NaNoWriMo - Did I do it???

This posts title I added yesterday, when I did this as a draft post to keep the Nanowrimo stat's I had accumulated safe, and decided to keep it to tease lol. Here are yesterday's stats that I didn't post earlier:

Your Average Per Day - 1,623

Words Written Today - 3,951

Target Word Count - 50,000

Total Words Written - 47,083

Words Remaining - 2,917

I've had a banging headache for two days and taken everything from ibuprofen and co-codamol to my migraine medication and the bugger is still there (grrr!) so I honestly didn't know if I'd hit the 2,917 to finish today. But I'm beginning to see my perpetual headaches and migraines as an irritating boyfriend, one who tries to prevent me from doing exactly what I want - so that there's no doubt that I'm going to overcome the wretched things with a 'no way, hosay!' attitude.

So I won! Yay! Although the novel isn't finished I made it over the line this month with 50,110 words. BTW those of you who read the excerpt I previously posted of my novel, that was a dream my main character was having. I put one in after I watched one of the Nanowrimo videos, where a girl puts them in whenever she gets stuck, and I thoroughly recommend them. They're a great way to say things that you may be cannot say in the main text, as a tool to change up the style of your novel (I made my horror-movie style to contrast the airy-fairyness of my main character) or to use as a metaphor for something that you may be writing in between the lines, like a clue for the reader.

In academy-award winner style I want to thank everyone who left me supportive messages through this month, it really means a lot. And to Lady Gaga, who has been on repeat, approximately 100 of these:
and one attention-deprived pup:

I'm off to watch a week's worth of telly and stroke the dog until I possibly fall asleep, so that I have to watch them all again tomorrow - but who cares, I now have some time to do it :) Love to all xxxx

AEDM & NaNoWriMo Day 30

Today for AEDM is a mica-full art journal page:

It's with the textured background I did a few days ago, I can capture the texture:

But not all the mica goodness unfortunately, not with our November gloominess. However I've only a couple more pages of this particular journal to go then I can video a journal flip, where I'll move it around to my hearts content to show all the shimmer & shine.

As for Nanowrimo, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek only one day left! I will do a post at the end of the day when I know if I've hit the 50k or not (so I'm keeping yesterday's word count a secret till then - when I was at 6,868 words to go),

but for now I've 

A) Completed art every day month, Whoop! Some days with lots of art, other days with only 5 mins of art but nevertheless with art every day, WAHOO!
B) I've done a blog post EVERY DAY - me!!!!! I've more than doubled the amount of all the other blogs posts I have ever done in ONE month! Proud? Not much :) :) :) :) :) :) eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh that makes me happy :) :) :) :) :)

Congratulations to all who've done any kinds of challenges this month- we RULE :) xxxxxx

AEDM & NaNoWriMo Day 29

Today's creation for AEDM is:

A very, very quick sketch in my horrid journal with alcohol pens with paintbrush-like tips. I'm feeling pretty bad about calling it the horrid journal after the contrary comments I received yesterday. Would it get me off if I told you it's a term of endearment? Against the odds of her creator not liking her she's prevailed and is still getting finished??? No?? Well it's stuck now so that's her name lol

I did this quick sketch with the same pens after I posted yesterday, but these ones had the tips broken. As I said the tips are paintbrush like so if you press too hard they split like a brush will, but not retain the shape after. 

This one took about 3 mins, but I have to say I love the lines the broken pen causes - going from fat to thin in the same stroke. I know they're not great but these are probably all I'll have to show you for today as most important to me right now is WRITING.


Day 28's final word count for NaNoWriMo was: 4,411, which totals 43,132 (YAY! WHOOP! HORRAY! HURRAH!), meaning I have 6,868 words to complete over the next two days to win my first Nanowrimo (thats 3434 words a day - reckon I can do it? Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!)


I'm sorry to my blog friends who I didn't get around to visiting yesterday, I've a feeling today and tomorrow will pretty much be the same. Completing my novel this month is very important to me so I hope you understand and I promise to visit & catch up on all your blogs after tomorrow - none of you've got rid of me just yet!!


Thanks for visiting, day 29 already can you believe it? Keep your fingers crossed for me :) x

AEDM & NaNoWriMo Day 28

Today for AEDM is:

Another page in my horrid journal, I'm determined to get this journal finished before the end of the year lol

Can you believe it's day 28? I'm getting a little sad that AEDM is coming to an end :( sniff sniff, but I've met so many great creative people who have become new blogging friends :)

Day 27's final word count for NaNoWriMo was: 1,706 - I was all bleh yesterday so I guess it's quite a good result really. So I'm now totalling: 38,721, with 11,279 words remaining and 3 days to do it in, I'm off to work....

AEDM & NaNoWriMo Day 27

Today's creation for AEDM is, bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh!

So I painted over it (you can just see the face poking through), no idea what I'm going to do with it now. 

It was for my 6x6 journal so I gave in and went to my Big Mama journal to do a page but so far the background is, yeah bleh!

So then I went to my horrid journal as I don't mind making bleh pages in them, because that's how I feel they all are:

To be honest I'm feeling pretty bleh in everything the last two days, including my writing. But as I've only got a couple of days left to hit the 50k I'm off to slog, grinch and groan at my screen :(


Day 26's final word count for NaNoWriMo was: 1,597. Totalling: 37,015

AEDM & NaNoWriMo Day 26

Today for AEDM is the first project for the paper beads:

It's a mini scrapbook I altered/decorated years ago with the intention making it into an art journal, I thought the beads gave it a bit of colour. I thought it was about time I started using it as a journal so grabbed some cheap old 6x6 paper and got painting this:

My Grandmother loves angels so I'm going to collage her one for Christmas, this is really a just practice at how I want the wings. I did originally want to sew her a soft angel art doll but with everything I'm doing I doubt I'll have time to spend a couple of days at the sewing machine (I'm not the best machinist so it takes me twice as long to get something done).

Day 25's final word count for NaNoWriMo was: 1,083, only managed a thousand :( and these were an absolute struggle, though I've no idea why - I know exactly where the story is going, what I want to write next but just couldn't get it to come easy. Hoping today it will :) Totalling: 35418.

Oh and Lovely Gwen asked yesterday if I would be posting my novel here, erm no, I wouldn't dream of putting you through that - although I have put an excerpt of it up on my NaNoWriMo novel page. Click here if you want to read it. Although don't come crying to me if you do, 'cause I didn't make you lol

AEDM & NaNoWriMo Day 25

Today's AEDM is a quick art journal page:

This page was purely about getting messy. I used every wet media & scrap in arms reach, not caring about the outcome, I just needed to get some feeling out.

Linking this today with Paint Party Friday.
My glaze finally came so I have been sealing all those paper beads I made earlier in the month:

Adding glitter and other things like silver flakes, which you can see on the loose beads above, here's a close up:

Day 24's final word count for NaNoWriMo was: 4,150

My Nano stat's were telling me yesterday:

Your Average Per Day: 1,430 

Words Written Today: 4,150 

Target Word Count: 50,000

Target Average Words Per Day: 1,667

Total Words Written: 34,335 

Words Remaining: 15,665

Current Day: 24 

Days Remaining: 7

At This Rate You Will Finish On: December 4, 2011

Words Per Day To Finish On Time: 2,238

2 days ago it was telling me I was under a thousand words a day & would finish Dec 17th or have to write three and a half thousand a day or something to finish on time. So I'm actually pretty chuffed how it's turned around. I can do this, easy!

AEDM & NaNoWriMo Day 24

Today for AEDM is the final layer of the canvas:

I'm not sure if it is the last layer yet, we'll see if I end up fiddling more.

I added an enamel pendant from my uni days on her dress

Some chipboard, gem trees and stamping.

Day 23's final word count for NaNoWriMo was: 5,080, was in the zone yesterday, so hoping it happens again today. Totalling: 30,185