And I’m at 48,000 . . .
The Book
The Book30 Nov 2007 01:25 pm
3,185 new words.
45,339 words total.
10.5 hours to go.
Closing in on it.
The Book29 Nov 2007 08:39 pm
Just popping in for a moment — 1,464 so far tonight, with more incoming.
Just got over a hump (ProTip: reading back through the sections you think are crap is a great way to see that, hey, they’re not) and things are moving well.
More to come.
Edit: another 1,035 after that, but there was “oh, Jack you look so cuddly” and then “I’ll just sidle up on the ottoman for a moment”, followed, some time later by “shit, I passed out on the couch.”
The Book28 Nov 2007 06:47 pm
Just pounded out 1,093 new words, which is actually closer to 2k because I deleted a bunch before I got started.
I’ve got some stuff to do tonight, but I’m hoping to get another 1-3,000 words in before bedtime.
I . . . Deleted A Thousand Words . . .
So, I wrote 2,819 words tonight, bringing us just inches from 40,000 (which is to say, I have my work cut out for me the next three nights), and that would be a much happier number if I hadn’t . . . deleted a drop more than a thousand words.
Still, it had to be done. I can hem and haw all I want, cheat and play games, but that’s not going to make this a valid experiment, project, whatever you want to call it.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
11,833 words to the finish line. The first finish line. I figure the book is actually a little more than half-way finished. I can’t really imagine that, a month from now, after sitting on this silly thing for freaking years, always meaning to get to it, intending to get to it, maybe even spending a night writing 1,000 or even 2,000 words (which I would later discard, or save in a file I probably couldn’t find right now), I might actually get to the finish line.
Pretty exciting.
This NaNoWriMo business is good stuff. Yes, the pressure is a bit much, but that also keeps me going. The last three nights have been especially rough going. I went back over my notes and old sections on this character I like so much and discovered most of what I had was crap. Lazy crap. Overwritten, over-descriptive, indulgent crap.
I was shooting for word counts and oh my, did I have them.
So, there was starting from scratch to do, and that was an opportunity to remake this particular character into something even more than what I’d originally done. It was exciting, and I think I’m on a good track, but it certainly wasn’t easy going.
And, my eyes are starting to cross, the hour is growing silly and I have to get up in just a drop under three hours.
Three more days!