Look! I’m very nearly exceedingly half-way there! 24205 words!
[Er, Reed, honey, it’s day 20 - Ed]
Yes, but I’m practically half-way there, which is very cool indeed.
[Yeah, verily, my feet are freezing. But you’ve already used up two whole thirds of your days allowance.]
So I’ve only got 25000 words to go!
[In ten days.]
Well….
[That’s 2500 words a day.]
Err…
[And you’ve been managing 1250 words a day and whining your head off about it.]
But…
[So now you have to double your output.]
*Distant sound of weeping*
[Sheesh.]
Hang in there! You can do it! I cranked out 2900 words today and it wasn’t really that hard…if you lower your quality standards!
Left by Yogamum on November 21st, 2006
Bad editor. Bad. Ignore him, Reed (he’s definitely a blike in my opinion. He wears tank tops and horn rims. More insulting we cannot get on short notice). You’ve done very well, and of course you will do it.
I will now proceed to chase the editor away with a mop.
*Chases editor with a mop*
Left by Sol on November 21st, 2006
*hands Sol a bucket of really wet water to assist with the editor-chasing activities*
Left by AB on November 21st, 2006
Yeah, the Editor’s a poo. And definitely a he, I imagine him as being like the horrible agent I sent a simple e-mail query to last year and he wrote back a one-sentence sarcastic reply: “Check my website, Helen.” Grrrrrrr! Since when were we on first-name terms? Oh yes, I can imagine the Editor running out of the door being chased by a mop and a tide of soapy water. Goodbye! Don’t come back!
You have done brilliantly. Be proud of yourself!! 25,000 is a brilliant output. You have got that story out of your head and put it down on paper. And at least you haven’t spent most of November revising one paragraph like I have.
At least you are not my husband, who put some sticky hooks up on the wall, and they keep falling down, and now he’s sitting watching them on hook patrol, watching to see which one will fall down first.
Left by Helen on November 21st, 2006
Send the nasty editor away! Horrible man (I see him as a ‘he’, too - don’t know why). Do not weep Reed, you are doing really well. Keep going and don’t listen to the editor.
Left by Lilian on November 21st, 2006
*Looks at now very distant Editor, who standing up to ankles in sea of soapy water and gesticulating. Looks at pictures conjured up of Editor as bloke. Peers back at Editor. Shrugs*
Left by Reed on November 22nd, 2006
25,000 words is amazing. I am giving you a can of “editor repellant” which you can spray at your door to keep him out there in the puddle of soapy water indefinitely. You go, girl
Left by healingmagichands on November 22nd, 2006
You’re almost at 30,000 words! Wheeeeeeeeeee! I’d better get off this computer and see if I can get my progress bar moving too!
Left by Helen on November 23rd, 2006
Go Reed! *Brandishes mop enthusiastically and sprinkles dropletts of soapy water everywhere* Ooops.
Left by Sol on November 23rd, 2006
Yaaaaa - nearly 30,000 words. I am in awe.
Left by archie on November 23rd, 2006
Look at that wordcounter! over 31,000 words. You must have had yourself shackled to your computer. I am inspired.
Left by healingmagichands on November 24th, 2006
Evil Editor! Please stop being unpleasant to Reed, and offer her some encouragement and some cups of tea. You can get back to your usual job when it comes to the redrafting stage once November’s over. Excellent going, Reed.
Left by Singing Librarian on November 24th, 2006