Note to self:

When trying to convince yourself to write, close all browser windows. Yes, this includes e-mail. YES, this includes LiveJournal. The 'refresh' button is not your friend.

Kiss kiss,
Yourself

NaNoWarmup Challenge - Update - 09/18

Goal: 25,000
Words written: 13,276
Percentage of goal: 53.1%
Percentage of month past: 60%

Catching up to the pace rather nicely, I should think. And less than 1,000 words behind chibiakki, at last update. (And that's having spent the night before last writing 2,000 words to finish Splintered Soul, to boot. Now I'm cooking with gas!)

I am now a real writer.

I have just had a beautiful and amazing thing happen to me.

Allow me to tell you the tale.

I was supposed to go to bed at about 2PM, so as to sleep eight hours and wake up at 10 for my last shift of the week. I got to procrastinating, and the next thing I know, it's 4PM. Figuring that 6 hours of sleep would probably be fine, I trundle off to bed. I figure it'll take a little while to get wound down, so as an exercise in falling asleep, I start to think about where I'm going to go with my NaNoWarmup story next.

Cue a blinding flash of inspiration, coupled with - amazingly enough - an intense and immediate desire to write.

Not only have I spent the last three hours writing instead of sleeping, all of the prose I have produced has been - wait for it - good. As in, "this is just about exactly what I wanted to accomplish with this scene" good.

I'm finally starting to feel like I'm capable of leaving things off so that I can at least nap a bit before work. Go figure, however, that this is just where things were about to get steamy. Seriously. The last line I wrote was:

She leaned down and kissed him, taking him by surprise.

I guess it won't be hard to pick up later, eh?

So, where can I pick up my "Real Writer (With A Capital W)" badge?