I...WON...

How amazing it that? I actually won NaNoWriMo...
I was not really expecting this kind of elation I am feeling right now....
WHEEEE!
Anyway, next is the editing process, and that will take forever... Especially since it is 83 pages long... Shoot... Well...
Hopefully when I get the published paperback copy from Createspace, then I will let everyone read the crappy copy, then when I get it published, you will all get to say that you read the first version...

Just in case you didn't know, I was screaming to myself for about 5 minutes... Thank heavens my family was gone... They would have thought I was insane...

This is the newest novelist, signing off!

Noble.

P.S.

I hope you all enjoyed listening to Artemis during the month. She might make guest appearences now that she has been introduced to you all, but that all depends on her mood, which is really wacky.

A quick update

So Noble had some trouble last week.

Well, not really trouble per say, but she didn't write anything on Thursday or Friday, and fell a little bit behind.

Luckily, she wrote just over 3,000 words yesterday and plans of writing another 3,000 today so that she can catch up.

The reason she fell behind?

Twilight.

Yes, Noble went to see the midnight showing of Twilight.

Here's what happened.

Thursday she got up early and went to Institute, after which she wasted time on the Internet by playing Yahoo! games like Cake Mania, which is one of her favorite games.
Then she drove to work, where she was able to write about 400 words during the slow periods, but that was all.
Right after work, she went and picked up her friend, Cheez, and together they drove North to Salt Lake, intent on going to the theater.
They went to the theater near Noble's house and tried to get in, but the ticket taker said that the ticket that Noble had bought on Fandango didn't exist.
And so Noble took a closer look at the ticket and noticed that it was for the other theater of the same name, only several miles further North.
So they drove to the correct theater, where they got some seats close to the screen next to a pair of girls, one of which had the same phone as Noble and had the same name as Noble.
Then they watched the movie.
She doesn't want to say anything and give anything away to the people who still haven't see it, but she would like to say that it was AWESOME!
After that, which was just after 2 in the morning, they drove back to Cheez's house for the night, arriving around 3.
And Noble tells me she has never fallen asleep so fast before.
The next morning Noble took Cheez to school then drove home.
And her dad had fixed her laptop. Sort of. It wasn't finished, but it was close, and they watched Mission: Impossible 3 on it, another time waster, and Noble wrote only another couple hundred words before leaving for work.

So that's why Noble didn't write anything on Thursday or Friday.

In other news, Noble almost became a Mary Kay consultant.

And I have to go now, before Noble's brothers yell at me too much.

But I'm writing this from Noble's awesome new laptop!

New Total!

Noble has reached the halfway point.

True, she cheated a little bit by doing this: do not, not don't, adding double names, and spacing out the msn messenger names.

But she has made it half way.

In fact, she has 26,800, and is working on her next goal. 30,000 by tomorrow night.

Amazing, right?

And she is so stunned that she has been able to stretch the plot this far. She actually added several scenes that she wasn't planning on happening, and they are really great scenes!

And Noble would like to make a confession.

Her main character has the same birthday as her best friend, Balgram...

I am sorry I haven't posted yet.

Well, I apologize for the fact that I haven't posted since the last time, but Noble has kept me fairly busy. However, I have some very good news for all you readers.

Noble is on track.

Unlike last year, where she stopped at 6,000 words, this year, she is right on schedule. In fact, as of this moment, she has roughly 15,300 words. She would like me to mention that this is the most she has EVER written. And she doesn't see a time in the near future where she will run out of things to write.

She would also like me to tell you a little bit about the story, so that you can all wait eagerly for it to be finished.

The working title she has for it, according to her spot on the NaNoWriMo website is Returned Huntress and the following is the little blurb she has on said site.

When a new family moves into the old abandoned house across from her house, Chandra Graves is a little miffed because the four siblings in high school don't seem to want to leave her alone, constantly invading her privacy. But when she begins to have dreams that point to there being something more about the family, she starts to wonder who she really is. And before long, she finds out that time is running out for her and the family. Can she remember her past before her future is gone?

Technically, the blurb is a bit behind, because as of two days ago, Chandra remembered her past, and is busy planning her future with the family. And Noble doesn't want me to tell you who she really is, or anything about the family other than the fact that there are 14 members not including Chandra.

But, there is some more great news Noble would like me to tell everyone, because she screamed when she read this, and is dying very slowly of excitement.

Breaking News
Posted by: Chris Baty on 11/09/2008
News we could all use
Need another great reason to keep those sights set on 50K? Our fantastic sponsor CreateSpace, whose sponsorship helped fund NaNoWriMo and the Young Writers Program this year, is offering all NaNoWriMo 2008 winners a free proof copy of your manuscript in paperback book form. They'll even cover basic postage! We'll post details on the Special Offers page and the "I Wrote a Novel, Now What?" page on December 1.
If you have any questions before then please drop the good folks at CreateSpace an email or check out their community boards.

That was from the NaNoWriMo website front page blog that the founder, Chris Baty, writes almost every day. It's like a mini pep talk right there. For anyone who wants to read the paperback copy when Noble is finished and has recieved it, please feel free to hollar at her, and she will see if she can bear to let of it long enough for you to read it.

Noble would also like me to note that she still doesn't have a laptop, and probably won't until the latter half of the month, but that it hasn't fazed her in the slightest. She is still writing hard on her desk top and, while at work, on paper, and foresees that she will complete the novel.

Artemis, signing off

I am called Artemis

Just a little introduction, my name is Artemis Standring, and I am the writing personae of Noble. Noble has passed the baton over to me for the month of November because she has practically vacated reality in favor of another crazy endeavor called National Novel Writing Month. I have been with Noble for about four or five years, and Noble can't tell you any different because she doesn't remember all that well either.

Noble is the biggest procrastinator I have ever met, just so that everyone knows that. She tells me that she was meaning to post something all this past week, but never got around to actually doing so. So there are several things she wanted me to tell everyone who reads this blog.

I don't think I have ever been so pissed off at my dad than I am now, and I'm torn between wishing he would read this and hoping he never does.

The last time I got a paycheck, October 17th to be exact, I was planning on buying a laptop so that I had something to work on during November. Dad got wind of the idea and made so suggestions. After thinking about it, I decided to ask him for some more help, and ended up leaving it up to him whether or not I actually had a laptop in November. What a mistake.

I thought I was a procrastinator... It's November, and my dad STILL hasn't made a purchase for the laptop, after I went through all the trouble of giving him $400 to help with his mortgage... GRRRR....

And I told him that the latest I could wait for a laptop was the 3rd, because I didn't actually need a portable computer until I went to work on Monday, and he tells me now that I won't have one on Monday.

Well... I'm screwed for NaNoWriMo... My goal had been to be typing none stop, to surpass the daily word count as much as possible, but that is no longer even feasible... GAH! Now I will only be able to write while I'm at home on my ridiculously stupid desktop that gives me headaches if I leave it on too long, instead of when ever I had nothing to do, like when I'm riding the bus.

And don't tell me I can do it longhand, because I can't. If I do anything longhand, everything gets lost in my inability to write as fast as I think. GROWL REALLY LOUD!

I must admit, it is very disappointing. And she tells me that she doesn't have the money to just go and buy on today. Wow. I don't think I would be able to hide her emotions as well as she did during dinner after she learned all that.

Noble tells me that she also would like to tell you all about her Halloween, but I have made the decision to save it for a post tomorrow. That way I don't overload everyone with too many stories by her.

I will also be reporting on how Noble is doing for NaNoWriMo.