National Novel Writing Month Word Count Widget [Update: 50,000 words!]

As many of you visitors know, I have entered this year's National Novel Writing Month at the suggestion of my lovely fiancée.  This challenge asks entrants to write a 50,000 word or more novel between November 1st and November 30th.  This challenge is also why I have not made any recent updates to this blog posting, even as Katelyn is beginning to send out contact information to potential photographers and caterers.

I know that some of you are trying to follow along with my progress, so I have included a word count widget that you all can check up on to see how my progress is going towards 50,000 words in a month's time.

Once that percentage hits 100% and I have successfully completed my goal of writing 50,000 words, I will return to updating this blog more regularly as I finish whatever remains of the novel to write.

Thanks for the understanding as the blog suffers somewhat in favor of my creative writing endeavor.  I look forward to meeting my goal and being able to write more wedding-related material in the near-future.

Update: As of November 14th, 2009, I have reached my goal of 50,000 words written for NaNoWriMo.  There's still more story to write, and much work to do in revision, addition, and subtraction, but I'm happy to have met my word count goal.