The word count for the Nano contest now stands at 6,184. I know why now. I tend to edit in my head before I type. It’s great if I’m writing for a client, but it causes me no end of grief in the fiction world. Oh well. Slow and steady. I may not finish in time, but I will eventually finish. Unlike my chum, Devon, who has rocked this contest and now has about 55K-plus words, I am destined to putter.
Work has slowed to a mere smattering of things. It’s okay, for a few are paying some very nice cash, which will get me through the slow holiday period. If anyone has a secret formula for finding work during the holidays, I’m all ears. My only suggestion is to fill in as a temp employee while others are off cavorting for the holidays, but that doesn’t happen too often. Companies are more prone to just stay lean until the New Year.
But the search continues. Kathy Kerhli is talking about the same thing on her blog today, so I feel like I’m not alone in the hiccup that is the November/December workload.
How about you? How are you managing?
Yeah, I’m slumping with work and slumping with NaNo. Maybe I should be the Irreverent Slumper. LOL I’ll let you know if I come up with any holiday marketing strategies.
23,248 words–I rule!!
I cheated, of course. I wrote nearly half of that before I started NaNo. (But it still feels great!)
Cheating works for me! 🙂
Irreverent Slumper – there’s a blog! “I want to write…oh, I’m so tired.” LOL
Only 10,000 words and haven’t touched it for two days. Dang this real paying writing stuff I had to deal with! This weekend though. Home alone. No friends around to tempt me to go out. It’s either write or houseclean. Hmm. What to choose . . .