NaBlaBlaMo updates

Posted November 10th, 2008 by Kimberly Dowd

NaBloPoMo is going swimmingly. Ten posts in ten days so far. I’m not worried at all about reaching that goal. I have almost six years of blogging behind me.

NaNoWriMo on the other hand has been a lot harder. I have no idea how I did this years ago. Things were looking pretty grim for me at the beginning of the weekend. I had let five whole days go by without adding one word to my story. I was facing the necessity of writing 10K words in one weekend to catch up. I was considering quitting because I was too far behind.

Then I took a breath and broke out the calculator.

To reach 50K in 30 days, you should write 1667 words a day. I’m aiming for an average of 2200 a day, which will still get me to 50K with time to spare.

The “novel” (if you can really call this that) is about a group of people who play an online game and meet in person. It is not autobiographical. I’m having fun developing the various dork characters.

And I’m on the fence about CookieCam. This place is so teeny…

I see two possible scenarios:

1) If I don’t lose my job the first week of December CookieCam will be a limited-night engagement and probably streamed live. I’m looking at picking up a freelance job for about 5 or so hours a week, and I also have an application in for holiday work at my local Disney store*. Time is going to be limited.

2) If I do get laid off (nobody is safe) then I’ll have time to do CookieCam during the day while I’m being paid severance and looking for another job. I’d probably get a bigger audience that way!

*Trying to squirrel away money while I can in anticipation of future layoffs.

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2 Responses to “NaBlaBlaMo updates”

  • Erin Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 10:27 am

    It so sucks that you have to face this whole layoff thing; I wish there was something I could do.

    Do you have a freelance thing set up? Or are you looking?

    As for NaNoWriMo: I drove myself nuts with the calculator. It psyched me out. Try not to think of how many are left if you can, but just type.

  • Kimberly Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 11:06 pm

    Thanks…I did pick up a short-term freelance gig. Simple HTML coding and posting for an obscenely low hourly rate. It’s mostly a favor to a former coworker. So that’ll be fine. I’m feeling confident about making it through this round of layoffs. Dunno why.