So close, or NaNoWriMo Day 4
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secret_historyI really wanted to hit 30,000 words before midnight on November 4th.
I made it to 29,818 words. So close, and yet so far. That's roughly 6,500 words in about seven hours, which isn't bad at all, if I do say so myself. I think my characters might actually make it out of the metro sometime soonish. at 29,818 words they are poised to meet their first zombie. I predict zombie action in the next 200 words or so. Maybe a bit more.
Since noting her wordcount on Nov. 2nd, I've unofficially been trying to outdo the Municipal Liaison for Edmonton (with whom Montreal is having a friendly rivalry for the second year in a row). Today I decided to try and make it official, and sent her an email proposing the challenge. She and I have been leapfrogging each other for days anyway in terms of wordcount. She accepted, so now it's on.
Right now, I am whupping her narrow behind quite handily (somewhere around 5,000 words). However, she is capable of producing massive amounts of wordcount in a short span of time, so I can't let myself become complacent. Also, she has a stated wordcount goal of 75,000 this year. I don't have a stated wordcount goal, but I do want to finish my novel before the end of November. Since I'm at 30k (give or take about 200 words) and my characters haven't even encountered zombies yet, I think I'm fairly safe in assuming that this story won't be done at 75k. However, we shall see.
Right now I'm torn. I'm going to write the extra 182 words to take me to 30k, that's for sure. However, I'm at the *zombie* scene. I really really want to write it. I am also *burnt* like overcooked toast. I want to do this scene justice. It would make much more sense for me to go to bed now (after the 182 words) and come to the scene fresh. Also, since I've started the scene already, it means I'd be leaving my writing in the middle of a scene, which means less risk of getting blocked when I come back to my writing.
Argh! Indecision. Sleep is seeming like a better plan every passing moment, though.
With any luck I'll be up early enough tomorrow to post more of what I've written here, for the entertainment of my reading public.
I made it to 29,818 words. So close, and yet so far. That's roughly 6,500 words in about seven hours, which isn't bad at all, if I do say so myself. I think my characters might actually make it out of the metro sometime soonish. at 29,818 words they are poised to meet their first zombie. I predict zombie action in the next 200 words or so. Maybe a bit more.
Since noting her wordcount on Nov. 2nd, I've unofficially been trying to outdo the Municipal Liaison for Edmonton (with whom Montreal is having a friendly rivalry for the second year in a row). Today I decided to try and make it official, and sent her an email proposing the challenge. She and I have been leapfrogging each other for days anyway in terms of wordcount. She accepted, so now it's on.
Right now, I am whupping her narrow behind quite handily (somewhere around 5,000 words). However, she is capable of producing massive amounts of wordcount in a short span of time, so I can't let myself become complacent. Also, she has a stated wordcount goal of 75,000 this year. I don't have a stated wordcount goal, but I do want to finish my novel before the end of November. Since I'm at 30k (give or take about 200 words) and my characters haven't even encountered zombies yet, I think I'm fairly safe in assuming that this story won't be done at 75k. However, we shall see.
Right now I'm torn. I'm going to write the extra 182 words to take me to 30k, that's for sure. However, I'm at the *zombie* scene. I really really want to write it. I am also *burnt* like overcooked toast. I want to do this scene justice. It would make much more sense for me to go to bed now (after the 182 words) and come to the scene fresh. Also, since I've started the scene already, it means I'd be leaving my writing in the middle of a scene, which means less risk of getting blocked when I come back to my writing.
Argh! Indecision. Sleep is seeming like a better plan every passing moment, though.
With any luck I'll be up early enough tomorrow to post more of what I've written here, for the entertainment of my reading public.
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Art is not a race.
Date: 2006-11-05 08:58 am (UTC)Re: Art is not a race.
Date: 2006-11-05 01:26 pm (UTC)I went to bed after breaking 30k (I really like round numbers). The zombie scene will get written tonight after I get home from my Sunday afternoon game.
Also, I am nearly *always* goofy. ;)
Post, dammit!
Date: 2006-11-06 01:46 am (UTC)