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.

Day Six, 1724 words

squeaked in tonight. I’d like to have another 3k day tomorrow because next week looks to be really busy, AND it’s week two, the week of drudgery.

Already now I can feel the week two doubts coming in: my characters are inconsistent, my dialogue leaden….

but somehow i’m feeling excited about the story.

Day Five, 1960 words

Took a couple hours to get this far, but then again, I wasn’t doing sprints.

More sprints:
– Character Study: Tomy;
– Scene Study: Umut’s on Radio Row.

I think it’s about time to do these. Hoping I get a couple of new things to explore in the next few days of writing the main story–they really help expand things and increase my word count. Also, I worry less about them.

I think in the future I may just start doing them within the body text of the story. Not sure–one of the reasons they may be easier to create is that I’m not doing them as part of the main narrative, but as tangential.

Day Four, Part Two – 1137 words, 20 minutes

Sprint two, about the office, done.

I’m not sure if I need 20 minutes on item 3; and I’m not sure if I’m enough into the store for four and five.

May do ten minutes on the police station and save the other two for later on in the weekend.

Right now I’m over my daily word count without even touching the narrative part–and I definitely want to spend an hour at least on that.

Day 4 – part one, 1010 words, 20 minutes

Did a sprint about what the protagonist’s apartment looks like. Hit over a thousand words in twenty minutes. Didn’t worry about tone, or voice, or anything, just talked it through in writing.

Helped a lot. There’s definitely usable stuff there for the main body of the story. I’m going to try to do one or two more 20 minute sprints today and then write for an hour on the main story line. That should boost my word count as well.

next possible sprint topics:
– description of office
– description of police station
– description of Umut’s in Radio Row
– character study of the man in the glen plaid suit.

Day Three, 5280

Yeah I know, I should be at 10% after three days.

Still feels kinda cool though, to see ten percent done, woo-hoo!

notes: usually things start going faster around 1100 words.

today was an hour; yesterday was two hours; monday was an hour and a half.

I’m really trying to focus right now on not editing, striking out changes rather than editing them, and letting things, well, suck.

edited to say: just edited my 2007 posts to also be tagged with the day number (day 1, day 2, etc.)

Day Two, 3523

Yep. I decide to blog about NaNoWriMo again–because when I did it was the furthest I’d ever gotten.

Last night I started with no idea. Nothing. Managed to hit 1759 words.

The Chris Baty book really helped.

These posts will be short because… well, I’m hoping to write 1750 words each day this week.

Day Eleven, 12514

Almost caught up, but not quite. Just over 2000 words today, which takes me to 25% complete.

Unfortunately, that makes me still need almost 2000 words per day in order to keep up. But we’ll see how it goes. I need 25,000 words on Thursday, officially. If I can make 20,000, I’ll be happy. I did fairly well over this weekend–about 1800 words per day.

If I can, I’ll try to get another 500 words before sleep.