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Didn’t think it would happen.

Waited ’til the last minute to even participate and had no real idea what I would write about, but after completing NaNoWriMo the last four years, I just felt the need to do it this year. Would feel like a failure if I didn’t.

The first week was like gangbusters. Wrote a little over 21,000 words that first week. The second week, cleared 30k. The third week, I peter out a bit as school and stress weighed heavily on me. Fourth week, came back and hit that last hurdle and cleared 50k. Total, 50,043 was hit tonight.

Is the story good? Hell, it’s not even a story any more. By week three my interest in the story peter out, so I began jumping into various sections and just writing, so right now, I have a mess, and I probably won’t even go back to it. But it did get me to writing even during the stressful first semester of my doctoral work, so that at least tells me that if I’m more structured I can write something good during this time.

I’m proud of myself. Now, to finish the semester and get into a new project!

Want to hear an excerpt of NaNoWriMo project, Educating Sophia? There’s a new excerpt below! You can check out the first two excerpts at Shon Bacon @ PodBean!

Excerpt Three of Educating Sophia

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Today was my long day at school. I usually get onto campus about 8 a.m., and I don’t leave campus ’til about 8, 8:30. Was lucky enough to have a class canceled and managed to get in about 1,500 words, and then just before midnight, I knocked out close to 900 words.

SO, today’s total was 2,324 words. My overall total right now is 15,367.

Hope to get to 17,500 words tomorrow.

The cool thing right now is I came up with a rather exciting (for me anyway, lol) way to develop the story, so now there is no worrying about writing in order or fingering out the whole story. Right now, I’m writing pieces as they come.

Thinking about making the story interactive, so my creativity is “webbing out” right now, and whatever it links up to in reference to this story, I’m tagging it, writing it, and syncing up to the next thread of the story.

Exciting times, I say. Exciting times.

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On day one, I wrote about 5,200 words.

This morning, I woke up and went to Starbucks, got me a white chocolate mocha and a slice of pumpkin bread and wrote before doing anything else. Got about 2,800 words in.

Sitting at 8,015 words for the first two days.

My goal for myself is to get to at least 30,000 words during NaNo because with school and all, I’m not sure I can hit the 50k. If I can cross the 15k mark by Sunday evening, I will be happy.

And proud of myself,

How are you guys doing on NaNo thus far?

Hope to put up an excerpt soon!

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I had been so busy lately that I couldn’t do it, but after I read my girl’s (Jennifer Coissiere) poem, I was inspired to do my own.

Don’t have a title for it…but here it is!

As a young girl, I thought about the boy that would
Break through my walls and
Call my name in such a tender way that all my
Defenses would crumble around me.
Every day, every day, I would look around, hoping to
Find him, and sometimes, I thought I did though he would vanish like a
Ghost, leaving me
Haunted, hollow, and alone.
I decided not to think of the boy, the man, but to focus on my
Job, my education, my career, hence
Killing the wishful thinking, the WHAT IFs of love, of relationships. I
Lived quietly, in my box, focusing on my
Mind but
Never the heart because that would hurt, that would
Open up the truth that I was alone and wanting to be a
Part of a union with a man who would make my heart, mind, and body
Quake with a joy that’s only second to the
Redeeming love of Jesus. Just as I got used to the
Same quiet nothing of my life, he came to me,
Tantalized by the God in me, and the inner beauty that
Usurped my outer beauty. Quickly, he took up
Vacancy in my heart, wanting to love me – flaws and all as I
Willingly sought to do the same, and the feelings, the joy I feel cannot be
Xeroxed; it can only be experienced when you openly give of
Yourself and allow yourself to move beyond the
Zero of One mentality and learn to love yourself and allow others to love you back.

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