-4:00 AM:

16,211 / 50,000 (32.4%)

Tags: 2005 word count, nanowrimo

-As of just before midnight:

13,618 / 50,000 (27.2%)

Tags: 2005 word count, nanowrimo

-3:30 AM:

10,863 / 50,000 (21.7%)

PS: I love it how everyone's like, "well, if you're not planning on trying to get it published, what are you going to DO with it when you're done? What's the point?" It's like they don't understand doing something for the accomplishment of DOING it. I wish I had a true cheerleader. But no. My boyfriend's in the "what are you going to do with it?" camp, and my two friends at school are both WAY behind me in wordcount (500 and 0) so they're both like "shut it." Gah. Cheerleaders would be very nice. (Oh, and my dad? I'm trying to make him forget it...he wants to read it, but there's stuff in there that I'm not comfortable with him reading. Like, a gay couple. And possibly sex. Straight sex, but still sex. And with the gay? It's not that...well...mleh. I'm comfy with gay people. He's gay. I'm just not comfy with him reading my writing about gay people.)

Tags: 2005 word count, nanowrimo

-3:07 AM:

9,966 / 50,000 (19.9%)

My GOD the words flew (for me) tonight! 2500 in an hour and twenty minutes! Of course, I just had my protagonist meet the man of her dreams (though not literally...Jovan's not a redhead, for one. I think. I could be wrong.)

Tags: 2005 word count, nanowrimo
How I Feel: optimistic
What I'm Hearing: Mo Ghile Mear - The Chieftans

-2:30 AM:

7,466 / 50,000 (14.9%)

I'm starting to get into the action of the story, and the words are coming a little faster. I have a small idea of what I want to happen in the next few pages, and with each page I write I have a little inkling of "oh, that'd be cool...just not right away" and then I have to figure out how to delay it. Yeah.

Tags: 2005 word count, nanowrimo
How I Feel: exhausted
What I'm Hearing: Que Pasa? - Juanes

-2:00 AM:

5,432 / 50,000 (10.9%)

So I know it's technically the fourth now and that I wrote the majority of the third's word count after midnight, but I don't care. Counting it as the third. I'm on count: roughly 1800/day.

Also? My story is starting to roll. Once I got going tonight, it just flew; only stuck in a few spots. I'm worried, though, that I might run out of story before I run out of words/days. Ah, well. We'll see what happens when we get there. I'm already delaying something as long as possible because I haven't figured that part out yet. (one of my protags got taken by the palace guards, and now his two best friends are off to "rescue" him...but I don't quite know yet why he was wanted. Other than his magick. Yeah. If you want to read my crap, let me know and I'll email you.)

Tags: 2005 word count, nanowrimo
How I Feel: accomplished
What I'm Hearing: Utada Hikaru - Sakura Drops

-As of about 8:45 tonight:

3,603 / 50,000 (7.2%)

I'm not actually using chapters. Just creating double-spaced lines where I'm done with a scene. Yeah. I have no clue how to chapterize without writing vignettes.

Also? I have the awesomest place names:
-For my town (or at least, the first I've come to yet): Cidade Minúscula Pela Estrade das Montanhas do Troll (hint: it's Portuguese, and very accurately describes my town)
-For the tavern in the town (Santa Cruz people, this is for you): Taza Fea (hint: this time, it's just plain Spanish, I think)

Yes, I'm a dork. And I wish I could translate my town name into Gaelic or Welsh...if anyone knows of a free online English->Gaelic or English->Welsh translator, please direct me to it!

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-As of 5:04 (well, really, as of around 12:40):

577 / 50,000 (1.2%)

Um.. So my novel's taken a turn without signaling, within the first five minutes of writing. I think things may get interesting.


-As of 8:44:

1,139 / 50,000 (2.3%)

Tags: 2005 word count, nanowrimo