It's not NaNoWriMo Anymore!

With NaNoWriMo over, the bookkeeper is finally going back to her scrape-everything-together-and-post-it-on-Saturday blog schedule. Since her last post was on Wednesday, there isn't much.

Before there is any confusion from the non-NaNo readers, winning NaNoWriMo just means the bookkeeper wrote 50,000 words or more. Everyone who did that gets the label "winner."

If you were curious about why the bookkeeper ended writing at a strange number like 50,009, it's because she'd PLANNED for it to end exactly on the 50,000 mark with the words "The end."

The villain and the monster are defeated, and the town is saved. The end. Then Bookkeeper realized she'd forgotten someone. Again.

The last nine words of the story are:

P. S. We let Fred out of the closet.

WOW ITS THE BEST ENDING EVAR!!!

And here's something entirely different that doesn't have anything to do with NaNoWriMo:

Basically, the bookkeeper had some free time to draw but was uninspired. Her mom told her to draw a mouse, and this is the result.

Until next week, 'bye!

NaNoWriMo day 22: You Deserve Cake

This works even better when you write "and" between each item instead of a comma.

Hello there, it's day twenty-two of NaNoWriMo and Bookkeeper has caught up with 33,868 words, though she did resort to some dirty tricks such as listing everything bought on a shopping trip and making "sidewalk" into two words.

You might recall that in this post she said that all of her nine watchers are awesome and deserve cake.

Since then she has gotten three more watchers on her blog, probably because they wanted cake. So here it is!

Cake for all of you! Including an extra slice for the rest of you lurkers to arm wrestle over.

Hildegard looks for clues in a notebook.

As the villains in Bookkeeper's novel become more of a threat, her characters have magically started to gain more and more personality. Fred is no longer the useless little brother who gets left out of scenes on accident because the author forgot about him. You might even call him a main character now!

It's great.

NaNoWriMo day 16: Possible

...at the thought.

Hello y'all! It's day sixteen of NaNoWriMo and Bookkeeper just finished writing the 27,231st word in her novel.

The 27,231st word is "possible" by the way.

The bookkeeper hopes you all had a good morning. She's not sure how good her morning was because she slept through it. Then she got to writing again.

Today her characters went to an abandoned house and found nothing supernatural. Fred found some decayed floorboards, but that's about it.

By "Help!" he means "Please make me a three-dimensional character!"

In other news, the bookkeeper just added a bunch of little check-boxes to the bottom of her post! Too bad they malfunction if you try to add long descriptions, the bookkeeper really wanted to add one that said "I just want to click on a check box."

NaNoWriMo day 15: Meet the Characters

It's day fifteen of NaNoWriMo and first things first... Bookkeeper did not update yesterday. The update she had planned was so amazing that it summoned a thunderstorm and she couldn't turn on the computer to post it.

At times like this the bookkeeper realizes just how nice it is to hand write her novel. She has written 25,194 words by the way.

Before she gets on with her post, Bookkeeper just noticed that she now has nine watchers on this blog. NINE, do you hear me, NINE WATCHERS.

You are all awesome people and you deserve cake.

Anywho... here's a picture of all the reoccurring characters in Bookkeeper's NaNo this year:

From left to right they are:

Mysterious-Person-Who-Does-Not-Have-A-Name-Yet, who has only appeared once so far. After stealing Vanessa's notebook, this mysterious person shouted "Thank you!" and ran away.

Mysterious-Etc. remains unnamed simply because the bookkeeper doesn't feel like coming up with a name right now. Technically the mysterious person isn't reoccurring yet, but will be eventually.

Hildegard who likes to call herself "Fern" and also likes to avoid dark forests and creepy shadows. She met a monster on her way to the grocery store once and has been paranoid ever since (for good reason).

Fred, who Bookkeeper finally came up with a name for. He is Hildegard's younger brother and he has no personality, but that's okay. We'll edit one in later.

Vanessa, an overconfident girl who fancies herself the leader of the group because she's the oldest. Her idea of hunting monsters is standing outside in the woods and calling for them.

Thingy that carries an umbrella. Not quite sure what it is, but it can change it's appearance to look like just about anyone. It usually disguises itself to look like a man with mustache who carries an umbrella, but the bookkeeper can't seem to draw mustaches today, so she drew its default face. Even though it often carries an umbrella, it doesn't really understand it's function and will hold an open umbrella over it's head on warm sunny days. It also kills people, possibly on accident.

And there you have it! Bookkeeper is mildly amused at how the question marks over the Mysterious Person and the Thingy's heads make them look confused.