38276 words
My brain is fried. I went to a little town on the other side of the county with my children... we all saw the dentist this afternoon. Afterwards we went to meet the newspaper editor - his building was right next to the dentist and I'd never before met him though I read his weekly news and have had an op-ed (which started as a letter) printed in his paper. He turned out to be very nice, not scary. I'm so shy I think everyone will frighten me. I would have stayed to talk to him longer but he was working past a deadline and I really couldn't stand around taking up his precious time.Anyhow, I got home safely many hours later and forgot that I didn't need to write on nights when I go out of town... so I wrote 2239 new words. I'm too tired to continue!
I've got a new motivator. At the NaNoWriMo site I got a list of descending word count, with only authors with novel excerpts in their profiles. So now I'm reading the novel snippet of whoever's ahead of me and making up reasons I should get ahead of that person - or why that person deserves to be passed up. LOL... juvenile, yes, but fun. When I got too tired to read, I decided to give up for the night.
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