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50,000!

Mark this moment well. As of 4:07 pm on Sunday, November 28, the word count meter is officially yellow! This means that I am within 10% of my target word count. I haven’t been this close since the first week! I am currently on the final leg of my second writing block for the day. I will be sadly forgoing the movies tonight to squeeze in at least another block of three structured writing sessions, with random writing throughout. My goal is to be at 45,000 by tonight, and beyond if possible. The action in my novel is exploding (literally) at just the right time. I should be able to hit the climax and tie up all of the loose ends at 50,000! NOVELTASTIC!

For those of you playing along at home, you may have noticed a lack of NaNo updates. This is because I have been frantically working on the novel in a last ditch effort to meet the 50,000 word goal. The most exciting development of the past few days has been the transition of the status bar from red to orange, indicating that, with only three days to go, I am finally catching up. I’ve already written about 2500 words today, and plan on writing at least another 2500. More, if I can. It’s down to the wire, but I think - nay, know - that I can make it.

Lots of twos. Hey, I haven’t given up yet! I’m bridging the gap as we speak, having written well over 3,000 words today alone! I still have about an hour more of writing to do which will hopefully bring me up to 4,000 for the day. Then tomorrow, I hope to clear 6,000 words! Though that seems unlikely. If the timer in OpenOffice is accurate, I have been working on this novel for just around 65 hours and have saved it 564 times! Amazing!

NASA is at it again. Just days after their questionable logic surrounding the Mars rover Opportunity, they are now reporting that there may be an ice volcano on Saturn’s moon Titan. Slow down there, NASA! This isn’t an episode of Star Trek, this is a little thing we call reality. You can’t just make up words like “cryovolcanic” and expect us to accept it. You can’t have an ice volcano, either. The word “volcano” derives from the Roman god of fire Vulcan. Hey, it’s another Star Trek connection! Imagine that! And besides, we already have a name for molten ice. It’s called “water.” Look scientists, we know that you’re smart. You don’t have to come up with crazy discoveries every week to keep us interested in space. Now, don’t get back to us until you find moon whales swimming in the “molten ice” under Titan’s surface.

Ice volcano: suprisingly similar to a normal volcano tinted blue.

I am once again just barely staying ahead of the dreaded red bar. I’ve written almost 3,000 words since I last posted, and if I had been on schedule before that would mean something. As it is, I may have hit a special point where I can finally write the required 1667 words a day. Except now I have to write 2030 words a day to keep up. ALACK. Here is a picture of kittens to help me feel better.

The collective writing forces of all NaNoWriMo particpants have hammered out 92,014,712 words as of right now, an ever increasing number. So then, what’s my problem? Probably posting things here or playing GTA: San Andreas instead of writing. I’ll get to work now.