A New Widget

Note: The widget may take awhile to appear or be disabled all-together. The NaNoWriMo site is being hit, hard. It's running slow and they've been looking for ways to help speed it up. It will speed up again as people stop hitting it so often.

If you look over at the right hand side, you'll see a new little widget. What this mean little critter does is show any and all of my blog readers exactly how good or bad I do on a certain day. So, I'd better be good! Here's what it all means from the NaNoWriMo page on available widgets:

My Month is a simple display showing overall progress and how you did on any given day. Light green and red show where you were above or below the goal for the day, bold green and red are reserved for days where you did exceptionally well or monumentally badly.

The typical goal for a normal day is 1,667 words.

When I started planning for this NaNo, a single book was selected. As I became over-confident, I decided 2 was better for the amount of free time I had. I then returned to reality. lol While I still wish I could pull off 2 books, I decided I'd be smart and still head for only 1 book. If you're interested, remember I'm posting this book as I write each chapter this month on Writing.com. It's one of the best websites out there devoted to writing. It gets top rewards from a lot of writing related magazines and websites every year, for good reason. :-)

That's about it for today. We're in final countdown for the start of NaNoWriMo 2010. It's exciting watching the countdown clock on their website. Several regions have already crossed into November, so the insanity has begun! Now, to wait for it to reach me. Interesting thinking of the time creeping slowly across the surface of the earth as it spins. I can't help but liken it to the sun slowly lighting the earth as its light slides along.

Midnight... How I wish I could stay up and see you come this year. Alas, I have to get up too early in the morning, so I must hold off starting until the kids are settled in school. At that point, I'll be off the starting line like a greyhound after a mechanical rabbit. Zoom!