Sunday goal acheived...

Sunday writing has gone well today. I've written over 3200 words (well more than my goal), and all that in just a few hours. I am so enjoying the process again, and get so into the story. Today I had to phone Janey and tease her a little about what is going on with 'the cousins'. The story has started to warm up nicely and the plot is thickening (I think that's what we say). This week I am going to try and write 2000 a day, but as I havea couple of busy days may not quite manage that. I love the NaNoWriMO page that let's me keep a check on my progress- it's so motivating:

ANd as for today's photo challenge:

Day 4 - TV ... The X-Factor's Dermot (or is it Russell from Pop Sensation?)...

November and challenges

• This month I have started my second NaNoWriMo challenge- as if you didn't already know. This morning I completed all the usual things that I have to do in the morning -walk the dogs, put on some washing, sweep through etc etc, then settled down to a bit of writing. About an hour or so later I had written almost 3,500 words and have a story forming very nicely thank you. Once again I have immersed myself in the plot so deeply. I was writing about a storm, then got up to do something outside and was slightly surprised it was a sunny day.
• Once again I am doing the photo a day challenge, which I really enjoy. Last month I posted seperate blog entry for this, but have decided to go back to plan A and include it in a daily blog entry, or if there's no blog entry for the day, as a stand alone one.  Today's prompt was 'something beginning with 'C'' so armed with my camera I went round and about taking shots of anything that fit and came up with this. How many can you name (and don't forget some of the words might be Spanish). There are at least 35...(you can click on the photo to enlarge it if you need help)

•  An additional challenge this month is to get the car through its ITV (MOT in the UK). It's a bit of an old banger, but every year so far it has passed with no problems. This year I have my fingers crossed for the same, but am  a little worried I may have to spend a few bob to get it through this time... well that's tomorrow morning at 08.30 -so positive vibes everyone please!

This month isn't shaping up to be too busy at the moment (Challenges aside). We have the November Trade Fair in a couple of weeks, but aside from that no big events. This weekend we are having lunch out with some of the other teachers, and to kick off the month tonight Denise and Paolo are popping in for dinner, so I'd best step away from the PC for a while and tie myself to the cooker to get some good grub on the go.... LATERS. XX

Day One - NaNoWriMo

Today was the first day of the NaNoWriMo challenge to write a novel of 50,000 words during the 30 days of November.
I knew I would need to be organised to achieve my goal for today of 3,000 words, so got up early and set about organising myself.
The first thing to do was trim my hair- it's not a long task these days and helped make me feel more ready. I followed this with my daily shower and then fed the cats and dogs, walked the dogs, had breakfast, changed the bed and put a wash on and put it out... and I was ready.
Taking a seat at the PC and firing it up I decided to check out how everyone else was doing first so signed into Facebook and checked my e-mails. After checking the messages I decided to sign out of both so that I wouldn't be tempted to waste time when a message flagged up.  I took out my notebook and set to.
The next thing I knew it was lunchtime and I'd written just under 3,000 words - goal achieved.
After throwing together a soup for lunch, Tony had gone out to buy bread, we settled down to snaffle it all up and follow that with a short siesta. I'm rubbish if I don't have a siesta on a busy day, and I was surprised at how tired I was after a morning's creativity.
When I awoke I had a nice cuppa sat back at the PC to up my total for the day. It's now almost 8.00pm and I've got just over 5,000 words. I'm leaving the file open, just in case I decide to write more, but am thinking that may be it for today.
Happily I'm well ahead of the game (I actually need to write 1,667 words a day every day during the month) so am feeling quite satisfied with my first day's achievement.
Tomorrow I'm back to work sop will have to allocate soem time during the morning for both planning my lessons and for my writing. Can I do it- YES I CAN.