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….
I think is the third or fourth time I’ve written 1764 words in a day.
Weird.
Barely squeaked in my words today.
But I did.
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….
This is… actually happening. I have a story! I have a story!
True, I’m realizing the order and pacing is a mess but hey! it’s a rough rough draft anyway.
I have a story! I have a story!!
Last night was another short night — Ruth’s birthday.
I’m not sure if I”m really 40% through my story but we shall see!
From John Green’s NaNoWriMo peptalk:
“Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.”
Pretty much some good advice in general.
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).