NaNo Day 19

Very quickly, as it's getting late: Today was a good day, even though I didn't start until late at night. Work came first, then the long commute home, then dinner and THEN I could start writing. The story is picking up and even though I haven't had one of those occasions where I couldn't type fast enough to keep up with the story as it unfolds, I was doing pretty good. I can feel the pace of the writing accelerating, and it's a good feeling. I almost don't want to put it down, but I have to get to bed so I can get up for work tomorrow.

Tomorrow's going to be a long day and I expect I may not even be able to get around to writing unless I sneak some time in at lunch or something. We'll see.

November 19:
Words today: 2,058
Words total: 43,841

NaNo Day 18

I wrote a little while waiting for my son to get done at his appointment. I also wrote when I got home. It was a productive day. I'm to the point where the action of the story can start. Yes, on page 73, the action can START. No, the book isn't going to be some massive huge novel when I'm done. It's just the way this story ended up being structured. It isn't as though nothing has happened up to this point. Honest!

November 18:
Words today: 2,112
Words total: 41,783

NaNo day 17

I haven't tracked my progress in a few days, not because I haven't been writing, but because I've been squeezing it in between other activites, and I always deemed posting here to be a lower priority. I could always catch up, right? Well, here it is a few days later and I am catching up, but I know I lost touch with the feelings I had writing on each day. I know one day I was frustrated, but don't remember why. I know another day I spent more time playing than I should have and didn't bring up the word count. I also know that yesterday I hit exactly 1,667 words, which I thought was amusing (since that's the pace you need to keep every day for NaNoWriMo). Looking once again at my word count, I am very tempted to try to break 40,000 today, but it is getting late and I have a busy day tomorrow. Here's the summary.

November 14:
Words today: 882
Words total: 33,253

November 15:
Words today: 1,359
Words total: 34,612

November 16:
Words today: 1,667
Words total: 36,279

November 17:
Words today: 3,392
Words total: 39,671

NaNo 2009 on Friday the 13th

I woke up late this morning, had breakfast with my girlfriend and my son and then went shopping for paint and supplies. Next, my son and I drove to the house (I think we left Longmont at noon) and proceeded to mask and paint the main bedroom. With a break for a long trip to the pharmacy and another for dinner, we got done with the first coat and cleaned up at about 11 PM, at which time I started writing. I tried the Write or Die site, which I may or may not use again later. I'm not sure it is effective in motivating me personally. Anyway, that explains my word count today.

We're going to be painting again tomorrow, and heading back to Longmont, so I expect my word count for Saturday to be anemic, too.

November 13:
Words today: 1,116 in about 30 minutes
Words total: 32,371

NaNo Day 12

Not a good day for writing. Good day for working around the house. Oh, and cooking. I did some of that today. And I played Everquest with my girlfriend for a while. Now we're going to watch Dexter (Season 2 Disc 4). Tomorrow and Saturday don't look promising for writing, either, unless I do it very late or very early.

November 12:
Words today: 251 (BOOOOOO!)
Words total: 31,255

NaNo Day 11

I started the day surprised to be facing yet another block, but I was able to work through that one as well. I got the words flowing again a little later in the afternoon and moved the story ahead one chapter.

My intent when I started the month was to work on one chapter per day, getting maybe 2,500 words in that chapter. I think I can sustain that pace. I'm at 2,818 words per day right now. I wrote at around 2,350 words per day during last year's NaNoWriMo. After several days, I realized I fell away from the approach not in word count, but in the idea of focusing on one chapter per day. I'm leaning back towards that again now, and it's going pretty well. For now.

November 11:

Words today: 3,003
Words total: 31,004

NaNo Day 10

A much better day. I worked through the block I was having, and got to the point where the next few chapters are laid out and ready to be written. It was amusing trying to catch one of my writing buddies. She had quite a few more words than I did, so I wrote until I caught up. Then I refreshed the page and saw that she wrote more, so I wrote more and caught up. This repeated at least four times until finally I had more words than she did (though not by much). Content with my progress (plus the fact that my girlfriend got home from class), I stopped for the day. I checked back a little while later and saw that she passed me again by just over 1,000 words! Yay for motivation! Tomorrow should be good!

November 10:
Words today: 3,259
Words total: 28,001