Okay, Mystery and Suspense writers! NaNoWriMo 2008 is over, and celebration is underway here at the Purple Bar.
Even if you didn't get that "Winner!" label, belly on up to the bar, order your favorite celebratory beverage, and revel in the fact that any words you wrote this year are that much more than most people will ever write in a novel.
Congratulations, one and all, on a job well done!
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"We do not quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we quit playing."
2006 - The Daedalus Child - Winner.
2007 - Lana's Pack - Winner.
2008 - Precocious by Design - Winner
52,725 / 50,000
Dec 1, 2008 - 16 50
Mmmm....
4 Irish Car Bombs, some Jameson's on the rocks, E&J Brandy on the rocks, and a few 5 Vegas Gold cigars.
Then I can follow up with a few pints of Guinness. Yum.
Oh wait.. that's what I usually had during my writing process.
50,167 / 50,000
Dec 1, 2008 - 17 52
So long as it's just virtual, I'll have a shot of Genever Gin, ice cold, and maybe a Guiness as a chaser. (Being Type II, I really shouldn't indulge.)
I'm at 50,000 words, roughly, and probably about 2/3 finished. I was not only writing last weekend, but helping run a convention. When I hit 50K on Saturday afternoon, I stopped, for the time being, so that I could actually enjoy part of the Con. I'll either start writing again tonight, or tomorrow at the latest.
51,723 / 50,000
Dec 1, 2008 - 23 01
Make mine Blantons, and make it neat.
I am sitting with two corpses. One is an informant that was stolen by the FBI from a state police sergeant, an irate Fire Marshall, a crooked cruise line port manager, a medical examiner who wants to rule the cause of death accidental on both, but is keeping the findings open until he can get lab results back from the state. Enough confiscated lab material to run three ice operations and at least two more murders to plan.
50,070 / 50,000
Dec 2, 2008 - 05 49
A bottle of Tattinger champagne and two glasses please.
Don't worry about that slight burning smell, it's where we cremated most of the corpses, it takes a while to die down. Don't worry either about Jojo, she doesn't really get killed at the end. It's a version of the Reichenbach Falls, her death was faked.
55,615 / 50,000
Dec 3, 2008 - 04 11
A Jameson's Irish Coffee for me and a pint of Strongbow for my MC!
51,124 / 50,000
Dec 4, 2008 - 14 05
I'd join you but I'm still on the (mystery writing) job, and therefore can't drink ;)
127,238 / 50,000
Dec 4, 2008 - 20 08
I wrote in purple shoes. I plotted with a purple pen. I guess it's only appropriate to be celebrating at the Purple Bar. But I've already killed the diet. Oh, what the heck. Bartender, make that a Purple Cow, and make her moo from the cold. Yowsa, I haven't had one of those in years! Thanks.
Where will Jessie go from here? She's apartment hunting with two men who both want her. Her eight year old nephew that accidentally shot her eight ball while it was in her purse and she was carrying it picked the place. But as the adrenalin ebbs from the casino owners and Toni determines whether the drama troop should ever try to do another show after the notoriety of four murders, do you think Jessie should try to keep being a bounty hunter? I sure hope Jessie remembers to take the M-80s away from her dad...
Well, don't ask her ex-husband anything. I think she's left him a few surprises at home. Hmm... ---Mama Q
54,059 / 50,000
Dec 4, 2008 - 22 56
I'll take a pint of India Pale Ale, and a bread bowl of Irish stew. ::Raises a toast to friends in San Diego::
Carol Anne