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The moment of joy:


I've had a couple of pieces of chocolate and I am enjoying such a lovely glass of wine. The novel produced a great 50 000th word 'fuck'. I've also got some other nano facts:

I was the second of my writing buddies to win -nthdraft beat me to it by a considerably long way (much congratulations goes that way)

Total number of days spent behind word count: 15! (eek)

Most wrote in one day: 6724.

Background music/tv show: NCIS


I also know I never want to try Nano when I am travelling and trying to fit in with site seeing. Although I do love the spot under the sink in the bedroom where I've spent my last few days writing

*cheers to Alex and Maverick who have turned out to be such interesting characters to write*

After spending weeks behind thanks to travelling through Australia I am finally ahead. I am rather excited because the plot that had been trotting along at a steady, not uninteresting way but it exploded with direction two days ago and I am really enjoying writing it.


Auckland is growing on me by the day. I climbed Mount Victoria and saw the city rising out of the mist. Relatives that sprung themselves on me yesterday are really cool and they've invited me up the coast for the next week to enjoy a nature reserve and scuba diving.

Hello one and all! i'm remarkably cheerful for a person who can't get near her nano for another two days.

I spent the night in a fantastic hostel called Backpackers at the Bay. Quiz, sing a long and I got dumped into the pool! It is such a fun place to stay.

I am going sailing around the whitsunday islands for the next two nights, see you on the other side

Not bad for the first day. However Alex my MC is determinedly pushing the plot in his own direction now and I am not sure where he is taking me. I know were I am taking him tomorrow though. He is coming with me in a notebook on to a boat and from there to a island made out of sand. I'm sure I'll find some time to deal with him

I've had the Lions Roar by the Hush Sound half stuck in my head for weeks, the only words I could remember where trumpets and roar and the tune. Somehow combined with google ninja skills I was able to track it down and with great relief go and track it down on my ipod. Song crisis averted.

Notebook crisis begins. All suggestions on the web and via family suggest taking a small exercise book for writing in. I peered at the old exercise books I still have in the house. There are too few pages and too few lines. If an idea takes off I will run out of paper! So today when I go into town I need to find a small light weight notebook with space to write! This may very well be a Hoy Grail search.

Nano notebook(s) will be bought on travels. Novel that still doesn't have plot or characters and I have a pact - an idea and some smoothish writing will occur if I feed it with pretty notebooks.