Demon Lovers, Witches, and Warlocks, and Pychics I’m hoping I have read enough to not do what they have all done, and yet still have space enough to carve out my own unique voice.

How does this tie back into wow… well its been less time to play wow. The only way I have stayed focused through this weekend for my allocated words is to make sure that I did not plug my net in. yep no email, no wordpress no rss no news no msn no wow…. untill I have written my allocated words.

It seems to be working. So Far.