So yeah…I started writing this book last week – a story which I’ve decides to call The Delta Drifters. As it is right now, it’s your basic “woman-goes-on-adventure, woman-runs-into-bad-guys, woman-assembles-crew-to-challenge-or-escape-from-the-bad-guys” fantasy yarn, but I’m hoping that over time, as I get some new ideas, it’ll evolve into something a lot cooler and more compelling. I [...]
That’s as far as I’ve gotten in my NaNoWrimo project so far, occasionally stopping to rest my keyboarding fingers and be stupefied that the PlayStation Network actually has Trine and Braid (both were released earlier on PC, and both games are pretty freakin’ awesome). The word count that I’ve got right now is 75% of what I’d be expected to have right now if I were going to make the 50,000-word quota at the end of the month. Realistically, I don’t think I’m going to make it that far, but I’m not going to quit this time because I (think that I) have some good ideas going. I’m thinking 37,500 words would be a respectable stopping point for me. I don’t expect my book to exceed that many words, even with padding and other unscrupulous word-count-boosting techniques.
I’ve pushed the word count on my NaNoWriMo project to over 9,000 (insert picture of Vegeta crushing his scouter with his bare hands here). I’m still behind my daily goal of about 12,000, though…I was feeling ill yesterday and went to bed at 9 PM, unusual for me for a Friday, when I can usually go toabout 11 PM without having to go to sleep. I guess tomorrow , I’ll have to get up at 5 AM or something to bump my word count up. I hate to have to resort to word tricks to artificially inflate my score, but if I get more than 5,000 words behind on this (which is likely, given my weekday schedule), I may have no choice. I’m going to try to finish this year, for sure. I’ll worry about joining up my disjointed conversations and scenes later, after the initial month has passed.
Okay, so maybe eschewing my driving exams to save a few bucks by riding public transportation has hit a tiny snag. The SEPTA strike (they’re calling it a “service interruption”) has put a chokehold on traffic all over the Philadelphia area. I missed work yesterday for an unrelated reason (one of the trains caught fire at a station that my normal train always passes), and I don’t know if it’s got anything to do with the larger traffic problems, but I was so frustrated by it that I lost a lot of my motivation to do anything today. Thankfully, tomorrow is Friday, so I’ll get a chance to cool down and unwind with some fresh(?) story ideas. NaNoWriMo entry is currently at 6,600 words, so I’m behind where I want to be right now. Guess I’ll pour some extra typing power into my weekend session to get back on track…
The first 5,000 words on a NaNoWriMo project used to be the toughest for me. The first time I attempted writing one two years ago, I didn’t make it to that point until day 6, and I don’t think I was able to write any more after that. This time, I managed to cross that [...]
