Category Archives: For the Love of Donuts

All About the Donuts: Donuts in an Empty Field (For the Love of Donuts Book 1) Publication Day June 3rd!

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You don’t have to wait until June 3rd to experience donuts and challenges. You can get your copy of Vanessa’s Book of Awesome Things by Rachel Barnard right now!

This little accompaniment book to Donuts in an Empty Field (For the Love of Donuts Book 1) has a lot of super cool (awesome) things in it.

This book has: The Food Challenge, Tips to Help You Win a Food Challenge, 10 Challenges at 10, Facts About Corgis, 20 Challenges at 20, The Secret of Tree Beach, Fat Boy Run, 30 Challenges at 30, Your Local Hangout, 40 Challenges at 40, Reasons to Bask in a Sea of Puppies, 50 Challenges at 50, Kale is Not a Curse Word, Doughnuts Recipe, Object Scavenger Hunt, Photo Scavenger Hunt, To Do with Donuts, Yes or No?, Top Ten Worst Donut Flavors, Top Ten Donuts You Have to Try, For the Love of Donuts Books, Donuts in an Empty Field Chapter One, About the Author

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From Vanessa’s Book of Awesome Things – 20 Challenges at 20:

How many have you done?

1 Gallop on a horse  Yes
2 Fast for a day  Yes
3 Donate blood  Yes
4 Swim with dolphins  Not yet
5 Ride a Segway  Yes
6 Ride in a limo  Not yet
7 Stay awake for 48 hours straight  Not Sure
8 Participate in a headphone dance party  Yes
9 Spend 3 hours in a Walmart  Yes
10 Go night swimming  Yes
11 Wrestle a friend in the sand  Yes
12 Attempt a world challenge  Not officially
13 Make up your own lyrics to a popular song  Yes
14 Participate in a zombie walk  Yes
15 Hide a geocache  Yes
16 Learn a magic trick  Yes
17 Take your parents on a date and pay for everything  Yes
18 Dress up and go out on any day but Halloween  Yes
19 Write a positive note and leave it in a library book  Not yet
20 Dumpster dive  Yes

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Donuts in an Empty Field (For the Love of Donuts Book 1)

Letting go of anger is life’s greatest challenge.

Vanessa Smith hasn’t been the same since her father’s death. A hero until the end, he died saving a restaurant owner’s wife and son from a burning building. Nessa has always blamed the boy, Ben, for her loss, and her thoughts are consumed with ways to make him as miserable as she is.

Nichole Adams knows Nessa can never heal until she learns to let go of her hatred, but bringing back her best friend is proving more difficult than she could’ve imagined. In a last ditch effort to break Nessa’s obsession, Nichole hopes signing up for the local food challenge is just the thing to bust her out of her shell.

A single choice defines the road ahead for Nessa. Doing the right thing isn’t easy, but living with the consequences of doing nothing might be worse.

All About the Donuts: Donuts in an Empty Field (For the Love of Donuts Book 1) Publication Day June 3rd!

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Don’t forget about the donuts… Because it’s all about the donuts!

I’m putting together a fantastic month of fun filled donut-themed parties in June. Why June? Because, Dear Reader, June 3rd this year is National Donut Day. My upcoming release is not all about donuts, but it does feature donuts and food and challenges. Don’t miss Donuts in an Empty Field (For the Love of Donuts Book 1) coming June 3rd, 2016.

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Here’s a summary of the book for you:

Letting go of anger is life’s greatest challenge.

Vanessa Smith hasn’t been the same since her father’s death. A hero until the end, he died saving a restaurant owner’s wife and son from a burning building. Nessa has always blamed the boy, Ben, for her loss, and her thoughts are consumed with ways to make him as miserable as she is.

Nichole Adams knows Nessa can never heal until she learns to let go of her hatred, but bringing back her best friend is proving more difficult than she could’ve imagined. In a last ditch effort to break Nessa’s obsession, Nichole hopes signing up for the local food challenge is just the thing to bust her out of her shell.

A single choice defines the road ahead for Nessa. Doing the right thing isn’t easy, but living with the consequences of doing nothing might be worse.

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Here’s some facts about the book, in case you aren’t yet convinced:

1. Vanessa owns a corgi
2. Vanessa’s dad tries to beat the world record for most powdered donuts eaten in 3 minutes
3. Vanessa and Nichole live in Sarasota, FL
4. There’s a list of challenges the girls must complete
5. There is a local food challenge the girls try to beat

All About the Donuts: Local Donut Shop Review – Henry’s Donuts in Monroe, WA

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Henry’s Donuts

Monroe, WA

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19191 State Rte 2, Monroe, WA 98272

(360) 794-8088

Website: https://www.facebook.com/HenryDonut/

 

Review criteria:

Most popular donut at the shop: Maple Bar

Signature shop donut: Bacon Maple Bar

Most popular US donut: Glazed

2nd most popular US donut: Boston crème

Donut Hole: Glazed Donut Holes

 

What I tried:

Maple Bar, Bacon Maple Bar, Glazed, Bostome Crème, Old Fashioned, Donut Holes

 

What to expect:

Henry’s has a great location in Monroe with their storefront facing the main road. They are open for lengthy hours, so don’t worry about getting there before they close! They also make their donuts more often than just in the morning so you can enjoy fresh donuts at any time of day. Their dough is to die for on the fresh donuts and the shop smells wonderful, like newly made donuts of course! They have a selection of all your favorite donuts, but nothing out of the ordinary more than the bacon maple bar (is this a classic yet?).

 

My favorite:

The hours! How grand that a donut shop stays open so late! My favorite donut so far is their donut hole.

Author Goals and Accomplishments from 2015 and Future Goals for 2016

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Remember this post back in 2014?

2015 Writing Goals:

  1. Create audiobook version of poetry book, Wandering Imagination
  2. Write manuscript for book 1 of Fantasy trilogy
  3. Send Children’s Book to Publishers
  4. Write manuscript of The Geocache Killer
  5. Get At One’s Beast 15 reviews (Currently have: Goodreads -13, Amazon -11)
  6. Get Ataxia and the Ravine of Lost Dreams 20 reviews (Currently have: Goodreads -9, Amazon -9)
  7. Finished and Published audiobook copy of At One’s Beast
  8. Submit some short stories to contests/publications
  9. Finish YA manuscript Donuts in an Empty Field

How did I do?

I didn’t create the audiobook for my poetry book yet but I futzed with Paul’s recording equipment and think I’m ready to get this one done next year in preparation for narrating my own audiobook for Donuts in an Empty Field (For the Love of Donuts Book 1).

I’ve decided not to write that fantasy trilogy I talked about, yet that is because I started a different sort of trilogy and it took off with my imagination. I’m set to publish Cafe Connections (Aster & Tilde Book 1) Halloween of 2016 unless it is picked up by a traditional publisher. Stay tuned for more information on that book.

I didn’t send any manuscripts to publishers or agents this year as I was busy writing more books! I have more plans to submit other books to publishers though 🙂

I decided I’m still not ready to write The Geocache Killer, but when I’ve got a handle on thriller/mystery as a genre, I will totally pick this one back up and write it.

At One’s Beast has 26 Goodreads reivews and 18 Amazon reviews, so I’m calling this one done.

Ataxia has 15 Goodreads reviews and 15 Amazon reviews which I think is good enough to check this one off the list

At One’s Beast is available as an audiobook, since early 2015 in fact!

I have been submitting to the Writer’s of the Future of this year and will be submitting to anthologies and other publication opportunities next year.

I haven’t finished Donuts in an Empty Field yet but I’m working on the third draft as we speak for publication June 3rd, 2016.

 

Goals for 2016

  1. At One’s Beast available in King County Libraries
  2. Donuts in an Empty Field (For the Love of Donuts Book 1) published
  3. Start my retirement fund
  4. Create a food/board game
  5. Watch a roller derby
  6. Finish Flora’s Last Chance for Magic and submit to publishers
  7. Re-revise My Dad the Prepper and send it out to new publishers
  8. Make a box set case for upcoming series For the Love of Donuts using this website
  9. Publish the anthology “Stories from Seattle” with all proceeds to go to my favorite goat rescue PSGR
  10. Finish my brother’s recipe book so he can publish it
  11. Publish Cafe Connections (Aster & Tilde book 1) on 10/31/16
  12. Get professional author photos
  13. Learn a special dance or solo
  14. Bask in a sea of donuts

Gifts for Geeks II Pictures at the AFK in Renton – Book Selling!

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photo by Jackie Faye

Photo by Jackie Faye

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I put up flyers around town (can you guess where this board is?)

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My little setup next to Sheri

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My outfit for the day! I had been waiting to wear this one since October!

*Overall I had fun but sales were low and customers were elsewhere in town*

Nano November: Final Thoughts and Words – Word count: 101,522 +52k

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Day 30: 11/30/15, Monday – THE FINAL PUSH at North Bend Bar and Grill with my Snoqualmie Region Peeps from 7PM-9:30PM for 7,483 words

The after party in Snoqualmie was a lot of fun and the cake was delicious! The following photo was from Sheri J. Kennedy’s collection.

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The Stats You’ve All Been Waiting For:

WIP Word Count Progress Reports:

The Optimist Sees the Donut – 51,505 words

The Pessimist Sees the Hole – 50,017 words

Café Connections (Aster & Tilde Book 1) – 64,136

Total Time spent on For the Love of Donuts Nano Novels 2015: 48.75 hours or 2925 minutes
Final Word Count for both Donuts Books from November 2015: 101,522
Total Money Spent: $177.69
Average WPM all month: 42.15
Average Word Count Per Session: 1,671.9

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Stay Tuned for a Post on My Interesting Rewards System for Finishing Both Books This Month (at least a skeletal draft of both and 50k in each)

  1. Bask in a bath of donuts
  2. Everything on the menu from my favorite donut vendor

And more statistics!

Time Spent on The Optimist Sees the Donut – 1200 minutes (20 hours)
Time Spent on The Pessimist Sees the Hole – 1725 minutes (28.75 hours)

Average WPM on The Optimist Sees the Donut – 41.7 (Max=69.8 and min=15.8)
Average WPM on The Pessimist Sees the Hole – 42.7 (Max=85.5 and min=5.7)

Trends Noticed: The more money I spent, the slower my words per minute (presumably I was busy eating), My words per minute were slower at night (I wrote faster in the morning), The longer I wrote for the fewer words I wrote overall (slower WPM)

And now a few charts:

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Though I spent the most time writing on Sundays, this was not my most productive day.

**Fun facts on location: I went to 22 different locations to write, not including work or home. I went to the Neverending Bookstore 5 times, St. James 3 times, Verne & Wells 2 times, Issaquah Panera once, the Fall City Roadhouse 2 times, the AFK in Renton once, Bellevue Top Pot once, Costco once, CountrySide Donut House once, Daddy’s Donuts once, Factory Donuts once, North Bend Bar and Grill once, Spinderella once, and the Spotted Cow Once.

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Writing at work was most productive for me, though I spent the most time and wrote the most words on my itty bitty Surface Tablet

How about a little about my book?

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The Optimist Sees the Donut (For the Love of Donuts Book 2) & The Pessimist Sees the Hole (For the Love of Donuts Book 2)

Author: Rachel Barnard
Genre: Young Adult

Synopsis

Their friendship has been the one unbreakable thing, the one certainty in their lives, but Nichole Adams and Vanessa Smith are developing into their own persons and their individual life dramas distract them from each other.

Vanessa has never had many friends in her life and even though she wanted to stay friends with Nichole, she met new people in college and is moving on. She has school, she has social activities, and a new group of friends even though she can’t seem to find the right guy.

Nichole is jealous of Vanessa’s ease of everything in the real world. Nessa has no trouble with jobs, money, school, or getting and going places. Nichole, on the other hand was preemptively kicked out of her mom’s house after graduating high school and has been floundering ever since. The only thing she has easy in her life is flirting and getting dates, or at least a guy that will let her crash at his house. Nichole doesn’t always have the best of luck with men.

Forever hopeful that things will change, Nichole still clings to the hope that Vanessa will come back to their friendship and be the best friend from high school that Nichole misses. When guy after guy doesn’t work out for her, Vanessa changes more and more of her personality to attract the right guy, drifting farther and farther from who she really is. Something’s gotta give and this story of how friendships get off track, lies become reality, and bad luck tails bad choices will bring you in and around the little town of Sarasota, Florida that you grew to love in book one of the series – Donuts in an Empty Field.

And in case you haven’t gotten enough info – here’s my spreadsheet:

Location—

Home=H,

Work=W,

St. James=J,

Neverending Bookstore=B,

Verne & Wells=V,

Panera Issy=P,

Fall City Roadhouse=F

Machine—

H=HP,

S=Surface,

D=Dell

Region—

S=Seattle,

N=North Bend/Snoqualmie,

E=Everett/Snohomish

Book—

P=The Pessimist Sees the Hole,

O= The Optimist Sees the Donut

Date Start Time End Time Total Time Location Machine Money Spent Region Total Words Day Novel WPM
1-Nov 8:30 10:00 90 H H 0 S 2773 Sunday P 30.8
1-Nov 11:30 13:00 90 F S 18.44 N 1520 Sunday P 16.9
1-Nov 14:30 15:30 60 V S 0 S 1441 Sunday P 24
1-Nov 17:30 20:00 150 H H 0 S 4271 Sunday P 28.5
2-Nov 7:30 8:00 30 W D 0 S 1000 Monday O 30.3
2-Nov 20:00 20:45 45 H H 0 S 1004 Monday O 22.3
3-Nov 7:20 7:50 30 W D 0 S 1546 Tuesday O 51.5
3-Nov 11:45 12:15 30 W D 0 S 983 Tuesday O 32.7
3-Nov 19:00 19:45 45 Costco S 0 S 1425 Tuesday O 31.7
4-Nov 7:30 8:00 30 W D 0 S 1391 Wednesday O 46.4
4-Nov 17:00 17:40 40 B S 0 S 1500 Wednesday O 37.5
5-Nov 7:20 7:50 30 W D 0 S 1148 Thursday O 38.3
5-Nov 18:15 19:45 30 Spotted Cow S 3.5 E 1683 Thursday O 56.1
6-Nov 7:50 8:00 10 W D 0 S 698 Friday O 69.8
6-Nov 19:40 20:30 50 H H 0 S 2507 Friday O 50.1
7-Nov 13:00 15:00 120 B S 3.56 S 3264 Saturday O 27.2
7-Nov 18:30 19:30 60 J S 4.25 S 1998 Saturday O 33.3
8-Nov 10:00 10:45 45 H H 0 S 2097 Sunday O 46.6
8-Nov 12:00 13:00 60 V S 0 S 1550 Sunday O 25.8
8-Nov 16:00 16:20 20 H H 0 S 1200 Sunday O 60
9-Nov 7:25 8:00 35 W D 0 S 1650 Monday O 47.1
9-Nov 20:00 21:45 105 H H 0 S 3400 Monday O 32.4
10-Nov 7:30 8:00 30 W D 0 S 1250 Tuesday O 41.7
10-Nov 18:00 19:00 60 P S 11.25 N 945 Tuesday O 15.8
11-Nov 8:55 9:30 35 H H 0 S 1787 Wednesday O 51.1
11-Nov 13:50 15:30 100 J S 11.89 S 2804 Wednesday O 28
11-Nov 16:00 17:15 75 B S 0 S 2069 Wednesday O 27.6
12-Nov 7:15 8:00 45 W D 0 S 2145 Thursday O 47.7
12-Nov 12:00 12:10 10 W D 0 S 548 Thursday O 54.8
12-Nov 17:10 17:25 15 W D 0 S 949 Thursday O 63.3
13-Nov 7:45 8:00 15 W D 0 S 840 Friday O 56
13-Nov 17:50 21:00 210 F S 45 P 1186 Friday P 5.7
15-Nov 8:20 9:10 50 Daddy’s Donuts S 10.96 S 1762 Sunday P 35.2
15-Nov 9:30 10:45 75 CountrySide Donut House S 2.2 S 2547 Sunday P 34
15-Nov 11:00 12:15 75 Factory Donuts S 4.11 S 1672 Sunday P 22.3
15-Nov 13:15 15:00 105 B S 0 S 2181 Sunday P 20.8
15-Nov 15:30 16:30 60 Bellevue Top Pot S 6 S 2160 Sunday P 36
16-Nov 7:35 7:55 20 W D 0 S 1066 Monday P 53.3
16-Nov 12:40 12:50 10 W D 0 S 530 Monday P 53
16-Nov 17:45 7:55 10 Spinderella S 0 S 643 Monday P 64.3
17-Nov 7:35 8:15 40 W D 0 S 2484 Tuesday P 62.1
17-Nov 12:20 12:35 15 W D 0 S 1098 Tuesday P 73.2
18-Nov na na na na na na na 0 Wednesday na na
19-Nov na na na na na na na 0 Thursday na na
20-Nov na na na na na na na 0 Friday na na
21-Nov na na na na na na na 0 Saturday na na
22-Nov na na na na na na na 0 Sunday na na
23-Nov na na na na na na na 0 Monday na na
24-Nov na na na na na na na 0 Tuesday na na
25-Nov 7:30 8:00 30 W D 0 S 2063 Wednesday P 68.8
25-Nov 17:00 17:20 20 W D 0 S 1195 Wednesday P 59.8
25-Nov 18:00 19:30 90 AFK Renton S 16.14 S 4810 Wednesday P 53.4
26-Nov 10:15 12:00 105 H S 0 S 4133 Thursday P 39.4
27-Nov 21:45 22:00 15 H S 0 S 600 Friday P 40
28-Nov 10:00 10:15 15 H S 0 S 600 Saturday P 40
28-Nov 12:15 15:00 165 B S 3.23 S 3600 Saturday P 21.8
28-Nov 16:20 16:50 30 H S 0 S 2566 Saturday P 85.5
28-Nov 18:40 19:40 60 J S 3 S 2548 Saturday P 42.5
29-Nov na na na na na na na 0 Sunday na na
30-Nov 19:00 21:15 135 North Bend Bar and Grill S 34.16 N 7483 Monday P 55.4

And finally the stats you’ve been waiting for! Cafe Connections (Aster & Tilde Book 1) was the novel that had me deserting For the Love of Donuts for 8 days in November. But I was still writing! See…

Date

Total Word Count

Day

New Words

9-Oct to 22-Oct

5,752

Thursday

5752

23-Oct

6,155

Friday

403

26-Oct

6,903

Monday

748

27-Oct

7,355

Tuesday

452

28-Oct

8,607

Wednesday

1,252

29-Oct

9,487

Thursday

880

30-Oct

10,348

Friday

861

31-Oct

12,291

Saturday

1,943

1-Nov

12,847

Sunday

556

2-Nov

14,111

Monday

1,264

3-Nov

15,077

Tuesday

966

4-Nov

15,729

Wednesday

652

5-Nov

17,666

Thursday

1,937

6-Nov

18,610

Friday

944

7-Nov

20,640

Saturday

2,030

9-Nov

22,032

Monday

1,392

12-Nov

22,064

Thursday

32

13-Nov

26,003

Friday

3,939

14-Nov

35,112

Saturday

9,109

17-Nov

 37,226

Tuesday

 2,114

 18-Nov

 41,668

Wednesday

 4,442

 19-Nov

44,470

Thursday

2,802

 20-Nov

 50,016

Friday

 5,546

21-Nov

56,031

Saturday

6,015

22-Nov

58,312

Sunday

2,281

23-Nov

59,438

Monday

1,126

24-Nov

64,136

Tuesday

4,698

 

Foodie Fridays: Nano Win Reward – Daddy’s Donuts Kenmore “one of everything”

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Nano Stats coming Monday – but I decided to reward myself with an immediate donut foray for accomplishing all my goals in November for NaNoWriMo and a challenge/reward to come in 2016 (stay tuned for what it is on Monday).

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My first reward for finishing both first drafts of my For the Love of Donuts Book 2’s was to buy “one of everything” from my new favorite donut vendor and local business Daddy’s Donuts in Kenmore.

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I chose today as the big day and headed over when they open (8AM) but had to wait for their new machine to be setup, and Daddy himself (Eduardo) gave me a complementary mocha (how nice!) to enjoy while I waited.

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See how excited I am as I wait to ask for “one of everything.”

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Check out the ‘tip’ jar.

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And the donuts start coming out!

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Thanks Daddy’s!

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The guys at the office loved ’em!

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About my series, For the Love of Donuts, and the two books I wrote first drafts of this November:

The Optimist Sees the Donut (For the Love of Donuts Book 2) & The Pessimist Sees the Hole (For the Love of Donuts Book 2)

Author: Rachel Barnard
Genre: Young Adult

Synopsis

Their friendship has been the one unbreakable thing, the one certainty in their lives, but Nichole Adams and Vanessa Smith are developing into their own persons and their individual life dramas distract them from each other.

Vanessa has never had many friends in her life and even though she wanted to stay friends with Nichole, she met new people in college and is moving on. She has school, she has social activities, and a new group of friends even though she can’t seem to find the right guy.

Nichole is jealous of Vanessa’s ease of everything in the real world. Nessa has no trouble with jobs, money, school, or getting and going places. Nichole, on the other hand was preemptively kicked out of her mom’s house after graduating high school and has been floundering ever since. The only thing she has easy in her life is flirting and getting dates, or at least a guy that will let her crash at his house. Nichole doesn’t always have the best of luck with men.

Forever hopeful that things will change, Nichole still clings to the hope that Vanessa will come back to their friendship and be the best friend from high school that Nichole misses. When guy after guy doesn’t work out for her, Vanessa changes more and more of her personality to attract the right guy, drifting farther and farther from who she really is. Something’s gotta give and this story of how friendships get off track, lies become reality, and bad luck tails bad choices will bring you in and around the little town of Sarasota, Florida that you grew to love in book one of the series – Donuts in an Empty Field.

 

 

Nano November: Week four in Review – Word count: 94,039

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Total time spent: 8 hours and 50 minutes (530 minutes)

Total word count: 94,039 (30,262 in week 1 & 25,520 in week 2 &16,143 in week 3)

WIP Word Count Progress Reports:

The Optimist Sees the Donut – 43,591 words

The Pessimist Sees the Hole – 50,017 words

Café Connections (Aster & Tilde Book 1) – 64,136

Day 22: 11/22/15, Sunday

Location(s): NA

Noteworthy: I worked on Cafe Connections today. Will work on Donuts when I finish the first draft of this romance novel.

Money Spent: $0

Total time spent: 0 minutes

Total word count: 0 words

Day 23: 11/23/15, Monday

Location(s):

Noteworthy: I worked on Cafe Connections today. Will work on Donuts when I finish the first draft of this romance novel.

Money Spent: $0

Total time spent: 0 minutes

Total word count: 0 words

Day 24: 11/24/15, Tuesday

Location(s):

Noteworthy: I worked on Cafe Connections today. Will work on Donuts when I finish the first draft of this romance novel.

Money Spent: $0

Total time spent: 0 minutes

Total word count: 0 words

Day 25: 11/25/15, Wednesday

Location(s):

○ Early at work 7:30AM-8AM, 2063 words

○ After work 5PM-5:20PM, 1195 words

○ AFK in Renton 6:00PM-7:30PM. 4810 words

Noteworthy: Even though I’d spent a week off from writing this book, I was able to pick it right back up fresh in the morning

Money Spent: $16.14 on Sell Out Sliders and a wonderful artisan tea at the AFK

Total time spent: 2 hours and 20 minutes

Total word count: 8,068 words

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Day 26: 11/26/15, Thursday

Location(s):

○ At home 10:15AM-12:00PM, 4133 words

Total time spent: 1 hour and 45 minutes

Total word count: 4,133 words

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Day 27: 11/27/15, Friday

Location(s):

○ At home 9:45PM-10:00PM, 600 words

Total time spent: 15 minutes

Total word count: 600 words

Day 28: 11/28/15, Saturday

Location(s):

○ At home 10AM-10:15AM, 600 words

○ Neverending Bookstore 12:15PM-3PM, 3600 words

○ At home 4:20PM-4:50PM, 2566 words

○ St James Espresso 6:40PM-7:40PM, 2548 words

Noteworthy: I was pushing to finish the Pessimist Sees the Hole and worked hard to get to 50k in that book.

Money Spent: $3.23 for the special pumpkin white chocolate mocha from Brew in downtown Bothell and $3 ish for tea from St. James

Total time spent: 4 hours and 30 minutes

Total word count: 9,314 words

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Nano November: Week three in Review – Word count:

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Total time spent: 7 hours and 40 minutes (460 minutes)

Total word count: 71,924 (30,262 in week 1 & 25,520 in week 2) for 16,143 new words in week 3

WIP Word Count Progress Reports:

The Optimist Sees the Donut – 43,591 words

The Pessimist Sees the Hole – 27,955 words

Café Connections (Aster & Tilde Book 1) – 46,000 (14,472 words week 2, 8,640 words week 1 of Nano and 12k in October)

Day 15: 11/15/15, Sunday
Location(s):
○ Daddy’s Donuts 8:20AM-9:10AM, 1762 words
○ CountrySide Donut House 9:30AM-10:45AM, 2547 words
○ Factory Donuts11AM-12:15PM, 1672 words
○ Neverending Bookstore 1:15PM-3PM, 2180 words
○ Top Pot – Bellevue 3:30PM-4:30PM, 2160 words
Total time spent: 6 hours and 5 minutes
Total word count: 10,322 words

Day 16: 11/16/15, Monday
Location(s):
○ Work 7:35AM -7:55AM, 1066 words
○ Work 12:40PM -12:50PM, 530 words
○ Spinderella before class 5:45P-5:55PM, 643 words
Total time spent: 40 minutes
Total word count: 2239 words

Day 17: 11/17/15, Tuesday
Location(s):
○ Work 7:35-8:15AM, 2484 words
○ Work during lunch 12:20 – 12:35, 1098 words
Total time spent: 1 hour 5 minutes
Total word count: 3582words

Day 18: 11/18/15, Wednesday
Location(s):
Noteworthy: I chose to spend today working on my romance novel after getting critiques yesterday from my group on an earlier chapter.
Total time spent: 0 time
Total word count: 0 words

Day 19: 11/19/15, Thursday
Location(s):
Noteworthy: I worked on my romance novel again! Doing super well on that novel and can’t “put it down.”
Total time spent: 0 time
Total word count: 0 words

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Day 20: 11/20/15, Friday
Location(s):
Location(s):
Noteworthy: I worked on my romance novel again! Doing super well on that novel and can’t “put it down.”
Total time spent: 0 time
Total word count: 0 words

 

Day 21: 11/21/15, Saturday
Location(s):
Location(s):
Noteworthy: I worked on my romance novel again. I’ve decided to finish this book and then go back to donuts
Total time spent: 0 time
Total word count: 0 words

Nano November: Week two in Review – Word count: 55,782

by in For the Love of Donuts, Local Authors, Local Events, NaNoWriMo, Rachel Barnard

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Total time spent: 14 hours and 20 minutes (860 minutes)

Total word count: 55,782 (30,262 in week 1) for 25,520 new words in week 2

To get to 50k words: 26 hours and 5 minutes or 1565 minutes at 32WPM

WIP Word Count Progress Reports:

The Optimist Sees the Donut – 43,591 words

The Pessimist Sees the Hole – 12,362 words

Café Connections (Aster & Tilde Book 1) – 35,112 (8,640 words week 1 of Nano and 12k in October) for 14,472 new words!

 

Day 8: 11/08/15, Sunday
Location(s):
○ At home 10AM – 10:45AM, 2097 words
○ Verne and Wells 12PM -1PM, 1550 words
○ At home 4PM – 4:20PM, 1200 words
Total time spent: 2 hours and 5 minutes
Total word count: 4847 words

 

Day 9: 11/09/15, Monday
Location(s):
○ At work early 7:25AM – 8AM, 1650 words
○ At home 8PM-9:45PM, 3400 words
Total time spent: 2 hour and 20 minutes
Total word count: 5050 words

 

Day 10: 11/10/15, Tuesday
Location(s):
○ Early at work 7:30AM – 8AM, 1250 words
○ Panera Issaquah 6PM – 7Pm, 945 words
Money Spent: Soba chicken noodle bowl and a bagel at Panera $11.25
Total time spent: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total word count: 2195 words

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Day 11: 11/11/15, Wednesday
Location(s):
○ Early at home 8:55AM – 9:30AM, 1787 words
○ St James 1:50PM- 3:30PM, 2804 words
○ Never Ending Bookstore write-in 4PM – 5:15PM, 2069 words
Noteworthy: I miscalculated my word count somewhere and was about 1000 words under what I had put online and had write like mad to get to 50k today.
Money Spent: St. James breakfast burrito and mocha $11.89
Total time spent: 3 hours 30 minutes
Total word count: 6660 words

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Day 12: 11/12/15, Thursday
Location(s):
○ Early at work 7:15AM – 8AM, 2145 words
○ During work lunch 12-12:10PM, 548 words
○ Work 5:10PM – 5:25 PM, 949 words
Total time spent: 1 hour and 10 minutes
Total word count: 3642 words

 

Day 13: 11/13/15, Friday
Location(s):
○ Early at work 7:45AM – 8:00AM, 840 words
○ Fall City Roadhouse Write-in 5:30PM-9PM, 1186 words
Noteworthy: Won a game challenge (4″ funky mirror disco ball) where I had to write in a specific set of words in a short amount of time, the Stayin’ Alive Game
Money Spent: Fall City Roadhouse $45 for two: pulled pork sandwich, fish and chips, coke, hot chocolate
Total time spent: 3 hours and 45 minutes
Total word count: 2026 words

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Day 14: 11/14/15, Saturday
Location(s):
○ Home
○ Neverending Bookstore Write in
Noteworthy: Instead of starting in on Pessimist, I changed gears and worked on Café Connections (Aster & Tilde Book 1) my romance story and wrote 9k words today at home and at the Neverending Bookstore write in.
Total time spent: NA
Total word count: NA