Hello there bloggies it’s the 18th day of NaNoWriMo and as you can tell I’ve still not been able to be around much as I’ve been getting on with the task in hand of getting 50,000 words done by the end of the month.
I’m finding this is the tough part now actually. Things have flowed and they can still flow but now I’m finding I’m missing bits of story and at the end I’m running out of story so I need to mess about a bit and I’ve been falling a little behind but it’s quite recoverable. I hope.

Here’s where I am… just over 28,000 words. So it’s progressing, I intend to keep it up, 1600 words a day and make it to at least 50k, this will almost certainly not be the final book and there will be messing and fettling for a while and hopefully get the final manuscript to 70k
I hope you guys are ok and if anyone else is doing NaNo as well look me up: scifi_simon

Blog Orbit – Blog Date August 2022
Hello there bloggies! I can’t believe we’re already 10 days into August and I’ve not posted for a few week. That’s a bit bad of me… Over here on this little island the ship is sinking with no one at the helm, or we would be sinking if it wasn’t quite so dry here, we’re … Continue reading Blog Orbit – Blog Date August 2022

The Squirrel Cage Cutter
Back in early spring when food was hard to come by for all our feathered and furry friends the local squirrel (or one of them) was as is usual helping himself to the birsds nuts and it seems they were having some difficulty getting to the nuts inside. This was evident from the way the … Continue reading The Squirrel Cage Cutter

FIGEL and the intern
This is my Blog Battle Entry for July 2022 and the prompt is Hatch. Figel and the Intern Figel Narage was one of the most annoying, self righteous and obnoxious individuals to work at the Jacob and Bradley management consultancy. He was also totally incompetent however he had managed through all kind of obnoxious schemes … Continue reading FIGEL and the intern
As you are brilliant and and incredible i nominated you for the sunshine blogger award! Go to my site and follow the directions. 🙂 xo
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You are stronger than me. I don’t think I have it in me to take on this type of challenge.
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That’s what I thought until I signed up at the end of October, I think we find strenghts we didn’t know we had when we jump into something and see what we can do.
Why don’t you try it next year?
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Perhaps I might. Depends on what I’ll be doing next year.
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What could you be doing? I’m sure you can…
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Yes, I remember having the same issue last year at the same time. That’s why I figured I would plot A LITTLE next time I try NaNo. I think I took a day off last November and just plotted. It helped with the remaining days.
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I can see why that would help, I went into this with just the plot in my head, I think next time I will plot and that should make things a bit easier. Or I might just panster again lol
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Best of luck, Simon! Wishing you happy writing and productive editing!
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Thank you Meg 🙂
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That’s why some people spend the month before planning and the 10 months after editing…
Just keep writing.
I hope you get there in the end… you will get there…
Love, light and glitter
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I think this will be how it goes with me… Thank you for keeping up and supporting me 😀
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I’d say always but I couldn’t know what will be. I appreciate that you are around. You’re a large part of my WP life…. love, light and glitter
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I know what you mean, I’m glad I am and I hope that continues… 😀
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If anyone can do it, it’s you! Your incredibly talented, just incredible..you got this 😉👍
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Thank you Nikki… It’s good to know you’re behind me. I’m going good thanks 😀
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Always! 😉
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