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I must apologize for not putting up a sticky last week, but I have a good excuse. As you might recall from the week before, I mentioned going to play with my new puppy. Meet my new puppy, Hops:
She feels bad for making you wait, but she demands to be taken to the dog park again tomorrow. I’ll put up a sticky sometime tomorrow evening to make up for it.
Look for SNS’s Blog to start up again full-time in January!
I’m sorry for the long wait, but we finally have the house, it is coming together nicely, I’ve written my fourth NaNo-Novel, and I’m ready to get started on Sticky Note Stories again!
See you soon 
The SNS Blog will be taking a short hiatus this summer while my husband and I shop for, purchase, and move into our first home. In the efforts of saving money we are cancelling our internet until at least august and with no internet I will have no way to post stickies. We will resume posting as soon as we are able. In the meantime, you can visit www.stickynotestories.com and read through all of our short stories and excerpts online.
Thank you for visiting, and we hope to be back up and running again soon!
“They may be valid, but they are still excuses.”
So, the above quote is not on a sticky, and I’m not going to cheat by writing it on a sticky just to put it on the blog. But this sentiment is exactly what I’m feeling right now. I got busy – Nano happened, the Holidays are happening, and general laziness happened – and now I’ve gone over a month without updating. That makes me hang my head in shame!
Last weekend I sat at my computer and thought, “hey, I should put up a new sticky”. It was Sunday, which is New Sticky Day, and I have three of them in plain sight next to my keyboard, but then I hoped onto the Barnes and Nobel site and ended up buying two books that I already own as gifts for someone else. And then I bought some more gifts. And then I visited LiveJournal to see how my friends are doing. And then we played Settlers of Catan and it was all over from that point on – my mind was off of writing and stickies and updating and instead was concentrating on how many more sheep and grain I needed to build a settlement.
They were valid excuses, all of them (especially Catan - you would understand if you have ever played), but they are still excuses. So I’m starting my New Year on Sunday with this resolution: I will post a new sticky every Sunday. Or as close to Sunday as I can get it when I’m travelling.
And with that in mind, I’m going to scan in these three stickies while I’m sitting here, and have the next sticky up on Sunday.
There are at least two types of Nano-ers. The first type is religiously on top of things: staying up until midnight to get those first few words, waking up early to write before work or school, using lunches, breaks, dinner and dessert to up their word count.
Then there is the second type. They go to bed at the normal time, set the alarm clock early in an effort to get up and type before work but then hit snooze until they are late, write a measly 500 words at lunch, then go out to dinner with the rest of the Wrimos to drink and finish the night with a shopping spree at Victoria’s Secret (in my defense, the cats ate my pajama shirts last week – all of them) and another 500 words of absolute word-puke. And then of course I let out the inner editor to mildly fix the word-puke into something postable.
If you want to read the mildly-edited wordpuke, you can visit Pike’s Revenge and ask me for the secret password.
After day one I am behind 199 words. Not bad. Especially since I plan on writing 15k this weekend – most of it on Saturday.
So, tomorrow another sticky will be going up, but today I wanted to talk about NaNoWriMo. For those of you who don’t know it yet, November is National Novel Writing Month, where you write a 50,000 word book in a month. What do you win if you succeed? A little graphic of a man running with a pencil. And a completed manuscript that would be laughed at if you showed it to anyone. I won’t be showing mine here, but if you visit Pike’s Revenge and get yourself friended I’d be happy to let you read my work and help me edit it later. Because the whole point of Nano is the word count.
It doesn’t matter if your book sucks (and trust me, it’s going to suck). It doesn’t matter if you type out the word MOO forty seven thousand times to reach your goal (yes, I know someone who has done this – although 47k is probably an exaggeration 
), it just matters that you are writing, furiously, for 30 days. You will survive on coffee and a masochistic need to “win” for the entire month (including Thanksgiving – holidays just don’t get better than asking your husband if you can take dinner to your computer). You will become a master at writing things in the longest, most round-about way you can, and you will not use hyphens in your words for the entire month! (hyphenated words only count as one word!)
You will miss all the sales on Black Friday even though you will be up early that morning. You will instead be typing for your life because you are only at 27k and need to reach 50k by midnight on the 30th.
I’ve already scanned all of my sticky notes for the month of November to try desperately to update in the midst of all this craziness. I wish all of you participating in Nano a hearty Good Luck. As for myself – I’ve already started ingesting massive amounts of caffeine to get my body ready.
