Long Day.

So.

Last night I went to the meetup at the Tea Spot. Took Dana with me (and did a quick 1200 on the way in to the city). It's a cozy little place (My one annoyance is that the Tea Spot doesn't sell coffee! Grr!), we had the whole basement. There were WriMos plastered wall to wall, a sizeable contingent on the floor. I walked in late, right at the beginning of a word war. There everyone was, looking all friendly and chat-able, and all they wanted to do was write!

Got into a few conversations post-word war. That was fun. We had a last minute word war as the place was closing. I was so jazzed up after the word war that I couldn't go home. I parked myself at the Washington Square Diner until 12:30am. Momentary weirdness when I opened the girl's bathroom door to find some bulimic in there yakking up her dinner. But other than that, I was quite productive.

All in all, I amassed a total of 6,140 words tonight. Not as much as I had intended, but nothing to sneeze at. I am about 2,800 short of 100K. Just to have some basis for comparison, the Novel in a Day version of the book has about 95 pages, at 50K words. I have finished Part 1 of the book, the first five chapters (of 17), and that section is 98 pages.

I have a couple of appointments on the Lower East Side tomorrow, so I plan on doing a mini Internet Cafe tour that will last all day. Taking Dana, of course. My plan is to get through the entire first chapter of Part II. That's 7,000 words.

I bought a printer today. I don't have a printer at home, and I need to see the new version on paper. I bought a printer that prints CDs.

It's nearly 2:30am. I should go to bed so I can get up at a reasonable hour in the morning.

jules