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Well, I'm excited.

It's 2:30 PM, I'm taking a nap until 6 when my boyfriend comes over, we watch a couple scary movies, and he's retiring to my bed while I stay up at midnight to write.

Because I'm trying to write a novel in one day. Did it last year, have a full plot outline for it this year, I think I can do it again.

I have another two novels I'm going to work on. Is anyone else doing 100K or 150K or more this month?

BTW, if this is off-topic, I'm sorry!

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Seven novels in one month? How can you do that?

Painfully. And by losing either the use of my hands or my voice or both. *dictates*

Actually I can do it because about... eight years ago or so, I think? I decided that since I had written 10,000 words in two hours (don't ask, still not sure how I did that) I could take two hours of my day to write 10,000 words per day. And spent the next two years practicing this. And then spent the remaining four to six years or however long it's been keeping at least a 7,000 per day word count. So when Nanowrimo comes around I'm all "Pssh. 1,667 words per day? Poppycock!"

And then I do something stupid. Although so far I think I've done 6 novels in Nanowrimo once, out of the four years I've tried. I can usually do at least two, though.

The even shorter answer is, I'm batshit crazy.

So you dictate it and not type? If so, that's a cool idea.

I do! And it is. I didn't used to, but a couple years back my wrists started hurting, and I have an idea of what that was likely to be, as much as I type. So my family got me a new laptop so I could run a dictate program, and the dictate program, and now every time I have large chunks of things to write I pretty much just use that.

Wow!

Sometimes if you push yourself, you can achieve great things. Which, really, is what Nano's all about. I just started pushing a little sooner and a little harder than most.

It's something to work towards!

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