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Eight forty-nine and she starts out writing her book. The amazing novel. Each and very
November thi is wht lisaa does, she pens fifty words and then she abruptly stops. 222 thousand
people o this, the writing marathon. Kind of coinciding with the New York marathon. The racing
to the finish line, whether in words or in steps. The repetition of smaller units, steps, words- in
For her, it is more about formalities, not so much formalities in the sense of formal behavior and
adhering to rules, but forms, shapes. Should she indent the first line of a new paragraph or not?
This is what writers think about, this and nothing else. She had her coffee and she as at the gym
and she bumped into a parked car and she left her phone number on the windshield of the other
car. Too much happening already for the first day of November here. 167 words already here and
King of Queens now, the one with the karaoke. Hard to believe that this show is some twenty
So this will be her novel, the description of the days of a writer. The minute-to-minute. Nobody
will publish this. Forget about marketing. Self-publishing has to do here. Has to suffice.
231 word already, at nine-oh-eight on a chilly November morn on the Pacific Northwest coast
here. Maybe the story should be situated in Brooklyn, because that is where all the writers live
nowadays. How can you possibly be a writer if you live outside of Brooklyn? It is not done, I tell
‘yer.
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283 words here, already. Doug and Carrie on the telly here.
Nice day for a walk- it is supposed to be a run. This was the conversation on the run slash bike
pass near the writer’s home. A person on the bike waiting for the light to turn green. Turning
around and saying said words. She mumbling that this is a run. Does she really run that slow?
Well, walkers pass her by, so much is true. But it is still a run, those short jumps make it a run
On the telly, Paternity Court. Quality TV. Is this what writers watch? Faulkner used to drive a
forklift. Slinging words together, it is a non-job. No job. A no-job. You fashion new words.
Neologisms. You talk about stuff that others have described before you. Better writers,
eloquenter ones. And most authors are men, anyways. At least the ones that count. The gals
entered the game later, weaker. The bigwigs are still the boys. No change of the guard as of yet
here. All the dead poets have the propensity to grow bushy beards. Testosterone makes them pen
better words. Apparently having an embroidered seat cushion in the back of your Toyota Corolla
makes you choose words that do not give you a passing grade when you vie for a Pulitzer. Or
maybe the judge and jury are all guys. Old boys club. Genderstudies, genderpolitics. In lit.
English lit. Peter Handke just won the Nobel. It is highly detested. But she read his stuff, a long
time ago. Was good. He writes like he speaks. In a slow South Tirol droll. Austrian. Which
means, basically, sleepy. He falls asleep while he talks. Maybe it is not South Tirol.
11:13. In the AM. The novel that is not really. There are no players. There is just one protagonist,
the writer herself. Her life. Her keyboard, her telly. There will be meetings in town. For the
writers. There will be a wrap-up party in the Australian moose-under place in downtown. In a
cellar. On a Sunday. Other writers. Better ones, worse ones. Younger ones and hardly any older
ones. Writing is a young man’s game. Retirees have nothing to say, they left the rat race already.
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Writing is a solitary occupation. You have to go for long long runs. The Loneliness of the Long-
Distance Runner. Tom Courtney pre-Dr. Zhivago. In black and in white here. It is a good movie,
the very best here. 705 words here. Seven Zero Five.
And now, it is Two Broke Galz. Well, technically it is Two Broke Girls. Or maybe 2 Broke Girls.
Nothing to write home about. But the laugh tracks make even the flattest episode sparkle. Before
this, it was Friends. 2 episodes. And we had crevettes. Shrimps. 4 of ‘em. Apparently, ten have
80 calories. So we had even less than 40 calories. And then there was an egg. Ah, trying to fight
the weight. Getting down at least five pounds. Halloween does that to yer, you yoyo up. And now
we have to yoyo down again. With crevettes and eggs. With nuts and raisins. With counting all of
these calories here. Running, yep that is good too. Stationary bike in the gym. 30 minutes here.
The weight, the wordcount. Everything is measured in numbers. How many words and how
many pounds? Kilograms are better maybe. The number is less here. Bodymass index, huh. The
obligatory bmi. The controversal one. Muscle weighs more. Well, not in this case, trust me, it is
all pure flab here. Not everyone is an arnoldi here. Arnold as in Mr Schwarzenegger here. 896
words here. And now we know which button to press in order to update the wordcount on the
Words raining down onto the page here. Maybe spellcheck is advised here, but first it is all about
fulfilling the daily requirement here. 160 words, nah, one thousand six hundred here in order to
have fifty thou come December first here. 067 words here. Spellcheck ah spellcheck here.
On the telly, Oleg. What is the name of the always stoned cashier here? In this Two Broke Girls
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In Hamburg they must have finished the all day pensum here. There was a woman who wrote the
fifty thousand words in 17 hours straight here. In Reykjavik here. Maybe we can beat that. Ah
not likely here. We are not that gifted a speedtypist here. Yup, that is what it is all about, typing
as fast as you can, typing by the speed of your pants. Or something like that, something of that
kind here. On the news, California wildfires and Trump interrogation. To impeach or not to
impeach here, that is the question. Does not make any difference for the novel writing month
here. 104 words here, we are of course talking about the impeachment and not about the
597 words needed today, according to the nanowrimosite. After updating. The site tells you how
many words you are still needing. It is a weird way to pen a novel. And is it even a novel? Or is
This is the second time today that we are watching this particular episode of Two Broke Girls
here.
One forty-nine here. PM. First day of November and all we are doing here is penning the next
big thing here. The all-American novel, the great all-American novel here. And this is not even
the US of A here.
An ad for Medicare, so apparently this is the station out of Seattle. Or maybe LA, NYC, or
She did the run without mitts and now her hands are kind of screaming out for hand cream. How
will they run this Sunday in NYC here? The weather is nicer though apparently here. But running
in cold weather is actually better, it is the heat that usually does you in.
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She had peanuts in their shells. Thy were kind of stale but that is how life in diet land is here.
Gotta lose those last five pounds here. The ones that she put on during the month of October
here.
It is two in the afternoon. Time for Jake Harper. Talking on the phone. Charlie making faces at
him here. That’s it, time to get a new kid, according to Charlie. And now Alan, goofy, aloof or
whatev. here.
Laughtracks here.
And Alan is packing a picnic basket. What is he, Yogi Bear? He draped a sweater over his
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Jake and Alan.
A blind date. Forget it. Charlie Harper does not go on blind dates.
I think around forty. And Charlie says that their ears are flabby.
191 words needed today. A municipal court judge. You did not tell me that.
And Charlie, while we’re at it, why don’t we go for the bigboy pants.
I was not expecting someone so yummy. And 144 words needed today and an ad for KFC. The
shrimps in the shell from Costco are kind of disgusting. It seems that part of the shell got
dislodged. Or lodged. Something is wrong with her swallowing here. Something in her
esophagus. Something that should not be there. So from now on only icecream. When writing.
Tea maybe. A latte. Nothing that will dislodge. Is that even the right word here?
1652 words here. 1677 might be needed. Or 1777 per day here. Who knows, who really knows.
This is not how literature works her. Content-providing in the day of digital, well, everything
here.
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685, sorry, 1685 words here. Time for a beer here.
1701, writers are all hopeless drunks. The good ones at least here, the sober ones are the ones
1736 here.
O words needed today, apparently, we penned enough words here. Amazing ah amazing here.
The last sentence just suddenly came out of nowhere. Apparently she was on this site 35 minutes
ago but that cannot be right. Apparently she opened the word file in order to copy this recipe for
a pumpkin soup and somehow this got all mixed up. Ah technology. The pumpkin soup was
made by a oman on Instagram on the other side of the world and th woman ooh and aahed about
that particular soup so it must be better than Campbell Soup. Btw, have you seen the movie MRS
CAMPBELL with Sofia Loren? I highly recommend it to all my readers and non-readers alike
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1863 words, so this is going somewhere here. Spent most of the last hours reading up on the
NYC marathon that is happening on Sunday. Starting in Staten Island near a bridge that starts
with a V, Versagio or something, some Spanish name, some Italian name. Did you know that
there is a Koch bridge in the five burroughs. Well, who would have thought.
Apparently, in the beginning people just throw their stuff on the ground, in order to become
cooler for the race. But apparently in the beginning it is bitter cold, so they wear old blankets and
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stuff, garbage bags, arm warmers made out of woolen socks from the dollar store, stuff like that.
There are Goodwill containers too. And then there is a blue line.
Quite a distance to run here. You can do it, even without training. Which will mean that you have
to walk most of it here. It is a ten-hour hike here. In the morn, we ran what was about a one K
run. Not bad for somebody with the wrong bodymass index. We will run eventually here, but
first we have to bring down the weight here. Not the other way around. First we whittle down the
weight, and the training for a marathon will astart here. The people who exercise to lose weight,
they are all doing it wrong here. First you achieve a normal weight and then you start moving in
order to maintain the weightloss. But the losing of weight comes by basically eating half. Portion
control. Rigorous portion reduction. So that it can till be tolerable. Usually that means that you
eat a third less than you would usually eat. Never go under 1600 calories. And never go over.
Thus you will lose your weight slowly but steadily here.
And do not buy Halloween candy, it will just make yer sick here.
There are write-ins and kick-offs in Massachusetts. Aha nice. There is a woman in Melbourne
who is rewriting her old short stories. She too has passed the two-thousand-word mark already.
Apparently, they are a day ahead in Australia. Or something like that here.
In this neighbourhood, the write-in is in another city. Or we will just stay put and type here, no
moving away from the laptop. Let’s do this. It is just wy to inconvenient to write some place
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else. The room wit the telly has to do, for now. It is officially her study. Great writers have a
study and that is where they pen thir words. The house in Amherst. Where the lady in white
wrote in her room on the second floor. A room of one’s own. So Virginia Woolf. Seems, the gals
do write, apparently ah apparently here. Actually, they say that galz are the chatty ones. The ones
that possess the gift of gab. So our anti feminine statements at the beginning of this amazing
novel do not really hold true here. She ponders, can one say one thing on one page and thee exact
opposite thing on the next page? Dichotomy, huh. Yup, why not, whatever makes your writing
and reading juices flow. Whatever let’s the ink flow. Whatever makes you happy here. Writer
here cannot quite grip the expression, whatever moves your mojo? Nope, that is not it here,
This book will be sent out to Farrar Strauss and Giroux, they accept everything. Union Square,
18 Union Square. 2463 words, written, penned on the day after Halloween here. Six twenty-
three, it is dark now outside. The day before she waited for all those goblins to come and nobody
came. Somebody came but never knocked. Or knocked silently and was not heard. Thus we had
twenty kitkats and twenty coffee crunches and now an expanding waistline over here here.
Running month, we should board a plane and run the New York City Marathon here. Which has
a funny name this year because of the sponsor who starts with a T and maybe has an S and a C
too here.
By the way, Bento O’Rourke has dropped out of the presidential race here. Just like Bill de
Blasio before him here. On the telly, Mario Cuomo’s son here and a woman who talks about
throwing spaghetti against a wall. The woman who teaches at Yale. The pretty one, Anoush
something. Well, she is east-Indian, but not all ladies from India are Anoushes. Ashok? That is a
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guy’s name here. I guess, she is called Asha. That is what Chris Cuomo just called her. Thank
you, Asha. And she might have never in her life been to India, New Jersey is where it is at here.
A Jersey girl. The Attorney General of New Jersey is Sikh, but basically he sounds like New
Jersey. They all have funny accents over there. Bernie Sanders, he has such a thick New York
accent. Well, maybe Brooklyn. With a west coast eye, they all sound alike. Rex Harrison in My
Fair Lady, he could pinpoint slight fluctuations. Author here can do that too with a city like
Hamburg. Each city block has its own intonations. The Sikhs in power in Canada sound totally
different then a Sikh in New Jersey does. The chief of the NDP, but he is from Ontario.
2784 words here, she should pen a love story. A crime novel. A chick flick in book form here.
The story of Gabriella. That is a nice name, is it not? A very non-committing name. She can be
anybody here. The only thing that the name gives away, is that she is a girl. A cool one. One of
the cool girls. One of the mean ones maybe? Are the cool ones necessarily mean? Ah, tough to
fashion a character out of thin air here. Everything for the wordcount here.
2873 words here. Cuomo does not like people making money off their family connections. It is
all about the Bidens here. Hunter Biden and the VP.
But hey Chris did you not get your cushy job because of your last name here?
That seems a tad accusative here but it seems that the guy that Chris was talking to was thinking
the same thing here. It was all about how Trump is the last person to accuse Biden of nepotism.
On the other hand, Cuomo said that he thinks that Hunter Biden did something inappropriate
with the Ukraine. But how would Cuomo know that? Joe Biden insists that he did not pull any
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strings so that Hunter could do business in the Ukraine. And let us face it, who does not believe
3010 words here, let us just concentrate on churning out as many words as we can here. The New
York Marathon. On the day after tomorrow here. This is what we will write here about. The
Trump is such an idiot. Everything he says is weird and makes your skin crawl. Why is that, how
Ah, the Instagram feed of half baked harvest. Verything so good. The movie of the making of a
pumpkin bread with cream cheese swirl in it and salted butter and maple syrup and sugar and
cinnamon. November fare here and the music the upbeat one that shows the baking, the baking in
3150 words here. At this rate, you’ll be done on day 16. So the nanowrimo site here. Usually we
finish this up on November five here. Maybe this time we will finish on November three, the day
of the marathon here. The ultra marathon of writing here. And once more, a person talking about
quid pro quo, though that seems to be so yesterday here. Quid pro quo is so October of 2019, let
Seven seventeen in the pee em here. 7:17 PM on 11/1/2019. A show on the telly here but the
sound is mute. 3267 words here. The writing of a novel, the feverish typing up of what passes as
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a novel here. The novel or the non-novel here. Eleven pages of novel already here, times new
Her right humerus is acting up already. The typing is doing her in, already ah already here. A
Dictaphone would do, should do here. How do others do it, the Handkes of this world of ours
here?
Eight twelve. A chilly evening, a Friday evening in front of the computer. A writr who pens a
novel, a story about life. A story that reflects life. And in this case, it is the life of a writer, this
writer. The struggle, the tribulations. A description of what the author here sees. On the telly, Al
Jazeera News. Syria. Turkey. Bashar al Assad. Russia backs him and the US backs Turkey. Or
something like this here. Somebody on the telly just put it like that here.
Politics, this is not the forum to discuss politics. This is the forum to tell a story. A novel writer is
Eight nineteen here. The day after Halloween. She ponders, next day X-mas decorations will go
up in the mall here. 3499 days here, still typing still typing here. She watched the Instagram story
of a runner in NYC. Running towards the sunrise. Having 31st Avenue all to herself. Whatever
happened to resting before the big event here? And it is not 31st Avenue, it is 31st Street. That is
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What do all those runners do now? How many hours till the start in Staten Island? Well, it
depends on what kind of runner you are here. Elite runners are very different than slowpokes.
3597 here.
Eight thirty-seven in the evening, in the night here. She’d rather watch Seinfeld than this here. Al
Jazeera cannot compete with Seinfeld here, with Kramer’s antics here. 3641 words here.
Watching the news while typing this up is counterintuitive here. Laugh tracks is where it is at.
Here.
3661.
November two. Thirty-four minutes after midnite. On the telly, Friends. Phoebe and Joey. And
here we are working on the novel that is not really a novel and more the quintessential anti-
novel. Senseless rambling a la stream of consciousness. 2700, sorry, 3700 words, btw, btw here.
And now, The Goldbergs. The person made telling the intimate stories of his family into a career.
Yup, he turned divulging family secrets into a lucrative profession. Pure genius. He is laughing
3747 in words ah words here. 1506 words needed today here. 3758 here.
Hanging out on the nanowrimo site seems more fun than the writing process itself here. The
illusion of a community. A virtual community. There was a kick-off party already in downtown.
And in Paragraph on 14th street there will be a write-in. Different places where people write.
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Seems that everybody has a story planned out here. Nobody is just tagging along, struggling,
teetering. It is kind of disillusioning, kind of like being the one that is left behind. A nobody
amongst stars. Maybe hanging out on the website is counterintuitive. What is fun, is the virtual
travel through different places, regions, time zones here. Btw, where exactly is the nanowrimo
headquarter located now? Oakland? San Francisco? One of the burbs in the East Bay? Seems to
be everchanging here.
1:22 in the AM. A slight feel of nausea is somewhere in the background here. And Family Guy is
on here.
3922 words. The writer and her novel. That is the subject matter of this. And it is not enough.
Nobody will read this. It is written stuff, I give you that. But it is basically whining. Complaining
about the inability to do the task at hand. Maybe we can try to modify the task, do it our way and
thus win. Explore new ways of doing stuff. Because we are not able to do it in the traditional
way. 4001 words, btw here. And the words start amassing here, even if the quality is subpar. It is
not a novel. But is it a novel? Ah, negativity rules, obviously, it is the middle of the nite and
Family Guy is on here. He is playing baseball, btw here. Somebody on the fora was afraid that in
the end, all she will have been writing is gibberish. Thus she plans it out, in order to avoid that
4085 here. 4087. Words needed today: 1172 here. Easy peasy, we can provide that amount of
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One thirty-three in the AY AM, on November second of 2019 here. How many more days or
hours to the NYC Marathon? The start is at 10:10 on Sunday, it is now 1:40 on Saturday, you do
the math. Apparently there will be a time change too sometime in there. End of daylight savings
time. Or something like that here. On the telly, Last Man Standing here. And on Instagram, the
woman from Germany who will run the marathon. And apparently is sightseeing en masse here.
So exciting here, Instagram makes you live vicariously through total strangers here. Whatever is
Amazing, huh.
And 4216 words it is, it is here. 1035 words needed today, at this rate you will finish on
November 24 here. Yay ah yay here. Btw, 4243 words, what a weird number here. Not round and
Describing coffeehouses- now there is a title for a book. Because, let us face it, this is what she
does. She describes coffee houses, at length, in her book slash books. She goes to said watering
holes and then comes back home, sits in front of the typewriter and tries to recreate the feel of
that place for posterity. So that readers can imagine that place long after she is gone. It is a futile
Today she woke up late, parked her car behind the coffeeplace in the side street. Walks by the
parked carss, by the sandwich place that is not open yet. Or maybe it is open, but nobody wants a
sandwich at nine in the morning on a sunny Saturday, while it is still chilly outside.
The coffee house is interesting, full of people. A woman waits in line behind her. Her long long
hair in a ponytail. There is no good place free, a place where one can sit down and peoplewatch
for hours. Author here., she sits at the window, with a view of the church slash community center
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on the other side of the street. Nobody really knows what kind of place this is, it has weddings
and funerals and Sunday morning prayers. It is Greek or Greek Orthodox or something like that.
Hellenic center, that seems to be the name. It resembles the acropolis or what people who have
Writing for the novel, describing coffee houses. That seems to be her job today. It is now nine
and fifty minutes after that, she is back at the typing machine and nanowrimos away. There is a
meeting in the public library in the other city, you get there by bus or by boat. She will never
ever make it there in time. So she will just sit put and type. While she was in the coffee house,
she contemplated laptops. How they are omnipresent whilst she just uses her laptop as she would
use a typewriter. She leaves it in one place, in one corner of her room and types there. Never ever
moves it, well, hardly ever. She does not take it to the coffee house like the woman with the long
hair in a ponytail is doing right now. Searching for an outlet for the laptop that she got out of her
4666 words here, the second day of nanowrimo here. Next to a sixth of the word requirement is
already down here. She read online that one writer, one woman lost her words by using an app
called Scribner. We do not do that. We use Microsoft Word. It has glitches but knock on wood
they seem to be not very important. Thanks, Mr. Gates in Seattle, you knew what you were
doing. Now is he the richest man on the planet or is it the guy with no hair on top of his head?
The amazon guy who is divorcing his wife here. Jeff Bezos here. How is life if you are that
famous? A local celebrity, a global celebrity here. Do they eat differently than we do here.
4791, she was supposed to describe a woman named Gabriella. With two L. Gabriel and then an
LA. The name is good nice wholesome, you can have a protagonist named Gabriella. Four
syllables. It takes forever to say it. Maybe it is not a good choice for a protagonist name, it is too
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long. It takes forever to say it, it takes up half of a sentence. Once you said it you already forgot
Ah, the structuring of a novel, there are books that teach you how to do this. One novelwriting
participant actually had a website where she promoted her free book about tactics and strategies
for constructing a novel. The woman seemed to live in Melbourne and she was a teaachr at the
University of South Wales which seems to be in Australia too. Princeton, but not the Princeton in
9, sorry, 2, sorry, 4955 here. 361 words are needed today, so the nanowrimo site. We can easily
do that in one sitting here. Just blabber about inconsequential stuff here. Why people the world
over are typing up a fifty-thousand-word long manuscript that nobody will publish and nobody
will read. Why they even bother. A word marathon here, yup, it is just like running a marathon.
Which will start a day from now, at ten ten on Sunday, November the third of two thousand and
nineteen on Staten Island in New York City here. It is now ten and seven minutes, the start of the
NYC marathon will be at ten ten in the ay am. Twenty-four hours from now, though there will be
a glitch because of daylight savings time here. So either twenty four hours or twenty five or
twenty three. If there really is a time change or maybe it will be Monday morning or maybe it
will be next week here. Author here uses up a lot of words to say something so very simple, the
more words, the better here. Every word counts and this is standing at 1147 here, sorry, my bad,
at 5153 here. Five-one-five-three apparently here. 158 words needed today here.
So now we had a sandwich, a wrap with quinoa therein. What exactly is quinoa? On the telly, a
rerun of a detective story that she saw the day before. A woman has been poisoned and actually
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5206 words here, ten and thirty-one here in the morning still, still Saturday by the way here.
Suspenseful music on the telly. Somebody was poisoned but who did it? The show is called
Harrison and Rex and it has a lot of funny music and it has a dog, who is either Harrison or Rex
44 words needed today. We can do that here, go go. And now the lab woman here. A woman
And still we are typing ah typing here. The meeting, the write-in in the other city started at ten in
the morning. 5323 words here on day two of the nanowrimo challenge here.
Five-three-three-five- in words ah in words here. five three four one. One hundred percent of
5364. 5366.
She is on the site that sells nanowrimo hats. The people behind it are three women in NYC. One
is a teacher in NYC for ten years. Another one is an accountant. They sell cute and whimsical
stuff, like little pocket libraries. You can order that. One of the owners is now at Parallel or
Paragraph until four in the afternoon. Paragraph is a writing space near Union square here. We
have never been, but we know where it is. The author obviously has been to Union Square just
So, the nanowrimo HQ is in Berkeley, next to Sweet Adeline Bakeshop. So, now you know here.
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5487 words here.
So maybe we could still pen some words here while we are basically so very sleepy here. Sleepy
words at night here. Day two of nanowrimo is coming to an end here. Tomorrow, the NYC
marathon. Somehow we are excited about that here, and it is a good thing because we have
gained five whole pounds in October and the fascination with fitness in itself makes us lose
weight here. And why the royal we? Who knows here? Novelwriting ah novelwriting here. I am
back in baby’s arms. George Clooney’s aunt is singing on the telly here. What was her name,
what, what here? On the telly, Two and a Half Men here. The tales of Alan and Charlie here.
5609 here.
It is nine and fourteen on a Sunday morning. November three. Th weather is fine, sunny, but
chilly. So in reality it is ten and fourteen but we could sleep in because there was a time change.
Somewhere, sometime in the middle of the night. We lost an hour we won an hour. In nyc they
are still competing for glory here. There must be a livestream somewhere. Author here was in the
gym already, he mallwalked and she weighed herself. And then there was the coffee shop in the
On the telly, Dana Bash and the Conway woman toucking it out over the quid pro quo question
here. Two blonde women, two white blonde women. The old galz club apparently here. Doing
the jobs of their bosses, being the soldiers for the good ol’ boys here.
She can check out where and when there are writers a meeting today in her hood here. Or she
could teeter down to the other country and meet up as a guest in Seattle here. They are nice, they
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have a duck as a mascot. A rubber duck duck here. The writers of Seattle, the writers of the
In Seattle they are meeting up at eleven. In a place where there are pastries. Located directly on
the 62-bus line. It sounds very tempting. Very inviting. And it is merely one event of three. And
the duck now has a nanowrimo Viking hat. One of those babyblue ones. How cute is that.
One of the writers said that she might be sidelined by all of the socializing. Or by putting
And still another thing. On Friday, the 30th of November of two thousand and nineteen they will
have an afternoon tea in said place somewhere on the 62-bus line in Wallingford, or a
Wallingford city center, in the place with the savory cakes and pastry, that place in Washington
State that will have a write-in at eleven in the morning today on Sunday the third here. The
weather should be nice over there, sunny, mainly because it is sunny over here, north of the
border.
Author is now situated in the coffee house next to the gas station, once more, it is full of people
and musak is doing its thing and there are even singing voices here. She is having something
called pumpkin spice latte which is a tad heavy, it has cream and whole milk, full fat milk and
cinnamon and whipped cream and it is definitely doing her in, given that she had a caffeine jolt
already first thing in the morn. So how will this influence her writings, the extra caffeine in her
veins here? A woman at the other table in blonde explains loudly that she loves this place and
that she could not live anywhere else which is totally the opposite of author here, who dreams of
living in New York New York, mainly because that is what ol’ blue eyes was singing on and
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New York that is what they sing about though there is this group out of Hamburg that does the
same about Hamburg, but let’s face it, Hamburg is just a smaller New York here.
A smaller one, a sleepier one but still the same. Cities are the same everywhere, they have that
Lots of kids here in this place and lots of ppl talking very loudly. Are they all drunk at ten oh two
in the morning here? The two soccer moms apparently are, they definitely have to talk extra loud
in order to hear each other. Maybe it is because they have kids at some practice and will have to
pick ‘em up, so they just have to compare notes, talk shop before being on again to pick
somebody up or drop somebody off or provide meals or chauffeuring to and fro here. It is an
always hectic life, no wonder that that Patty lady from Oregon preferred to be a senator instead
because that will give her a break from mom duties, she can just sleep while somebody talks
‘bout fiscal responsibility in senate, dozing off in lecture hall is always easy and what else is the
senate or the congress but a big big lecture hall, where everybody does not need to be on all the
6530 words, the latte must be cold by now. A chilled-up cream soup that might be the food for
today here.
The event calendar is really cute. And good. Not every region has it. The region of author does
not. Or maybe it does. Who really knows here? Author types all of the time and just follows the
stuff on the website. Virtually. She does not really go to the meetings. Though, last year she
checked out the wrap-up party and left. People greeted her because they obviously knew that she
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was a nanowrimo person because who else would venture down into a cellar restaurant to look at
a closed private event. A tourist? Nah, must be a writer from the nanowrimo bunch. One of the
222 000 aspiring writers on this globe here. The ones that want to be published but are not
making the cut here. Because it is tough to get a publishing contract here. Especially in the times
The coffee latte thingie is now finished. It must contain some 300 calories at least, mainly
because of the sugar and the creaminess, the sugar and the fat. Drinking that many calories and it
is kind of acting up in her stomach because she is much more used to solid food than to have her
This place is weird for sitting and writing, there are way too many people in here who all are
meeting up in the coffee house on a Saturday morning. There are the people from the religious
place on the other side of the street. And let us face it, there is another religious place, a church
just at the top of this block on this side of the street. So, all of the multigenerational gang in their
Sunday best. These are the Chinese ones, a little later, the Greek ones will stream in here. And of
course, there are the two soccer moms here. Blondes, with hair to shoulder, not yet fifty here,
twenty years younger than author here is. Seems that most of the families have left by now and
The chair in the coffee place is uncomfortable, maybe so that people do not sit here forever and
construct their literary master pieces, Tolstoy should write-up War and Peace in his own place
and not in a coffee house out of Seattle here. Then again the mascot of this place is something
out of Moby Dick, so it seems that Howard Stern or whatever his name is, he is definitely into
very very longwinded tomes here, just he does not want them to be created in his place here, in
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And now let us talk once more in depth about the Office of Letters and Light in Berkeley,
California, the one that is next to that bakeshop, that basically has the same door or the same
facilities or something else that is shared, maybe it is the food place or something here.
It is kind of a weird place for a literary place, Berkeley, that is, most of American lit is made in
the east, on the east coast because there the weather sucks and people have nothing to do during
those long icy winters but sit cooped up next to a fire and tell each other stories that are made up.
They spin a yarn in order to feel warm and in order to stay out of trouble here, in order to not
shoot each other or drink themselves to death here. But California, come on, the weather is sunny
and nice, you can just live forever as a beach bum. Make a career out of having the wind play
Well, maybe, that is more in southern California, San Diego, LA, besides, there are wildfires and
Harlequin novel consumers moreso than anyone else. Women who devour books that have men
on horses on their title pages or moreso men that look like Fabio before his nose got bitten or
maybe that was not what happened to him. Men half horse and half man, virility. The idea being
that American women are unfulfilled because their men are out and make money and are fat and
round and, might I say, blessed with baldness, shiny heads here.
She ponders, is this a novel or a social commentary that dabbles in stereotype after stereotype
here?
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Book, she should spellchck ah spellheck here
The blonde women now talk loudly about somebody named SHE, ah gossip gossip here. The bad
guy, it always is a SHE, we gang up on here. Maybe that is why Trump is vilified that much, he
looks like a woman, with that blond hairpiece on top of his head. No guy looks like that, a platin-
A guy in grey coms in, he is bald and hardly forty here. My case in point here. Trump as girl or
So the nanowrimo novel of November 2019 is part novel, part social commentary. In the end we
will come back to Gabriella with two Ls. Maybe we will revamp this and make the writer a
One of the blonde women now has her hair in a ponytail, the one who is facing with her back to
the author here, not the one who is facing author here and whose face can be seen and who wears
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2.
They left and hugged. For some reason one of them is wearing Ugg boots but maybe it is just an
Ugg-look-alike because these are not the people who would sport Ugg boots here. They left and
now others are frequenting this place. A divorced dad with his two kids. Today he has custody. A
very sleepy woman behind author, who is playing up the little old lady thing instead of becoming
skinny and fit in old age. She seems to move in a way that she wants to spill her hot beverage on
author here and then play it up, all “I am so sorry” whereas that is what she is up here to from the
Ah people suck, that is why one should pen the amazing novel in a room of one’s own. But let us
face it, there are times when you do not have said room of one’s own and thus the coffee house
on a Sunday has to do here. It is now ten minutes after eleven and we are still typing this up and
typing this up here. Would be nice to now be in Seattle at the place next to the 62 bus line, the
place that for some reason is described to be exactly on the 62 bus line. How can a coffee house
be on a bus line, how is that even possible? But it sounds tempting, like the right mix of motion
and static, stagnation. It is standing still but it is on a bus line where rooms move, containers
move, vehicles move- where nothing stands still. So there is contemplation in the way of sitting
and having a beverage, tea, maybe, not necessarily coffee, and putting words on paper, to paper
and then there is leaving, not sitting still, catching the bus here. And it is the bus, the place where
ordinary people sit in, it is not a place where limousines are dropping off multimillionaires, Bill
Gates will not come in here neither will the guy that is the ceo of Boeing or the founder of
Starbucks. They sit in their Bellevue mansions and the Rolls Royce is parked outside. Ordinary
citizens come in here, the ones that will in the future become the Mark Zuckerbergs of this world
here.
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Author ponders if she illustrated her thoughts in the right way or not. The idea is that writers are
taking a stab at immortality by penning books. They want to distinguish themselves from the
pack. Not with money but with wisdom. But wisdom in form of books will eventually result in
money what with movie deals and the obligatory move to the south of France once you are a
famous author, a famous actor, the like ah the like. Celebrity, huh.
Now there are new ppl in here and they are definitely church people. They all look very churchy
and not in a good way but more in a KKK way here. They all would vote for Trump or for
Steven Harper in a Canadian context. They all feel that white people are better. It is weird how
that shows and they even have the obligatory curly-haired brown-eyed brown-haired person with
them here.
Ah writing ah writing here. Whatever you say you will perpetuate stereotypes here.
You basically hate everybody and put that on paper here, to paper here.
Somebody will always be offended, on the right and on the left equally alike here. Writing means
basically that you sharpen something, stress something, overemphasize something in order to
make a powerful sentence, in order to make powerful and slightly offensive judgements. Writing
discussion here.
And it should all be cloaked in the form of a novel, fictional characters that are duking it out in a
fictional environment here. Author is sitting in the real world here but is she really? Does she not
see everything around her through her own biased glasses, her own biased lens? How does she
know that that man is divorced? How does she know that those people belong to the KKK?
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She just thinks that those people look like that, their mannerisms are a dead give-away, the
clothes that they are wearing, the way that they force their eyebrows to do that funny thing when
they are passing the coffee pot, the coffee glass to the other persons at the table here. The silent
interactions in people of a group. Their behavior in the pack here, who is the leader of the wolf
It is eleven and twenty-eight here, next to noon on a sunny but chilly November morning here.
8197.
Now they discuss another SHE. The woman who talks about the SHE who is not here has an
accent and it sounds as if she too has nothing good to say about the SHE who is absent here.
Seems that this is the table where people always talk badly about a SHE, the villain is always a
SHE. What does that say about the society we live in here in November of 2019 on the northwest
coast of the American continent. Shes are bad and hes are good, apparently that seems to be the
consensus here, this is what we glean from overhearing all of these conversations in a random
coffee house while the music which is more like musak is playing on the overhead here.
My mother-in-law, in-law, that is what the woman in the thick accent is saying now, the one who
complained about the SHE who is not here apparently ah apparently here. So now these are not
the KKK people anymore, it are four women here. The man was KKK but he left to vote
conservative. Now the four women are here and they all will vote conservative too. But they are
a diverse group both age-wise and racially. Thy all hate SHE. The KKK man is back, apparently
he is not afraid to be overpowered by four women. Well, actually they all leave, they take their
coffee cups, yup, they were all from the church on the other side of the street here.
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The woman who talked about SHE gives author a Jehovah’s witness card. So she markets her
underrepresented religious group, that is often accused of being a cult to total strangers here.
Always marketing aggressively here. They tend to do that, the Jehovah’s witness bunch here.
They come to your door and solicit, they talk to you in Switzerland next to the train station, on
the train here. They hardly ever take no for an answer. They do not have a big following though,
I tell yer. They are up against much more powerful competitions though.
The woman was ah so very positive about author here typing-up stuff on the computer,
apparently, that is a good thing. Typing-up stuff in a coffee house here, feverishly.
It means basically that you have a lot to say. The religious missionary-woman, called it working
on the computer. Apparently, religious people have deep respect for the written word, whatever
the written word might be here. As long as it is written down. Let us face it, it could be Tropic of
Cancer or Tropic of Capricorn or Kin Ping Me or Lady Chatterley’s Love, in short, any
Hisch (This) seems where most literature philanders around anyways here. Author ponders, she
misused the word philander here or maybe not, English is not her first language but then again
whose first language is it anyways? Maybe Irish people are the best at writing., stuff outta Dublin
makes it, definitely. Then again, James Joyce was living in Zurich when he published Ulysses
here.
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Being remembered long after you are gone, that is what writers want. Immortality. The document
that shows “I have been here on this planet; I roamed this world and this is my memorial. There
is no statue of me in the middle of the town square, but my book is in every library on this
planet, in every university or at least on the fifth floor in the New York Public library or in the
library of NYU. Where exactly was it that Ross made out with the paleontology student who
checked out his PhD thesis? Obviously, anybody who is anybody, is an avid watcher of Friends
rerun episodes. The one where Rachel does this and the one where Monica does that, Chandler
Blump, blump, blimp on the overhead here, the barista is mixing ice-cubes together, shaking
A bus goes by and it says NOW on it. Seems that this is not the place in Seattle or outside of
Seattle that is on the 62-bus line, but it still is on a bus line here. More next to a gas station
It is now 12:23 PM, after spellcheck. She has to check when she started this up.
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3.
Two and a half hours. Maybe even three. Three hours of writing up a shitty novel that nobody
will read and/or nobody will publish here. Next to 9000 words. Nine more words and this will
stand at nine thousand. 9001 on 11/3/19 @ 12:29 in the PM. What will we do with this? Send it
out? Print it out and send it out? Self-publish it? Market it aggressively? At the Frankfurt Book
Fair? Start our own publishing conglomerate here? There are ways to distribute the random
words we write here. But are they ever good enough? There are always better words. More
concise ones. And what exactly is the family of her book? Is it a novel? Is it fiction or is it non-
fiction? Or a literary mix, whatever that might be here. Categorization is everything. Well, we
can maybe define this by saying what it is not. It is not a middle-grade YA novel, whatever that
might be here? Not a love novel. Not an erotic novel. Not a manual for assembling a sofa with a
Nanowrimo tells us that if we think that it is a novel, then it is a novel here. The thing is that we
as the author (yeah, yeah, I know, the royal we), we as the author seem to think that this is a
novel. Mainly because it is written in the timeframe that is allotted to nanowrimo. November
which is also the month when people grow moustaches to help raise funds for prostate cancer
research or something like that here. It is the month of moustaches. But more than that, it is
nanowrimo. National novel writing month though since its inception in 1999, twenty years ago,
it has definately morphed into international novel writing month, mainly because of its website
and all of those computer scientists who live next to Silicon Valley. Or in Silicon Valley
wherever that is here. So, basically this is a thing out of northern California, am I right here?
Thus we have to reinstate everything that is written in a coffee shop in November while a
trumpet is playing on the overhead, everything like this constitutes a novel just by definition
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here. The woman who sings in a very undefinable voice about setting you free, she is of the same
opinion and the song is part jazz part big band music and very clearly the kind of artsy song that
defines Sinatra or anything where Zelda Fitzgerald lived. Flapperdom maybe. It is the time of
people like Faulkner, something in between world wars or shortly after World War Two. When
the cultural things that are read in university have been created here. When women were the
forerunners of Indira Gandhi and Golda Meir and Bandaraneike, a long time before Gloria
Steinem had to retreat from her statements somehow here. When sister suffragettes were a sure
thing, when women were fighting for the right to vote. The times that awarded Swiss women the
right to vote later than any other females on the planet, at least in some cantons in Heidi-land
Anyways, the music is the kind of music where women sing about stuff in a Bette Davis voice,
where female writers are matter-of fact and where there is as much diversity in female voices as
there is in male voices. Gloria Steinem said that too here. At a time when women were first and
foremost people, human beings. These are other times, the post-“me-too”-era, where the more
Her novel sucks but, let us face it, any novel sucks here. Who in her right mind would even write
a novel? You have to have extra time and a functioning typewriter here.
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4.
12:50 PM. 9597 words here. She is wearing this funny hat here, the asymmetrical one that is very
warm here but that was in the washing machine and thus lost its symmetrical form here. A
woman is talking very fast in Cantonese or Mandarin or Korean, though it sounds more like
Japanese. Everybody is listening to her, it is a matriarchy. Though she is hardly thirty here.
Maybe the trick is to be the oldest in a group. She has two kids dressed in very light pink too.
She talks very fast. Many many words in a short amount of time. Her voice is not loud, actually,
a very quiet voice. But, boy, does she talk fast. Actually, she is Caucasian. So this must be a
different language here. Though now she talks English with an accent here. Maybe author here
mixed up the orators here. What is clear is that the people who talk forever in a coffee house are
all women. And now somebody is singing in a Bing Cosby voice, not necessarily Dean Martin or
Frank Sinatra, no, it is definitely with a Bing Cosby twang here. Seems, that is the feel of this
coffee house, the music that makes people frequent this particular place here and sip their lattes
here and munch their croissants here. Some American French place where people go out from
Nantucket to harpoon whales. Thus the Moby Dick theme here. The mermaid or the Neptune
Poseidon god icon here. Fish, a crown. Greenness. Boy is she pooped here.
150 words and then this will stand at 10000 here, a fifth of the required wordcount here. At this
speed you will finish on November ten here. Or maybe November fifteen here.
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5.
So now we stand at chapter five here. Three days of writing. A Friday, a Saturday, a Sunday. The
story of Gabi. Though she has been hardly mentioned as of yet here. The protagonist as
afterthought. Because that is what a novel is, at least in the traditional sense.
And do you know what just happened here. A lady gave her the chair back and smiled and said
thank you. Honest to god, author here never noticed that anybody took the chair. The woman was
very nice, hair in ponytail, brunette, 35 to 40, though more younger, next to thirty, maybe even
younger. She looked like somebody who would read books. She was at the table where people
But back to what we were saying here. Chapter five of a novel that might or might not be here.
That is more a novel because we are sitting here in a coffee house and typing up stuff. The book
is not really a book because of what it says but is merely a book because a woman is sitting in
here and typing-up stuff. So it comes into existence not because it is a good story but because a
woman is sitting and typing. A woman who is wearing glasses and pajama bottoms. Who
somehow looks like a writer mainly because she is sitting at a typewriter. This could have never
happened in the times when typewriters were clunky and mechanical, this can only happen in the
times of laptops when people take their laptops and type-up stuff in coffee house. When Word
exists, Microsoft Word. When the battery of a laptop can be easily be charged in an outlet and
not wither away within four hours here. It is now half past one and we came here at half past
nine or something like that here. Four hours, give or take some. Math is not her strong side and
that is why she vies for words here. They are easier to manage, apparently here.
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Five chapters. Now there is a woman in a black hat and a man in a grey-silvery duffle coat. They
are both ah so very young, hardly out of their teens. Students, polite ones. They have an apple
computer that is black and thus very elegant. The apple sign shines a neon light, so the situation
is a tad cinematic if that makes sense here. The whole tableau, the whole setting, the whole mis-
en-scene is grey and white or more black and white here. They both speak in a language that
author here does not understand, something Chinese, Korean, Japanese, here, not necessarily
Vietnamese or Laosian here. How do you call the language that is spoken in Pnom Penh?
(Laotian).
So this is why a coffee place is so fascinating. All of these different tableaus. Groups of people
around a table. Their interactions. Each table a different world. For a writer this is fascinating.
You kind of tend to run away from describing the Gabi protagonist. You are losing her. We are
The person at the table next to her is listening to something on a phone. Somehow this is
annoying and interferes with the other noises in the coffee place here. Most noises are either
people speaking or the noise of making the drinks or the music on the overhead that kind of
The man at the other table is having a cold Frappuccino drink. In this weather. Ice frap in
November. Outside it is nine degrees Celsius. An ice frap is basically a milkshake. Summer fare
here. The other people are having a sandwich. The sandwiches here are mainly hot ones here.
Author here is ah so very full still because she definitely had all of her 1500 calories for the day
already. Thus we are satiated here. And the car is parked in a place where hopefully nobody will
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tow it away or break into it. On a side street near a high school here. And luckily nobody in this
joint asked her to leave as of yet here because this is a place where people come to work on their
schoolwork slash homework. Or where they write the great American novel in one big whoosh.
Or a dissertation in one big whoosh here. This is the place to cram, apparently ah apparently
here. And it is November, all the essays are due come December. Actually, the essays are written
now, the finals are taken in December here. And maybe she too looks like a middle-aged student
who took a class at the local community college and is now typing it all up last minute here.
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6.
Gabi. The I at the end is weird. In an Anglo-Saxon context. In a novel that is written in English,
the name Gabriella would be abbreviated into Gaby. Or not. If Gabi lives in New York City,
chances are that she moved to NYC from Berlin or something. In order to conquer the world. In
order to be a runner in the NYC marathon. She might be a spokesperson for a shoe company. A
The weird thing is that in this coffee place we cannot google stuff. We can just use Microsoft
Word. So the laptop is basically a typewriter and there is no way that we can do research here.
And thus no way that we can flesh out the Gabi character here. Thus she will stay flat, an
Seems, that the main character of her novel is basically the room where she writes in. An
inanimate object personified. Weird, huh. Then again, it is rooms and buildings that make us
think. Wide open spaces too. A cathedral. The cathedral-like atmosphere of the mall at seven in
the morning. With oversized pictures of women on the wall, oversized face. A Tiffany ad. A
woman in a red jacket. To a lesser extent, men. Though there was an oversized portrait of Steve
McQueen in the mall, for a long long time here. And the watch ad. The one that says “not like
many”. It is an ad for Chopard. A watchmaker out of Geneva, but a lesser known one here.
Gabi, huh. Definitely a fictional character. Though author here knows women by that name.
Younger ones and older ones. But they have nothing to do with the Gabi in the novel that she is
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7.
So is the NYC marathon still on or is it finished? It is three and seventeen here on the west coast,
so it follows that it is seventeen minutes after six in the night on the east coast here. The live
stream is still on, though apparently it is a repeat on you tube at mile 21 or 22 or 23 so kind of
when the runners come from the Bronx and enter Manhattan here. Apparently, they enter Fifth
Avenue to run up to Harlem and then go into Central Park. At least that is what we can glean
from the map that shows the marathon route though it is not clear why thy enter at Fifth Avenue
and not at first Avenue here. But anyhow, apparently, they enter Manhattan in midtown and not
in downtown here. It seems that the routes are different every year, the route changes over the
years here. And what was pretty apparent was that there is no blue line on the asphalt because
that would be ah so very expensive to mark the asphalt with a blue line just for a one day event
here and then take it away again and apparently one cannot even take it out in a good way
without making the asphalt more porous than before here. It does not wash out, one has to
scratch it off with glass particles or something here, at least, that is what we read online here.
And now it is CNN, first it is about Andrew Yang and his wife, they talked to the CNN reporter
and this was on in the morning too and it is a rerun here. Though technically we did not see it in
the morning and we do not see it now here, did not see it here.
Author ponders, maybe she can write different fifty thousand versions of the nanowrimo novel
here and then choose the best one in order to have it published. Like trying to do the same thing
over and over until it finally improves like magic. The outlier principle, try, try, try again and
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It is chilly and cold outside, a walk would be fine and great and dandy but let s face it, it is way
too cold here. More fun to sit inside and type up the most amazing novel that ever was and is
here. And the website says that if you define it as a novel, then it follows that it is a novel. A real
red-blooded novel in the flesh here. One that it would and should be a delight to read up on here.
And now, maybe, we should just watch the marathon. Even if it is a rerun. It is still superexciting
How come they all celebrate the fastest runners. They should celebrate the last runner who
crosses the finish line which is apparently the one who crosses the line at 7:30 PM. That seems to
be the cut-off point in New York City. The marathon starts at ten in the morning and finishes at
Here on the west coast it is 5:57 PM. The nanowrimo site seems to have glitches which might as
well. Author here looks at pics from the marathon in New York City. Instagram feeds. Exciting
huh. Her preoccupation with marathons results in getting thin. At least that happened before and
maybe she will do it again so that she will lose the five pounds that she put on in October. All of
I can talk while I walk. It should be: I can talk while I write but the phrase I can talk while I walk
On the telly, stuff about Trump and the Ukraine. Ah the usual here.
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8.
Trump at a game in Madison Gardens. A woman talking to another woman about the way that
the elections in the United States go. The journalist says that I come from a country where the
elections are a six-week process which is very different from the US where the elections are a
Still writing and still typing here. Six oh seven. In other words, seven minutes after six in the
evening here.
Six ten.
On the telly, Suzanne Rice. And on the nanowrimo site it said that there will be a write-in in her
old neighborhood. Where she lived a long long time ago. 32 years ago. No, that cannot be true.
But it seems it is. We now have 2019, are in 2019. And she lived in that place in 1987. Do the
math. Where have the years gone? She remembers that place as if it was yesterday.
Writing ah writing.
Somebody asked her about her novel. What is it about? About a woman named Gabriella. The
obvious answer. Then again, it is more about the process of writing the novel about Gabriella.
The process of writing in itself. The places that we go to in order to pen the novel here. The
selfdoubt. Which is actually mirrored by a lot of the participants in nanowrimo. According to the
site. 222 000 writers the world over are participating in this shin-ding. In different languages,
apparently. It seemed to be limited to five different languages, but, maybe, that too has changed
here. Just like the design of the website has changed this year here. And the HQ of ninewrimo.
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Though it might have been changed last year (the HQ). Who knows, we are not really keeping
tabs on all of this here. The website change is obvious to each and every person who uses the
website and has used it before. But enough about all of this here.
And now, COLUMBO. The show, we are expecting to watch all week. It is definitely the
culmination of watching TV. The reason we have a TV here. Not necessarily the culmination of
the week. That is too high a grade for a simple TV show. But somehow, watching COLUMBO
on Sunday evening seems to keep everything in order even though it is just a simple routine.
Maybe this is so because she grew up in a household where watching the eight o’clock news was
part of everyday’s routine. This was at a time when there was only one station. Different time
from todayns multichannel life here. Gazillions of channels. TV all day, every day. All day and
all night. Omnipresemt TV. Though, let us face it, millennials do not even own TV-sets here. The
Her novel is filled to the brim with platitudes here. That is how it is, how it is here.
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9.
It is the episode with the painter who kills his wife or his ex-wife or his mistress. He kills one
woman, though we forgot here what she was to him. What exactly her status is. And obviously,
Columbo finds the murderer who is the painter. She was his first wife, I am his present wife.
It is seven oh three. Morning of November four. In reality, it is eight oh three. But the time has
changed. Was put back. Turned back. Because in summer, over all of summer, it is daylight
savings time. Apparently, they wanted to change it, but they did not. They. Whoever “they” are
here.
We could go to the gym and sit on the stationary bike and put feet to pedal for exactly thirty
minutes. In order to lose weight. The one, no, wait, five pounds that we gained in October here.
But then the writing of the novel would be compromised. Gotta put in all of those words here.
There is a write-in at ten in the morning in an affluent ‘burb of Seattle. Where writers meet after
they dropped off their kids at school. The recreational writers who do this as a diversion from
watching soaps and eating bonbons. Or whatever the stereotype dictates here. She ponders,
should she reinforce stereotypes or battle ‘em. And does she even care? Is hers not the
construction of a novel? Anynovel here. A fifty thousand word long written piece. She is like the
man in the blue overall with orange stripes, the one in the coffee house who had ordered four
coffee drinks for his fellow team members. The construction of a building made out of words.
Roadwork on words, with words. The construction is all that counts here. Tales about one lowly
Gabriella. Who knows what her ethnicity is, her ideological persuasion? To which god or gods
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she prays or if she even believes in an afterlife. All we know is that her name is Gabi. Does she
wear D-cups? Though that is way too personal here. Is she regular? Her gastrointestinal state
here.
Somehow writing a novel about a certain female seems way too boring here. Too flat. Too trivial
here.
The construct of the wordpiece is way more interesting. The typing in itself here. How many
units. How many chapters. Is a unit the same as a chapter? You, dear reader, be the judge here.
The people’s court. On the telly. So this is what we are watching while having the quinoa wrap.
Seven forty-one in the morning, banana loaf and quinoa wrap and tv and writing a novel. This is
how November four will go down here. A very regulated planned out existence which will result
in the amassment of a certain wordcount. The novel about Gabriella though technically we will
never get there. The novel will always stay in the planning stage. Like a building that is never
built and only exists on paper. A blueprint and maybe not even that. Because a novel has a story.
People fighting against each other, one person winning one person losing. Sorry, we are watching
too much peoples court here. Always A against B, like a football match here.
12770, nice here. 7:45, seven forty-five here in the morning. November four. Yay ah yay. Let us
12795. Each and every word here counts apparently ah apparently here.
There is a coffee house in Seattle. On the outskirts of Seattle. Apparently people will meet up at
thirty minutes after nine in order to pen their amazing works here. And by knowing about this,
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we here can type. It is called virtual community and thus the lowly writer here can do it while
watching court tv and people talking and the judge in the red hair here. Watching NYC marathon
runners, that helps too, it is all about moving from station A to station B. the motion, the moving
forward. The amassing of words, steps, the like here. The different coffee houses that we will
Author ponders, what exactly does she want to say here? Does she want to celebrate the daily
grind, daily life? And is typing up a book even a daily grind? Or is it just a process that is
Why do we run, why do we watch artwork on walls? Art for art sakes. That kind of idea. And
where does a fictional character named Gabriella fit in here? Is this all nonsensical here? Well,
anyways, anyhoo, may this be as it may, on the telly, Judge Judy, and this stands at 13020 here.
587 words needed today. According to the nanowrimosite here. It is three minutes after eight in
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10.
Maybe joining a forum of New York City writers is the best way to go. After all, all the
publishing firms, they are situated in New York City. It is the center of publishing in north
America. Everything happens here. Deals are made in this city, all within walking distance here.
Nanowrimo is all about the writers themselves. What kind of persons are those writers?
How good are they at typing? At making up stories. At describing stuff. How good are they with
orthography, grammar, spelling? Spelling and orthography are the same, isn’t that how it is here?
Punctuation, that has to do with commas and semicolons? Yes, this is how it is here. Do people
have to be English majors in order to write digestible stuff? Or is it a free for all.
So, New York, huh. You write in a cafe while your laundry is spinning in the laundromat on
Eighth. The one on the other side of Gristede’s. On the other side of T-Mobile. Author here
stayed in New York City, on and off. It was always interesting, though her mainstay was in the
laundromat., said laundromat. She did not have much clothes, it was late August and hot, you
had to basically live at the laundromat in order to not die from your own stink.
Travelling is all about logistics. How do you have all your stuff in one little bag here.
And now, Judge Judy once more, judgment for the plaintiff, that is what Judy is saying here.
Eight and twenty-nine here. Now there is this show that is funny and is called, aptly, “funny you
should ask”. And after that, it is time for King of Queens which is always extremely funny here.
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Welcome to my world here, the life of a couchpotato here. The tales and stories of the woman on
the couch here. All that is needed, are soaps and bonbons here. And a typewriter to document this
here.
Why do they document animals in the wild? One might as well document people typing away at
their laptop in order to fulfill a certain wordcount requirement. Why exactly would 222000
persons put themselves through this the world over, each and every November here?
185 words needed today. While Judge Judy is talking, saying “just a second”.
Yes, ma’am.
JUDGE JUDY. What to make of it? It is eight and forty-one. Now a Tom Steyer ad. He too wants
to throw his hat in the ring. Running for the presidency here. Isn’t this quite an uphill battle here?
Gabriella should go out and find her own story and write about it, tell it. Somehow there is a rift
between writer and protagonist here. It has all be done before, characters in a play looking,
searching for an author. This is the fabric that artsy plays are made out of it. Stuff for discussion
in a classroom. The experimentation with literary forms, be they novels or plays for the stage
Who are the people who read novels? Who is the target audience? How lucrative is it to be a
writer? Can you pay your mortgage with what you earn as a writer? Pay back your student loan.
Or do you have to be independently wealthy here. What kind of governments want writers and
literature? Which ones try to suppress free writings here. Do we really need superfluous words
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here? Questions ah questions here, food for thought here. And the people will meet up in a
suberb of seattle in that glutenfree goods bakery which is part of a local chain here.
Author is sitting in here and typing away here. Maybe later we will go down to the café next to
the gas station and document who comes in and who goes out on a Monday, on a workday here.
The day before, it was a Sunday, but today it is different. The only people in the café are
housewives, retirees, school kids and baristas here. Author will wear her PJs again and her
woolhat here. In the morning there was a man who too did not seem to have had a shower since
yesterday, he once again was in there with his computer here. The people in the coffee shop near
11.
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Slice of life writing. Maybe that is what we could call this here. Taking the bus and watching
people interact. Sitting in a coffee shop and watching persons behave in certain ways. The
documentation of total strangers. Animals in their natural habitat. Human animals. Well, maybe
referring to other persons as animals will not cut it. It is rude, offensive here.
The Gabriella person, ah forget about that. This is more about the process of writing a certain
amount of words,. The fight against the website. The number of words. Which, by the way stands
at 13886 here. Nice, huh. On the telly, King of Queens. A rerun, obviously, this particular episode
was filmed in 2006. Or came out in 2006. Here. The one with Kirstie Alley here.
And still another newer King of Queens episode here. Funny stuff here, always funny here.
13933.
Four days into this writing extravaganza and we are half there. Or what seems as half here.
13951 at nine and thirty-two in the morning of November four. A mulmy day, not rainy as of yet
Friends now. Ross and the student that he teaches and that professor Geller is friends with. Very
Author ponders what the people who ran the marathon do today. How can they possibly move?
Roaming around the nanowrimo site. People in Norway who happen to write in Norwegian. On
the site. And then Austria. Which is funny because it is more about the different parts of Austria
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and since when they are part of nanowrimo. Since the middle ages or since 1920. Basically, they
want to mirror when certain parts of Austria became, well, part of Austria. Funny, huh here. They
too write in German, which is easy for us here, because we speak the language. Which cannot be
The part with Gabriella did not go anywhere, so now this is just a book that discusses different
aspects of penning a novel in as short a timeframe as possible here. 14170 words so we are near
to a third. Well, give or take some here. The sun is shining. We could go downtown and
peoplewatch. The amassment of people. But it is bitter cold, four degrees Celsius. So maybe we
12.
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So twelve chapters already. Seems, that these are ah so very short chapters here. Just saying here.
We had rice and a sandwich and a piece of banana bread. Nuts, raisins and cheese. Easily 1500
calories here.
“Professor Geller”- Obviously that is Phoebe. And Joey says something like “Ah, to be fourteen
again”. Because that is when he used to sell T-shirts to people on spring break. Something like
Now Phoebe and Joey. Reading lines. Acting. Well, practicing acting here.
In Harlem they write from six to eight in the afternoon. There is a beautiful view. There is a
snack machine. But you cannot have the snacks near the computers. Author here ponders, is it a
library or a school? College? All we know, is, that it is in Harlem and that it starts at six. Given
that it is now 12:36 here on the west coast and thus 3:36 in New York City, the write-in will start
two and a half hours from now here. People typing away in the big apple.
And now Friends on the telly. The second episode per day here. Friends galore here.
Inconsequential observations.
14433. @ 12:40 in the afternoon. On day four here. Now Chandler and the duck and the goose.
14450.
What to write about, ah, what to write about here? Now let us discuss why we do not have a plot
or a story here. And use up as many words as we possibly can here. On the telly, Chandler.
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Talking on the phone. He writes something on the door. About an audition date for Joey here. I
You know that episode. Basically, all of the episodes are the same here. Something about Rachel,
14537. Yay ah yay here. 14542. And now 2 Broke Girls. Han. It is three minutes after one.
14555.
And now the candy guy. Andy. So this is one of the early episodes here. An episode about people
in Williamsburg in Brooklyn. Filmed in LA. Author here ponders what she can make out of that.
A plot about actors? Should you not be an actor to describe the lives of actors? Given, that we
once were part of a play in community theater, we have actually real-life experience as an actress
here. But not enough to write a book. A believable yarn here. But we are part of nanowrimo, so
there is something we can believably describe and document here. It is all about the quantity of
So the writing is just not going so very good here. On the telly, laughtracks. It is the second time
that this episode is on today. Where Max and the blonde one are in the middle of nowhere.
Because they were flying from NYC to LA. So it is not quite clear why they are in a field. Did
And now the opening credits. Or maybe the theme music just randomly in there. An ad for
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14779 in words here. This is definitely not going very well. The coffee house is much more
conducive to penning a novel. But one cannot really sit in PJs in the coffee place here. And with
a woolhat. You can do that once, but not on a daily basis. Gotta just sit inside in a room of one’s
own here. Look at what is going on on Instagram. People running marathons. Funny signs. Like
14860.
140 words and then we will hit 15000 here. That is practically one third of the novel. Well, not
quite but still. A little bit less than a third here. On day four. Pretty impressive. What is a third of
50 000. Maybe 17000 words here. A little bit less than that apparently here. 14915 here.
It is ten degrees Celsius outside. Time to bundle up at home here. The mall would be nice, but it
is now rush hour on the streets and getting there is a drag. Thus, sitting and writing the most
amazing anti-novel here. 14960. Forty words, talk about anything that you feel like here. Author
here is waiting for the tea, yup, it is time to have tea here. Tea is what a writer drinks, that and
hard liquor. Bourbon, gin. Nah, we stick to tea here. 15003, yay ah yay here.
A dental appointment two days from now. Is this something we can write about here? In depth.
By using as many words as possible here? Are there books about that? Maybe there will be one
now. This one. The nanowrimo novel about dentists. Dentist appointments here.
The woman left a message in the morning and asked to be called so that there will be a
confirmation. And the weird thing is that when we called, we caught the machine. Funny huh.
Yup, so this is all we can say about that here. 100 words about something as trivial as a dentist
appointment here.
Now on the telly, Big Bang Theory. 4:30 in the afternoon. 4:31.
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What to write about, ah, what to write about here?
Bookstores. This is kind of inspired by going on the Instagram feed of nanowrimo and coming
upon this pic of a bookstore, books on a shelf and the caption fiction above the books. So
basically this is the fiction book section of a bookstore and when we search more, it becomes
clear that this is a bookstore called Otto’s Book Store and then it becomes clear that this is the
oldest independently owned bookstore in the United States and it is in a place called
Williamsport in Pennsylvania. At least that is the story on its website and the bookstore exists
since 1846, so it is really old. Obviously, everything can be declared as the oldest, but this seems
to be the spiel of this place here. And then there is a woman in the door of the store with tons of
books in her hands. And she is standing on a colorful rug in the entrance door of the store here.
There is still another image of a woman with her two daughters. She actually is sitting outside of
the bookstore here, which seems to be situated in some kind of seaport place here. Is
Pennsylvania near the sea or not here? 15335 words here, four and forty-one in the afternoon on
November fourth here. There is a write-in in her region, but it is many cities removed from here
in the public library of a suburban town here. If she takes the train and the bus now, she will be
there at six. But it is definitely a long trek and nobody in her right mind would do that. Thus we
are just sitting here and typing up words. It seems that this is how the nanowrimo will happen,
cooped up inside and typing ah typing here. One writer complained about sitting scrouched all
the time while typing and that this is not good for her back and her neck,. She was thinking to get
one of those desks where you stand. Author here remembers that there was this writer Tom Wolfe
who would tower over a small fridge on which he put paper and then he wrote. Maybe this was
part of the movie Genius, where Max Perkins and Tom Wolfe were played by actors and
apparently it was a great movie but author here did not see it apparently ah apparently here.
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55m, sorry, 15530 here.
So according to the nanowrimo site the Londoners who are participating in nanowrimo had a
kick-off party on October 26 in a place called Mad Hatter Hotel and you can get there with the
Jubilee Line. How nice that they partied on a Saturday because then they can sleep out the next
day and do not have to be at work first thing in the morning of the next day. The kick-off party
here was on a Sunday at lunch which is not much of a party and pretty tame here.
Maybe this is what this book should be about, how do different writers do their thing the world
over here. Which is basically what we are doing here because it is fun and makes you feel as if
you are part of all of the writer groups the world over. The existences of writers and what makes
them tick and makes them pen fifty thousand words here. Though it should be more about a
story, but we do not have such a story, so, different writing groups are the story apparently here.
It is a documentary about the nanowrimo phenomenon here. Something like that, something of
that kind here. Big Bang has come to an end and now it will be the news out of Boston or out of
Chicago here. 15754 in words here, at 4:57 in the afternoon on the west coast of north America
Find a region for more support. So the nanowrimo site. And at this rate we will apparently finish
this on November 13 here. That cannot be true, we will finish on November seven or something
like that here. And now the news. An airplane crash and a murderer is searched for and then there
is Trump and Giuliano and the Ukraine here. A man is reading all of this here and now, Eric
Fisher and he says that it is dark outside and that maybe, snow will come, some early snow here
in New England here. Eric Fisher, we remember him running the Boston marathon. And
yesterday the person who is always on Pix Eleven News had run the New York marathon and
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they talked to him after the run here and he had one of those thermal blankets on his head, the
ones that are given out to the finishers in the NYC marathon here.
15932 words here and we are now next to 16000 which is a good number for day four because it
means that we have written some four thousand words per day here which is a pretty good speed
here apparently ah apparently here. Twenty-five more words and we will be there. Seventeen,
write ‘bout anything that comes to mind here. Eight more words and then we are there, yay ah
yay here. 16004. In words ah in words here. At this rate you will be done on November 12. Nice
ah nice here.
13.
There are local elections in Massachusetts. According to the news out of Boston. 16043 words @
5:19 PM.
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So if we pen some one thousand words here, then we will hit 17000 and three times 17000 is
51000 and if we write one third in four days then we will hit the whole 50000 on November 12
or something here. Which is actually not that good, last year we finished the whole thing on
November fifth which will not be how it will happen this year here, lagging behind our own
personal best here. It is a race, a race against one own n record here. Weird huh, is this how
writing should be here? Something new in Harvard Square according to the Boston news here.
16155 here.
16157.
A woman with a hair bump on her head. She is the Suffolk County District Attorney. She was
very serious. Where exactly is Suffolk County. Apparently somewhere in Massachusetts here.
Author here was scouring the nanowrimo videos and there are tons of ‘em here. Nice, huh.
Apparently, last year e wrote some 222000 words here. So we went way overboard, wrote the
whole month here. The name of the book apparently was ANA. Nice, huh, nice here. Something
to do on a coldd and chilly November evening. Making up a story here, or a no-story maybe
here.
7:25 PM. Wow, such a round number. Watching Law and Order, though now it is Don Lemon on
CNN. She was asked how Gabriella is doing, answer was of course that we let her go, she is not
the protagonist anymore. Which seems kind of weird, the novel does not have an anchor
anymore, it is now just a loose array of vignettes here, anecdotes about nanowrimo in general
here. There is no story arc, except for November in general, the array of days, day one to day
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Looking at pasta with truffels and sauce on Instagram. Nice. It is seven aand forty-four here, on
the telly, still Don Leman here. An ad for Applebee’s on the telly here. 16388. Twelve words and
we will have some 16400 words here. Two and we are there.
CNN Tonight. The name of the show. And now an ad for the movie about Mr. Rogers here. Nice,
Time to go to sleep. Seems that writing makes you sleepy here. And she is feeling a cold come
on, on top of everything here. Hopefully, it is just a fluke and passes her by here. After all, she
has to type day-in and day-out all thru November here. Well, except for a trip down to California
And now it is Tuesday morning. November five. We might just as well reawaken the idea of a
story about a woman named Gabriella. A story, a novel in the traditional sense here.
Author here is slightly tired. The grueling task of mall walking does that to yer. So does the
On the telly, the last flips of King of Queens. 16567 words here on November 5, 2019. 9:59 in
the AM.
People are meeting up to work on their novels. Writing ah writing here. Exercise, sport, runs,
coffee and writing. The life of an author, even an unpublished one. A closet writer. Seems that all
of these nanopeople are like that here. On the telly, Mike and Molly.
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16625 here in words ah in words here. It is way too chilly outside to go for a run. Besides, mall
walking did her in already. It is grueling, wouldn’t you know here. A donut, rice, quinoa wrap
and banana bread. We definitely had all the food that we should have in a day here. And still
gotta lose five pounds here, though it is not quite clear how this will happen with the amount of
food we take in here. Even if we round the mall ten times and push the pedal of a bike for thirty
minutes straight here. Maybe something more rigorous should happen here, jumping up and
down, that kind of stuff. Crossfit whatever that might be here. Running in the same space, jump
Pilates yoga though that is definitely not vigorous, more sleepy. We could just as well declare
typing as exercise here. Or watching TV on the couch here. Or checking one’s messages on the
phone here.
16794 here, words ah words here. Run this up to 17000 words here and then you have more than
Gabriella, well, that will not go anywhere here. We do not even know where she lives. Chelsea,
New York maybe. Brooklyn, maybe. Nah, let us go of the idea of a novel with a story arc. The
writers of nanowrimo are more fascinating here. People who make up stories. Who type or write
longhand in cafes. Coffee shops. Bars. Cars. Yup, you can o that too, write in your car. Or type
up stuff in the food court of the mall. You can write on your phone. There is an app for that here.
16927 here, she might as well drive down to the other city to talk to other writers who participate
in nanowrimo here. Talk shop here. There are the ones who are truly intimidating, who have
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plotted out every corner of their novels here. And then there are people like yours truly who just
16988, not much left to make this an ah so veryr ound number here. And on the telly, laugh
On the telly, the scene in 2 Broke Girls with Ru Paul. And now, Max and the blonde girl,
Caroline Channing in the hotel where they are treated like trash here. And now Randy comes in
with another person. Th guy from the reverse mortgage commercial, according to Caroline. And
apparently Max does not ant to be seen here because it looks as if she is stalking him. Randy, not
the person from the reverse mortgage commercial. Story lines are really complicated, especially
the ones of sitcoms here. And now the concierge again here. Who I just full of snarkiness here.
Excuse me this is Texas. So the concierge. 17127 in words here. Random words mixed together
And now Han and Earl and Oleg and Baby Barbara and Sofie here. 17155 here. 634 words
needed today according to the website here. We can do that, you can do that here. Easy peasy.
Later she should go out in order to get some inspiration for the moistest amazingishest novel
here. Though, apparently, 222000 persons the world over are doing exactly the same here.
Writing their master pieces here. All kinds of master pieces,. All kind of genres here. She
ponders, is her own novel here not basically another form of WAITING FOR GODOT. Seems
17266 here. At this rate you will be done on November 14- according to the site here.
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Phoebe on the telly about the 14 books that she has written and subsequently read. Friends, yes,
you guessed it here. 17304 words and it is four minutes after noon on Tuesday November five.
And now Ross’s girlfriend’s father. The one who played in Moonlighting or something like that
here. He was married to Demi Moore. And we do not remember his name, Bruce Willis maybe
here. And now Monica and Phoebe and Chandler talking Ross up here in the coffee house here.
And enter Rachel who says that she is all ready to talk Ross up, when will Liz’s father be here,
and he says that I am already here. So apparently that is funny here. Tom Steyer and an ad for
presidency here. The overuse of the word HE. 17414 in words here.
12:12.
11/5/19.
Still less than 18000 words here which is fine, apparently ah apparently here. Very obvious filler
words here.
17444.
Marsha and Chester are mad at Phyllis. And now Joey teaching a guy how to talk to women. And
Not exactly a good novel here. The novelwriter should go out for a hike, run, walk, anything to
get away from her laptop, from the typewriter. She hates to face the reality that she sucks at
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writing here. How tough can it be? People do it all the time, write books, that is here. Seems, that
there was more book writing going on when this all started. People did not own laptops. There
were no laptops at that time. At least not laptops that looked like today’s models here. And
17588.
And still another scene from FRIENDS. It is another episode here. 7599, sorry, 17599 here. 186
Time to have a tea. Do writers drink tea? Apparently they are famous for being all raging drunks.
Re drunks raging? Not necessarily. Lots of them cry. Anyhoo, this writer here will sip tea. And
watch Friends reruns. And then pen her masterpiece at 12:43 PM on November 5 in two
thousand and nineteen here on a rainy day in the pacific northwest. Or something like that here.
And she makes sure that she uses as many words as possible. George Orwell would not agree
here. Being wordy is just good for nanowrimo not necessarily for the business of publishing.
After all, books with lesser words need less ink and less paper. Trees will be saved. Or something
On nanowrimo-the site, there is a category in the fora where people document their worst
sentences. The idea being that those writers should selfdoubt instead of being happy with
Apparently the founder now teaches. Those who can’t do,..- sorry, just joshing here.
17790 here. 0 words needed today. So the site here. Seems, the tea is ready now.
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1:57 PM. She is kind of tired. Constant typing does that to yer. It is exhausting. It is physically
exhausting here. One has to do it smarter. Type and then rest. Type some more and then rest
again. It helps to have a good story. Which of course we here do not have. So that is of course a
liability. And we should not repeat the OF COURSE. 7873, sorry, 17873. Now TWO AND A
HALF MEN. The background music to the novel writing enterprise here. Alan and Jake.
17894 here.
17896.
Something about Santa Monica. Which is of course next to Malibu. Or isn’t it? Where exactly is
Venice? We could all look it up on google map- but is that really how a writer should roll here?
17935 here.
And an ad for alexa. 17950. Apparently it is echo. So why does she say alexa?
117961 here. And now the judge and Charlie. Very boring. He tells her that he knows that he is
going to this thingie here. Well, you have. Would you like to go with me to the banquet?
Although there is a poet between the and banquet. 18997, sorry, 18009. In words here.
The writing meetings. None of them is in the afternoon. At two in the afternoon. Or maybe som
of ‘em are here. We can check. Because that seems to be much more fun than the writing process
itself. Analyzing different aspects of the nanowrimo phenomenon. Random observations here. A
very conservative crowd. And Charlie is out. So it is pretty funny here. 18074 here. Judge of the
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Two and twelve minutes. In the afternoon. She ponders, maybe being a tad chilly is better for
writing here. What is the right temperature for an office where people type? What exactly is
conducive for the optimal output? In a writer’s studio? And is it an office or a studio or a study?
Whatever you name it will have an impact on the final goods here. The final product apparently
here.
18157 here. Once more Tom Steyer. Wow, he sure paid a lot for ads.
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14.
18171.
And then there are the laughtracks. She just scoured the site, there is a meeting today in a place
named One Books in Manchester. Which is nice and it is a daytime meeting but they do not say
the time. Somehow the website is ah so very confusing. Some region have a calendar and other
do not. Seems, everybody has problem with using the site, especially ‘cause it has been
Apparently one can take a course, a free writing course. But, hey, you cannot really teach
writing. You have to learn by doing. And that is what we are doing here. Write write write. Well,
And now, blackish. Three and two minutes. Three oh three. It is funny. Even though there are no
laugh tracks. O you never really know when it is time to laugh here.
So an afternoon of writing here. It might rain, so taking the laptop to the coffee house is out. Just
gotta sit in here and type up the novel of the century here.
So, by the way, we still do not quite know what happens to the blue line on the asphalt of New
York City, after the marathon. And we cannot really google it because it just goes to something
called the Blue Line Lounge which is apparently some VIP place for watching or for having a
drink after the marathon. But one thing was sure clear and that was that there is a blue line on the
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concrete, on the asphalt, because one can see it on the videos and on the pics. And now, Big
18462 words here. She had some cheese and some raisins and some nuts. Gotta lose weight,
because Halloween candies did us in here. That and basically overeating in October. Eating out.
Alcohol. Basically not counting every calorie. We have to adhere to a strict and rigorous exercise
regimen here. And we are but it is more about eating too much. Gotta curb that. Portion control is
where it is at. And it does not really help that all we do is sit and type. Well, at least half an hour
stationary bike is usually in and every now and then, mall walking. Low impact exercise but
regular exercise. That is where it is at here. It is more about sticking to the same routine here.
And to weigh oneself each and every day here and then write it down. Being obsessed. How do
18609. In words at four twenty-one here. In the afternoon of November five. In 2019 here.
She just was on the website and in Friesland. Which is nice but hey we do not speak Dutch.
And then it was on something called character café. Where people swapped ideas about how to
describe persons. Well, if you have to ask… chances are you cannot write. But what do we know
here, we are avoiding the traditional novel “way” anyways. No storyarc whatsoever here. We just
18714.
On the telly, a show named THE RESIDENT. Apparently it is everything but a rerun, world
premiere. The person who played the son on The Cosby Show, he is in it, all grown up here.
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18749 here. Five twenty-two here. It is dark outside or next to dark here. What with the time
change here. Writing typing here. He has a dentist appointment tomorrow, Wednesday, so for one
hour writing is off here. Though, technically, writing is pretty off this time around here. Sporadic
writing. 18799 words. She is taking her sweet-ass time here. Sorry for the profanity. But it is
true, she is not oing a sprint this time around, she is here for the long haul. Stretching the
nanowrimo over all of the thirty days here. And not like last time when she wrote 222000 words
here in thirty days or so here. Well, minus her travel time here. 18866 words here, 5:27 here. She
ponders if she described last year’s writing adequately. She wrote most of the days, but she went
on a five-day trip and so that means that she merely wrote 25 days here. But she went way over
the required fifty thousand, more than four times the required word count here. In the years
before that, she just stopped once she hit 50000. Numbers, seems, we are playing more with all
of these numbers than we are playing with the words here. Fifty more words and we will reach
19000 here. Or a tad more words here. Ballpark nineteen thou here.
Thirty words, twenty-nine. Ah the nanowrimo phenomenon. In the times of Microsoft Word. You
know your wordcount immediately. Numbers seem to be more important in the digital age here.
Let us put down some thousand words more here. It is thirty-five minutes after five in the
afternoon. The evening, because, let us face it, it is now pitchdark outside here. 19039. In words
What to write about, what to write about here? There is a woman named Gabriela who actually
teaches writing on the nanowrimo site. Well, she started this MFA thingie which has nothing to
do with any university, apparently. It is an online master program, which seems not to be
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affiliated with any university. Which basically means that it is subpar. The interesting thing
though is that she is written with only one L. And that she once worked for Folio lit agency.
On the telly, the show that is mainly situated in a hospital environment. In Atlanta. Well, ER it
19151. Coffee houses are the most important things in nanowrimo. It is where books should be
written. It is the natural habitat for any red-blooded book writer. Auteur. The term red-blooded
book writer is kind of like an oxymoron here. Maybe one could say something like any writer
worth her money. Then again, should it be her money or his money. What is interesting is that
lots of the writers on nanowrimo say something like “his/her pronoun” next to their intros. Now
what is that all about here? Ah, who knows here. 19244, 5:47, still 11/5/19 here.
19260.
So, apparently the pilot was drunk in this show. And two doctors are talking about that. Patient
confidentiality. What exactly is going on here, the story seems to be twisted and not
straightforward here.
On the nanowrimo site, they asked about who do you think should play your characters in thee
book if this is made into a movie. Funny huh here. 5:55 PM, 19323. Words words words here.
Café Celona. That is the name of the place where the writers in Hamburg met up yesterday.
Author here knows where that place is. Nice. This seems to be what we are much more interested
than story arcs. The coffee houses where people meet up. The social stuff. Because let us face it,
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writing is a solitary profession, so the talking shop is what makes it interesting here. Comparing
And once more, TWO AND A HALF MEN. A rerun of the rerun. After watching MODERN
FAMILY. Definitely this is not what a writer should do. Merely documenting whatever is on the
telly. Binge watching does not make for good novels now does it? 19452 in words here. Seven
Now Jake and Alan and the mom. Funny discussion. Laugh track galore here. And we are still
19484.
1494, sorry, 19496. Four more words and voila, 19500 here.
And still writing and still writing here. And a tad looking at stuff on the nanowrimo site. Seems
that the writers in San Francisco are of the opinion that all the stories are amazing. Everybody’s
story is amazing that is what the site says. And how can they be wrong? Nanowrimo started out
of the Bay Area. Boy, who would have thought that this is now a twenty-year-old project. Author
here did it maybe since 2007. Or seven times. Or nine times. Something like this, something like
that here.
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19602 in words here. Seven and twenty-nine. Evening of a Tuesday in November here. Sitting at
home and churning out words here. It is fun, but it would be nicer and better if this would
magically morph into War and Peace or Moby Dick here. And now the ugly bowl episode here.
Random crappola.
19657.
7:31 PM.
And we could once more write about the famous Gabriella. The one who has a name but no story
as of yet here.
7:33 PM.
Civil union.
19687.
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There is Café Enchante where people will meet up in San Francisco. Isn’t that a lovely name?
The host has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh. Impressive.
How do they teach Creative Writing? Is it even a teachable subject? And what would be the
dissertation? A novel? Which is what we write here anyways. Without anybody grading it and
killing the spirit. Just keep on writing and it will go somewhere eventually. Or not. What do you
19777. At this rate you’ll be done on November 12. That sounds about right.
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And a KFC commercial. And Alan complaining about Charlie to his mom and Teddy. Jake is
there too.
And now, Berta and Charlie. What kind of candy? Butter scotch.
19827 words here. Not that much left to make it up to 20 000 words here. Some two hundred
words, give or take some here. And now Teddy is telling Aln a story. About his brother. He
makes it up though. Especially because he mixes up the names of the brother. And when Alan
9:11 PM. Once more we watched THE RESIDENT. This time with more interest, more focus.
19907. Now, CNN. Kentucky gubernatorial elections. A democrat won here. 19918.
Page 69 of 69 here. 19925 here. And people are analyzing, well, politics. Kind of boring.
Especially if you are not quite sure what is going on here. And who really understands it?
Forty-nine words nd we have twenty thousand here. On day five. Pretty good if we say so
Twenty-five words. About Gabriella and the like here. An ad for a medication that relieves
constipation. Nine more words and five and voila, 20 000 words here. And by the way, we are
8:46 @ 11/6/19 in the morning here. On the telly, Funny you Should Ask and we have 20037
words here. In the morning the coffee house was fascinating, around seven in the AM. And
before that, there was this pillow of fog on the lawn of the high school. Amazing huh. And all of
the people in the coffee house, getting in and getting out. Do these people even have a kitchen
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and do they grocery shop? Apparently not here. Or maybe the population is divided fifty fifty, the
people who eat out and the people who eat in. just like the voters half on the right and half on the
left here.
In Tim Hortons they have pancakes that are filled with Nutella. Yums here.
20159, 20161.
Roch minwrimos. Nice captions on the website. These are people in a city called Rochester in
Nine oh two.
She has a dental appointment which will interfere with writing the novel here, eventually. How
can you write when you have to sit in a chair and open your mouth to be poked in? Impossible
huh here.
And the weight is not good here, 170 or near to that here. It is as if all of the ummer weight loss I
King of Queens is pretty funny here. It is the one where Carrie kind of caused Doug’s injury
oodhere.
So apparently the Nutella filled pancakes are really good. According to two food bloggers on you
tube. Seems they are seventy cents each. And they are like silver dollar pancakes which basically
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means that they are smaller than regular pancakes. Nutella and pancakes, what could possibly go
wrong here? In the comment section somebody suggested whipped cream. Yaaaah.
20331.
A BLT cheeseburger combo. So the telly here. Maybe this is why we gained weight, the telly and
20358 here.
And now Doug complaining about Carrie inviting Danny over. Your cousin Danny. And his
girlfriend here. And they are going to marry. I can’t do it on Sunday. Gotta run another 10K. He’s
kidding, yeah?
Now an ad for tacos. Though apparently it is a Geico commercial. They never make sens,
anyways.
Let it rip. So, Arthur. Doug gives a speech and Arthur is the audience.
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9:41 AM.
0, sorry, 10:08. Still morning here. On th telly, Mike and Molly. Molly and Mike’s mom in a
school cafeteria, they are eating. And Molly is talking with the lady. It is funny. Peggy Biggs.
That is the name of Mike’s mom. What is the meaning of the “green mile”? Apparently it is a
20534. He is very self-conscious. About his weight. She means Jim. The dog. I am good with
people. So Mike’s mom. And lots of laugh tracks after she says that here.
Nd now an ad for Timmy the tiger. Tim the tiger? For frosted cereals. They are grrreat.
Something tiger, so much we know here. They are grrreat. Frosted flakes.
20594. When she was sitting in the coffee house and sipping her coffee the people in the other
seat were talking about a SHE. So apparently in this coffee house people always gossip about a
female who is not there. An absent female. Author here ponders if women are more the target of
gossip than men are? How does this work? Are there statistics? 26, sorry, 20660. Words needed
Waiting for the dentist. We could walk there because it is in walking distance. Then again, it is
cold, chilly and we definitely need gloves. The sun is shining, yeah, but it is chilly. There is a
cute bakery on the other side of the dentist. Five buck cookies. Expensive but good. And if we
drive, is there a parking space? Will there be? 20737 words here. Words that are kind of
inconsequential. That merely describe the everyday. Nothing special here. Regular stuff.
And now, Two and a Half Men. Charlie Sheen. And Charlie wakes Alan and Jake up to watch a
children’s show. Actually, the commercial which is a commercial for Charlie’s songs. Kind of
like Rafi.
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0790, sorry, 20793 here.
782 words needed today. Maybe we should finish this all up and then go to the dentist. Sitting
though is no exercise. And we did not do the stationary bike stuff in the gym in the morning here.
Not even the mall walk. You become a tad addicted to this here. And now, Charlie and Alan in a
grocery store. Who loves kids? Charlie Waffles. Pretty catchy? So is gonorrhea.
20865.
Who loves kids? They have bookstores just for kids? Who knew? Everybody but you.
Oh, you’re the sponge. An ad for a pizza place. Little Caesar’. Thin crust pepperoni. Yumm.
This station is out of Boston. And now an ad for Mc Donald’s. and now the Tom Steyer guy here.
Longhorn Steakhouse. An ad for a snow plough. That cannot be right here. And now Alan and
Charlie in the car. Charle wearing the Charlie Waffles hat. – I have stage fright.
0955, sorry 20955. It is showbusiness, Alan, you don’t tell people the truth.
Who goe to concerts at 11 AM? Oh, yeah. Oh Rafi. What has he got that I have not got? Oh,
And now the theater and kids all screaming Charlie Waffles. And Charlie shows up drunk. The
I drink from a sippy cup, ‘cause I am a big kid now. Doesn’t it bother you that he is loaded? He
is a musician, it would bother me if he isn’t. 21047. 2:23 PM on 11/6/19. 21051. 525 words
needed today here. At this rate you will be finished on November 14.
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And now we are back. Dentist. And then a cookie. From the cute bakery on the other side of the
street, opposite of the dentist. Such a cute cute place. One should live there. Maybe write a book
about that place. No wait, there is a book already. A baking book. Filled up with recipes and
pictures.
On the telly, Big Bang. 4:43. The cleaning of teeth. Something that is no fun at all. But at least it
hardly hurt. For some reason, there was no dental check-up, just a cleaning. In March there will
be a check-up. Is that right? Is that how it should be? What if we have cavities here? Ah well, it
is over and that is all that matters. The cookie and tea after the dentist. A shower too. And the
laundry in the washing machine. This is what we write about. Somehow this is not a novel. Not a
good enough novel here. She had an idea about a story about a bookstore. But she forgot. Maybe
one should take notes in the office of the dentist. In the waiting room here.
21255 here. 321 words needed today. Somehow, we are doing this all wrong what with filling in
the wordcount. And now Sheldon and Hofstetter, Lennard, talking about Bill Gates who is
So Sheldon did not meet him. And Lennard is coming back home to Penny here.
And then there is a little reception for Mr. Gates. So penny is saying here. And now Holowitz. If
that is his name. Maybe it is Wolowitz. And Bernadette and her voice, all screechy here.
4:51 here. 21355 in words here. At this rate you will finish on November…? Who knows here?
12, maybe. 15 maybe, 14, yup, 14 might be the right number here.
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Now Bernadette and Amy talking here. You know that the actress who plays Amy used to be
TV’s Blossom. Ah, of course you know. TV trivia, who does not know it?
And now, Bill Gates here. Complaining to Lennard that he ruined his time.
What’s for dinner. I am starving. So Sheldon to Lennard. Somehow we have no clue what is
Four fifty-six. 21451 here. 123 words needed today. We will be able to do that here and by the
way, Big Bang came to an end here, well, it is the last note of the credits here and the bang of
Sony or Universal or whoever owns the production company that brings you Big Bang Theory
here. An ad for Santander which is a bank out of Spain and when author here was in Spain last
December, she saw that bank everywhere and thus noticed that it is a Spanish bank here. Just like
you will easily understand that Wells Fargo is a California bank when you live there. Or
Hamburger Sparkasse, well, is a bank in Hamburg here. Obviously, it has the name of the city on
it here.
21578 here, and Eric Fisher on the telly. The guy who ran the Boston marathon here.
21595.
21607.
Five and thirty. It is eight thirty in NYC. Two write-ins are under way over there, well, one
actually just ended. But one is still on in the Whole Foods in Brooklyn. For one more hour. Nice,
huh. There must be several Whole Foods over there. It is somewhere near this Swedish place
called Konditori but that has several different locations by that name here, apparently. It is just
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fun to try to check out the different addresses where people are writing-up the novels here. The
nanowrimo novel, 50 000 words here. And ours here stands at 21700 here. Yay ah yay here.
Maybe we can just feed some three hundred more and this will stand then at 22000. Not bad for
And now the news still out of Boston. Something about Fenway. Isn’t that where Fenway
stadium is here?
Now something about the making of the T. It is the train in Boston, apparently here. Dwell time
that is the time that people take to get on and off here.
21782 here. It is all pretty technical and interesting here. Orange line. MBTA, yes, that used to be
the name of the trains in Boston. It still is, by the way here.
21815 here.
Doyle’s Café. Apparently, an important place in Boston. She ponders, has she been there? On her
An ad for a wrinkle cream. Makes yer look like 16 again. 60 going on 16. Hahaha.
Five and fifty-six. Evening starts up here. Dark outside, yes definitely. A commercial for
McDonald’s. 5:58. 21885 words here. Scouring the Instagram pics of nanowrimo. Fun. An ad for
Santander again. Little pigs. What are they? And now, Dateline. Nah, Last Man Standing seems
more fun. Tim the tool man. And the mom is the woman who played in Three Men and a Baby.
21933. 21934.
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It is about shoes on the telly. Mandy’s wedding. Mandy seems to be the woman who marries
Kyle. Mandy is the one who is into fashion. And now the neighbor. 21977. And then there are
Fifteen words and then we have twenty-two thousand words here though no story arc but that
22009, 220011. We can still write, still type into the evening here. On the telly, Mr. G. 7:20 in the
PM here. 7:27.
On the nanowrimo site people share which words they hate to type, are tired already of typing
again and again. One writer says that she or he types up poetry in Spanish and that is why she
hates the words that she names here. Ad yours truly hates to type “here” all the time, ahem, here.
She ponders if she made a mistake with the reflexive pronouns in her sentence. And what exactly
is a reflexive pronoun here? When going on the nanoeromo site, it becomes clear that most novel
writers have a story arc and are not just journaling their own lives during National Novel Writing
22150 words here. 7:39 in the PM. Still November six in two thousand and nineteen here. She
ponders, maybe the “here” is an ah so very appropriate filler word. After all, we are supposed to
use as many filler words as possible, we are kind of encouraged to do so. You can summarize a
novel in one sentence, one elevator pitch. But the real story is some 300 or so pages long.
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Seinfeld ftw. Apparently, ftw is short for “for the win”. Nice, huh. Seven minutes after eight, it is
the episode where Jerry and George get into the car with the two Aryan Nation persons and they
22270.
And once more, a different episode of, well, obviously, Seinfeld. 22280 words just about the
process of penning a novel in November here. Kramer on the telly. And George talking about
Marisa Tomei.
We have to be in sync. George and Elaine. Art Vandelay. He is an importer. Just an importer?
Elaine? What for? He is an importer-exporter. – Are you having an affair with Elaine?
And now it is the morning of day seven here. November seven to be exact. The x-mas
decorations are not up yet in the mall. But Starbucks has brought out its colorful x-mas cups.
Seems to be very important, they even said it on the radio when she was driving. Red and green
iconic paper cups. It was not even a commercial, no, it was just part of the news. As if this is an
On the telly, King of Queens. The one where Carrie is supposed to bake a cake for the bake sale.
And 32, sorry, 22449 here. At nine and twenty-five in the morn. The weather is grey but
apparently no rain as of yet here. So, it is not sunny, not sunny at all, basically the opposite of
sunniness, but it is not wet as of yet here, so that is still a good thing here. She walked in the
mall, since seven, eight times around the mall. She was too tired to do it ten times, mall walking
is grueling here.
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959 words needed today. She is not quite sure, at what day she will finish this according to the
nanowrimo site here. But she got that badge for seven days straight writing here. It comes up,
automatically, on day seven here. The website has glitches, especially now with the new design.
But it is still entertaining, an entity in itself. An entity that actually has nothing to do with
constructing of a novel here. It is more an experiment in website design here. Writing a novel,
that is something, Herbert Melville would know about. Though we are not quite sure if his first
name was Melville. Let us just use his last name in order not to highlight our ignorance here.
There is a publishing place that is called Melville. Somewhere on the Lower Eastside. Near
Battery Park. In the beginning you ould just send in your stuff but nowadays you need a lit
agency to submet your written words to them. Except if it has changed again here.
22699 in words here. What exactly is King of Queens about here. This particular episode that is
now at this very moment flimmering over the screen here. And now an ad for a thin crust pizza
Nine and forty in the morning. She should go for a run, but it seems nobody runs in this weather.
Except for that one woman in jogging shots who was pushing a stroller. One of those jogging
So that you can run after you had your baby in order to lose the weight that you gained during
pregnancy here. Something like that, something of that kind here. A sales gimmick. Do
breastfeeding moms really have to run and jump. Wouldn’t vigorous exercise do the trick while
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And now Doug is talking enthusiastically to Danny, no, Spence here. You know, he has a third
nipple. So Doug to Carrie referring to Spence. Nine and forty-five minutes here. 22869 in words
It is the episode where Doug notices that Carrie is cheating. On game night.
Now they are talking about Sizzler. 22901 hre. Words ah words here. 100 words and we will hit
23000 here. Seems, that they do not have poker nite here. They just play board games here.
Carrie admits that she cheated. She flipped over the timer, apparently here. And now they are all
playing again. Game night here. Game night with friends here. Bye. What’s wrong with you?
22979. 509 words needed. Now Arthur and Doug. My little girl.
Still writing and still writing here. Nine and fifty-four here. There was a time change so it is
actually ten fifty-four here. Orr maybe this is the real time because there is just a mere artificial
23030.
458 words neded today. At this rate you will finish on November 15. Which is nice. Half of the
time required. Finishing the fifty thousand wordcount in half the time. November fifteen instead
of November thirty.
23068 words here. Winner loser. Which is what Arthur yell here.
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Now another sitcom, well, after the Wendy’s commercial here.
23092, 23093.
Ten in the morning. The sun is oming out, no clouds in the sky here. Overeaters Anonymous
here. He has already got plans. It is funny what with all the laugh tracks here. 3 pounds
weightloss here.
Four hundred words or so. And then we will be set for the day here. The novel that is not really a
novel. Or is it? It is all in the definition, the way that we categorize written pieces here. She was
in the bookstore in downtown and walked through the different, well, compartments.
Departments? Sports, music, arts. The kids section. The travel section. Fiction, non-fiction.
Mystery. Graphic Novels. Magazines. And then there were mugs, socks, shawls, handbags.
Eyeglasses. Toys. Chocolates. A coffee place. One could sit there and look down at the hustle and
On the telly, blackish. It is funny. Though no laugh tracks here. You have to figure out for
yourself when it is funny. 23255, 4:15 PM, 11/7/19. 230 words needed here. He ponders, is this
the time when nanowrimo persons are getting ready for meet-ups. Not quite. It is twenty-four
minutes after four on a mulmy Thursday afternoon. People are still working on Friday, but then it
will be the long weekend. She ponders, what time is it in other time zones. In New York City, it
is seven thirty. And you know, most of the authors of this planet live in Brooklyn. Nobody knows
why though. Is it the new whatever gathering place writers used to live in. That place in London
that starts with a B and we do not recall here off the top of our tongues here. Bloomingdale’s?
Nah, that is a dress shop. You know, small brown bag, medium brown bag, large…, you see it
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everywhere in New York City, on the subway, it is omnipresent. Though more in women’s hands
than men’s.
And now Dre embarrassing his son. He is good at that, jut like all parents are. Comes with the
territory. Just you wait, dear reader, till you will have kids.
23448 here.
38 words needed today. 35. What can you write in 35 words, how much wisdom can you push
into a 35-word long sentence here? And we are still writing still writing here. 23483. Five words
At seven there will be a write-in in a place named Marino Café in Portland, Oregon. Author here
has been to Powell’s, you know, the bookstore. Lots of the write-ins are held there but not the
one today at seven in the evening. The one that is on from seven to ten in the evening.
How would it feel to pen a novel in downtown Portland? Differently than it would feel to pen a
novel in a Whole Foods in Tribeca. Maybe the persons who are writing with you are somehow
influencing what you write. Your colleagues. Your fellow writers, they sure have a bearing on the
words you choose. The stories that you want to tell the world. Share with the world. The stories
that you make up. The yarn that you spin. The narrative here. The tall tales. On the nanowrimo
site there is this image of a young girl doing research. And under it, it says “serious prepping”.
So the idea is that if you do a lot of research, then it follows that the story you write is reflecting
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reality. But do we really want to reflect reality in a novel? Isn’t the idea of a novel its fictional
element? This could never have happened in real life. The magic of the fictitious storyarc. The
mystery of that which does not exist in real life. The escapism. The “what if” element here. A
world how we want it to be. Romance that gets fulfilled. Lovers who find each other. Like
magic. Crimes that are solved and not remain unsolved as it happens a lot in the real world.
There is something about books, about stories, novels that is fascinating. Maybe it is the element
of unbelievability here. There are no laugh tracks in real life. But there are the ones in Seinfeld.
Once author here read this story where people would complain that the stuff on Seinfeld does
never ever happen in real life. And Larry King countered that this was exactly what happened to
him. Author ponders, what is the name of the Curb Your Enthusiasm guy? Larry King? Well, no,
Larry something, Larry David? Yup, Larry David here. Larry King was the one on CNN here.
And now it is eight minutes after six. On the telly something that has to do with Malibu. And
now a high school. Something like that something of that kind. In the New York Times there was
an opinion piece by a former athlete. Who accused the Nike Speed Project of abusing their
runners instead of training them. The male coaches would focus too heavily on weight loss
because the thinner an athlete the faster she can run. And the coaches were mle and not very
good and not professional. And they would tell the female athlete to lose weight and that is not
good because they need to have enough food to build their bones. And they will lose their period
when they are on semistarvation. It is a video and it is an article. And author here is reading this
ah so very interesting book called Running to the Edge and it is about running marathons. It is
very interesting, but it cost forty bucks because it was hardcover and it came out in June or July.
The writer wrote an article online and thus author here knew about his book and got his book
because he is a good writer here. He has a funny name that she does not recall at this time here.
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Author here really likes to read about running and she ran in the morning too, well, 400 meters,
four blocks, but still here. Better than nothing here. Eight times around the mall walking and a
short run, not even one K here. 400 meters that is how many Ks? 0, 4 k maybe here.
24144 here. 6:17 in the PM, still Thursday, day seven of nanowrimo here. November seven yay
ah yay here.
24171.
15.
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She ponders, she lost some of her words. She pushed a button and some two or three lines got
lost. You have to constantly save your work so that that does not happen here. When
spellchecking she noticed that something got lost, her thoughts were more in depth, her
analyzing of stuff. And then she noticed it when she saw that the 15 at the beginning of chapter
15 had moved here. Chances are her work got wiped out. Forever. 24252.
She just read the posts where nanowrimo participants were talking about weird places where they
write. Author ponders, actually the coffee house next to the gas station on a Sunday was very
weird. Mainly because it was a Sunday and nobody was working on the computer, hardly
anybody had a laptop. And if they had, then not for a long time here.
We could write some more here. Maybe even write about the forgotten protagonist, Gabriella
24332, she just read this Instagram feed, an Instagram story by the bakery where she got pastry
today. They put an article by some outlet named bon appetite on their story and it was full of
praise. Nice, huh. Author here always got sick after having their food, but now she had food
there twice without getting sick. Maybe because it is not summer anymore. They seemed to not
put their food in the fridge and that is why she got sick in summer, violently so. But now it is
24426 words here. Family Feud. It is four minutes after seven here. She should put the laundry in
the dryer. Or she can do that the next day, it will not mold up in the washer once the wash cycle
is finished here. She liked doing laundry in New York City, it is always an adventure. Then
again, just living in NYC is an adventure. It is full of New York Minutes, and in the rest of the
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world, well, minutes are just regular minutes. That is how it is, how it is here. Frankieboy cannot
be wrong here.
24525 here.
At this rate you will be finished on November 14. Yay ah yay here. She has to stay on this
chapter (IN this chapter?) at least until she reaches page 95. Maybe page 100 would be evn
better. What would Gabriella say to this here? Poor Gabriella who is hardly mentioned here,
author is way too self-absorbed here. And boy are they loud on Family Feud here.
Seven days of novel writing. Now it is ten and twenty-nine here. Next to midnite. Midnight
adjacent here.
Eleven thirty-three. Really near to midnight here. MSNBC on the telly. Kind of boring though,
politics and nothing really new. How do they manage to make politics palpable? How do they
make something as dry as politics into a soap here? A soap opera that is.
24658. At this rate you’ll be done on November 14. So the website here.
The coffee place and basically a lot of writing about that place here. A car is parked in a way that
one cannot see the clock above the gas station. Which is ah so very disconcerting here. A big big
truck with something yellow and a small writing that says Penske.
And then there is the coffee place itself. They are out of her favorite quinoa wrap, so the
shawarma chicken one has to do here. The other one is all veggie, southwestern something, with
beans that are black brown burgundy colored therein. She has her coffe and now she can figure
out what the writing says, merry coffee instead of merry x-mas here. She tried to decipher it the
day before on somebody else’s paper cup but could not figure it out but now she can read it for
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herself here. She has a place next to the window which is not that good because you want to see
the inner workings of the coffee house and not just some random street with cars going by here
and a woman in blonde and beige making her way to this place to get a coffee here, fetch a
coffee here. Maybe this place is really the best place where a writer should go in the morning, the
ultimate place to make you start your novel writing day here in November of two thousand and
nineteen here. And now she is back at the typing machine and writing it is and typing it is here.
Eight thirty-three here in words, day eight, 24930. Scventy more and we will stand, this will
stand at 25 thousand here which is a nice and round round number here.
The dryer is making its noises, repetitive sounds, churning and turning, the perfect background
music for penning the perfect novel here. She will look at recipe books and recipe pictures,
pictures that show the final product. She just read through something with peach and raspberries,
a poundcake with just a smidgen or a smitten of dusting on top, sugar dusting or something here.
There is something ah so soothing about reading recipes and it kind of interferes with the writing
of a novel and kind of does not here. The storyarc of the production of a pound cake, the mixing
together of eggs, yolk and white until it becomes one yellow gooey surface here.
And this stands at 25070, yay ah yay here. Time to respite, for now ah for now here, King of
Queens and the like await ah await here. 25095, 665 words needed today here. At this rate this
will finish at …?
Eight forty-four and 11/8/19 here. Sunny weather outside, the sun is shining is shining today
here.
633 words needed today. King of Queens on the telly here. Funny stuff and laugh tracks it is
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Deacon and Kelly. They have a new group of friends and Carrie and Doug are shopping for
25174 here.
At this rate you’ll be done on November sixteen. So halfway there. Today is November eight and
And now Carrie and Doug in the car here. Who cares, friends just do keep you away from TV.
And the ad for pizza again here, the one that is on day-in and day-out these days here. The Little
Caesars one here. And now an ad for Jack in the Box. These are the people who watch what is on
the telly during the day, people who like to drive-thru in order to get their food intake here.
Though technically it is not clear if the pizza place is a drive-thru. Because usually pizza places
Yup, these are what we think about while penning a novel here. Which, by the way, is standing at
25327 exactly here. 432 words needed today and now it is Mike and Karl. In the diner and they
are talking about their relationships. And Karl and Kristina. The waiter is now coming in and is
Outside, utter sunniness which kind of interferes with her ability to write. Too much shininess.
For writing you need less light apparently here. It shines into the right side of her face and thus
she cannot concentrate that focusedly here on the screen of the laptop and on the keyboard here.
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And now Karl and Mike in the patrol car here. In Chicago.
Ain’t this something? They are both happy, came a long way from Dr. Pepper. Funny
conversation here.
25477 here. 283 words needed today. 283. That is a little less than 300 here. Seems that this is all
about numbers. Everything measured. Counting words here. The automatic wordcount in a
omputer software. No wonder that this all started about twenty years ago. When that software
Aand now, Molly and Mike here. Seven dips, that’s impressive. And once more the pizza ad with
the thin crust here. The idea being that one cannot even see the crust because it is so thin here.
Apparently nobody wants crust and everybody wants cheese and pepperoni. The toppings and
Though let us face it, the bread is ah so very important and it helps to absorb the juiciness of the
toppings here.
Thoughts about pizza and now this stands at two five six two and one here. 132 words needed
Mike with his mom on the phone here. And mike talking about the cake. Mocha-chip, red velvet.
There are lots of choices here. You give him something white and frozen, …
Karl and Christina and Molly. And now enter Mike here.
City Hall.
Excuse me, I am going to check on the salmon. She must be going to the lake.
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Ten and nineteen.
Sixty words needed today. She should go for a run. Go out for a run. Is this what writers do here?
How do others do the nanowrimo here? Are they all chained to their computers? Or are they at
Two words needed today-we are there ah there here. Yay ah yay here.
25778. It always changes here. At this rate you’ll be done on November 16. Still ah still here.
And we are writing and typing this up here. 25805. The romanticness of numbers here.
An ad about gutter cleaning. Or leaf guards here. Maybe it is the same here. Gutter inspection
5, sorry, 25838.
Four and eleven in the afternoon. Actually, sunset here will be at four and thirty-five, so we are
ah so very near to evening here. Time to draw the curtains already here. He read thru this book
about running. Good stuff. And now it is a tea and sugar and Big Bang Theory on the telly here.
We gotta lose some five pounds which means portion control and no eating. She gained five
pounds in October and now it all has to come down till x-mas here. Till Thanksgiving here.
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25492 here.
Sorry, 25946 here. 25947. At this rate you’ll be done on November 15.
Not that many words are needed to get to the next round number here. 25987. Thirteen words
and we will reach twenty-six thousand words here, 26000 in eight days here. Yay ah yay here,
There will be a write-in at the Portland, Maine, Public Library at ten in the morning on Saturday
and this will be going on for four hours. Four hours of writing in Maine. Author here has never
ever been to Maine, no Maine lobsters for her here. But you think, feel as if you are there, well,
virtually. It is like the writing on the wall of the public middle school or whatever that was, in
Chelsea in New York City, between Eighth and Ninth Avenue, on Twentieth Street or maybe
Twenty-first here. It said and we kind of are changing the words here that reading books will
transport you to places that you have never been and will never be. The knowledge that there are
writers gathering to pen a novel in a certain place, it is kind of like that here.
She is going on the website of this restaurant called Fraeulein von Elbe. It is in Hamburg and the
main location is in the city. Somehow perusing the pics makes you feel as if you are there. Same
idea.
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Jeopardy is over, Tournament of Champions. Now the news, maybe out of Chicago here. Or
26234.
Five eleven. On the telly, they talk about Biden and Trump. And Pat Sajak had a medical
emergency. He is the Wheel of Fortune guy here. The one with Vanna White. You know Vanna
here. Uncle Joey on full House called her an American institution and that was back when here.
62, sorry, 26288. There will b a transit write-in on November 16. Nice, but according to the
website we will be finished on November 15 with this novel here. We will have reached 50 000,
after that, well, we might still soldier on here. She ponders, how are the novels of others, more
traditional or less traditional here? For her, the wordcount is what is most important here. The
fun of typing. The reaching of goals. Kind of like running a marathon feels. Mile, 18, 19, 20, 21.
Same with wordcount here. She ponders, she might have mentioned said thoughts before here in
26393 here.
5:20 PM here.
Six oh nine. Friday, November 8. In two thousand and nine here. Yup, nine minutes after six in
the evening. On the telly, Last Man Standing and laugh tracks here. 26444. In words here. We
can drive this up to 27000 here. Eight days of constant typing, more or less so here. On the telly,
Jay Leno who is part of the show apparently here. An auto mechanic, seems that is his role here.
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And we are not catching the jokes here but apparently they are funny judging from the laughs
here.
The mom is joining her daughters at a slumber party. One time at a John Tesh concert. Tiramisu,
and a video and a bottle of white wine. Cool Ranch Dorito. Apparently it is no fun with the mom
being there at the sleepover here. Cool Ranch Doritoes are only fun if somebody says that they
should not been eaten here. The “verboten” is what makes it fun here.
26575. Write-ins are on in different parts of the city. Not necessarily in her home region, though
She could go out, to the mall or the coffee house. Or just sit in here and feed her words to the
machine here. The run against the machine, well, kind of here.
Gabriella, nothing new about her here. The person that the novel is about here, still waiting for
the narrative. The protagonist searching for the story here, any story here.
26664. An ad for dunkin. And x-mas bells in the back here. Everybody forgets things.
26680.
And a commercial. For Cascade Platinum. It is something that you put in the dishwasher.
Author’s dishwasher is broken. Dishes are washed by hand here. It is no biggie here. He had just
tea and a big sugar cube. The idea is to slurp the tea over the sugar here.
26730 here. And now an ad for boots. And back to Outdoor Man. Six thirty now here. Shoveable
snow near Boston apparently here. Snow that can be shoveled. Shovelable? What is the word
here? Is there even a word like that here. The person on the news used it just right now here.
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And this is still another LAST MAN STANDING here.
Disgusting.
26797.
Affectionate.
26799.
26800.
Two hundred words more here. Till seven maybe here. We can do it, you can do it here.
Seven minutes after seven here. On the telly, Tamsen Fadal. She is talking about Michael
26844. And now the woman in front of the Staten Island Ferry Terminal. The forgotten borough?
Five boroughs. You cannot change that here. Only time will tell, if we have our own version of
Brexit.
Dealing with Debris. That seems to be on after they ill be back in ninety seconds. PIX-11, New
26900. One hundred words and then this will stand at 227000. Yay ah yay here.
26915, 85 words about anything here. Apparently there now is a perfume called Gabrielle. Just in
time for her nanowrimo novel here. Funny, huh, coincidence here.
Seven thirty-five here. And santacon is coming to town. To New York City here. Because this is
the station out of New York City here. 26972, do the math. How many words are needed here?
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So this is our Friday here, writing up the next amazing novel here. Five more words, three, two,
Maybe we could and should get a head start on the words here. Over the weekend this will go up
The grueling job of mall walking. The grueling sport of mall walking. It did her in though it is
fine now. Ten times around the mall, it takes one hour and a half. She has to do this in order to
lose weight. If she keeps it up, one month from now she will have shed the ten pounds that
accumulated over the last forty days here. Writing about this might help too here. The mall was
nice, silently getting ready for x-mas. The decorations are reluctantly up, the red carpet seems
dirty and unvacuumed, as if it just came out of storage and was rolled up or unrolled here. There
is trash lying on the red down-trodden carpet here. There are three seating arrangements,
apparently because there are more shoppers during x-mas time. There are those houses in the
vitrine of a store with numbers thereon, maybe this should be reminiscent of an advent calendar
here. Eight forty-eight in the morning on a too drizzly grey rainy day in November, a Saturday to
boot here. A rainy Saturday morning in November here, is it the first Saturday, nope, it must be
the second November Saturday here. The novel writer and her novel, this is standing at 27236.
She ponders what makes this writing as part of a group so fascinating. Fifty thousand strangers
doing the same thing. Just like the gymnastics group in the mall, the ones that listen to Chinese
music and move in sync here, it is always something like soldiers, like a bootcamp here, like a
school class, an army of writers here. People doing the same solitary thing in unison, there is the
illusion of a community that is not really there, not really existent here. Each novel is different
anyways, each individual will choose different paths for writing up fifty thousand words here.
And this particular one here is standing at two seven three four five on November nine of two
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thousand and nineteen here. At eight and fifty-one minutes here in the morn, drizzly, slightly
rained-in here. There was a runner on the path even though it is raining raining here.
In the morning the woman in the coffee house asked her about her day so far. At ten to six here,
sorry, ten to seven here. Author here is not quite sure what to read into this here, but anyways, we
are writing and typing this up here and now it is on to save and spellcheck here.
7, sorry, 27461, yay ah yay here. 587 words needed today though the website seems slightly
drunk here apparently ah apparently here. At this rate, November 16 it is, the last day of writing
here, at this rate you will be done on November 16, be standing high and tall at fifty thousand
Mall walking, well, you do not need an umbrella. Because, let us face it, it is wet outside. Wet
and cold. Chilly. On the telly, they talk about Michael Bloomberg. They think that being a
billionaire is counterproductive, nah, it is not. He was the mayor of New York, for heaven’s sake.
Writing ah writing here. While sitting at home, cooped-up, shut-in here. Well, she was outside,
for three hours but somehow, we need more. In here there is nothing happening but a screen that
is talking and talking here and has music and everchanging images here. But it is not the real
world as we all know here. Couchpotato-dom is not enough, you need real people, that kind of
thing. The wind on your skin and the water coming down and drenching yer. The urban
environment, the waiting for the lights to change so that you can pass to the other side of the
street, the honking of cars, different cars, colors, makes here. The puffs that come out of the
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exhaust pipes here. The different colors of people’s clothes, the different fashion statements or
moreso, the anti-fashion statements here. The over-towering buildings of downtown(s) here. The
waiting at the bus station or down there (underground) the waiting for the train here. The going
to the airport and people having all their belongings in a suitcase and lugging that to places far
away here. Their house in a suitcase, all their worldly stuff for weeks, days and months on end
here. Modern lives ah so very very interesting here. She types up a novel, a story here but where
will this go eventually here? Will she too land a publishing contract, or will she too be rejected
like so many others before her here? Will she break out of obscurity of anonymity here and be a
famous poet who really has something to say to the world here? Gabriella, she has to check out
27869, it is twenty-nine minutes after ten in the morning here. She is up since seven or maybe it
was even six here when she woke up here while it was still stock dark outside here. Not that it is
that bright here, but it is daytime, that is for sure here. A grey day but definitely a day here.
27929 here, this will be over, will be over soon here. On the telly, the Fredricka woman who is
always on on the weekends here. Seems that her job is not as cushy as Anderson Cooper(’s) and
Dan Lemon(’s), sorry, Don Lemon(’s) here or Chris Cuomo(’s), because they are on every day
here. Not so that Fareed guy and not so this Frederica woman here.
27994 and we are doing this and going there here. 28004 here yay ah yay here. 42 words needed
today, ah, we can do that easily here. Talk about different things, different stuff here, stretch the
sentences to their brinks here. 17 words needed today, just load all of these words up on the
worddocument here. The novel ah the novel here. 0 words needed today, yay, we are there, are
there here. Fulfilled the daily requirement, now we can rest ah rest here. At this rate you’ll be
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done on November 16 here. What day of the week is November 16? Next Saturday, apparently,
here.
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16.
There is a write-in in the other city, you have to go there by bus and it will take forever here.
Once she is there it will all be finished, the end of the write-in and everybody will go to lunch
It seems as if rain is still coming down here though ah so very sporadically, sporadic drops in the
puddle that we can see outside through the window in here. Thus, we might as well go on typing
up the greatest novel there ever was just like fifty thousand persons are doing at this time here.
Sorry, my bad, there was a mistake here, 222 000 people are writing up a novel that is fifty
thousand words long here, so that is where the fifty comes in here. We should go out just to move
and lose weight but, let us face it, the mall walking might as well be enough movement for the
day here and too much walking is just plain and simple too much and will be tough on the joints
here, especially, on the knees here and thus we should just stay put and type this up here. 28297
in words ah in words here. Eleven and thirty-four and not quite noon as of yet here. It is boring to
sit and type, a very solitary job, this writing business here. Maybe, that is why so many persons
the world over jump at the opportunity to do the writing of a novel as a community endeavor
here, it livens up the solitary aspect of writing here. This might as well be why people do
marathons, participate in marathon races all over the world here, after all, running is a solitary
endeavor here. There even is a movie about that, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner,
yup, we mentioned it al ready here but we once more should emphasize that long distance
running is that much of a solitary job that it is even part of the title of a movie here. (Or slash and
a book maybe here). Or a short story. Because in 1963 running was not such a big thing, it was
just one sporting event of many here. One race of many apparently ah apparently here. Later it
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28489 here, type and type and type here. The coffee house would be nice, but we have to take the
laptop from car to coffee house and what will we put over the laptop so that the rain will not
damage the laptop here. Too many weird and logistical problems here, apparently, ah, apparently,
here.
Seems that this is how writers are borne, they are persons with slight OCD and thus they stay put
and read and subsequently write here. Something like that and something of that kind here.
It seems that there are Gabrielle bags too, handbags by Chanel. So not only a perfume but a kind
It still is no story, no story arc here. Just prep work, just random ideas about the name Gabriella
here. That will not be enough for a good novel here, let us just stick to the documentation of how
Today of course is day nine of this nanowrimo thingie here, though it is obviously different in
different time zones. Author here though, she is writing in the original time zone, California is
just down the coast from here. So, the nanowrimo people in Marin County, Alameda County, San
Mateo County they are all doing this just like she is doing it here, on a rainy day in November
But knowing how San Francisco rolls, it is definitely always foggy over there here.
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She ponders, is her writing ok? What would a person say who does editing for a living here?
Would that person agree with the way she is putting words to paper here, to keyboard here? Or
would everything be slightly off here, slightly objectionable here. Or downright objectionable
here? And it is not necessarily all about grammar, it is more about how you put words into a
sentence here. Two eight eight four four, type on and type on here, yay ah yay here.
Contra Costa County, sorry that was and is the name of the county that author here used to live in
here, though, technically, she used to live in Alameda County too here. In front of the tunnel and
behind the tunnel, if you lived in that area you will know what we mean here. Then again you do
not really have to have lived somewhere, you might just have been on a visit there and nowadays
with google maps you do not really need to leave your couch to travel the world here. Ah how
times have changed or maybe they have not, because in Marco Polo’s time you just read about
And we have to finish this and drive this up to 29000 here, four more words and we are there, are
there here.
29007 here.
How about racing this up to thirty thousand here? You can do it ah you can do it here. It is now
six minutes after twelve and we are sitting with bad posture at the computer here. Maybe the
coffee house would be better, after all, you cannot really slouch like this in a public place, you
have to maintain a certain amount of decorum here and your spine and your neck will thank you
for that here. She ponders, why would people who read or write, all have bad backs, maybe you
just have to do the right kinds of stretches to counter the bad posture that comes with reading and
writing here. Lots of desks are sold and manufactured, where people stand at desks in order that
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they maintain good posture here. Author here has a friend who works in computer science or is a
computer scientist or something like that and apparently she now works while standing at her
desk, she has one of those desks or maybe she has it at home and not at her workplace,
something like that and something of that kind here. Maybe she was investigating those standing
desks here, author remembers that kind of talk while she was meeting up for brunch here, we
overheard something like that in fleeting here. But let us face it, those desks sell like hot buns,
everybody is worried about good posture and you do not really want to lose your upright posture
because of what you do for a living here. She ponders, how do people like Philip Roth do it,
those eminent writers who really write (wrote) for a living here. Did they use a dictaphone and
just talked into a microphone so that they would have straight backs here? Ah, these are the
things that people should discuss on nanowrimo forums, not story arcs and the like here. Let us
face it, this in itself is a gripping story, the life of a novelist, especially one that only, merely
here, novels for one month of the year here. It is as if novelling is some kind of respite from the
everyday here, something like going on a four-week vacation here. A vacation from the tried and
true, a vacay from the everyday here. A travel to an exotic place without even leaving the rainy
city that you are stuck in here. A vacation without the purchase of an airline ticket. You do not
spend (anything) on airfare and you get an amazing novel done, that will eventually garner you a
Pulitzer prize here. And if you do not get that coveted Pulitzer then it follows that there is bias,
gender and otherwise here. It is all politics in publishing, n’est-ce pas here? Whose voice is
By the way, we have 29483 here, yup, this is standing near to 30 thousand words here, nice, ah
nice here. We should go to a pub and get all drunk here, because that is how real writers roll here,
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She has 202 pages here, all double-spaced (,) Times Roman here. Yay ah yay ah yay here.
She fills up the pages with weird exclamations, anything to fill the page here with those coveted
words here.
She looked it up, there will be a write-in in a Starbucks that is somewhere at the border of Walnut
Creek and Pleasant Hill, apparently, it will start at six in the afternoon and, the evening and go on
until it is nine o’clock and everybody will go home here. The writers of the East Bay down there
And now we are back again at the typing machine here. We took a short rest here, and it is now
12:44 here. And we are back to the laptop here. And now it is CNN here again, and now Michael
Bloomberg here and whether he will run for president or not here. Let us face it, he is pretty old
here, seventy-seven years old he is here, apparently, ah, apparently here. But let’s face it, he has
name-recognition here.
29705 here. Three hundred more and we are there, thirty thousand words here.
12:47 on November nine here. She could have a cup of tea or a small glass of tea here, the kind
that you slurp through a cube of sugar here. Which is the way we like to do it here and
The politicos on the telly here, all of the analysts are ah so very young here, teenagers doing the
political analyst thingie here. Well, it does not take much to do that here, you just have to have a
lot of energy and strong opinions here. Maybe younger persons are way better anyways, they are
not flustered by the doubts of old age here. And now Tom Steyer or Speyer here. Steyer, that is
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his name, it is written on thee telly here, next to his face so that you remember who he is here.
And not in too large font here, kind of understated. Saying basically, listen, you don’t know me
but I am the anti-Trump, Trump who is brash and bold here, me on the other hand I am subtle
and subdued here and thus I will be more gentlemanlike here. 29915 in words here, so,
apparently, we mde a mistake here, we still need a lot more words here. And now an ad pr (pro,
Sixty words and this will stand at thirty thousand words here.
Fifty words here, something like that and something of that kind here.
29971 words here. “I now do recall”, they are making fun of the politician who now remembered
Four more words and we are there, yay ah yay here. 30007. Next to one in the afternoon here.
Two and thirty-two in the afternoon, wow, seems that it takes forever to go through what one has
written, find all of the glitches here, the obvious ones at least here. And somehow, the editing
process opens up more questions here, sometimes you as the writer cannot even figure out what
it was that you wanted to say or what word you have typed here. You have to kind of eyeball it
here. And sometimes it suddenly becomes clunky when you do it in a grammatically correct way
Seven and fifty-two in the evening on a cold November night here. The writer and her laptop.
The Saturday program on the telly here. She ponders if Seinfeld is on or if it is only, merely on
on weekdays here. She ponders if there just was an overuse of the word “on”, after all the
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aesthetics of a sentence are everything. The beauty or nonbeauty of the wordings, that is what
makes or breaks a text here. The aesthetic element kind of overrides meaning here. The way you
clothe an idea, so to speak. How you market it. Even how you read it, how nice or jarring the
voice of the reader is. The oratorial quality of the, well, orator here. Where exactly lies the
On the telly, Honeymooners. Jackie Gleason and the other guy. Laugh tracks, lots of ‘em here.
She ponders, who will read this in its original form. After all, it is only, merely a glorified diary.
At this rate you’ll be done on November 15. Not that good, because usually she is done by now.
Last year we were actually done on day five here. She feels kind of nauseated still. Even though
she had lots of food here. Vomiting seems to come with too much computer time here, naturally
apparently here.
Oh you can really talk some trash. I guess that is better than eating it. Which is of course a line
from Seinfeld which is now on up there on the telly here. It is forty-nine minutes after ten, no
wait, fifty here. The novel about the novelwriter who is watching TV and typing up fifty words
here. Yup, that one. 30410 words here and still going strong. Which is not tough when there is no
discernable plot here. And now music and we somehow know that this is an ad for cheese. And
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105 pages are finished here. The write in on North Main is long gone here, they finished at nine.
And not even in this town here. Nope, in a place that she used to live in long long ago here.
30516 here. 30519 here. 30520n, 21 here. And you will be finished on November 15.
Five hundred words here. And then this will stand @ 31000 here.
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17.
On the telly a show that we do not really know here. A show sans laugh tracks here. And it does
not even seem to be funny here. Maybe it is time to wrap this up here.
Ten minutes and it will be midnight here. A new day will start up. And she will have to write a
certain amount of words here. Her status will automatically change on the nanowrimo site here.
And Seinfeld on the telly here. A rerun. One of those here. We know the words by heart here.
30652, she still feels slightly nauseated here. Low blood pressure does that to yer here.
Very autumny outside. Time to go for a run. Though technically we ran already here. Half a K
and that should be enough. Because there were thirty minutes of stationary bike too. An hour
biking and twenty minutes or so running. That should be enough for this old body here. Nothing
strapazioes as they say in German. She was on German Instagram feeds and listened to this
Hamburg (Mein Hamburg lieb ich sehr) song, so thus it is difficult to switch back to another
language here. Languages are fleeting so they say so they say here.
30761 words here. Twelve and thirty-nine minutes in the afternoon, on a Sunday in November
here on the west coast of North America, pacific northwest or something like that here. Typing
this up ah typing this up. Somehow, she gained ten pounds just by looking at the Halloween
candy here, ten pounds that somehow have to come down here again, like magic apparently here.
No donut for her today, which is kind of a toughy here. But it has to be, an apple, eat an apple
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instead here. Lettuce maybe. It ain’t a substitute for a donut or an empire cookie from Butter here
which is ah so delish here. Ah how to resist, how to fight the cravings here? Sugar and spice and
all things nice. Well, not for yours truly here. 1, sorry, 30893 here, we do not need that much to
trapse (traipse) this up to 31 thou here. The story of Gabriella who lingers somewhere in the
background of the novel, her omnipresence that is definitely not there. Spooky huh spooky huh.
A ghost in the spirit of Halloween. Author here ponders, how much x-mas decorations are now
up in the mall here, did the busy elves finish it all here or is it still at the under construction level
here?
308, sorry 30971, here, thirty words or something like that and then we can rest for months ah
Eight more words, seven six and five here and 31001 it is, it is here.
Well, what do you know, there was a write-in in the downtown library which started at eleven
and will finish two hours from now at three. The problem with the shitty site is that we had no
clue that this is going on here and thus we as the nanowrimo writer here went to the coffee house
and the gym and on a run on the track next to the community center here. Nothing about the big
nice public central branch library here, the ninth floor has to do without us here. We could have
taken the bus or gone there by train, but now we definitely missed it. Well, the coffee house near
the gas station was fun too, all the people that were there on a Sunday morning, parents who
dropped their kids off, parishioners from the Greek place or the Chinese place, but that is not
true, it were mainly people wo were her age or a tad younger and were out there to reconnect. A
neighborhood pub that was what it was mainly here. The woman with the red pink hairdo said hi
to her with a big, big smile here. Apparently, she is one of the regulars though she gained ten
pounds here after losing twenty pounds here. It is always the body mass index that preceded how
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nice people are to yer, how you are tackled by, treated by strangers and family and friends alike.
And her body mass index sucks at this time here, at this time here, apparently, ah, apparently
here.
31266, at this rate you will finish on November 16 here. She really likes the icons, the images of
colorful pencil tips at the top of the Microsoft Word layout here, there is something ah so very
cheery and reassuring about that here, it is as if Bill Gates himself is personalizing this and the
whole crew in Seattle is cheering her on here, write on, you amazing writer here. We are losing it
here and yay, we did not even have one sip of prosecco, mimosa, Bellini or the like here. You
know that is because it is a Sunday and people tend to sip sparkly bevs at brunch places here. Not
yours truly here, we did the run thingie and the picking up coffee, doing the coffee run thingie
here. By the way, a young girl or woman picked up a drink while she was in her exercise clothes
and she had asked them on her phone to prepare it for her so it as ready when she parked her
white Audi and took the hot beverage here with foam or whip on top in one of those ot little
And 31461 it is here and it is here. 1:01 is the time here, by the way ah by the way here.
11/10/19.
31503 words.
1:48 PM.
31507.
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On November twelve there is a write-in in a coffee house in downtown before your boss wakes
up. It starts at seven and is going on until half an hour to noon here.
Two fourteen. Nothing happening in here. Maybe the coffee place would be nicer, there you can
sit and write about the people who come in and go out. Describe what they are wearing. Their
interactions. But in here, it is just the writer and the computer. A tad perusing the nanowrimo site
Perusing instafeeds that have to do with books. Nice, bookstore pics from a place in
Herfordshire. Nice. Mystery and Mayhem, that seems to e the name of that place here.
22:09, sorry, 2:09. She is sleepy here. So, it seems to be a store named Murder and Mayhem in
So, Evo Morales resigned. It is all over the news here. Three and forty-seven in the afternoon. At
four Tom Steyer will talk in a town hall in Iowa. Interesting but let us face it, his is apparently a
lost battle. Th poll shows that he stands at one percent which is really nothing nada zip here.
Zilch here.
31710 in words here. Nanowrimo, day ten. She ponders, is there still writing going on? It is the
long weekend here in town, so, there are coffee houses all over town where writers can
congregate. Though it somehow seems to become more of a social event that interferes with the
process of writing and typing this up here. The eating of pastry, the slurping of tea or maybe
coffee here. Coffee drinks with whip thereon. That taste like caramel or like peppermint here,
that have little mint chips on the whip here, yummers here.
31805 here.
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31806 here, in seven minutes Tom Steyer will be on here. At this rate you’ll be done on
November 16 here.
And now, Mr. Steyer and a woman in red who announces him here. He is no wearing a sui
tjacket, and now the first question here. Why should money go to impeachment, why should it
not all go to taking him down or some question like that here. The court of public opinion. So,
impeachment will show his corruptness. Trump’s that is. According to Steyer.
His talking seems to be way too convoluted here. What is he really saying here? A lot of words
and nothing seems to be really said here. But people are applauding really loudly here? His
friends here?
And he kind of says something and then he resays it, apparently, there is a problem with his
University of Iowa healthcare project manager, a woman named Bridget here. 31967 here, the
guy is pretty dry here, and he constantly is saying something and then says it again here. Existing
and then existent. Why, they both have the same meaning here. Two more words and this stands
at 32005 here. We will be back right after this here. So the woman in red here. 32022 at four in
So now we finished one third of the days here, so in the end this will be standing at three times
the wordcount we have now here. Though. Let us face it, we will go out of town on November
twenty-seven, actually going to the area that is the birthplace of nanowrimo. But we will not be
able to write then, it is all about socializing and having turkey and boozing a tad or a lot here.
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That is how it seems and how it seems here. She was on the overachiever forum place where all
the ones who are talking about reaching 50k sooner than needed were giving their inputs here.
Page 111 here. 32144 words here. 4:22 PM here. On 11/10/19 here.
Five oh seven. So, Tom Steyer is over here. He said all of the right things here. Nice and now
they are talking about the Ukraine. A huge week in impeachment. That is what this is about
apparently here on CNN. Today it is Columbo day, because, yes, it is Sunday, the end of the
week or the beginning, however you want to look at it here. Now Dana Bash talking, actually
talking to Don Lemon here. The same players on CNN, day-in and day-out here.
Now another clip. And now Don Lemon and Dana Bash and another woman here. All analyzing,
well, the impeachment enquiry here. Fill me up on this, what exactly is going on here in DC? Are
they impeaching or not? Are they still deciding if there should be impeachment or are they just
now going through with this here? It is all very convoluted here and now the woman in green is
talking here. And Don is wearing a grey, light grey suit here. It seems to be all about optics, after
And now an ad for a car company here. National. A car renting company here. Hey, look, ‘tis
5:55 in the PM. Stock dark outside. Author here was reading up on cronuts. Yum. It is definitely
more fun to hang around yelp than to produce random words here.
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32401 words, still two hours till Columbo, the culmination of the week here. 32414 here. Ten
days straight, apparently nanowrimo sent her a congratulation note about this. Writing for ten
days straight, which is kind of funny, isn’t it the premise that you should constantly type here in
order to finish in time. Why would the Office of Letters and Light even imply that one would
stop for a day here, shouldn’t we all race to the fifty-thousand-word finish line here. That is like
stopping within a marathon, you cannot do that, you have to race on and on until you are done
here. By the way, this now stands @ 32514 here. At this rate you’ll be done on November 15. So
Eight minute after six here. CNN, and people talking about politics here. With a lot of energy
here. Maybe they should run for office, they are very well-spoken here. Everything makes sense,
This will stand at 33 thousand come midnite here. Yup, we are on the case here. Feeding words
to the machine while the telly is singing its songs here. An ad for something called Salonpas and
now an ad for Sandals. Resort life here. And ad for peanuts, a brand of peanuts here that you can
get in a can here. And an ad for something that makes you look decades younger. And now
Servpro, whatever service that might be here. And now an ad for a car. BMW. Yay ah yay here.
32672. A commercial for a mattress. For a muscle relief or muscle cramp relief medication here.
And once more they are talking about the impeachment enquiry. This will be on all evening here.
How many timess do we have to see the video of Trump and the prime minister or president of
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32735 here. A mini cooper ad here. Commercials are definitely not novels, a story is told in thirty
seconds or less here. Commercials, the antitheses of novels here. And now, Charles Schwab.
Don Lemon asking another guy questions. That is how it will go until Columbo will start up
here. Ah, utterly boring here. At least we have the distraction of playing here with the laptop and
typing this text up here. And this amazing pic on Instagram, Nutella, donut, yum. You have to see
it to believe it here.
32825 here.
One hundred, nope, top, two hundred words and then we can call it a day here. 150 words here.
For some reason, we either get Instagram pics of food or pics of runners and running. First eat
the food and ten go for a run. Or/and vice versa here.
110 words and then this will be done, we will be done here. And now, Mom. An ad for Huggies.
Disposable diapers. The kind that babies wear. There is still another ad for another brand, diapers
for adults here. And an ad for aa whitening cream here. Whitening of teeth here. An ad for Swiss
Chalet.
And now fifty words are needed here. The AA meetings on Mom here. Bonnie and Christy are at
another AA meeting place which has much better food here. Thirty words and this will be
finished here. Twenty words. And now they are talking with Marjorie. Because it is the other AA
group here. One more word and this stands @ 33006 words here. Seven oh nine here. Seven ten.
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Six and twenty-seven. A new day. We had coffee and banana loaf already. The woman had the
coffee all ready which basically meant that it was lukewarm. Why, is it not first thing in the
morning here? Should it not be piping hot here? The gym is not open as of yet, this gym is
temperamental, holidays are closed till seven in the morning. Instead of the usual five thirty here.
But it is more about weighing oneself anyways than it is about the boring thirty minutes cardio,
which is kind of a reluctant cardio anyways. Stationary bike at the lowest speed, though
technically there is even a lower speed, one can put it to zero instead of one here. Some people
crank it up all the way to 12 or even 5, this is for the resistance, it seems to show that this is all
going up a hill or something here. Anyways, typing up some words here before the gym or
maybe we let go of gym aspirations altogether and just concentrate on the nanowrimo here.
There is a write-in even though it is a holiday here. Not down in the States though, it is just here
that this is a statutory holiday here. Remembrance Day versus Veterans Day here.
Six thirty-four and this is standing @ 33232 words in all here. 33240 on November eleven here.
620 words are needed today here and then this will all be done on November seventeen here.
Eleven days of straight writing, straight typing does that to the text here.
There is a write-in, but it is at six thirty in the evening in downtown which means one has to go
there in the dark and cold and come back in the dark and (the) cold here. Not very appealing, Let
us just hunker down here inside, warm and cozily and type all of the words up here. And the
wordcount is already standing @ 33339 here. What a funny number here. 518 words needed
today here and at this rate you will finish on November 16. So this is when it changes from 17 to
16 here. The website sure has a mind of its own here. It is now getting near to sunrise, we could
make the trek down to the gym here. 6:55, it will open in five minutes here. By the way, four five
seven words needed today. 457. Should we finish this up and go to the gym or go to the gym and
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then come back to finish this up here? How do you spell OCD here? Writing definitely has its
own world here, it grips you in its fangs and holds on tightly to yer without letting go here.
33470, how many more to finish up for the day here? 383 words needed today, that is so near to
four hundred. Just nonchalantly type it in here, let it flow onto the page here. Somehow it will
morph into good enough sentences or maybe even into something extraordinarily here,
something to write home about. The gym is opening up now, there are people lining up for it to
open here. It happens like that in any gym all over town here, especially because it is a long
weekend here and a Monday that people have to fill up here with stuff, apparently ah apparently
here. 33575, two eight nine words to go here. And stop and spellcheck spellcheck here.
Nine and fifty-one here. King of Queens. She had a little bit of a run and a little bit of stationary
bike in the gym, a little bit of a donut in the mall and a peppermint tea in the mall here. A walk
thru the mall and looking at the x-mas decorations that are all up now and ready for customers to
look at them and admire ‘em here. Nine fifty-three and the weight is not good here, gained seven
pounds and they all have to go down, come off somehow here however that will go here. Sitting
and writing is not good here, she will exercise, but more in short spurts here than in one long
haul here. It is just way too cold for long hauls here. Reykjavik has snow, well, at least we do not
have that here. Then again, seems to be cool to live in a city called Reykjavik- Iceland, the
utterly exotic place near the north pole here. And this all stands at 33759 here. 103 words needed
still which is weird, we definitely thought that we are there here, in the world of zero words
needed today here. 33785. 79 words needed today here and King of Queens is over here. What is
on now, Mike and Molly, Two Broke Galz? Something like that and something like that here.
And we do not have a story here except the description of what it is like to participate in National
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One three eight four three, one tree eight five three here. They are talking about pancakes here on
the telly here. We still had not (did not have) the Nutella pancakes in the mall here, but they look
33884 here and still typing and still writing this up here. 33895 here, she will get out and go to
the mall once that the stores are open here. It is kind of boring to do the mall walking thingie
Still some seventy words here and we are done for the day here. The sun is shining reluctantly,
Still some forty words here and this will a-stand at 44 thousand, sorry, 34 thousand words here,
It is all a run against the machine here, the machine that counts each and every word here and
34025 yay ah yay here. 34030. 34031 here. 34033, nice number here. 34037, even nicer number
here.
She ponders, what should be the strategy for doing this here. Typing up the novel, coffee house
or just sitting here while the telly is singing its songs. Itis now paternity court. And then half an
hour to Friends reruns here. Two episodes here. The mall is nicer, the coffee house is nicer. But
we tend to grab a pizza or a donut and that is definitely a no no here. The gym would be good but
then we do not get anything done novelwise here. And she ponders if sweatpants are good in the
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coffee house. And what if it starts to rain and we want to take the laptop from coffee place to car
while all of the rain is coming down here. Ah the logistics of writing up a novel here. It is
basically about all of these logistics and not about story arc or development of the characters of
14204 in words here, she is feeling like puking already hre, sitting at the lptop does that to yer,
Something about the light that emits from the screen here, something about sitting cooped up
11:06, 34255.
And lots of yelling on the telly here. Always emotional here, Paternity Court.
In the high school near her house, there is filming going on. Judging from all of the trailers
outside of the school. But we cannot figure out what the movie’s name is. She has to brave the
cold and check it out in person. But let us face it, it is too cold and chilly here. So we better just
sit in here and watch the end of People’s Court and then the two episodes of Friends here. And
maybe after that, the second time that 2 Broke Girls will be on here. Working on this amazing
novel, that should be her thing here. Writing a dissertation or something here. The novel
dissertation here.
34390 here yay ah yay here. One minute and we will once more hear from Rachel and Ross here.
She ponders, why are all these big trucks driving by outside here. It is a holiday, but it seems that
building houses does not stop at all here. And now it is Phoebs on the telly here. 34447 here. Let
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us drive this up to thirty-five thousand here. And once more a big truck is driving by outside
And all of these trucks are driving through the back alley here. Kind of fishy here, apparently ah
apparently here. And once more, a truck. Truck galore here. Lots of ‘em seem to be the concrete
trucks here. Concrete mixers, I guess, that is what this is called here.
And now it is Tack and Rachel. And now, Rachel, Ross and Chandler here.
Acording to Instagram, there are 20 000 writers in NYC who are participating in nanowrimo.
That is quite an amount (a number?) of writers here. Well, they had the exact number, but it is
roughly twenty thousand and then some here. And now it is Two Broke Galz again here. The pics
on Instagram that have the hashtag nanowrimo are interesting, they are mainly pictures, images
of books and paper and pens, not anything else. So basically, these are pictures of things which
show that all of the writers are basically interested in the tools, in the how-to of this writerly
business. It is a craft, first and foremost and the people who do this like to talk about logistics,
the logistics of writing, more so than the literary merits of their works. That is for the critics to
do, the readers, the end users here, the ones who buy books and tackle them as a product here.
The end consumers here. Just like mechanics do not talk about the car but the people who drive
said car talk about the car, the mechanics are more interested in how this works and how are
machines and motors put together, what screws, what metals, what pipes here. The material is
paramount and the way that said metal is cut up and then put together. How is metal, sheet metal,
cut up to finally be a little house on wheels that you can sit in and push buttons and push pedals
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to take it, drive it from place A to place B, from point A to point B here, yup, that is how it is
here, apparently ah apparently here. And now this is standing @ 34831 words here, yay ah yay
here.
And now Two Broke Girls here and Max dispensing wisdom en masse here. “That is what family
is, people who hate you but can’t kill you because they will be the first one questioned here”.
Haha, welcome to the “Married with Children” school of thought here. Ah, Al Bundy, now that
was a funny guy and that was a really funny s here. The anti-Huxtable show, definitely here.
34914 here, not that much left to fulfill the 35-thousand-word requirement for a mulmy Monday
in mid-November here in two thousand and nineteen here. She ponders, will she eventually go to
the wrap-up party in the Moose Under place in downtown here. There will be food and booze
and we are on a diet here, on a diet here. How do real authors do it, when they win their Pulitzers
and their Nobel prizes here? Do they go there to socialize because, let us face it, they will all
gain weight and who wants that here, yup, apparently ah apparently here.
Why does your ant not like you? This is still Two Broke Gals and Aunt Charity here who is the
aunt of Caroline here. She is definitely a bitch here. Was she not in Two and a Half Men here?
35059 here.
35060.
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O, yes, I am not necessarily a good writer here. But one thing is surly clear here, I am a prolific
writer. And this is my home office here. And now we are waiting for the tea to get brewed here.
Maybe that is just as good as a coffee house here. After all, she was in the coffee house first thing
in the morning, at the time when the local cabbies turn into this place here. A long time ago, it
was always full of cops first thing in the morning but not anymore here. Maybe they play into the
stereotype and go to the local donut shop here. But, nah, that is not how it is, usually cops and
construction workers, both frequent the most posh (poshest?) establishments on the block here.
At least in this town here. In this city of ours here. She ponders, she should go down to Seattle.
To have some international flair here. She ponders, does the good ol’ US of A even make the cut
as an international, exotic location here? Nah, not likely. Sorry here. And with Trump, wow.
Yesterday there was this guy on the telly who just said that he is embarrassed to have Trump as a
president here. And that is actually how it is, most Trump voters are closet Trump voters
anyways. Nobody wants to admit that she or he has voted for The Donald here. That is how it is,
how it is here. Nobody wants to have anything to do with a guy who sports that kind of hair here.
Does he not have a mirror in the White House here? Though his politics are maybe meeker than
Obama’s, well, definitely, meeker and politer. He does not order drones to be pushed down on
innocent people here. He is less of a war monger than any president before him. Even with that
hair. He does not have time for war, he has to tend to his hair and his tan here. Which is good for
the whole world here. Yup, we definitely should go into analyzing politics here. We are just as
good at that as we are at penning the great American novel here. The greatest novel ever here.
Funny how the term is great American novel. Why is that, is it because all of the big publishing
companies are based in an American city, in New York City here? More publishers than there are
in the UK here. Or in Germany. Let us face it, it seems that Bertelsmann owns a lot of publishing
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in the world here. Anyways, be this as it may. Our novel here stands at 35509 here. Author here
went on the site of the Sweet Adeline bakeshop in Berkeley, the one that is situated next to The
Office of Light and Letters or whatever its name is here. The nanowrimo headquarters here. The
baking shop, the bakery site was really cute and nice here, amazing, yuh, here. So that is why
nanowrimo is so nice, all they do is eat the pastries from the bakery here. Then again, all the
people who work for nanowrimo, they are all rail-thin here, at least, on the pics here.
35600, typing and writing here. Yup, that is how it is here, how it is here.
35619, 2:10. In the PM here. And now, Two and a Half Men here. On a Monday in November
here.
Five oh eight in the evening here and it is really really dark outside. It is like that, it gets dark
pretty soon in the day here. There is a write-in in downtown in a coffee house and it will start at
half past six and end at half past eight. But who will go out there and tak the train or the bus out
there, the only ones who will be there are the ones who live downtown. Usually it might be the
writers who work in the offices downtown but today is a statutory holiday so nobody is there
from the outer parts of town or from the suburbs here. Tomorrow, apparently there is a write-in
at seven in the morning and we might go to that here, but at this time, it is way too cold and
chilly to trek downtown here, it is warm and cozy inside here and Joe Biden will be on the telly
and do his town hall spiel in Iowa here, well, not yet, we have to wait till six and given that it is
still five thirteen here, there is still a long time to go till then here. If the weather was nicer, we
would go out for a walk or a run here, but it is what it is here, dark and chilly here in town here.
Author here basically was at home all day here; she goes out in the morning and then she is back
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at the typing machine at nine in the morning here. Writer’s studio, home office, call it what you
want here. The solitary life of a writer, it is what it is here. It is annoying but what can you really
do here? A pub would be nice, a watering hole, somewhere where one can have some respite
from the chore of writing here. Except there is always the idea that suddenly out of nowhere you
are struck by lightning, well, not literally here and you pen the most amazingish words here and
Fiction writing, it is not her cup of tea here. Non-fiction writing seems to be more up her alley
That is how everything she writes basically ends up sounding like a description of what she is up
to right here right now. A description of the here and now, well, maybe it will sell with the right
kind of marketing here. Donald Trump junior apparently has written some shitty but there
definitely is a market for it and he does not have to distribute it, his followers are just there, they
exist because of the name of his daddy. Whatever BS he says, people will read it. And even
Republicans gave him a bad review because of grammatical errors and not because of what he
says here. They just like their reading material to be more coherent than that. Polished so to
speak here.
Or maybe he wants to do what worked for his father, say whatever he thinks. Without thinking to
say it diplomatically or in a grammatically ok way here. Author here ponders, diplomatically and
grammatically correct are different animals all together here apparently ah apparently here.
And now it is Joe Biden on the telly here. The first questions are about the military because it is
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So when author here read through Biden’s biography it became clear that Biden became a
teetotaler because of watching people in his family to be bad drunks. So that means that he never
36272, 36273 words here and we are typing this up here and type this up here.
So now we know how to say “modus operandi” in English because Biden apparently pronounced
it correctly here. With an “ai” at the end here. “As my mother used to say who died and made
him king?” Last time I checked there are three branches of government. Ah, Joe, he is definitely
Literary fiction, is that hat we write here? Nah, it ain’t. In years gone by, she called her projects
literary fiction, but there is a problem with categorizing what you do here. At this point, she is of
the opinion that this is only taking away from the work, the text here. What is in a name here?
Plain and simple. The name should not make the text, the work, the work should stand on its own
and either please the reader or be thrown into the trash bin here. Cheers or jeers. Thumbs up or
thumbs down. As a writer, you should not necessarily specify the genre, that is for publishers,
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Some more words about this and that here. Which is kind of tough, typing this up and listening to
Biden here. How long is this town hall thingie going on here? And the reporter who is talking to
him, it is Erin Burnett here. Interesting, huh, here. Author here ponders if it is written Burnett or
Burnet here. How many T’s, how many T’s. Definitely two T’s here, that is how it should be
This is just what she does. She writes about coffee houses. Not every day, mind you, but she does
it in November. It is not really that good, mainly because she is not typing this up while it is
happening. Everything that she writes down is from memory. With a time lapse. It all happened
in real time but once she is at the typing machine it is all in the past. This is how storytelling
goes, there usually or maybe always is a time lapse. Reality is skewered, is morphed, the spit of
the narrator, so to speak, is part of the equation. By this I mean that the biases of the person who
recalls and retells for future generation, that person puts his or her own spin on what she or he
saw here.
Author sat near the window, she was watching what was going on inside of the coffee place in
the reflection of the glass of the window and it was all a mirror image here. And one could see
the outside of the coffee place too, the white building on the other side of the street, and all the
cars going by on the main street here. The parking lot and persons getting into their cars and
coming out. Most of them rushing in to grab a cup a joe before going downtown or uptown for
more important thing than breakfasting here. Breakfast as nutrition and not as an act in itself
here. But then again there were tons of people lingering together or solo inside of the coffee
house, there is tha man with the hair that is not combed and he seems to write on his computer
and then he leaves and maybe he too does the nanowrimo thingie, because he seems to be a new
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today in the morning, from seven to eight thirty here but you have to brave the elements to get
there, yup, and the traffic too here, so we might as well stay put and watch closely what is going
on in the coffee house next to the gas station here. It is an ah so very busy coffee place here, it is
on the way and that makes it so busy here. The coffee place in the mall on the other hand is
desolate, one or two persons top here. Its “hey-moment is at lunchtime or so here. This is what
our novelist here thinks about, which coffee place has its top moments during the daytime amd
why are there differences between differing coffee places here in town on the pacific coast here
in north America on a Tuesday in November here. It now is seven and forty-five in the morning,
a rained-in grey day is starting up bright and joyful, as joyful as a November day can muster up
to be here, it is the day after Joe Biden gave his speech, reluctantly here, and talked about his bid
The nanowrimos are doing their thing, all 222000 ones of ‘em, aspiring authors whose work will
be stored in the cloud and not in a bookshelf in years to come. The cultural goods, the cultural
heritage of late two thousand and nineteen here, it will go to dust, disintegrate and become dust
itself here, apparently ah apparently here. She is typing this up and writing this up, thinking of
making it more about the GABI woman here, as she declared in the beginning, at the beginning
There is a man named Hanno who constantly talks about a Gabi on TV, his is an insurance
service or something here, has nothing to do with this very novel here, funny, huh, how this
works out here. 7:50 AM on 11/12/19 and this all stands @ 37230 here, how many words to go,
ah, how many words to go here? At this speed you will finish on? She has to go to the website in
order to secure the numbers here, yep ah yep here, and once more, 37273 it is, it is here. Well,
not once more, the wordcount tends to change with every word we type in here. 37294, yay ah
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yay here. 0 words needed today, like magic and at this rate you will finish on November 16 here.
Eight oh four, still typing this up here and the rest of the morning will be filled up with the
editing process, mainly catching the gross misspellings here and nothing substantial, for the
moment ah for the moment here. Last year she did this and drove it up to 222000 words here,
that is because she was finished very soon in the game here, by November five or so here. She
remembers that there were days that she wrote up 17000 words here, which is quite an endeavor,
you are sore after this is finished here. At this point she feels like vomiting already, sitting for
prolonged times at the laptop does that to yer, apparently ah apparently here. Time to stop, watch
some stuff that is on on the telly and come back at a later time here, yay ah yay here, yay. 3767,
sorry, 37470 here, by the way ah by the way here. Makes sure that this is filled up to the brim
with, of all things, those pesky filler words here, the ones that smooth over the clunky holes in
the text and grease the sentences here and make the text flow smoothly here so that the reader
can just ravel along the words and enjoy the voyage here, hopefully ah hopefully here, we are
waxing poetically or, at the very least, we try to do so here. Writing as a service for the common
good here, entertainment here, maybe. What exactly is writing, literature and is this even
literature or is it more something like a manual out of the Ikea catalog here, who knows, who
knows, wo knows here? And the catalog does not have manuals in it, technically, once you
purchase something with a Swedish name that nobody can pronounce, once you buy it, there is a
flyer and a diagram that tells you how to put the pieces together, how to construct it and, yup, we
could call that a manual, an instruction manual for Ikea furniture here and thus by association,
maybe, one could call it something out of the Ikea catalog here. How to word something
accurately, that is what the writer, any writer is concerned with here. Tom Steyer was, ah, so very
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concerned when he gave his speech at Grinnell College in the middle of nowhere, sorry, Iowa,
Joe Biden, on the other hand not so much here. And we type and write here and write here. The
difference in style between Biden and Steyer was all about illustrating the difference between
newbie and seasoned practitioner here. If we can refer to a politician as a practitioner here.
Because, let us face it, is politics even a practice here? It is way too abstract maybe or maybe not,
because whatever you apply in legislature will practically influence people’s livelihoods here,
Eight eighteen, if she would have typed in the place on Nelson, she could have gone down to the
Y after this was all finished here and weighed herself in order to know if she gained or lost
poundage here. It is very important to maintain her recent weight loss here, she tries not to yoyo
up as dieters are usually bound to do here, apparently, ah, apparently here. 37873, drive this up to
38000 here.
12:14 PM now and this court drama on the telly here. A judge is trying to figure out whose fault
an accident is. A dancer dropped another dancer and she subsequently got injured and required
surgery here.
37918 words here and we can update the word count on the website here.
37933.
Personal Injury Court, that is what this show is called and it is very interesting. Very technical.
The judge asks a lot of questions in order to understand the whole matter here. And he looks like
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a football player, he is very big and very compact, not necessarily the figure of a lawyer here, he
has the figure of a boxer here, but he is very soft-spoken. Definitely yin and yang within the
same person. It is a very elegant display of the legal system, of jurisprudence, so to speak here.
And this now stands at 38040 here, yay ah yay here. And twelve twenty-five it is here on a day in
And now, Friends, there will be a write-in at Whole Foods at six thirty. But we might just as well
stay put and type this up here. The novel, yuuh, here. Friends and Ross in the library on the fifth
So this should be driven up to forty thousand. On a Tuesday. A Tuesday in November. There are
no players, there is the writer and her machine here, the keyboard and the white letters on black
squares here. The only diversion is the TV and whatever is on on the screen here. Coffee has
been taken already in the coffee house here, so apparently that is enough of excitement for one
day here. After this, it is typing and then typing some more here. Two Broke Girls, and lottsa
laugh tracks here. 38209 here, we need some one thousand and eight hundred words here to call
it a day here. It is forty-three minutes after one in the afternoon here. Day twelve of the National
Novel Writing Month challenge here. Twelve days of writing straight here. Hashtag nanowrimo,
there it was on a pic too, twelve days straight of writing, apparently that is a big thing here, a
major achievement here. On the telly, they talk about Rhode Island here. And they classify it as
the most boring state in the union here. Ah, poor Rhode Island here.
Two and a Half Men. A rerun, obviously. And now, Rose. Alan opening the door for you here.
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And back to nanowrimo here. An interview with Chris Baty who founded nanowrimo. Reading
up on it here. It is interesting stuff here and now, it is once more Two and a Half Men. 38371
words here, there is a write-in in the north Berkeley Library here. Seems, that library are the best
Looking at books on shelve, shelved book, getting inspired to write something here. Something
to be printed and bound and put on same shelves here. Yup, why not, ah, why not here.
38431 here. And now, Berta and Alan in the kitchen here.
1500 words, thaat is what we need here. Three thirty-two in the afternoon here. Actually, thirty-
three minutes after three. Number three galore here. Once more Two Broke Girls. It must be the
same episode that was on in the morning on a different channel here. A temp agency is calling
Caroline here. To temp in an office here. One more word and this stands at 38500 words here.
Enter Sofie and Oleg. Max and Caroline in the office. 38519.
18521 words now and it is twenty-seven minutes after it is six in the evening here. Gotta still
write some words here, actually it would be nice if this will stand at forty thousand come midnite
here. Sorry, there was a mistake when we said how many words this is, we meant, of course,
38521 words here, but miswrote it here, apparently ah apparently here. On the telly, Lyndsey
Graham, yup, for some weird reason this (the telly) is on Fox News and this really bad hair guy
Hannity here. Wow, they are definitely full of vitriol towards the democrats here and you thought
that CNN has a strong language here. And to think that CNN and Fox News are just blocks away
130 pages we wrote for the novel here, they are talking about impeachment hearings that will
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38675 words here.
38680. 6:35 PM, 11/12/19. A Tuesday in November here, the second November of the month
here. We were inside here since seven thirty in the morning, the coffee house was all of the “life”
that has happened here today. It was slightly cinematic, still dark, lights on, there was hecticness
and maybe this can stand as a relic that symbolizes urban life or something here. A writer does
not need that much inspiration, a blank sheet of paper should definitely be enough and should
suffice here, apparently ah apparently here. The keyboard with the letters thereon. The screen on
the laptop here. That kind of stuff ah that kind of stuff here.
38791 in words ah in words here. At this rate you will be done on November 15 here. By the
way, Whole Foods writing has started up here, we could go there by bus through the rain, just to
sit and type with total strangers here while others have food or shop for food here. Well, not
likely, it seems to be much more productive to just stay put and feed the words to the machine
while the telly is singing, as always, its songs here in the corner here.
38881.
There will be a write-in in the city that author here used to live in and still another one in the
other city that is on the other side of the tunnel, near Berkeley here. Yup, all of this is in the east
bay and this was definitely a long long time ago. The write-ins are all in the morning or at eleven
which means that there are lots of ladies of leisure or gentlemen of leisure, retirees, soccer moms
and soccer dads here who try to pen their novels while tending house here. People who are not in
traditional office jobs here, but with weird working times here. Maybe their job is writing, the
wish of publishing, of breaking through somewhere in the elusive evasive distance here.
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Author here feeds her words to the machine, and then she updates the wordcount number here
and then she peruses the community page which is all about the different regions the world over
where nanowrimo is going on here, and for some weird reason the website has put author’s name
here on the Africa elsewhere page and she even got a letter from the a Africa elsewhere MLA
here and she does not know how to undo this here so it seems that officially she is registered
under the Africa elsewhere region here as home region here. It is funny, but what can you do
here?
39117.
DEMS’ HOUSE OF LIES. That is the headline on Fox News. This woman and the congress man
they are making fun of the theatrics of the impeachment hearings which is how they call it here,
they say that this is a circus and the like here according to Fox News here. So basically it is just
39183 in words here and it is seven fourteen here. In the evening here. The novel writing is going
well, at least the words are accumulating here and in the morning we will once more hopefully
make it down to the coffee house, look around, absorb what is going on and then get back to the
keyboard to still amass all of these words here in order to finish this in time which seems to be
39270.
39280 in words here. The story of Gabriella, though there is very little talk about her here. The
novel that is somewhere hidden in there, deep in the narrative here. A clear plot would be better,
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a structure, like a blueprint, the wooden skeleton of a house- that kind of stuff here. But we will
pull it off like this here too, making up stuff while this is going forward here.
Now Havana. The BBC is now on, and the Spanish monarch is visiting Cuba here.
A meteor falling down onto earth in Missouri. A home camera took the pic here, the video, one
of those security cameras that people install on their houses here. What if the meteor falls down
during daylight, would it be seen here or is it just at night that one can see the falling star here?
39422 words here, a little bit more than five hundred words and this will be done here, done
here.
A BBC travel show about turtles. A woman who is 96 and still very agile here. And now Seinfeld
and Duncan Meyer. Apparently, that is his name here. By the way, the screen saver image that
comes up when we open the laptop here it is an image of a ruin in Lombardy, and it is ah so very
And now back to Seinfeld here. Mr. Bela-something here. I chose not to run. It is that episode
here. Wow, a commie. We still got China, Cuba. We got a good run. Well, I’m dating a
communist. And they say that appearance is not important. Yours or hers? Oh, hi, Lois.
39463 here. 39566 here. And Kramer as Santa. And Mickey as Santa’s helper here. This is Ned,
39587. Mr. Bevalaqua. Kennedy High. This is Lois. Well, you really went bald there. My first
million. I am an architect. The new addition to the Guggenheim. I had a dream. You have a hole
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Mrs. Stafford. George. Oh no, absolutely not. No no no. you couldn’t beat me then and you
And now, Anderson Cooper with a guy. Before this, it was Friends. And still another Seinfeld
episode. But yes, now it is Anderson Cooper and some more talk about politics. Which is
definitely getting somewhat boring here. The shows with laugh tracks are definitely more
entertaining than this here. What is the right novel writing background music here? 39735 here,
nine and thirty-six here. An ad for BP. An ad for something called M Tailor. An ad for a car.
Mini.
39758, drive this up to forty thousand words here. At this rate you’ll be done on November 15.
The writing marathon here, writing as community endeavor. It is what it is, a funny way of life. A
Bookstores, grocery stores and coffee houses, that is where the write-ins are happening here.
Where writers congregate in November here. The storytellers of this world of ours here. Who
write in countries where nobody reads anymore. At this time of the game author here feels
slightly fatalistic here. She needs 150 words and then she will be done here and can go and catch
some z’s here. And now, Mr. Schiff. Who is he? He definitely will be on the telly come
Wednesday morning here. And now, the ridiculist. A funny nme for a list of ridiculous things
here.
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An ad for a pain medication here. 39908. Less than one hundred here. And now, Two and a Half
Men and laugh tracks here. Rose and Alan. You are waiting for a prostitute? Nine and fifty in the
evening here. Sixty words needed here. And now Jake and Charlie with this woman and her date.
Yeah, I am in a band.
39979.
Not that many words are needed here. Thirteen, twelve here.
And only ten here and we are there, 40000 it is here. 40002. And we unlocked the 40k badge
9:07. In the morning of 11/13/2019. 9:07 am. On the telly, King of Queens. Funny stuff here.
Gym, mall walking, running, coffee. All done already here. The weight is standing @ 168, which
means that we are just right back at where we were four months ago here. After that we whittled
it down but yoyo-ed right back up here. So now gotta whittle all of this down here again, because
usually you not only gain the lost weight back but then some here. It is a vicious cycle that
somehow has to be broken here. With pure willpower here, whatever that might be here.
40125. In words here. On the telly, an ambassador named Taylor talking on Capitol Hill. About
the Ukraine. It is all ‘bout impeachment hearings here. 40150. 40251. O words needed today,
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So now it I 404 words needed today. There is definitely something wrong with the site here. But
who really cares here? On the telly, a new King of Queens episode here. Raisins and walnuts and
almonds and feta cheese with milk, it is part of this diet of ours here. Quinoa wrap. Banana
bread. So that should amount to 1500 calories here. We had what we need for the day here.
4017, sorry, 40240 here. 2000 words we need today in order to finish this up in time here. On
November 16 as the site says here. Nine and forty-one in the morn her.
40271 words here at eight and forty-one minutes in the evening here. In the night. On the telly,
Anderson Cooper. It seems that this was a very bad day for Trump. The testimony of
Ambassador Trump seems to have been pretty grave, pretty damaging to the person of the
president of the United States here. That seems to be the consensus along all party lines here. The
testimony seems to solidify the doubts that people have vis-a-vis Donald Trump here. It seems as
if at the end of this Donald Trump will have only one ally, himself. This is not good, not good at
Author here had way too much food. Ice cream, donut, hot chocolate with whip. Maybe she
should not venture out, venturing out for her seems to mean food intake. Major food intake here.
Sure, she went for a run, sure, she did the mall walking thingie, but, let us face it, that will easily
been outdone by all those extra calories all over town here. At least at home she has food at
certain times, everything is regulated and structured. Outside of the house, it is a free-for-all here.
An extra amount (number) of calories. The calorie intake from hell here.
40495. 74 words needed today. That is not that much here. She has tea and sips it through the
sugar cubes here. One sugar cube per sip here. Well, several sips obviously here. This is how
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they do it in Norway. In Oslo. So the story goes here. Tomorrow the Bergen Art Book Fair will
start up here. Maybe next year she will participate. Who does not want to see Norway here? The
adventure of Norway here. It is snowy over there though. The train from Oslo was going through
a winter wonderland here. On an Instagram story here. On the Instagram feed of the art bookfair
here. But it would definitely be an adventure here. Maybe she can make all of these nanowrimo
words into an art book here. Into a fanzine here. What exactly is a fan zine, by the way, here?
Tomorrow she will venture out and have a piece of pizza at Whole Foods. For lunch. Not your
traditional pizzeria, but there pizza seemed to be ah so very healthy here. For a pizza. For a slice
of pizza here.
And on the telly, they still are talking ‘bout politics. Seems that everybody has an opinion here. If
push comes to shove, we would definitely rather watch Ross and Rachel. After all, we definitely
feel exactly how Joey would feel if he watched the impeachment hearings, he would understand
She ponders if she should do the Transit Write-In. would be fun but she has to write with pen and
paper. While the train is going to and fro. Maybe not, she will just feel nauseated here. There is a
write-in in the Central Library on Sunday. She did that last year but in the end she just left and
listened in to an author reading on a different floor here. Maybe she is just not a social writer, she
is more the type of solitary writer. Writer who works in isolation here. How God intended her to
do here.
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Now Rachel Madoff. Or whatever her name is here. The shorthaired woman on MSNBC here.
She is interviewing another lady here, a woman named Barbara Something. 40881 in words here.
She had pistachio ice cream and hot chocolate with whip. She must have gained ten pounds here.
Tomorrow she will see how hard and how big the damage is here. Hahaha. Well, it is not really
funny, it is sad, increased body weight, her body will definitely not thank her. She’d rather run a
marathon here. Either/ or. Either all indulging in sweet food or running a marathon. There is a
middle way here. We should not vie for extremes here. But maybe it comes with the territory,
food intake marathon, running marathon, writing marathon here. Overdoing is king here. How
about starting up a career as a hoarder here? That should be easy, doable. And alas, we are
halfway there already here. Binge watching, we are good at that too here. Jumping from one
extreme to another one here. Moderation is for the birds, so they say, so they say here. 41038
here, in words ah in words here. At this rate you’ll be done on November 16. Today is
Wednesday, November 13, thus Saturday will be November 16. Which means that she will be all
done come Sunday, which is the day of writing on the train here. She ponders, she will not be
going overtime with her words this year now, will she? Once she has reached fifty thousand, that
is it for her here. Last year she took this all the way up to 222000 words here, but this is a tad too
exhausting a job, an endeavor here, now, isn’t it here? 41143. On the telly, whistleblower this and
whistleblower that here. CNN LIVE. 41155, at this rate you’ll be still done on November 16.
Apparently, there are only some 2000 or so billionaires on this planet here. That seems to be
definitely a wrong number, there are so much more billionaires than this here.
And she did not write all day here. Too much going on. But now she has time to feed some
words to the machine here. It is 11/14/19 at eight nineteen in the evening here. 41230, 41231. At
this rate you will be done on November 17. Two weeks down, writer. She just earned the
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fourteen-day badge, two minutes ago here. Yay ah yay here. 312 words needed today here. There
is a Coffeeholic coffee store where writing will happen in the evening on the next day here, yay
ah yay here. Well, you have to take transit after transit to get there but let us face it the name
sounds enticing here. Maybe it is worth checking out here, if not during the day time here. The
sentences, the words that are written down, penned here in a place like that, they must be
fabulous here. There was a documentary about Margaret Atwood here, so we are not published
and there is no documentary about us here, but who cares here, who cares, who cares here.
Celebrity is not everything-it is the only thing. Just kidding because what else can one do here.
Haha. Ha.
41391 in words in words here. Laterne, Laterne, Sonne, Mond und Sterne, …, this is a song that
is sung in Germany at this time of the year. She remembered it now, while watching an
41433.
The coffee house is way out in the boonies, but one can get there easily, ah so easily by train
because it is nestled against the road just seven minutes from the station here. And apparently
according to yelp they have great Oreo cookie cheesecake and great lattes and tiramisu
cheesecake too here. And lots of counter space to write upon here. It sounds ah so enticing here
even if you do no writing here which would be too much of a drag anyways, to start writing at
seven in the evening, you can do that in here while Don Lemon is on here, while it is warm and
cozy inside here, yay ah yay here. But one could check the place out during the day here and just
imagine writing here. The imaginary writer, she had actually coffee and tea during the day in a
place near another station here, and a peanut butter cookie here, it was nice but it was part of a
chain here that has different filiales all over town here, yup, apparently ah apparently here. 41615
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here, words ah words, words here. Fifty words needed today, according to the website here. So,
write up stuff about random things here. She did a tad of running, when she came home from the
bus, four blocks which is not much here but still here, she was all with sweater because it was
cold and chilly here and it was during the day here, it was a slow jog, a slow sprint here and she
ponders if there is a difference between jog and sprint here, is there, ah is there here? 41708,
write on ah type on here. On the telly, talk about the Ukraine investigation here, it is now, nine oh
four here and a beautiful woman is talking about the talks here up on the telly, up on the telly
here.
She could and should drive this up to 42000 here. Somehow it seems that the website is wrong,
at this speed she will finish on November eighteen and not on November seventeen here. On
November 15, she will have 44000 words, on November 16, 46000, on November 17, 48000,
and on November 18, voila, 50000 here, and November 18 is a Monday here, by the way, ah, by
the way here. That is the prognosis for her words here, according to the amount of words that she
has written each and every day here, apparently, ah, apparently here.
41848, write on here and type on here, on the telly, a woman talking with Jim Sciotto and Poppy
Harlow, or Hollow here, and it is all still about the enquiry on the telly here. The name of the
woman is Jennifer here, the one who is answering questions here. She has cute earrings, that
jump to and fro here, when she moves her head while talking here and answering questions here.
41920 words here, and now the time is forty-seven minutes after nine in the evening, ah, the
night here and we will save this and spellcheck, spellcheck here.
41949 in words here, some more words ah some more words here and this will eventually stand
at forty-two thousand here and then we might just wrap this up and go to sleep here and call it a
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night here. Twelve more words and then we will be there, yay, two, one, 42000 it is, it is here.
Yay ah yay, yay ah yay here. On average, you write 3000 words here, so the site. Actually, if that
was accurate, we would have ninety thousand words come November thirty here. So, something
is fishy about this statement here. Hmm, hmm. Food for thought, ah, food for thought here.
There will be a culture crawl, actually, it started today here. Art, design, crafts and
demonstrations (demos, not protests) by artists here. And once more, the woman on the telly
talking about the impeachment enquiry here. Tomorrow the Yovanovitch woman will be on
Capitol Hill, that testimony will be behind closed doors, so the woman on the telly is saying here.
The Yovanovitch lady was the ambassador to the Ukraine here. She is a career diplomat, so they
Three fifty-five. In the afternoon. Sunset will be around four thirty. Though at this time, it is still
bright and shiny outside. Well, bright, not necessarily shiny here. But it seems kind of weird that
it will be dark in half an hour. Because at this time it is still ah so very afternoony here. Big Bang
on the telly. On a channel that is different from the one that she usually has on here. Because on
that one, Big Bang Theory starts at four and on this one it ends at four here. She ponders, maybe
she should really watch what counts here, what is important here. The impeachment stuffi-muffi
here. In the morning on the train, two persons were talking about that. She does not quite
remember when and where it was. Maybe it was on the way to the airport. Or coming from the
airport. Two men. Yup, maybe, it was on the way to the airport and later she saw one of those
persons in the hotel at the airport because there was something like a meeting going on, there
always is. Breakfast meetings, brunch meetings and usually these are meetings and conferences
by very obscure businesses, totally unheard-of firms here. The rooms are very small, so there are
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usually only six people meeting up here to talk shop or to have a reason to have a nice morning
Afterwards author here walked forever near the water in what seemed like 26 miles, but let us
face it, it might have just been three kilometers here. She bought an umbrella and the man in the
supermarket eyed her. She got the umbrella in a different shop, but it was in the package because
that is what she does, she uses the umbrella and then puts it back in the plastic cover so that it
does not drop water on the floor in the mall. But now the person in the grocery store thinks that
she is a thief or something here. Ah, well, at least we have something to write about here. She
might still go out to the coffee house in the other city, because there is a write-in that starts up in
the evening at seven. A trek out just to look at other persons who too are aspiring writers here.
Who might be better than her or worse than her. The competition, fellow writers here. People
who have nothing better to do in November than formulate a book here, fashion a book here.
People without any social lives whatsoever here. Fellow nerds. Fellow losers here. At least that is
what one person hinted at. Is anybody here published? No? Aha (meaningful). That was in the
He is a famous actor though we cannot quite place him here. Maybe he was in a movie with that
famous actress, who was a model too and who now sells furniture. Well, she is on the
We have ice cream which is not that good because we have to make sure not to finish the tub
here. And a tub it is, a gallon, two gallons, maybe. Just kidding, but it is still pretty big a box
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here. Those overpriced designer ice creams are much better, at least you do not ruin your figure
that much, if you overindulge here. Ice cream ice cream ice cream here. Zero words needed
today here. According to the website. That website, it is pretty off here. Kinda sick. It seems to
have the sniffles here. Nothing seems to really work on it here. Four and fifteen minutes here.
11/15/19. On the telly, Bernadette here. Raj. Raj’s fiancé or girlfriend here. And now it is
Sheldon here.
Her weight ah her weight here. 169 pounds here. Better than 170. But much worse than 160. She
gained. She had lost twenty pounds, but ten pounds are back on her bones again here. Yoyo ah
yoyo here. Why does that happen? I will tell you why. Sandwich with cheese and pancakes with
Nutella therein. Yup, no mystery here, this is how it happens here. The cream cake in the cozy
little bakery in the bougie place of town here. Bougie is a word that author here learned the day
before. Bougie bougie bougie here. Boilerplate, what does that mean? Howard Wolowitz just
used it when talking to this man in uniform here. Boilerplate, you can google it here. I guess it
means routine here in this context here. 42908 here, she should go once more for a walk here.
One foot in front of the other and you will be as skinny as Twiggy here. Anything but binge-
watching here.
And now it is twelve minutes after six. Pitch-dark outside. It feels desolate here but at least the
telly is keeping us company here. And then there is the book that wants to be written, that vies
for our words here, calls for (calls out to) the writers, the ecrivee’s input here. Is ecrivee French
for writer? Maybe, maybe not. It is now, why not ah why not here. Let us just make up words
here, left and right and center here. On the telly, Chris Cuomo here and all the time they are
saying “on a Friday night”, apparently, all of these people on TV hate that they have to be at
work on a Friday night here, even if it is on TV, even if they are on screens in cities far away
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from New York City here, in different time zones, for them there is no glamour in this, it is just
another day at the office, they are like firemen, they are like cops, they are shift workers and
nothing more here, at least in their own minds here, apparently ah apparently here. The
Chocoholic (Coffeeholic?) place will start up in the other city but who wants to walk through the
streaming rain to meet up with total strangers and talk shop here. There might be a write-in
tomorrow, on Saturday morning in the main library in the city here, but it is kind of a depressing
place here, they do not give us nanowrimo people the big hall anymore, they make us write in
this small room here and that is not something anybody wants here. At least that is how it seems
here, that is how it seems here. If you are a writer and are part of nanowrimo, then you want to
be sitting in the biggest and most glamorous room, the bestest bookshop, the biggest library, one
that was designed by a two times Pritzker winner here. She ponders, do they even give out
Pritzkers twice? Like Oscars here or Nobel prizes here. Though last time we checked, Madame
Curie was the only one who won the prize twice here. Einstein? Maybe we have it all wrong
here, that happens when what you do is typing up balderdash here and call it a novel here. And
who wants to write novels anyways here. Tall tales. Any seafarer can do that, any whaler, any
43339, typing ah typing here. Six and twenty-three, a rainy Friday night here. Dark and full of
ghosts here. 43358, wrote on ah write on here. And once more impeachment impeachment here.
Once more he said “On a Friday night”, Chris Cuomo that is here. It is six forty-six and on
Saturday (tomorrow) there will be a transit write-in. one that will be on for five hours here. From
ten to three. With a break for lunch. Maybe we will make it, maybe not. Might be fun to check it
out, but apparently the writing will be on paper, pen and paper here, ah so very old school, which
spells basically “inconvenient” here. Writing as adventure, ah well ah well here. 43477, in words
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ah in words here. She ponders, apparently others are doing what she here does, describe writers.
At least two of the nanowrimo people do so here. Subject matter WRITER, seems to be as legit a
So we missed the transit write-in. mainly because we thought it starts at ten and it started at
eleven. So we left because we thought we missed it. Not realizing that they will be there an hour
later. The meetup was at eleven instead of ten. She ponders, was it written somewhere that it was
at ten. Must have been like that, why else did we think of ten instead of eleven here. Last year it
was at twelve, at noon here. But nothing lost here, we came home, and it is ah so rainy anyways
here. We would have driven through the rain. While it was darker than it already is here. At least
now, we can just write this up here. On the train, no writing could have happened here. And on
the telly, Sheldon is talking here. Yup, Big Bang Theory it is here. One and fourteen in the
afternoon, had ice cream and had pizza pops here. Now, obviously, a stomachache. Too much ice
cream and two pizza pops do you in, every time here. Good that she did not have a turkey melt in
the mall, it would be way too much here. Two liters of ice cream, way too much here. In the
morning it was a banana bread and a coffee here. With cream therein. In the coffee place next to
the gas station here. She was in the airport and in the casino. And in the hotel in downtown here.
A lot of transit in-between all of these places here. Because it is a transit write-in, we did a lot of
riding on transit here. So we did not write while the train is going, it makes us sick anyways here.
Might as well sit put in here and write up the story here. She looked through book blurbs, what
would be the blurb for her story here? Gabriella is writing a book? A bunch of people write
together in unison? An army of writers? One soldier in an army of writers? She ponders if she
should read through children’s’ books, they are usually very short stories and one can just
embellish them here. Yup, maybe we should start that up here. Still another Big Bang episode
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here. Today was supposed to be the day of Friends reruns but apparently it morphed into a Big
43915, in words, ah, in words here. Rain outside, yup, it is a monsoon here.
Seventy more words and this will stand at 44 thousand here which is such a nice number here. It
is all about numbers for her here. The measuring of the amount of words in a story here. She
ponders, does it depend on the language, how fast one can finish this up here? What with the
inscription on a cereal box always being longer when in French here compared to its English
counterpart here. And now Sheldon, Sheldon here. 44009 yay ah yay here. At this rate you will
be done on November 18 here according to the website here. One forty in the afternoon on a
Saturday, a rainy Saturday at that, in November here on the pacific coast here.
44051 here.
Three and fifty-seven. The last gasps of a Seinfeld rerun that she has seen ah so many times
before here. A Nanaimo bar and a peppermint tea in the coffee house next to the gas station.
First, she parked near the fish place but then she changed her mind because she was parked too
near to an ah so big, big SUV here and she would not have been getting out here. Or to be
precise, she parked away from the SUV so the car that would have been parked next to her would
have been parked too near to her to get out without getting into an accident here. So, she had to
go out and park next to the high school in order to have ample amount for parking here. So what,
she walked a tiny bit through the rain which at this time did drizzle solely anyways here. On the
telly, Big Bang again here, an episode we watched ah so many times here.
Sheldon talking. Anyhoo, back to the coffee place, a Nanaimo bar and a peppermint tea. The lady
gave it to her in china or what passes as china in the coffee house. It is actually plastic, but it
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looks as if it is porcelain here. The lady asked if she is staying here inside, so that is why she did
not get paper here. No paper cup for you, we are nice to the trees here.
Author sat at the chair that overlooked the place, kind of like a barstool but it is not a bar, it is a
Yup, the sitting in the coffee place here. So many people meeting up, the coffee house is ah so
full here and hectic happiness is ah so palpable. Or something like that here. The sandwich place
just three stores down is empty empty, nobody is in there, this coffee place on the other hand is
warm and red and green here. Red as in the aprons of the people behind the counter and green as
in, well, everything else seems to be green here, the logo and all. And then there is the big map
on the wall that says “three coffee regions of the world” here. People are talking and talking with
each other, socializing while sipping hot beverages here. The coconut from the Nanaimo bar gets
in between her teeth here and she cannot take the teabag out but finally it gets out here. The little
yarn thingie from the teabag, the young barista had secured it on the handle of the coffee mug
And now it is two minutes after five in the afternoon, she went on the website of her home
region, yes, there was a debate that the transit write-in might start at eleven or it might start at
ten. Apparently, there were different starting times on the site and that is why it got confusing
here. In the end it was said that it starts at eleven but author here did not see that in time, so she
thought that it is starting up at ten and that is why she was there at ten and did miss the others,
well, they were not there as of yet here, they all came to that place at eleven here, next to the
Starbucks and the Subway sandwich place here, under the big clock in the big hall here. 44643,
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tomorrow, the writers will meet up in the downtown library here and do their write-in over there,
In the end there will be a wrap-up party on November first, sorry, on December first here but
author here will be outta town, in California, next to the place where all of this started,
somewhere in the East Bay here, Oakland Berkeley Danville here. The East Bay region, we
know this all like the back of our hand here, the inside of our hand here, the palm of the hand,
yes, that is how it is, how it is here. On the telly, the news here out of Edmonton, apparently,
here. A man without hair on his head and with glasses on his nose here, he is talking to the
camera here and now it is all about Calgary here, apparently, this is a station out of Alberta here.
44797, it is now pitch dark outside here and we are typing this up here and start to write this up
A fire blaze in Toronto here, not good, and it is now five and eleven here and we are writing and
typing this up here. Maybe socializing is by far the best for writers, talking shop here, as if this is
a creative writing class here. Maybe she should take something like a creative writing course,
maybe, even one online here. Let us figure out where one can do that, Columbia College in New
York City, they have something like that here. Or maybe Bennington, Bard, Oberlin. Schools that
Only the best will do here. Then again, the local community college teaches this too here,
44946, this will stand at 45000 here at a certain time here, within a certain timespan here, a
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The news is dire here, the fire and people without homes because of the fire here and a woman
Eight more words and this will stand at 45000 here. Five thousand more are needed to finish this
up here.
5:26 in the PM here. A nice day and by the way, it is the sixteenth of the month here. A Saturday
in November, we went to the airport and to downtown and to the casino and we did not have any
alcohol as of yet because we are writing and need to be utterly sober in order to type up coherent
thoughts here, this is how it is, how it is here. The day before she was in this distillery where they
sell flights, but she hardly had any sip because she was supposed to drive here, and the drinks
were definitely more than potent here. The alcohol in those drinks were like 38 per volume and
thus we just did not do it here. Shots are like that here, and they have bourbon and whiskey and it
is really a nice place, but the drinks are super potent here. It is a place for daydrinking, dinking,
having hard liquor during the day here. Just like the Sake place around the corner here. This is
all, where the art school used to be, on the island here, nowadays everything has changed and the
art school has moved to a new place far away here. Author here just looked at these beautiful
paintings, watercolor, of birds that this lady has done, gorgeous stuff here, little cards and very
well delivered here. Now this is real art here, not the contextual bullshit that they delivered in the
art school here. Aesthetics, that is what it is all about here. The painting place did not deliver,
they make you write about art and then you end up typing li’l words here and you are not that
good with words and not that good with paint and pen here and thus you are one of those artists
that will not go anywhere and their art work will just disseminate and turn to dust here and there
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45347.at this rate, you will be done on November 18. So the site here. Apparently, there will be a
wrap-up party in the Australian brewery slash pub in downtown here on the Sunday come
December here, December second, apparently. And so it will be in all of the other nanowrimo
places here. We could look around on the site and look at pics of nanowrimo here and the
meetings and the socializings by total strangers who are basically doing the same thing that she is
doing here. Participating in penning a novel here. And now it is Friends on the telly here. Joey
talking to Phoebe’s fiancé here. The one that is played by Paul Rudd here. Who still looks the
same here, by the way here. A giant ice sculpture. In the hallway here. It is sent to the billing
address and not to the address where the wedding will be here. Crazy bitch again. Monica is
supposed to be a bitch again so that everything will work out here, apparently here. But then
again there is a snowstorm and the photographer will not be able to come from New Jersey. Ah,
New York weather, all blizzards or heat waves here, apparently, that is how the story goes here.
45560, we might as well drive this all up to 46 thousand words here. The magical wordcount that
says that you put in a whole day of work here, it testifies to the one honest day of work here.
Then again, all we are doing, is typing, we are not moving rocks here.
45617 here. I50 pages we have here. And on the telly, phoebe is getting married here. 45633
here.
It seems that the marathon runners in New York City did not move since the third of November
here. Two weeks of rest after running a marathon here. There was this runner in Chicago and she
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She ponders, is her story good enough here? Is it even a story here? 45696 here, in words ah in
words here. Seven ten, evening writing time here. She is a dedicated writer here, puts in all of the
time in here, but is that enough? Who knows, ah, who knows here. You just keep on trecking,
truckin’ here. One foot in front of the other, one letter typed after the other here. All the li’l
elements that make up for the whole here. The construction of an entity out of little pieces. Kind
of like a mosaic here, little shiny stones and then a whole image here. Smaller parts and then the
end result here. A book, a novel, something like that ah something of that kind here. And by the
way, this is standing @ 45818 here. Four and five and eight and one and eight here. Two hundred
words or so to go here and then we can call it a day here or, better, a night here. She wonders, if
Seven fifteen, by the way here. At this rate, you will be done on November 17. Wow, that is
tomorrow here, tomorrow will be November seventeen, a Sunday here. Maybe, she should not
venture out to the Central Library here, because she will only lose time here, time, that should be
put to use in front of the typing machine here. In order to finish this up, though, what will she do
once she is done here? Just stop short after moving over the finish line here? Stop in her tracks,
cold? Well, we will decide about that, on this, once we get there. On the telly, news, Aljazeera
Thirteen words and this will be done for the day here. Two more and now this is standing at
And the rain is coming down on the city. The lights that are reflected in the asphalt, very
cinematic. The neon lights on the ground here. Author never saw something like this, it is as if
you are in Vegas on the strip. It is just a coffee run, but there are all those little lights glistening
like a myriad of little glowworms, it is a totally different place here, the suburban street with
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trees, the treelined ah so boring all nature place suddenly is becoming ghetto, urban what with all
the rain that is coming down on the city and it suddenly morphed into a city from boring suburb
here, it is all about the lights and the reflections of the lights here, there is urban drama and the
like here, theatrics and it is all out of nowhere, it is not pitch-dark and not bright light, anything
can happen in this kind of atmosphere, it is bright light big city just because of the change in
lighting in the glistening surface of the infinity pool that is the regular suburban street here, the
hill up and the hill down here, the greyness that is now soaked and is a darkish anthracite here,
author here ponders how many words can she throw at the descript of an inanimate object, the
landscape, which actually is ever motioning because she herself is driving through, is ever
moving here. 46247, the coffee is slightly cold here, the banana loaf is gooey and there is the
disheveled man who is writing his masterpiece and he has an apple and an orange next to his
laptop here. A thin woman all in black comes in, a reminder to author here that she too has to be
thin, so that she cannot feel her heart anymore here, skinniness is health and extra fat signals
disease and surgery and interrupted life here, yes, we have to stick to this, a piece of banana
bread and coffee with cream and then a quinoa wrap and then nothing anymore until a new
banana bread the next morning here, portion control is paramount until we will lose the last ten
pounds here, the ones that have creeped up in October of this year here. 6, sorry, 46384 in words
here, Fareed Zakaria on the telly, yup, it is a Sunday morning here, while the rain is prasseling
down on this city of ours here. Seven fifty in the morning here, the seventeenth of November of
There will be a write-in in the city library, but it will be tough to get there, even with the dark
pink umbrella here, her foot hurts, her left one, where the nail of the middle toe is pressed upon
by the Swiss shoe here which sounds kind of weird, the shoe is made in Vietnam but it is
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designed in Switzerland in this design studio that lies behind the train station here, next to the
Limmat which is the river there in Zurich and author here has been there ah so many times, in
Nowadays she writes books that nobody reads here. Just like 222000 writers the world over who
have too much time on their hands and do that as diversion, as hobby here just as they used to
embroider pillows to lay on the sofa in the corner here. Author here tries to use as many words as
she can in order to describe something, wordiness ia the main goal here, if you have to fulfill the
requirement of fifty words in thirty day here. 46617, 4000 words are still needed, still needed
here.
Eight oh eight, raininess outside here, it is now daylight though definitely ah so grey day light
here, greylight, so to speak here. Not day light but greylight. What a pun here. Did you just think
of that?
153 pages, 46667 in words here. At this rate you will be done on November 18. So the site here.
Who are the people who will treck down to the library while the rain is coming down, who will
weather the monsoon to meet up here. To write with other writers, volunteering their time for a
goal where there will be no payment, at least, none in the foreseeable future here. It is a quest
that will or will not go anywhere, it is not a nine to five job, writing, that is here. And especially
Eight seventeen. Morning ah morning here. If she wants to be there in the library, she has to
leave about now. But nah, just sit at the typing machine and finish the novel here in one big
swoop here. Make sure that your back will hurt, and your neck will hurt because, let us face it,
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that is what happens to your body after incessant typing here. Maybe she will stand up from the
laptop and walk around a tad here so that her back will not cramp up too much here and just a tad
here. She might go again down to the coffee place, at some point in the afternoon here. A
Nanaimo bar and peppermint tea or something like that here, just as she had the day before, and
it is a Sunday, so there will be many people, and it will be peoplewatch galore here.
46927. 46928. 8:28 AM. 11/17/19. Words onto the page here. The smell of a cooked egg here.
Somebody just had an egg and it smells, well, like hard boiled eggs smell here. Enticing here.
Enticingly, the wafts of the hard boiled warm egg here. The wafting must be more from the yolk
then from the white here. The whiffs of a hard-boiled egg, At least that is what author here
thinks, she did not really check it scientifically here. Then again, you cannot really measure odor
on a scale of one to ten, can you? Isn’t sense of smell subjective here? The odor of, say, a glass of
wine. How can you quantify that here, how do people who measure the potentness of perfume do
it? Because, let us face it, that is the job of many people on this earth here. People pay big bucks
for the work of persons who have a discriminate way of smelling, who can discern different
odors here. Or something like that here, maybe not exactly big bucks here. But maybe, or
definitely, they make more money than people who write novels as a sport here, as a hobby here.
Writer hobbyists here, people who participate in nanowrimo like yours truly here does on a rainy
day in late or mid to late November here. And 47150 in words here.
Author here just read something about the actor who played Frasier, because it just popped up
when she was typing in NANOWRIMO in order to change the wordcount on the nanowrimo site
here. That and something about the biggest one-hit-wonders of all times here. Seems that her
computer thinks that she is ah so very interested in entertainment news here. Kelsey Grammar
and his ex. Apparently one of the participants on The Real Housewives of whatever thinks that
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Kelsey Grammar is pathetic or the ex is or one ex disapproves of the other ex here, well, duh,
that is why they are exes here. And now they gossip on the telly about Trump and this person
who talks is a very famous journalist and we do not remember his name but we know his face.
No name recognition, but face recognition here. And apparently his opinions always suck, he is
one big biased guy here. Well big on biases and not on stature here. He is very midwestern and
47334 in words here. She might just finish this up by three in the afternoon here because that is
when the write-in in the library in downtown will wrap up here. It is ah so much better to type
this all up in one big whoosh here instead of walking through the rain and taking the bus and
then walk some more to reach the library building and then venture up to the fifth floor and find
the room that says nanowrimo on the outside here. The room is small, she saw it last year.
Whereas in the old times they sat in a really big room, but we said tat already here in this novel
which is not really a novel but more like a documentary about the life of one person who
participates in nanowrimo here. Her days, her life in early to mid-November here. 47480 here, ah
yay ah yay here. And we updated our progress on the website because that is what it says here on
the site. “Update your progress” and then you click on the plus sign and well, update the
wordcount here. Some days ago, it did not work in the right fashion here, but it seems that now
they eliminated the glitch, and now it is working just fine, the “update your wordcount” (update
your progress) feature here on the nanowrimo site. Tolstoy did not have to do that when writing
War and Peace neither did Herman Melville when penning Moby Dick here. Something like that
or something like that here. And once more, is it Hermann Melville or Herbert Melville here?
Update progress here. She can just click on the feature that takes you back to the updating of
wordcount window here. Well, she minimizes and maximizes the window here. Ah technology
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technology here. Battle technology and work with technology, it is definitely a love hate
relationship here, and not a very functional one at that, more like a dysfunctional one here. Love-
hate, yup that seems to be the right descriptive word (expression) here. Now a man who talks
from Northwestern, because that is what it says on the background, so, chances are he is a prof at
Northwestern here. And he wears glasses and does not have hair here. And he says processes, the
plural of process, very articulate a guy here. He talks very professorial here. He does not have
hair and so does the person who interviews him. No hair seems to equal intellectualism here. You
lose one hair with every thought here. Hahaha. 47754 here, and write and type and write some
more here. 47772. At this rate you’ll be done on November 18. And the site cannot be wrong
here. Then again, we might just beat it and finish this up here before noon. If we just keep on
typing here. One big whoosh, one big sweep. Whoosh or swoosh or sweep here, whatever the
best word is to describe this here. Novel writing here is all about finding the right words here and
it is very subjective, there is no objective way to choose between word A and word B here.
And now, let us elaborate a tad on subject matter. There is a total lack of subject matter in this
novel of ours here. Or at least there is no gripping subject matter here, no murder, no drama here.
Today is Sunday, so there will be columbo on the telly here. At eight in the evening, each and
every Sunday here. The man in the crumpled-up raincoat with the strong New York accent here
working for the LAPD here. Who always is into this nursery song, “Jack and Jill went up the
hill” or whatever it is here when he thinks about stuff. “One more thing”, that is what he always
says here.
Now there is a gripping story here even though the viewer knows who the murderer is here. And
Columbo usually knows too from the get-go here. 48001, ah who would have thought here, who
would have thought here. We will finish this up by noon here on November seventeen, which is
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quite a thing here, quite a thing here. Quite a feat, yup, “feat”, that is the word we were looking
for here. In writing, there always is a word that is on the tip of your tongue and you have to
search through your vocab to remember it here. 48073 in words ah in words here. Nine fifteen in
the morning here on a grey and drizzly, rained-in November morning here. 48096. 14000 persons
have donated, but that is definitely not a big number, it is a fraction of 222000 here. Less than
every tenth participant donates because, let us face it, we as participants put in the legwork, the
The novel is stalling, mainly because it is not a novel. No sci-fi, no romance, no mystery here. A
genre-defying novel here. A non-novel, the non-novel par excellence here. She could go down to
the coffee house for still another time here, because it is more fun to sit around real live people
than to sit cooped up in here and type and type some more here. Yes, there is a screen (the telly,
not the screen of the laptop here) and yes, we can see the street out there from here, but still the
movement, the physical motioning of real humans, that is something else here. Ms. Atwood said
that she liked to use pen and paper, well, so did author here, but nowadays it is typing, a typing
machine here, because she is not that worried about the quality of her words here, she is worried
about the quantity of her words here. It comes with the territory of being a participant in
nanowrimo, just like a marathoner does not think about, does not worry about form but about
how fast he or she is here, how much it takes to get to the goal here, to the finish line here. The
There should be another chapter here, author is not quite sure at which chapter she is here,
sixteen or seventeen, ah, let us do this asymmetrically here. One long last chapter here, we can
defy the conventions of novel writing here, this is no traditional novel anyways, who will publish
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it anyways, all we can do is selfpublish this and bind it as a zine and sell it in a zine fair here just
like you sell self-made (home-made) cookies or self-made knitwear here in a church basement or
something here. Mosque, synagogue, temple here. Well, church basements seem to be the most
The Bergen Art Fair is going on at the Bergen Kunsthal, well it might just have wrapped up here
because, if it is nine forty here, it might just be late afternoon in Norway here. Where exactly is
Bergen, how far is it from Oslo here? It sounds very exotic, the Bergen Art Fair on the other side
of this planet of ours here. Art book fairs, that is where nanowrimo novels will be sold here.
Maybe we should have nanowrimo bookfairs here. Just a thought here, a proposal, somebody has
to figure out the logistics here. Somebody who is good at planning stuff here. Not one of the
authors, they suck at planning, apparently. They are the poets; they sing for a living here. They
dance for a living, they perform here. 48605. They talk about Paul Begala, whoever that is here.
48616, at this rate you will finish on November 17. Wait, that is today, the site itself in its infinite
authority proposes that we will finish this up come midnite of today here. Or even before this
here. There will be a sign next to her handle, a crown, jubilation. Because that is what happens
once that you reach fifty-thousand here. You have to upload your words and voila, you are there.
Nobody cares about the quality of your words here, you might even just type the same word fifty
thousand times here. All that the site cares about, is the number, the amount of the words here.
And now they talk about Mr. Rogers here. The widow of Mr. Rogers here.
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EPILOGUE
Yup, this is how this rolls here. We might as well finish this up with an epilogue, mainly because
we are not quite sure what chapter this is standing on here. Though if we go over fifty thousand,
then we have to change this once more here. Then the epilogue will morph into still another
chapter here, one of a myriad of chapters here. One of many. And then there is the problem that
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there is no prologue here. And are epilogues more the stuff of non-fiction texts here? How does
this all really work here? What are the traditions of novel writing here?
48843 here.
Oops, something went wrong. So the website here. Fareed’s take here. He uses the word
neophyte when describing the Ukrainian president or prime minister here. Because he met him
The last words of the amazing novel here. Seventeen days ago we started this up here. The
nanowrimo novel, one of many here. She did this since 2009, and this is one of many projects.
Sometimes she did not finish here, one year she only had 72 or 75 words here. But most of the
times, it went all up to fifty thousand here and last year, she went all overboard and had 200
thousand words on November thirty here. 200 000 and then some here. Next to a quarter million
words here.
This now is standing at 48980 words here. And now Fareed Zakaria is talking to Ukrainians. To a
good-looking woman named Svetlana. And now a man without hair who has a strong accent
here.
160 pages and the nanowrimo of hers is coming to an end here. 49022, not that many words are
needed here. It is eighteen minutes after ten, no wait, nineteen minutes after ten in the morning
here. We do not really talk anymore about the woman named Gabriella with two T’s, she just
vanished, the lost character in the novel here. Somehow, she was replaced with the writer herself
here. Or maybe the writer is Gabriella here? Ah, the construct of a novel, its inner logic here. It is
the stuff that college courses are made of, college lectures, syllabi. They discuss the inner
workings of a novel here, the writer just produces the stuff, the product here. Somebody else will
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then analyze it and rate its validity or non-validity for that matter here. The writers of the local
nanowrimo group, they will meet up in an hour or so and then there is another write-in still, in a
coffee house in the other city here. Later in the day here or maybe around the same time as the
library write-in is happening here. We here have 49195 words here, so we might just finish this
by the hour here. And then do whatever we feel like. Maybe even go down to the library and
walk by the room where the rest of the wrimos are still writing ah writing here. See them
struggle while you bathe in the notion that you have finished this up here. Like a marathon
finisher who sees the left-behind ones struggle to reach the finish line here. While you yourself
have the blanket around your shoulders and the medal hanging from your neck already here and
have changed into flipflops already here. That kind of feel, that kind of sight here.
The chore that has been fulfilled, so that we can go out and run after other chores here. 49325,
not that many words are needed here. On the telly, a woman who talks about politics here,
enthusiastically here. How can you really be enthusiastic about politics? Is it not dry, all about
policies and the like here? And now Fareed Zakaria asking her questions in his measured and
serious manner here. Though it is more measured, not necessarily that serious here. There is
always an element of entertainer in these journalists who talk on the telly here. They analyze, but
at the same time, they perform, they entertain. They wear make-up for the camera, somebody
powders their noses between takes here, somebody combs their hair for the camera here. They
make sure to not have pimples to distract from the message here. Their tie is straight and if it
stands crooked, then that is intended too here. After all, they are paid for by sponsors and they do
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This is a rerun, we saw this already here in the morning. It is now ten and thirty-nine minutes
here, this show was on in the morning too, earlier in the morning here. This is the second time
49529 and we are reaching this, it is definitely homestretch time here. Even if this will continue
and it might or it might not here, at this point, it is all about reaching the fifty thousand word cut-
off here.
69575, sorry, 49577 here. Does Zakaria wake up in the night and talk like this here, does he talk
to the barista in the local coffee shop just as he does on the telly here, in front of the camera
here? Asking for a double something latte in a measured manner here. A cappuccino here, a
More from less. That is the book they are talking about here. “More from less” is the title of the
So yes, we misspelled the word “kunsthall” when we talked about the Bergen Art Book Fair
which is happening at the Bergen Kunsthall here. We first spelled it “hal” instead of “hall”, (we
thought that that is how it would be written in Norwegian here), maybe, we will go back and
alleviate it (that) here. Let us see what we will do here in the amazingish novel here. By the way,
there was a marathon in Shanghai, so Instagram here (the shoe company out of Zurich told us
here). How did we really live before Instagram here? Now, there is news from all over the world
here, though, ah so very personalized info here, the news according to the insta accounts that you
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49772 in words here and a woman is talking on the telly here, impeachment this and
impeachment that here. The weather seems to be nicer, less water is coming down here, we do
not hear each and every drop coming down here anymore here.
409816 here, we can just type this up here and finish this up here. It is just like at the end of a
marathon when no runner thinks or cares about form anymore and just wants to finish this up
here. Same with writing in the homestretch, the number of words is what counts here and not the
spelling, the grammar here, quantity over substance, that is what it is what it is here. The commas
And now this is standing at 49947 and by the way, Buttigieg is the frontrunner now here. And
49960 it is here apparently ah apparently here. His speech in Des Moines. And what has
Bloomberg to say here? Stop and frisk and he is apologizing here. I did not understand. Yeah
right, nobody will believe that here. An eighty-year-old man does not make mistakes here. A one
eighty for a man this old and wise here. Kind of fishy huh. And 50024 it is it is here. Even the
lady on the telly says that some people think that his apology is not genuine and is just so that
people will vote for him here. But that said, we would vote for Bloomberg here. Or Sanders here.
Biden maybe. And on that note, 50069 it is it is here. 50080, 50081 here. The novel has come to
and end here, 11:38 AM, before noon, yay ah yay here. 11/17, 2019. 50101 here. You are an
official NaNoWriMO winner. According to the site here, yay ah yay here.
And we finished this in time before noon here. November seventeen, 50120 words here, yay ah
yay here.
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GABRIELLA
1.
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Gabriella just moved to the new neighborhood. It is a nice place, very small though. A one-
bedroom apartment in Chelsea. She will be on the lease for a month. Well, actually she is
subletting the place from this student who visits his family for the summer back in Germany. She
never met him, but a friend of a friend arranged this. It is kind of weird to live in somebody
else’s place, in somebody else’s surroundings. But the price was reasonable though not that much
less than staying in a hotel each and every night for one month here. Maybe she should have
gone the hotel route but what is done is done now here.
She wants to write the novel for National Novel Writing Month. She figured that it was worth to
move for a month to New York City and just write. It will give her attempts at writing a boost
here. After all, writers used to flock to Paris in the late twenties and penned their master pieces.
There is something about the diaspora that makes you think in new ways. That makes you
creative. Or something like that. New food, maybe, though in this case it is a two-dollar hot dog
and she can have that back home for one and a half bucks in Costco and throw in a soda in too
here. So maybe the move to the city from suburban Minnesota is not that good an idea here. And
besides, she is not in her twenties, she is pushing 65. Not yet, mind you, there are six months left
in adulthood here, six months away from seniorcitizendom here. Live, live, because once you
She ponders, because let us face it, your middle-of the road poets slash novelists, they do not
think about stuff, they ponder. She has this friend from high school who now lives in Patchogue
and who owns this cute little cupcake shop. She will go there and meet up and talk old times,
well, after she has figured out how to get to Patchogue. And where is it anyways, Upstate New
York or Long Island. And is there even a difference. All that she knows about New York City is
from watching Seinfeld and Friends here. Well, Seinfeld, they lived near Amsterdam Avenue
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which is more midtown or even above what is supposed to be midtown. Columbus Circle,
maybe. And Friends, they lived in the village, wherever that is here, somewhere near Washington
Square, New York City, it is a small place but it has tons of neighborhoods smushed together.
Yup, that is how cities roll and it is ah so very different from suburbia here. Suburbs they are all
the same, on the other hand cities are all the same, too.
Her main focus, of course, will be the novel. The writing of the novel.
She has to make sure not to gain weight though, she tends to gain weight ah so easily here, but it
is New York city, you walk everywhere. You have to run up and down stairs, constantly to catch
the L or the F-train here. Ah, New York New York, Frankieboy could not have been wrong here.
You leave Hoboken for New York; you also leave Minnesota for New York here. To become a
2.
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November second. There is a write-in in Whole Foods in Tribeca. She could go there or just sit
put at her laptop and type up the novel. Fifty thousand words, that is more a novella here. Easy
peasy, you can do that in one sitting. She had a coffee in the coffee shop near twenty-third. At the
corner next to the city bikes. Well, technically, the city bikes are in front of the hotel, that cute
boutiquey hotel off Eighth. But it sounds nicer if she refers to the coffee shop as being next to the
city bike stand. It sounds more urban, more ghetto maybe. She ponders, is she using the right
words here to describe stuff. Can she take creative licenses with locales? Who will really check if
these places exist in the real world? Gabriella is not quite sure if she should even write about her
own life in the city, maybe she should totally separate the life of the protagonist from her own
life. Not mix fiction with reality, after all, we do not want to go insane here.
3.
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Day four of writing. She has ten thousand words already. This is going pretty good.
4.
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Day seventeen. She finished fifty thousand words here.
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So this was her stab at writing a novel. Not really good. Too many holes in the story. Where in
Minnesota? Why would anyone move to a different place to write a book? It kind of seems off,
except if it is for writing a book that already has a publisher. Kind of contract writing. A
handyman delivers and then gets paid. Same for writing. But a nanowrimo person is not like that,
it is a shoot in the dark. Maybe somebody will publish this, but it is a big maybe here.
11:11 in the PM. Thinking about it, she realizes that this stab at GABRIELLA is merely a rehash
of an old nanowrimo project. Though at that time, the author lived in Hamburg and took the train
every morning to Itzehoe to sit in a coffee shop and write and then go back to Hamburg and
apparently there she stayed in a hotel, though, we might be wrong about that part here. But the
travelling to “work” to write was true, that part was what the story was all about. In
GABRIELLA the woman moves from Minnesota to New York City for thirty days to write the
nanowrimo novel. Same idea, you move somewhere in order to write. The idea being that change
of place makes for good writing. Somehow the motion influences the propensity to fashion good
words here. Maybe it is wishful thinking and maybe it is not. 11:18 in the PM, still Sunday, still
51167 here.
You know the drill here. After day twenty, you can verify the novel wordcount. Or something
like that here. We can look it up in the forum entries here. The ones that are all about
One thing is clear here, the novel was not good for her waistline. We gained some five pounds
while writing this up here and nobody knows why. Well, extra calories, of course, but why? Why
does writing entice you to overeat? It sure is a mystery here. Beats me, why this is as it is here.
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51267 in words here.
The new day of the week. Monday. Was up very soon in the day. Had coffee, then gym, then
back home and that is it for today here. The foray into the world. Now it is sitting in the writer’s
studio, the writer’s studio as workplace here. In here sitting and working on the novel. It is seven
and fifty-three minutes in the AM, nice-ish day, well, for November, that is, here. November
eighteen in two thousand and nineteen here. The writing of the novel. The try, the stab at writing
a novel about a woman named Gabriella but then it was all about fessing up to the fact that we
here are no novel writer, no fiction writer, but more the person who writes a journal, who takes
one big selfie and then calls it a novel here. An autobiography, a journal, a logbook, the
description of what you see in front of you here. Still though, we are part of nanowrimo, even
though we finished up here, the nice thing about nanowrimo is that you can keep on tugging at it
until midnite of November thirty, at the moment that November turns into December here, then it
is over, then you passed the finish line and as many kilometers, sorry, words that you have
accumulated, that is your final count here. Yup, let us stick to this idea, let us just bend the rules
of the game a tad here so that we feel comfortable with this here. On another note, apparently, a
twenty-one-year-old woman from Ethiopia broke the 15k record for women at a race in
Nijmegen in the Netherlands here. Apparently, this is ah so very big here according to the chief
editor of the German running magazine. He was interviewed on Instagram here and this feed was
on the runners.de Instagram story feed here. Author here can hardly walk a mile, let alone, run it,
but she is fascinated by people who can log in mile after mile here without a smithering
(smithereen) of tiredness here. And now this stands at 51618 here, ah yay ah yay here.
There is a write-in at a coffee shop today in downtown at six thirty in the evening, maybe, we
should go there mainly because we know where it is situated here. But then again, maybe, we
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have to be at home at that time and cook dinner. Seems, nothing is quite clear here as of yet here.
Well, at this time, at this point, it is all about typing, about being in flux and go with the punches
or however the saying goes here. A little later, it will be King of Queens and we can watch that
while still typing up the greatest American novel that ever was and ever will be here.
Impeachment hearings might be on too, if you are into this kind of thing here. She ponders, is it
“this” kind of thing or “that’ kind of thing here? There is always a difference in meaning, when
you change a word here ever so slightly here. That is what author here likes, playing with words
and playing with the language as a whole here. So to speak ah so to speak here. And we are good
at using as many meaningless and slightly nonsensical filler words as possible here.
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The day before, sometime between five and six, well, come to think of it, it was about twelve or
so minutes after six, because she remembered to look at the clock above the gas station, the
coffee house was supposed to close up at six thirty, and it was still full - all of this was on a
Sunday evening here, while it was dark and rainy outside here, the magicalness of evening, night
and lights and wetness here, the last glimpses of Sunday before one would turn in to watch what
is on the telly here, in this case, Columbo here, well, at eight - but we are rambling here, she was
in that place and ordered a tad too many calories here, a latte that tastes like chestnuts here, and
whip on it and some kind of spicy powder thereon, more like small crystals here, sweet ones here
or spicy ones here, and then there was the almond croissant which was really really good here,
what with almond paste therein, something like marzipan in there here.
She had a meltie (melty) too in the sandwich place and chips that tasted like vinegar here, this
was all had in front of the telly here and it was a tad too much here, next day, which is actually
today here, it is sticking back to the diet here in order to lose some ten pounds here in order to
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feel better and in order to have less fat on the bones here and in order to be a tad more healthy
52809 words on day eighteen of nanowrimo here. She was declared a winner by the site already
here and there was a necklace made out of purple flowers around her profile here and it says
“winner” here. On the site, I tell yer, on the site here that rules our lives in November of 2019
Now it is Rachel Ray here. Which show are they talking about here? 52163. Today at six thirty in
the evening there is a write-in in downtown here in the coffee shop that is a tad far away from the
shopping district here. The ML (Municipal liaison) talks about getting the words done, the words
in after work, post work day or post school day, how about getting the words in post writing day
here. Because there are writers who do exactly this, that, all day long, they are professional
writers and they sell their words to publishers to be bound in books and distributed all over the
world here, translated, marketed, that kind of thing here. Author here is not yet one of those
writers here, but we can always try and at least put in the work here, deliver the deliverables
here.
And tomorrow, on Tuesday, there is a write in at seven in the morning before people go to work
here. And she knows exactly where that place is, she goes by it, walks by it many many times on
So, yup, maybe we will show up there just before exercising, just checking out the competition
They must be better than yours truly, have a real story line here, characters that interact here.
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52388 here.
Spiced praline crumbs, so apparently that was what was on top of the whip on the chestnut
flavored latte the night before. And wow, was it ever yummy and the woman asked her if she
wanted whip and yes, of course, well, kind of with an ashamed face or something like saying I
know that it is a tad too fattening here, it is fatty but we do not bathe in whipped cream here, we
do this once in a while here. There is a pic af the whipped cream online and it is taken from
And still Rachel Ray talking about chili here, Korean chili whatever that is here.
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“The smallness of people was really crushing”. This is a line from Philip Roth according to
Jeffrey Toobin on CNN. Basically saying that Trump is really small when he talks about the
witnesses in the impeachment hearings on Capitol Hill here. Five twenty-five. In the evening of a
Monday in mid-to late November here in 2019 here. Anderson Cooper on CNN here. 52575.
Six and forty-one here. Later in this day here. A tad more words here and on the telly, Aljazeera.
Boris Johnson. That is his name is it not here? Jeremy Corbyn. And now a woman, Jo Swinson.
And now a person who analyzes. Seems, that this is all about Brexit. And this is all at a
conference in Greenwich. And now the news is about Colombia. The country. And all of this is
Three write-ins in town here tomorrow, in the home region here. One in a library, one in a coffee
shop and one in a grocery shop. Whole Foods. That is the grocery store. A big place for writing.
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Lots of seats. But maybe the coffee house is the best place. As said before, we walk by it on a
regular basis here. Seven in the morning. Gotta wake up early to make it there. Maybe not, after
And now it is King of Queens on the telly. The last gasps of the show here which is a rerun here.
The one where Doug has lost weight and steals Carrie’s thunder. And writing it is here, writing
ah writing here. The novel that has to be here. In the morning, she was downtown and was in the
place where people were writing. All were staring at their laptops. Ten or five people all over the
coffee house. Everybody was looking down at the screen, or at the keyboard here. One person in
the corner at a table where there was a nanowrimo sign. People were sitting at different tables.
And we left and went to the place where there was a conference. And to the bank to deposit a
check. We bought a double pack of soap. And after that back to this pace here, back to the typing
machine here. And by the way, before that, it was coffee in the coffee place, at a time very early
in the day here. Six thirty or something here. The parking in the lot of the grocery store. Going
downtown by train and later coming back here. A lot of stuff happening in such a short time here.
52965, there are still two write-ins all over town here. We might do those, just for adventure
here. And now, the second episode of King of Queens here. 52993, yes, we have the required
amount of words already here. Everything from now on is extra. And even before this here.
Every word since November seventeen when we passed the threshold here. The finish line
apparently here.
And now, Carrie and Doug planning their vacation trip. Paris versus Hershey town here. A trip in
an RV or Paris? That is what this is about here. Paris. What accent was that? Vacation.
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A funny show, that is what it is here.
Writing some more here. While watching what is on the telly here. It is now Paternity Court, it is
eleven and fifteen in the morning still here. On the nineteenth. She perused this vlog by a woman
who is part of nanowrimo and has a strong You Tube following here. And then she checked out
this personal trainer who teaches how to make food in fifteen minutes, good healthy meals here.
Personal training, that is his thing and teaching how to write a novel that is her thing here. Both
are using social media, to a high extent here. And now it is the telly and people want to know
who is the father though it is not quite clear who it is they are talking about here. There is one
woman in yellow and two men in suits. So, is she the mother or is she the daughter? It is not
quite clear here, but it will be clear once this is getting to the DNA part, you know, when they
have those envelopes with the results by DNA Diagnostics here. And now the judge is talking
here. And she wants to get us the answers. Jerome. Results, please.
Fraternal twins apparently here. So this is how it is, and here they share the same father. And the
court has determined that the father is so and so here. So, this is all about two adults wanting to
know who their father is. After they are adults here.
And now an ad, where they all are dancing and apparently this is a commercial for a phone
53365 in words ah in words here. We should go out for a run, but let us face it, it is cold here, ten
degrees Celsius. Which is good weather for running, actually, the optimal weather for running
here. But you need a toque and her toque is not that nice here, it is kind of uneven and looks
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weird here. Maybe, we should go out and purchase the right beanie here for running here.
Beanie, toque, hat, it is all the same word for this knitted stuff that you wear on your ears here.
But runners should not really wear hats because they will get hot here. After a while of running
here.
In half an hour, it will be a Friends rerun here, actually, two Friends reruns, one after the other
here. She ponders, is this enough for a novel, just describing whatever is on the telly here? Self-
doubt sets in for the writer here, though they say that you as the maker of words, as the producer
of words, you should not necessarily be your worst critic. Not your own cheerleader either, at
least not too enthusiastically here. There has to be the right sense of derision and the right
amount of praise here. The very right mix here, apparently ah apparently here.
Different write-ins in Portland, Oregon. Not Portland, Maine. There are no pics but descriptions
of the write-ins. There will be one at one. Today, two hours from now. Well, obviously we cannot
make it, but it is interesting that they want to do a Tolkien inspired one. Though, let us face it that
sounds weird, to be inspired by one author and not by another here. And did they misspell
Tolkien? Maybe they did not. Seems that author here just reads different entries on the website
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instead of sticking to writing the novel here. Actually, scouring the site and reading blogs is not
good, you kind of feel that your own writing is inadequate and that it does not make the cut. The
protagonist or the lack of a protagonist, it is quite a conundrum. Other writers are doing it totally
differently. They are plotting and prepping all through October, they use outlines and the like
here. And this is definitely not how author here rolls, apparently ah apparently here. And now,
court is adjourned, and Friends will start up here. Yay ah yay, we were on a break and other stuff
here.
12:28 in the PM here. The sun is shining, and we should venture out. Instead of sitting in here
and raiding the fridge. Sure, it is just nuts and feta and raisins, but still, it all adds up here. A
And laugh tracks now. A new episode of Friends. The song and the fountain. And now a
commercial with Santa, Reese’s and Oreo. For a place called five below, whatever that is here.
And now, Joey talking to the same girl. Actually, Chandler was not coming on to the girl,
because he is engaged to Monica. So it is just Joey and Ross and Ross talked a lot about sewage.
And now the girls at a place in Brooklyn. Fighting over a dress. With another woman. Well, the
storyline is a tad more convoluted, but to tell you the truth, you have to see it on TV in order to
understand what is going on here. Sometimes the movie is better than the book here. Well, in this
12:41 and we are sitting cooped up in here to pen a novel that will never be here. An exercise in
futility here. Just going through the motions here without any real goal in sight here. Training for
something that will never be here. At least when you run in circles, you know that eventually you
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will get a medal here. Finisher. With nanowrimo, we are there already. We are a winner whether
it is 50000 words or five hundred here. That is how it is how it is here. 54090. In words here.
Spending limit for the date here. Six dollars, a slice, well, actually two slices here. The
discussions ‘tween Joey and Ross, funny ah funny here. And Rachel is still doing the whistle
thingie here.
Ambassador Volker answering questions by Adam Schiff. For some weird reason he reads
without glasses and answers questions while wearing glasses. So apparently he is far-sighted
with age. Usually one gets short-sighted with age. The number of persons that get short-sighted
with age is much higher than the number of people that get far-sighted with age here.
Ophthalmology, it has nothing to do with the Ukraine, now does it? Anyways, Volker is not that
good as a person in the witness stand. What he says is just as objectionable as what Trump says.
And maybe more so, though for different reasons. Ah, politicians, they never ever get it right
anyways here.
Now why do they say Ukraine and not the Ukraine? And some people stress the U whereas
And now this stands at the top of page 180 here. One a and eighteen minutes in the afternoon of
November nineteen here, the sun is shining, apparently, but who would know here, because we
are sitting inside and the curtains are drawn. An office without windows, that is how it seems
here. Actually, it is a perfect workplace situation, no distractions here, well, except for the
impeachment hearings up on the telly and that might actually be conducive to good and fluent
writing here. It is better to have some background music here, so to say, well, if you can call
CNN background music here. Background noise, maybe here? And now another witness, a man
with glasses here and a forceful manly voice and a meek appearance here. A baritone without the
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stature of a baritone here. His voice seems to belong to a much fuller body here. An opera singer
maybe here. Now another witness who just seems to be scared to get it right. He is not on trial,
but he seems to think that he is. Donald Trump is on trial here, not this guy here. Then again, all
of these people will lose their jobs because of their being witnesses here. Something like that,
something of that kind here. After all, they are talking against their boss here. But apparently
their boss are all 360 million inhabitants of the United States of America here. The people are
their boss, they pay their wages. The taxpayer pays for their livelihoods here.
She ponders, should she get down to the grocery store for the write-in here. It starts up at seven
in the evening which is not exactly the time we want to be out here, especially if it is raining.
Though, it seems, that it is sunny, but we still have to go there by bus here, or at least by train.
And park the car in the parking lot of the mall here. The other grocery store maybe here. All in
all, it seems to be a drag, when we could just watch Seinfeld while typing up the novel here. The
life of a wrimo, very weird here and ah so very strange here. What kind of thing is it anyways to
pen a novel in thirty days here, what kind of undertaking here? Publishers are weary in
December of all these submissions of new novels here. All of those submissions will be rejected,
automatically here. Kind of autopilot rejection. They just push a button and send a rejection
letter, a pre-worded one here. Dear author, due to a myriad of submissions, blablabla. Publishing
54720.
It is a job that you do in your pee jays. The writing job here. Yoga pants maybe. Sweatpants. That
kind of stuff here. The thankless job of putting words together and sprinkle the text with commas
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and semicolons here. Every word counts or no word counts here. Some person will edit this,
eventually, at random here. You can of course fight over each and every semicolon here, which
will earn you the reputation of being difficult. You can do that, if you have the status of a Philip
Roth. But not if you are a newbie, a nobody in the world of letters. And maybe it is not really a
plus to be a woman of letters instead of a man of letters here. As a woman you are supposed to
write touchy feely stuff. Just as Georgia O’Keefe has a following because she paints, well, florals
There is a male subject matter in art, a masculine one. There is female subject matter. There are
differences here. Publishers have all their little categories and you cannot just do whatever you
feel like here. Gotta think about the market here. Yup, something like that, something of that kind
here.
Still impeachment enquiries. Boooring. Politics is a free for all, it is boring across the board here.
It is yawn-inducing, whoever you are here. Politics is not discriminating; it bores each and every
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So what is on now, Friends or Two Broke Girls? Two and a Half Men will be on at two, so much
we know here. Ah, anything than these hearings here that nobody understands here. Even the
ones who get paid to do this. Members of congress, journalists here. Cameramen?
Camerawomen? And is this congress or senate here? Wow, author here has no clue what is going
on here, so much is clear here. And she will not comment on politics because it is futile. Readers
have strong opinions and she might offend somebody’s sensibilities and thus lose readers here.
Seems that writers are nothing but middle of the road prostitutes. They write what they project
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that the reader wants to hear here. And 55088 it is, it is here. 55095. In words ah in words here.
Ah writing writing here. So we have a text now, that is 55 000 words long here. What will
happen to this text here? What can happen to it? Well, she just uploaded it on scribd. So, yes,
And now, it’s the impeachment hearings once more here. What exactly is going on here? Is this
impeachment or is it more about whether there should be an impeachment or not. Seems, that
nobody really knows here. At least, yours truly has no clue here whatsoever here. This is not
CNN, by the way here, It is Aljazeera. And it is live. At this time it is three and forty-two in the
afternoon on a Tuesday in November of 2019 here, so it follows that it is six forty-two over there
on the east coast here. So how long into the night will these hearings go here? When will they go
home and have dinner? Will they even have food, or will they just continue to testify here?
Regular court proceedings are not like that here. Weird, ah, so very strange here.
The sun will set in half an hour or so. Maybe forty minutes from now here. We could just go for
a walk before it is pitch dark outside here. Or could just stay put and type this up here. The write-
in in the grocery store at seven, nah, forget about it. We are not that kind of writer anymore; we
sit put and type this up here while the telly sings its songs in the corner here. Adam Schiff now
here. And now a woman who must be pretty young here. And the person they are grilling is still
Volker here. Ambassador Volker here. Now, was he the ambassador to the Ukraine or is he the
ambassador at this point here. Who is the acting ambassador in Kiev here? This all is happening
in Capitol Hill. That is what the caption in the corner of the screen says here.
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Author here had some egg which was ay-oh-kay here. Actually, it was more than that, it was
utterly delish here. Two eggs whisked together with a smithering of salsa out of the glass. More
the fluid of the salsa than the chunks. And a spoon of full fat yoghurt. A heaped table spoon.
Some salt. All scrambled in butter here. Mmhh. A little bit of wrap bread here. 300, 400 calories
tops here. Hopefully not five hundred here. She has dishes to do, that happens with home
cooking here. Maybe she should have tea. No hard liquor though, not even an Italian beer here.
No expensive imported beer here and no red wine here. A writer has to be of sound mind or else
here. The image of the hard-drinking writer, that is what they do on their own time, once the
typewriter is put to rest here. They go on a bender, sure, but that is ‘tween writing spurts here.
Well, nowadays, that is not needed anymore, just watch Seinfeld reruns to relax here after
penning the most amazing words in human herstory here. Watching Seinfeld to decompress, yup,
So, what do you do these days? I write novels. Anything published? Not yet. This is the
discussion that she has in her mind with people she knew and knows, former colleagues, people
from a former life here. If she runs into them, but she mostly avoids to frequent places where she
can run into that kind of persons here. Because, let us face it, she is a failure in her professional
life and there is no way around it here. It seems though, that all participants in nanowrimo are
participating in the same uniform failure here. Nanowrimo, it seems ah so very Sisyphean here,
no way around it here. Ah, what can you do here? And the impeachment hearing is going on and
on, though the actors seem to change here. By the way, they are mostly guys here, mostly dudes
By the way, the instagrammer whom she religiously follows, did not approve of the hot dog in
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And 55814 it is, it is here.
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Now a woman. She sounds like a mom who scolds the kids. Definitely. Seems that all of the
others in the room are her kids. And she is the mom, and everybody is kind of scared. They will
How come that men in positions of power are soft-spoken while women in positions of power
are everything but, across the board here? Well, except for the mom in tennis shoes, the senator
from Oregon, but, let us face it, she is the exception to the rule here. Well, they say, you can kill
55946 here.
So why should the United States care about corruption in the Ukraine. Ukraine does not care
about whether there is corruption in the United States. After all, these are both independent
countries here. They are not supposed to interfere in each other’s domestic affairs here. It is kind
of disconcerting to listen to the manner that the questions are posed here? They seem to imply
that the United States has a moral obligation to interfere into domestic affairs. Isn’t that highly
presumptuous and actually against the charter of the United Nations here? So, just listening in to
the hearings here, one can see very obviously where the main problem lies here. Just from a legal
standpoint here. We are not a lawyer here, just a simple typer of words, but there are a lot of
statements here that are highly objectionable here. It is very obvious to the simple observer here.
To the most simple minded and unbiased observer here. Take from this whatever you want here.
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And on the nanowrimo site there is a cute little movie and a winner certificate. That is new. They
56149 in words, 4:37 PM, still, November nineteen here. It is getting dark here, silently here,
definitely dusk here. This is what dusk looks like, not dark and not bright here, apparently ah
So now there is no sound here in this room but the sounds of the letters being pushed down here.
The laptop and its noises here. No TV, nothing, nada, zip, zilch. Well, maybe the light makes a
noise here, it tends to do that in this room. Or maybe author here is just imagining that here.
Would be nice to go down to the coffee place and have a latte, the one that tastes like chestnut
and has whip on it and praline dust thereon. The problem is the caffeine and the fat, the calories
here. She had too many calories already, maybe two thousand already and hardly any movement.
She took the train to downtown and came back, hrdly any walking. Train station to gym, well, I
give you that here. But this all negotiable, the amount of steps we took here. Too much sitting,
She just listened to an interview with Philip Roth with the New York Times. It was a video and
not very long. He said all the right things, obviously. And he had a lot to say about the life of a
A nanowrimo person is a very different animal than a Philip Roth is here, that too is obvious. She
ponders, the write-in in the grocery store will start up at ten. Sorry, at seven. But is it worth it to
go there? Nah. After all, she will not write, she will just look in passing at people who write on
their laptops. She might as well look in the mirror. The persona of a writer. What really is
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interesting about that here? Nathan Zuckerman, was that the name of the fictional writer that
His books were well-constructed works. A nanowrimo novel, not so much here. If you churn out
fifty thousand words in a month, how good can the quality really be? And in her case, she is able
to finish the requirement of words in five days here. She did that last year. And this year she
finished at a later point, on day seventeen, merely because she paced herself, stretched it out, the
process, that is here. And one more thing, it is not a novel. How many times do we have to repeat
this here? It is merely a wanna-be novel, true to the maxim that “if you think, it is a novel, then it
is a novel”. But author here, she does not really think that this is a novel. It has elements of a
novel, maybe. It is not a journal in the true sense of the word. Ruminations, maybe that is the
And now, a furniture store is leaving a phone message. How archaic. A phone message on a land
line. Maybe people who buy furniture are archaic. The persons who would buy that specific
furniture store’s furniture. And the voice of the person who talked was definitely the voice of a
used car salesman type here. Anyhoo, be that as it may, this now stands at 56707 here and we are
happy ah happy here. She is especially happy that she is resisting the push and pull to get the
chestnut latte here. But maybe it would do her good. The social aspect. The diversion. The drive
through the night. The cinematic element of the lights, the small hint at “bright lights, big city”
here. Given, Vegas it ain’t, but it is still better than nothing here. It is a diversion, it is
entertainment, it is motion, it is the antidote to sitting stagnant at the typewriter and only moving
one’s fingers to and fro here. Maybe there is something to be said for old-fashioned typewriters
here, it is definitely more physical than a laptop here is. Be this as it may, we now have
accumulated 56837 words here at six and something in the evening of November nineteen in two
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thousand and nineteen here. Quite a feat or no feat at all, depending on who you are and what
Roth seemed to have a lot to say about a person who reads a novel and apparently he thought that
if you read a novel in more than two weeks here, than you are not really reading it, you are not
really immersed and you are doing other things, the reading of the story is merely an afterthought
to your regular life here. And that is a lesser reading process, so to speak, than if you are
devouring a book from start to finish in record time here. Obviously, we are paraphrasing here,
and author here is not even sure, if she understood what Roth really meant here. And besides, he
It is now six and forty-four minutes, the write-in in the grocery store will start up at seven.
This is a weird time, when writing a novel suddenly is some kind of group endeavor, people
writing in huddles here, a solitary work suddenly becomes a group think thingie here. She
ponders, there are better words to describe what she wants to say here, which is mainly the
juxtaposition of isolated, solitary undertaking and social gathering here. You socialize and do
What would Philip Roth have to say about this here? She ponders, where does her preoccupation
with Philip Roth come from. Well, he was mentioned, actually, cited the night before by Jeffrey
Toobin, as she recounted in this text, when it happened here and ever since she does a tad
research on him and his work here. She read American Pastoral and two other books, but she
does not quite remember what it was all about here, the only thing that was crystal clear is that he
was a great writer, that is what she took away from reading his books, he definitely has a way
with words here. Maybe he is even her favorite author, well, he and Norman Mailer, maybe here.
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But, if push come to shove, she is just not that well-read, not well-read at all, really here. But
who really is here? Literary profs maybe, they do this for a living. And we have six and fifty-four
And seven PM on the dot here. And one minute later, it is so weird how the numbers change
every moment here. The writing on a laptop, it is definitely weird and strange. And the grocery
store write-in has officially started but without yours truly here. And maybe that is good, she just
checked out nanowrimo’s Instagram page here. There is this woman who became famous with a
nanowrimo novel and there was her picture at a bookshop in Santa Cruz here, she is doing the
And now, Don Lemon. Seven twenty-four. 57344 in words here. Seven twenty-five. On the telly,
they are fiercely attacking Trump and his son here. And if you change the channel to Fox News,
you will here the exact opposite. And to think that those two stations are some mere blocks from
Which basically discredits both the left and the right here. Because at it s core, these are both
voice pieces of the ruling class in America. Both CNN and FOX News. They are different faces
of the same coin here. Different sides of the same coin. Everything for ratings.
And we write here and write here. 57453. In words here. Seven thirty in the evening here.
Now a man who is sitting in Miami. He is interviewed by Don Lemon here. 7:33.
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So she does something here called commuter run. There are pics that show people run to work in
clothing that is actually regular outdoor clothing, maybe a rain coat or something here. The idea
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is that people run to and fro to the office at the end of a workday in order to shed some pounds
here or in order to maintain their weight loss here. Because everybody on this planet is on a
weight loss trip here, everybody is obsessed and it used to be called the fitness craze but at this
point in time it is just an obsession with health, with longevity and after all this we will all die
here, no immortality for any of us mere mortals here, so the story here goes, so the story here
goes. She especially loves the image of the woman running in orange glistening clothes through
the rain in the concrete jungle at dusk here, it is dark but not that dark yet, it shows a person
motioning with grit but with a grit that is matter of fact-like here. Author ponders she sure can
It is seven and fifty-three, we went to the coffee place and back here and actually it is much more
accurate to call it a run here, the commute to and fro the coffee place here, the coffee run here,
literally here, and this all is standing at five seven seven two four here on November twentieth in
She should go down to the gym in order to weigh herself so that she knows if she lost weight or
if she gained some pounds here, it is much more accurate in the gym here more so than at home
here. But there was ice on the windshield, so that is why we ended up at the typing machine
instead of in the morning traffic here amongst all of these people who are coming in from the
burbs to the city here to sit in an office and do stuff to make money here and to pay taxes and to
get the economy rolling here, yup, apparently ah apparently here. There are writers like her but
not many not many here because this is not a lucrative business here. It is intellectual and
rewarding here whatever that means ah whatever that means, and (it is) solitary yup solitary here.
Tackling stuff in isolation in isolation here. 17889, sorry, 57891 here. And one minute to eight it
is it is here.
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The writing of words. It is exhausting at times here. On the telly, blackish. After Friends, Two
and a Half and other sitcoms here. Sitcom galore. But mainly the writing thingie here. Three ten,
afternoon, November twenty here in two thousand and nineteen here. 57946 in words here, not
The sound of the twin on the telly, the know-it-all who, well, always knows it all and shares her
insights with who ever wants to listen here. And now the surgeon mom here, no wait, she is an
anesthesiologist here.
Maybe we could type up some two thousand and let this stand at sixty thousand come night
today here. There was a letter from nanowrimo and it was pretty conclusive but for some reason
the site itself did not work, no shoutout or anything here. Maybe we did something wrong, you
never know how this works or does not work here. The websites usually have a mind of their
own here.
The run in the morning but no gym, we could still go out there here. Or just keep on typing here.
There is a write-in in a library far away from here, if we want to get there in time, we have to
start out now here - thus it is better to just stay put here and type this up here. The story, the
nonstory here, the novel ah the novel here. She had grapes, a wrap, banana loaf, some cooked
meat, nothing spectacular because we want to get down with the weight again here. Back down
to 160, this should be doable here. For some weird reason, once she reaches 160, it is straight up
again here. But not this time, we just stand still here and catch this and whittle it down again
here. Yes, American Thanksgiving and X-mas are (t)here but that will not stop us in the quest for
thinness here. Yup, that is how it is here and how it is here. On the telly, there was Ambassador
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Sondberg, are they still at it, we do not know here because the channel here that is on on the telly
here is the sitcom channel out of Seattle here, not CNN out of New York here. Blackish it is, it is
here.
58294 here and write and type type type here. 58303 here in words ah words here.
58321 here.
The dad on blackish talking about the sandwich lady. Somehow it is always about food. At least
that is what we hear here because we are on the portion control wagon here and it is annoying,
especially if you are cooped in at home and do the writing thing here without being a successful
writer here, you just toil in obscurity and you do not go anywhere here. How is this different
from being a well-known author here? The work is no different, whether you are recognized on
the world stage or somewhere muddled into some obscure place online her. Which reminds her,
let us look at scribd here and the upload here. Reads: 0, now that is reassuring here. Hahaha.
Getting to the library in the other city will take forever here even though it seems really a nice
library here according to the picture. Well, come to think, all libraries are nice, but this one seems
to be airy and bright, more so than others here. The window is big and lets the sun in, though it
will be dark once we are there. So, let us just look at the picture online here, the one on the
google maps site, and just sit in here and type this up while the telly is singing its songs and
while the laugh tracks are staccatoing the day forward here. In an irregular fashion, of course,
here.on the telly, Sheldon and Amy. Before, it was the president of the university talking to the
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And now, Howard and the guy who used to own the comic store and now lives with Howard and
Bernadette here. Lennard does the dishes and calls it exercise. He is getting his exercise on here
58637. Maybe, the coffee place next to te gas station would be nice. Latte and whip. Nah, gotta
watch the waistline here. It is more about the nicety of that place here. In the morning the car
was too icy to get to that place, because you have to drive there, that is why she went to the one
that can be reached on foot here and where there is hardly a hill on the way here.
So this is what we write about and call it a novel here, ah, what can you do, what can you do
58744.
And now it is Big Bang. Sheldon in the grocery store with Penny. So you got canned.
Slow down. 120. Is your body mass somehow tied into your self-worth? Yaahh.
Some manganese.
Luminous fish.
This episode is definitely funny. But now, it is an ad for a car model here. And now an Ireland ad.
Come to Ireland or something like that here. Discover Ireland dot com here. And an ad for a
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furniture place here. In Boston, Massachusetts here. Honey, why did you get a loom? Sarapes.
28855. Sorry, 58857. The site of Boston, Massachusetts is cute. Just saying here. Somehow,
some regions are able to morph the site into something cute here. Seattle, NYC, Boston. Let us
check out the other sites here. Perusing the sites is more fun anyways than the writing process
itself here. It is a tad like travelling the world, without leaving your armchair of course here. It is
now five oh two here. The news out of Boston here. It is eight over there, while it is five here.
The East Bay site has stars on it, dreamy, cute. There was a write-in in El Cerrito and another one
in Walnut Creek. All during the day here, soccer moms, soccer dads and retirees here. The
writers of the world here. The ones with cooped up words here. 58991. The news out of Boston
is all about local news here, not that much about what is happening in DC here these days here.
Five nine zero one six here. And a car commercial here.
A different furniture store and a commercial of that one here. Huh, don’t they have an Ikea in
Boston here?
And to think that we wrote 220000 words last November here. One thing is clear, one thing is for
sure here, this year that will not happen, no way here.
It is dark outside. Time to have a latte. But we resist. No hot, silky drink because it will just
fatten you up here. You can do it, no latte soup here. A tad later, a tea, that has to do here. It is no
latte, there is no whip but then again, your wiast line here will shrink as it has to here.
59141 here.
Writing here. At six and three. She will not really be able to write a lot these days because she
will go on a trip. Well, next Wednesday, so it is still a week from now here. But still. And we are
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typing this up here while Modern Family is on here. Gloria and Al Bundy’s daughter here. Sorry,
she has a name, but we here do not know what it is here. Sorry here.
The novel is kind of going nowhere, well, she is going in circles here. It is kind of strange to
refer to the novel as a SHE. And on the telly, a burger and a coke here.
So, Austria is telling stories. Is writing stories. According to the site here. There is a Hemingway
write-in and then there is a write-in to get rid of the hangover here. It is all in German, though,
And she searched, there are others who have changed the image, the background image of their
website. Kind of cute here, the images. Vermont and this part of Connecticut was all nature here.
NYC had a graphic design, Seattle, of course, the famous rubber ducky, Boston, a light tower
and a lighthouse tower here and the East Bay had stars here. Let us see, what images did others
come up with here? And by the way, how many regions are there here? Africa elsewhere has an
A new show. Singles, maybe, that is the name here. The brother from Everybody loves Raymond
is in it here. It is about Thanksgiving, apparently, here. Five hundred words or so and then we
can apparently call it a day here. Six thousand words and that is a good number for day twenty
here. Tomorrow there will be a badge on the site, the one for writing 21 days in a row here. Day
twenty-seven we will not write anymore, so whatever we can pen in 27 days here, that will be
fine here. We can write some more in December here. Nobody ends this (wraps this up) in
November, people tend to rewrite stuff here. And she is kind of pooped here, what with typing
more or less all day here. The only movement is the morning run here and then it is siting, sitting
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here, well, more or less here. And 59550 it is here. Do not singleshame me. So the woman on the
The something shaming is definitely a new word here, well, not that new apparently in 2019
And then we can sit back and let Anderson Cooper splash over us (wash over us) here. Sondberg
this and Sondberg that here. Actually it will be a rerun, she watched him already talking with
Gloria Borger and David Axelrod and others sitting around a, well, round table, though it was
more an oval table and Anderson was sitting in the middle kind of like Arthur and the knights
here, at a roundtable here. And talking politics they did here. Apparently, the consensus was that
Sondberg did make sure that he will not lose his day-job here, he apparently is back on a plane to
Brussels here because he is the ambassador to the European Union here. The US ambassador,
that is here.
59724.
She feels pangs of nausea here. Slight but noticeable ones here. Maybe we should have tea and
biscuits here.
Seven oh five here. Now it is about Trudeau and seven new ministers in his cabinet here. They
So the novel has problems with having no story line. Author here tries not to think about that, so
this is a logbook of her nanowrimo experience here. An Instagram story that is a tad longer than
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And now they show Trump here. Why does he always yell next to a helicopter here? Who
A very bad day, so some observers here. For Trump here. And Prince Andrew retired from, well,
from what exactly here? After his interview with BBC here.
The disastrous sit-in interview, that is what the person on the telly calls it here.
Caffeinated words, so the name of one of the writers. Definitely, it is all ‘bout having coffee and
author here definitely craves that here. Some brown drink, nothing alcoholic, though, here. Not
even Irish coffee or something like that here. A warm Toddy. Gluehwein here. Glogg. Nah, she
might have some tea. Sipping that through a lump of sugar here. 59953 in words here, it seems
that the rain has stopped here. At least we cannot hear it coming down here. Some more words
here, ah, some more words here. And, by the way, whatever happened to Gabriella here? Maybe
we will have another stab at that storyline here. And 60002 it is, it is here. At seven twenty in the
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