1,000 Lawyers at the Botom of the Sea
You know the punchline to that joke, “A good start”.
Whcih is to say I just sat down and put together 1,976 words and even though the NaNoWriMo website isn’t letting me post my wordcount for the night, hell with it, I’m putting it up here. Edit: I can now enter a word-count. For the sake of fairness, I’m just using what I’ve written since November started, so 1,976 words.
If we’re counting the “old” Chapter One, which I did some nice bit of editing to before starting this evening, the book is already 5,000 or so words deep. I’m not posting that to be nitpicky; I don’t think it’s going to be so close that I need to steal 3,000 words from myself to make the deadline. I’m either going to blow this out of the water or miss it so completely as to be ludicrous.
One nice thing, which is what I was hoping would happen and which has, at least for tonight, actually happened is that when I got stuck on a particularly annoying passage, I forced myself to push through it. That’s nice, and typically that’s the point at which I’d just say the hell with it and go do something easier. Putting myself on a forced timeline is definitely getting me going.
I can tell without reading back what I’ve written tonight that a lot of stuff is going to have to be extensively edited. That’s cool. The most important thing is that I’m moving from Point A to Point B. I can iron out little details (like the repeated and noticeable use of the word, “nice” and the fact that both the narrator and another character refer to faces being ripped off within a page of one-another) once things are ready to be edited as a whole.
It’s just good to see some new words.
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