My arms are killing me. I may have to watch out for carpel tunnel. I’m going to ty to take a bath today and maybe try to beg someone to rub my arms.

Woke up pretty early this morning, dragging a bit right now but trying to psych myself up for the complicated, scary and largely unwritten end of ACT I.

Today’s contestant:

Day Nine: Pati Nagle

I need to reach 44,000 words by the time i go to bed tonight, or i owe Pati $10. (I did a little extra writing yesterday, so i need to write a little more than 2000 words to hit 44K.)

Twitter updates, probably.

Novel burns

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They grow.

I *almost* wish they would grow faster. They're in the awkward stage.

I’m thinking about dying my hair today. Maybe i’ll see how the burns look purple?

As an added motivation, i keep a picture of this guy on my desktop.

“If you don’t finish your book, this will be you.”

Jeesh, i never even posted this morning!

Beth, it is my sad duty to inform you that even though you are the

Day Eight $10 challenger

i only needed 800 words to catch up … and wrote that this morning … sorry. I’ll find some other way to contribute to your robot army.

Instead, i offer … a picture of a robot army!

I’d still like to build more buffer, but i’m hitting the end of ACT I, which is being pretty tricky.

Next up: Pati Nagle. Pati, since i didn’t build up my buffer today, i’m back to slogging tomorrow to keep my $10.

Everyone (except Pati) wish me luck!

I just spent an hour marking up and bracketing the next five chapters in preparation of writing all day. To get back on track, i need to write / edit / rewrite at least 5000 words, though really i’d love to get through 8000 so as to have a buffer for tomorrow.

We’ll see.

I’m not doing anything but writing, eating, and taking walks in the sun.

Day Seven: Ethan McCutchen and Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Yep, here we are on a DOUBLE PAYOUT DAY. After my fail yesterday and resulting backlog of missed words … well, i’m a little nervous. Ethan and Nina are both good friends, but i’m still going to do my darndest to save my twenty bucks.

I need to reach 38,000 words or i’ll have to pay out (though, like i said, i’m secretly going to try to get to 40,000.)

Anyway, wish me luck. I may or may not Twitter, depending on how into it i am.

See you on the other side.