wire_mother

2562 words, for a validated total of 50,001. That is a novel.

It's a crappy one. Characters vanished into nowhere as they were no longer important. Strange powers appeared and disappeared as I forgot about them, then reappeared when I remembered them. Dialogue was sometimes forced to play out a plot point instead of letting a character speak. The story itself was simplistic and meandering. Items of background were introduced without concern for their impact on the setting, then discarded when they were no longer important to the plot. Every once in a while, I forgot which setting I was placing the story, and it changed to a different one, then back.

But it is done. I wrote a 50,000 word novel in 27 days.

2665 words today, bringing the total to 45,312 according to the official word-counter at the NaNoWriMo site.

The big battle happened. Many Bothanspeople died. Strange allies (who have been foreshadowed from early on) appeared, then vanished just as quickly. One of the main characters can't get an image from the fight out of his head. There's more fighting ahead, though. It looks like love will win the field in the end.

Hahaha, I crack me up.

1455 words, bringing it up to 36,300 even. The characters are still yammering about the philosophical implications of what they're doing. (And relationship worries are surfacing, much to one character's dismay. I wonder if she'll be able to weather them.) But the war is coming down the pike with inevitability. Soon, all of the hand-wringing will be put to the test. Are they who they think they are? Will their resolve fail at the last moment? Who knows? Certainly not me.

Yesterday, I didn't write anything at all. I had suffered a bout of insomnia, which meant that I didn't get to sleep until about four hours after my normal bedtime, and then I woke up correspondingly later.

Today, I wrote 2399 words, totaling 32,576. I'm still ahead of the game, by over 2500 words.

1695 words, totaling 30,177.

Decided to pack it in after 2273 words, bringing me to a total of 24,690. That's pretty close to halfway there. I've been averaging 1899 words a day, including the two days where I didn't really write much at all. At this rate, if I can keep it up, the NaNoWriMo website shows a trend toward finishing around the 26th.

The characters are being a lot more sexual than I had intended. In part, this is because of an event earlier in the story, but they are not yet aware of it. One of them has begun to suspect what's going on, though. She's the only one who would be able to do anything about it, but she is still deciding if she wants to. After all, if she does, it might turn out that what she had wanted, and had gotten, will slip away from her.

Not yet sure what these events have to do with the larger story arc, but I'm sure that I'll find out. Yay, picaresque!

The rest from writing yesterday (where I only managed a measly 714 words) seems to have done the trick (though I also credit the large amount of caffeine I drank after I woke up), as I got in a record (for me) 4020 words so far today, for a total to date of 20,135. Also, finally the two characters who had been dancing around it managed to get themselves together, overcome their ghosts, and fuck. It only took a shock to their systems, almost literally.

I may manage some more words today, but I seem to have come to a break for the moment.

1924 words, for a total so far of 13,498.

Monday's totals: 958 words, for a total of 9747.

I let myself get distracted by a couple of movies (Brigham Young and Ghost Dog; I am apparently a very eclectic film-watcher). Both are fairly long, nearly 2 hours each, so they ate up a lot of my day. I should get that sort of thing under control, or set aside more time to play catch-up with my writing. It's not that critical, since the total is still ahead of schedule, but I would prefer to be much further along.

Yesterday, I went to Seattle to visit with morthael and icprncs, who are currently living in another state but had come back to visit. I was also able to visit with leenerella and juryrigger, at whose house they are staying and which was where the get-together occurred, balzacq and theda, bork, m_cobweb and darkmane, domichan, dporowski, moriae and Gray, ms_vermilion and splendid_geryon, staxxy, domestinatrix, sistawendy, Amber (who has deleted and purged her LJ), and likely some people whom I've unintentionally forgotten. There were children (who were all reasonably well-behaved, though I apparently terrified one toddler, probably due to my hat; she did seem to get over it as the day went on), cats, and copious amounts of conversation and laughter. Wine and light food punctuated the day.

So, I didn't have access to internet for much of that day. On the ferry trip over and back, I did manage to get 1508 words written, for a total of 8789.