Done it! I've hit my target for this month.

To be honest, I could have done on Friday, when I stopped I was up 14,700 words, but I'd reached the end of a chapter and didn't want to start the next one. Candy's mother was up over the weekend, so I took a couple of days off. I know, no commitment whatsoever!

Well, I'm going to set myself another target of 30,000 words by December 31st. That may be slightly harder, because there's that whole Christmas thing in the middle of it and I'm going Down South for a dew days. Maybe I'll throw it on to Google Docs and work on it there. We'll see how far I get in the next few weeks. After all, that is still four weeks away and if I can keep up the pace of five thousand words a week, I'll make it with no problems.

There - over 10,000 words. I have ten days to get my months target and less than 5000 words to go to hit it. I am fairly certain that I'm going to make it... Yay!

I had a little moment over the last couple of days when I wondered whether or not it was working, but I had a good little writing session today and it seems to be back on track. Well, for the moment anyway. So, I'm happy.

And I've made a loaf of bread. Well, the bread machine is making a loaf of bread for me - who do you think I am desperance? And there is home-made cake. There is actually two sorts of home-made cake - one from my dad and one from my wife. I am in a sort of home-cooked heaven.

The writing has been going well, you'll be very glad to know. I'm aiming at getting at least 15,000 words by the end of the month and then the same again in December. And, if I can keep that up, I should have it finished by around April or May (let's say May, to give me some leeway). Which will be the fastest I have written a novel. By one hell of a margin.

And this last week's wordcount:

Only 600 words tonight, but I did manage to get in my joke about Paul McCartney being a zombie. But still recording Live and Let Die.

How long has it been?

Quite a while... Hello again!

Things have happened. I've got a new job - working for North Tyneside Council - no students! No registers! No EMA complaints! More money! Yay! It's all good.

I discovered two days ago that the company through which I was taking my MCSA qualification seems to have disappeared. All their websites are dead and their emails are being bounced back. So, on the one hand, shit, all that work for nothing, I hope I can get at least some money back. However, on the other hand - thank god for that!

And, it seems to have enabled my writing again. I started working on the next novel. I've dropped the Roman story (for the moment) and I'm working on something else - a contemporary, Newcastle-based, supernatural thriller, entitled 'Ghostkin'. I'm quite excited about it and I've written 2000 words in the last two days. So yay!

Please note - yes, I'm writing a novel in November. But I'm not taking part in Nanowrimo. However, good luck to all those who are!

Here: Have a word count...

That two days of both posting and writing. Is this some kind of record? Well, it certainly seems to be for me, anyway.

Today I have written 556 words - most of which were brand new, apart from a few where I changed a bit... That makes a total of 1226 words. Which is a certain percent (around one...?) of the whole thing finished. Yay!

And, I've just added a character who wasn't in the original idea at all but looks like he may be going to be fairly important.

In other news... first day of work went well. People nice. Place I am working nice. Nice.

Well, I've done some writing. Not a lot, admittedly, but I've done some. It was really fucking hard.

Saying that, I may have actually managed to get re-started on the next novel. We'll see how it goes.

Unfortunately, I don't have the extremely nice word count thing that moshui has for his book. But then, he's managing about ten times more words a day than I have done in the last couple of months. Well, when I say the last couple of months, I actually mean, because I haven't done any writing in the last couple of months. But anyway, I've written 207 words this evening, which makes a total of 703 words. Which is really crap, actually. But, if I keep it up, I'll get there. Eventually. It's not quite NaNoWriMo, but it's at least NoWri. As opposed to no writing, which is what it has been.

In other news, I start my new job tomorrow.

is my last day in my current job. This is one of the reason's I have not been posting recently. I have been working like the proverbial sapphire-hue rear-ended insect to get the next six months work done in the month before leaving. And why do I do this? Mainly because I'm stupid, I think. And there is that whole 'consciencious' (which took me three goes to spell and I'm still not completely certain I've got right but I really can't be arsed to go and find a dictionary) thing which apparently has a deeper hold on me than I previously thought.

Mind you, it doesn't help that I decided last Friday: 'I know, I'll just rewrite the database that I've spent the last two and a half years writing and refining.'

So, I start my new job at t'council on Wednesday. It's basically the same as I'm doing now but for more money. Like my current job, it's brand new, so I'll be basically creating it as I go along. So, we'll see how it goes. More news, probably somewhat after it happens.

Lulu.com has listed my book, The Long Sleep
on Amazon.com!

I've got a new job! I start at North Tyneside Council as a Research and Information Support Officer on the 1st July. No students, no parents, no EMA. And an extra 4 grand a year. it's all good.

Candy has had an operation on her ankle, so she's back on crutches for the next six weeks. She's survived a week so far but she already starting to go stir crazy.

I have just had confirmation that my short story, 'I Wish I Could Be Like' has been accepted for use in a Talking Newspaper tape for South Tyneside.

It's payment with a copy of the tape, but it's a start!

I am a happy bunny. Now to get started writing again!

Happy Birthday shewhomust!

Just thought I'd post a picture of what I wore when I went out last week to the TG evening at the Turbinia. It's a bit of a change from my usual look - pink skirt and white blouse with grey tights.

I had another really good night. Lots of talking to other girls - both tv and ts. I hope to go back again this month, because this one was really my February night out which got postponed to the beginning of March. We'll see...

( Behind a cut, though )

It's done! I have completed. Now I just need to read it and see if it's any good or if it's self-indulgent tranny crap. And then get other people to read it to confirm my opinion. Well, if it's the former. If it's the latter, ain't no-one else gonna get their mitts on it.

And, to celebrate, I'm going out dressed tonight. I tried for the last two weeks, but life kept getting in the way. But tonight, it's definitely happening!

Anyway, have a word count:

19,717 / 19,717 (100.0%)

I've managed to do some writing every day. I'm so proud of myself! I think if I manage to keep this up for another week, I'll have finished this story. And then it'll be on to the next novel...

6,246 + 7,414 (118.7% more)

9,212 + 1,546 (16.8% more)

ETA: I've just done another 550 words in addition to this. I'd do more but I need to go to bed...

Four!

8,684 + 528 (6.1% more)

Three days!

7,950 + 734 (9.2% more)

That's twice in two days! Does this mean I'm getting back in the swing of things? Only time will tell... I don't know how long this story has to go. I think I'm about a third to half way. We shall see...

Two Households

7,246 + 704 (9.7% more)

So much so that I'm gonna Meme!

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One good thing about being up this early in the morning. It gives me a chance to do some writing. Which is nice. I've been working on my crossdressing short story. I doubt it's particularly publishable, but I kind of need to get it out my system.

Anyway, have a metric:

Two Households

6,246 + 1,019 (16.3% more)