[Final Total Word Count: 53,547]
The end is nigh, gentle reader. It’s nearly over. It seems hard to believe, but less than 500 words now stand between us and the summit: Nanowrimo!
It’s been tough along the way, I acknowledge. The rest of my life has taken a number of knocks while I’ve been closeted with the [...]
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Chapter Twenty-Four: The End
Posted in The Story, tagged completing, End, nanowrimo08, problems on November 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Chapter Twenty-Three: A Problem
Posted in The Story, tagged nanowrimo08, Problem, Wenham on November 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
[Total Word Count: 52,106 !]
“I gave him that spreadsheet.”
“You what?”
“I gave him that spreadsheet. Only he asked for it again, and you never got me another copy, so I had to find my copy and give him it.” said Katie, resentfully.
“Did you delete the sheet with the story on?”
“No. I can’t start mucking about with [...]
Chapter Twenty-two: Difficult conversations
Posted in The Story, tagged conversations, nanowrimo08, Wenham on November 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
[Total Word Count: 49,479]
“Good morning!” said Julie, “Sleep alright?”
I gradually resumed consciousness and pieced together the essential memories I needed for a coherent answer,
“Yeah, not too bad, considering,” I answered, levering myself up off the couch.
“There’s coffee if you want it. I’m off in about ten minutes. OK?” she glanced sideways “What’s that?” she asked, [...]
Chapter Twenty-one: A Turn for the Better
Posted in The Story, tagged bottles, Chapter 21, nanowrimo08, spreadsheets, Wenham on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
[Total Word Count: 47,221]
“He didn’t read it,” said Katie, looming up suddenly over my shoulder.
“Uh, whah?”
“He didn’t read the spreadsheet with the story in,” she explained, “You were really lucky. Only normally he reads everything. But apparently last night he had a leaking pipe in his roof, and spent hours trying to get it patched [...]
Chapter Twenty: More revelations
Posted in The Story, tagged Chapter 20, nanowrimo08, reconciliation, spreadsheets on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
[Total Word Count: 44,871]
I arrived early at Behemoth in a state of turmoil. I got as far as sitting at my desk and then a kind of paralysis hit me. My brain, reserving only those basic functions necessary for life support, had diverted its resources into running a single sentence through my mind over and [...]
Chapter Nineteen: Long passages about a biscuit
Posted in The Story, tagged biscuit, Chapter 19, nanowrimo08, Wenham on November 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
[Total Word Count: 42,609]
It’s finished. It really is finished. Wenham, I mean. The story is told. I knew it was going to happen, and now it has. All the sections of text can be bolted together, and the thing can go down the slipway now. Whether it’s any good is another question, but it’s incontrovertibly [...]
Chapter Eighteen: Spreadsheets
Posted in The Story, tagged Behemoth, Chapter 18, nanowrimo08, Wenham on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
[Total Word Count: 40,647]
Things have quietened down at Behemoth following the big excitement of Kevin’s presentation. Kevin himself is away this week. I’ve got three different projects I need to work on, but none of them has a deadline nearer than the end of next week. I think I might be a bit of an [...]
Chapter Seventeen: Discovery
Posted in The Story, tagged Chapter 17, nanowrimo08, paintings, Wenham on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
[Total Word Count: 38,489]
I went round to see Geoff again. I felt obscurely guilty about deciding to continue with Wenham, as if it were somehow cheating; but I thought it was best to go round and tell him. He looked completely taken aback to see me, almost apprehensive. I was not a welcome visitor, [...]
Chapter Sixteen: Not Giving Up
Posted in The Story, tagged Chapter 16, Earl, laptop, Mouse, nanowrimo08 on November 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
[Total Word Count: 36,343]
“Hello!” says Mouse, opening the door, “Come in. Would you like a coffee?”
What I hadn’t expected somehow was that she would be sharing, and that two of her flatmates would be sitting on their battered old sofa looking at me with undisguised interest.
“You’re John, then?” says one of them, a thin brunette [...]
Chapter Fifteen: Giving Up
Posted in The Story, tagged Chapter 15, Dream, Giving Up, nanowrimo08 on November 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
[Total word count: 34,345]
So, gentle reader, you and I will never complete the journey that is Nanowrimo. I feel sad but free. It’s nice to think I don’t have to churn the words out, but I do feel a sense of something almost like bereavement. Until I decided to stop, I felt fed up with [...]
