Well, day 3 went by without me adding to my word count. My son was sick, and it was just a rough day. Right now I am preparing to jumpstart some homework, then jumpstart that word count! Will update again later this evening! Well not getting to it tonight, as much as I would like to skip some sleep to work on it my head is hurting, and I don’t want it to turn into a migraine. I’ll try again tomorrow, but some extra hours in the day would be nice!!!

I didn’t reach my word count today, I only raised to 2,226; but I did work on it, and I feel that’s better than not doing anything at all. That just means that there will be days when I need to work harder. I could write more tonight, but it’s late and I need to head to dreamland. I’ll be off work again tomorrow, so perhaps I can reach the 5,001 that I should be at before tomorrow is over!! Many Blessings on my fellow NaNo participates, may your writing go well, and the coffee be good!

I’m happy with my progress today, I was able to keep the internal editor quiet for the most part. I am liking the yWriter, even though I am typing in word and then using copy/paste to insert it into yWriter. I always like to have a back-up copy of everything if I can; just in case! I’ve been sick all weekend, and am not going to work tomorrow, but I am beginning to feel better. At least I was well enough to get my word count today!!

So many things I want to put into one post; I wouldn’t have this problem if I would post more often, but I have of course been busy lately and that makes it hard to stop and take the time to post! I went out and bought myself one of those nifty little netbooks. The keyboard takes some getting used to because it is smaller than the ones that I am used to, but so far I am loving it; and it’s going to come in really handy for that on-the-go NaNoWriMo writing I am going to be doing! The battery only lasts about three hours, but I can carry the cord with me and plug it in whenever I am near a plug in. And if I can’t plug it in then three hours should at least give me time for my 1,600 words each day! Halloween/Samhain is just around the corner also, it’s my favorite holiday and I enjoy everything to do with it! We are planning on going off-roading that weekend, so I may have to change my NaNo kick-off event plans, and delay ritual for a day, but that’s okay; I have a feeling it will all work out the way it is supposed to! I downloaded the yWriter and while I haven’t done any writing in it yet it is looking like a fabulous tool! It even has a daily word count target that you can fix up that tells you how many words you need to write a day to reach your goal! I have the month of November in with 50,000 words; I’m hoping that if I miss my word count one day it will reset itself to tell me the new daily goal! I have classwork to do, but I am also going to spend the next 9 days getting my characters into the software and some short scene descriptions. Having my characters already named and described will help me shut off that internal editor and the delay factor that I always have because I have to decide on those things before my brain will move on! Well, it’s time to do some housework/supper/classwork so hopefully I will write again tomorrow!

Found a fake name generator that gives you an entire identity including mailing address, email, occupation, ect! They have others if you go to the free tools.

More generators: Serendipity

until NaNoWriMo begins, just enough time to get a lose outline put together, download some helpful software, plan for some write-ins, or just freak out if you prefer!! I found some more links that may prove useful and will list them below:

150 Resources – good for before, during, and after.

WriteItNow

Dares! 2009! – NaNoWriMo Forum

Dialogue with Ellen Jackson

Character Tools from Procrastinating Writers

How to write a novel in 100 days from PeaceCorpsWriters (do double or triple days and you could fit it into 30 days!)

Learn to Write Fiction NaNoWriMo Tips

MyNovel writing software

Zoho Writer – online word processor

Sig’s Random Generators for NaNoWriMo (or whatever)

The Everyday People’s Guide on How to Write a Novel

The Top 5 NaNoWriMo Tools (not my top 5, the top 5 according to the guy/gal who wrote the article!)

yWriter5 – I may have posted this one yesterday also, but I don’t think it will hurt to have it again. I’m considering using it, but haven’t decided for sure yet!

Thanks, I’ll post more as I find them, but I really need to get my outline done (after some schoolwork gets done!)