Year: 2010

According to my counter, I’ve now hit 50k.

Story’s not done yet–luckily, because the official NaNoWriMo counter says I”m at…

[drum roll please!]

49,014

So as long as I wrap up the story using my usual number of words, I’ll win tomorrow.

Yay!

Two sessions so far:
60 1688
60 1794

One more, and I will hit 50k on open office. Then I can input it to NaNo and see how much I have to write tomorrow.

So close to done!!

764 more words. I’ve hit 45k. And I’m caught up.

Two more days to go (since I can’t do the 30th).
5k words.

Let’s see what I hit tomorrow.

Three sessions:
10m 519
30m 907
60m 1575

If I can do one more session today with at least 1500 words, I may get my goal of 50k words in open office by Sunday. I’ll know then how many I lose when I submit them to the NaNo word counter.

Then complete the last scene on Monday, to make up for the eaten words.

two hourlong sessions: 1765 and 1875.

So here’s what I learned:

I cannot cannot cannot outline. I outlined the last nine steps of the book and then couldn’t write them, because they were wrong. I just worried that continuing to write without a plan would make the book a bit like the never-ending plays I’d make my family endure when I was eight.

So I sat down today with a couple of questions and just jumped in where I’d left off, and tried to see where it’d take me.

I am liking where it is taking me–and I also think it’ll give me a far more satisfactory path to the ending.

Now, let’s just see if I can do another 1700 words this afternoon.

That’s just sad.

And funny.

So I made the mistake of doing the word counter last night after I was done. It ate almost a thousand words. So it looks like I really have my work cut out for me–Can’t do anything Tuesday, so that’s over 10K words by Sunday.

Made an outline of the remaining scenes today. If I write through those, I should hit it–except I’m missing two of them.

Good times. It’ll get there. Let’s see what tomorrow and Friday bring.

Barely squeaked in my words due to time constraints, but man was that fun to write!

It appears that week four is kicking in finally. I really hope so. Still 2150 words down. Closer, but not quite caught up yet.

Well, ostensibly week two is the hardest but I’ve been having the most trouble with week three. Partly because I’ve just been busy (and other RL things) but in part i’ve had trouble with the writing–i keep thinking i need to do research, etc–and although I have a sense of the ending I can’t quite figure out how to get there from here.

Still I’ve had a lot of interesting and surprising (to me!) developments in the story, and if I’m not making up large amounts of lost time, I’ve stopped losing ground and I’m adding a little bit every day….