The NaNo validator was working just fine and on schedule this morning. It validated Somethings’ Fishy at 50,752 words. My NaNoWriMo for 2009 is officially complete. It’s an ugly, ugly novel. I could show it to anything you wanted to scare to death, and you’d be planning a funeral. That’s … Continue reading →
At least for NaNoWriMo purposes, this mess is done. Won for another year. My goal was 60k, though, so I may still work on it more between now and the end of the month. Then I need to compare my character building with the story and see what needs adjustment. … Continue reading →
Just under three thousand words again today. I developed backstory for my two protagonists — well, today was just Mallory, I guess. Cody was yesterday. I still don’t feel as if I know enough about the two of them to do them justice in the story, so I’ll keep working … Continue reading →
Got nearly 3,000 words of backstory today. Again, getting to know the characters. I suspect more of the rest of this 50k will be backstory. They’ll be easy to pull out, because I’m using Tigger, Mallory’s cat, as the POV character for all the backstory. It isn’t really Tigger telling … Continue reading →
That’s a few more than two thousand words for today. They are backstory words about my characters, but they are good, good words for the long-term goal of this book. I had some very exciting progress in getting to know my characters this morning. Exciting enough that I just might … Continue reading →
Words have eluded me today. I added less than a thousand to the total today.* About half were garbage filler words, the rest were spent mostly exploring the villain for the story. In the draft so far, he only appears on stage once, and that’s when he gets caught. He … Continue reading →
Not a great day for words today. I got a few garbage words. Maybe looking back on this, should I decide to edit, some of the character discussion I’m doing as filler may come in handy. If not, I’ll be burning lots of words to keep warm this winter.
Continue reading →That puts me a couple of days ahead on the NaNo timeline. Just under two thousand words for today.
Continue reading →I’m past the half-way point. Most of today’s words are “garbage” words. Filler to get the count up. But I’m also trying to find a spark for the story. What could I possibly do with it that may bring it some redemption? Zette suggested retelling the story from another character’s … Continue reading →
Got it done. Badly, but it’s done. This is the first manuscript I’ve ever worked on that I couldn’t wait to finish it so I could delete it. I find that pretty funny.
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