NaNo - Day 28
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40,883.
Betcha thought I dropped out, eh?
It's okay, I had my moment of doubt, too. I rolled into Thanksgiving week under 27,000 words, knowing that I'd not likely get much writing done over our trip to Florida. We headed out of town last Sunday; me armed with the AlphaSmart Neo and my novel on a USB flash drive. I managed to squeak out a couple thousand words during the trip, but found it hard to get in the groove.
When I woke this morning and calculated that winning NaNo was going to take more than 20,000 words over the next three days, the fight-or-flight instinct set in and I got down to typing.
I'm ready to call it a night, but feel confident that I'll hit the 50,000 word goal by midnight November 30th. I do have until midnight, right?
Okay, so that's 10,000 words less than my personal 60,000 word goal, but, that's been the story of my life - whatever it takes to get by.
I'll work on behavior modification once NaNo is over.
Thank you for hanging on with me for the ride!
NaNo - Day 19
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25,118 Words, 19 days in.
That’s nearly 13,000 words behind my 2000/day word goal, but only 6,555 behind the NaNo goal of 1667/day. So a couple of stellar writing days and I should be back on track.
I bet you expected I'd fall off the wagon. Oh, you know me so well. I refuse to quit, though. Still being dragged along by a tether, battered but furously kicking my legs to get back on my feet.
As for the story, it continues to travel places I hadn’t anticipated. Some of the paths are predictable and not very interesting, but some of them are new and full of potential. I’m really looking forward to getting this thing written, letting it simmer for a couple of months then working through the editing process.
It looks like I’ll be packing the AlphaSmart NEO with me on our trip to Florida. Did I purposely sabotage my efforts to get ahead just so that I’d have an excuse to stay in and write while Chuck and the boys entertain my in-laws?
That's mean. Stop it.
NaNoWriMo - Day 10 & I have a few hairs left.
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16,984 words.
How many books have you read or movies have you watched with a critical eye, pointing out the problems and saying, “I could have done a better job than that"? You know, it’s really not as easy as it looks.
What started for me as an idea and, for the first several days, seemed to be taking shape with little effort has morphed into a sluggish, droll blur of words strung into sentences that bear so little resemblance to anything readable that I’m embarrassed to even open the file and continue.
Is mid-novel too late to outline? I think I need an outline.
I added a character today – a new guy - because my main character needs more depth. I mean, she is who the story is all about, but she is the person to whom I’ve really paid the least attention. She needs a life – especially if I’m going to make a reader care that she loses it. This new guy promises me he’ll not be a minor player in this adventure. He likes to be the center of attention; or, at least as close as he can get.
So, I continue.
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