NaNoWriMo Badges - The Rest

I just realized I never posted the rest of my badges here. So, here they are....
The CREATIVE NON-FICTION badge is earned for putting barely-recognized real people into your novel or for plundering real-life events or overheard dialogue. No worries, I didn't do the first. What I DID do was have one of my characters basically give the history of the Gold Rush as dialogue. I think that counts, don't you?




The EUREKA MOMENT badge is for the "a-ha" moment when your story comes together. Yes, I did have that moment when my characters really seemed to be MINE.




The CAFFEINE ABUSE badge - sorta self-explanatory, isn't it? I now have to wean myself from the enormous amounts of caffeine.





This is the WORD-COUNT PADDING badge. But I didn't take part in any padding tricks like quoting songs or a triple-named character or one who stutters. lol So, I am awarding this one to myself for reaching 75,000 words. I think that counts as padding my 50K word count, don't you?



There is only one badge I didn't earn. It's the RANDOM ENDING badge. I just couldn't see having aliens come and steal Susannah away from Daniel. If anyone out there actually DID this, I will mail you my badge!

Right now I have the nine badges I earned stuck to my computer desk with funtak. Now that NaNo is over, I will figure out what to do with them permanently.

Halfway +2

I have achieved 37,516! That puts me more than halfway to 75,000. I am ahead by two days! Whee!

I spent the day procrastinating really, however. I even was ALONE in the house for 2 hours and barely managed to write 800 words. Today I also sorted through my downstairs bookcases and updated my paperbackswap.com list, culled out a bunch of books that I wanted off there so that all my offers fit on one shelf. Some of them had been posted for 2-1/2 years and hadn't gone. Time to go!

And all this procrastination? EARNED ME A MERIT BADGE!







That's the Procrastination merit badge, which you can earn for cleaning instead of writing - sorting, organizing and culling bookshelves should count, right? (You could also earn it for skipping writing for 3 days in a row or spending more than 30 hours on the NaNoWriMo forums.)

I also earned a merit badge last night - writing all through my Dave Ramsey class. I wrote about 900 words there. (So you can see that my measly 800 today was really really bad..... lol)







That one is the Secret Noveling merit badge, which you earn for (what else) writing when you SHOULD be doing something else!

I have four merit badges! Now.... what can I sew them on to? That should earn me a bit more procrastination which would lead me to earning the Caffeine Abuse badge... hmmm.... Is it too late to make coffee?