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Day Twenty-Two, 1881 words

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….

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day 15, 2134 words

My first day off, yesterday. But today flowed well. Could have kept writing even if I had more time, but I want to save the setup for tomorrow.

Set pieces seem to flow. It’s good. I’d had a vague idea of where i wanted the story to go around 5k words, but i had no idea how it’d make it, but the connections are still happening.

This week is crazy busy; let’s hope I can make my daily counts. If I can come close, I should be able to get ahead slightly this weekend.

Still a bit rocky, but it’s going….

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Days Nine and Ten,

It’s the bad part of NaNo–or so they say.

Personally I have not yet noticed much in the way of additional misery. It’s the same amount of awful as it was before.

I find that the first four hundred words are the worst; then 500-1200 go by very very fast; then 12-1800 normalize.

The ninth was my sister’s birthday so I was distracted.

Day Nine: 542 words;
Day Ten: 1739 (which surprised me).

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Day Seven, 2305 words

14518 words–30% complete sounds… kinda awesome.

Tonight ended up going easier than I had expected, but earlier was a total wash. I get the impression it’s easier for me to write at night, and to edit in the morning. Interesting.

Now I’m going to read and go to bed. What on earth did I do with my Chandler, anyway?

Read this week that it’ll be 70 years since Fitzgerald’s death in December. For some reasons I find this very depressing.