{"id":121,"date":"2005-11-01T21:58:27","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T02:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tikatusmuse.wordpress.com\/2005\/11\/01\/nanowrimo-has-begun"},"modified":"2013-09-12T22:30:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T02:30:53","slug":"nanowrimo-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/2005\/11\/01\/nanowrimo-has-begun\/","title":{"rendered":"NaNoWriMo has begun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bvMsg\" id=\"msgcns!B17FB9382CECD331!477\">\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Well, I hoped to put up my NaNoWriMo participant icon here, but MSN spaces won&#8217;t let me. NaNoWriMo\u00a0stands for National Novel Writing Month. I&#8217;ve signed up for it and the goal is to write a 50,000\u00a0novel in thirty days. I&#8217;m off to a good start: 2080 words today so far. I&#8217;m doing a modern day fantasy, plus I started chapter 12 of <em>Overtures<\/em>.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Report cards came home today, and it was as I expected. Both boys had all As, and the Girl didn&#8217;t. She had five As, one B, and one C (in Geometry). I&#8217;m sure she can pull the Geometry grade up in the next quarter; she feels she has a better grasp on the subject now. She even said that the teacher hadn&#8217;t gotten a couple of the grades in (their project and notebook grades, I think)\u00a0 so that the C might not be the final grade anyway. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">What did surprise me was the fact that, although Boy #1 got 100s in all but two of his classes, Boy #2 didn&#8217;t get even one! All his grades were 93 or above, but no actual 100s. That was interesting.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">We finally got the proofs back from Boy #2&#8217;s photo shoot. He&#8217;s got the goofiest smile on his face! I&#8217;ll probably order the pictures simply because I need to have them for Christmas.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">We did the &#8220;donuts for As&#8221; thing at Krispy Kreme, and I introduced yet another mother to the perk they provide. I also went over the wall and ate two donuts. One was offered to me as a &#8220;free sample&#8221; while the kids were getting theirs (I just <em>couldn&#8217;t<\/em> refuse a warm glazed donut!) and the other I ate after supper: a pumpkin spice donut. Really yummy and I&#8217;m going to hate to see my &#8221; before bed&#8221; blood glucose level!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">I wish I could get rid of this sniffly cold\/allergy\/whatever it is! I hate being so stuffed up all the time. I&#8217;ve run out of the powerful decongestant and will have to fall back on sudafed.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Well, enough for today. Tomorrow, I&#8217;ll let my muse move some more. If I average 2000 words a day, I can finish the 50,000 words by Thanksgiving (maybe). Of course, that doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean that the story will be done&#8230;. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I hoped to put up my NaNoWriMo participant icon here, but MSN spaces won&#8217;t let me. NaNoWriMo\u00a0stands for National Novel Writing Month. I&#8217;ve signed up for it and the goal is to write a 50,000\u00a0novel in thirty days. I&#8217;m off to a good start: 2080 words today so far. I&#8217;m doing a modern day fantasy, plus I started chapter 12 of Overtures. \u00a0 Report cards came home today, and it was as I expected. 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