NANO FLAIL
Nov. 10th, 2010 02:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
letterbladeCurrent word count, out of target word count for this day of the month: 11,465/15,000.
Words written today, out of my goal for the day: 3,314/4,000.
At least I've broken the five-digit barrier. :) And if I can keep this pace up until this weekend (when I will have to pause NaNoing in order to write the All Crotchety Old Men With Shotguns Game with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mllelaurel), I'll have caught up, and then some. Which is good, because I will probably then lose four or five days' worth of NaNo time to SLAW and the preparations for SLAW.
I feel like I should be able to close those last 700~ words to meet today's goal, but I'm also brain-tired and have just written something traumatic. I find it fairly difficult to write other stuff immediately after writing something traumatic. And it's late. :P
I am lagging behind, but I think it's a manageable behindness, given that I can be sufficiently prolific when I am able to butt-in-chair.
In metrics that aren't sheer word count, I've finished the first section/large chapter. (At this point, I'm envisioning the book as somewhere between five and eight of these sections, and I'd guesstimate that it will be about 70-80k. So I'm v. unlikely to finish the story during NaNo. But if I can bang out a fair chunk of it, and then keep myself going through at the same pace, to finish in December, then I will have a finished draft of a novel. Which would be an awesome thing to have.)
(Saying this in my LJ will probably jinx it. Bah.)
Also, my characters are repeatedly surprising me. Sometimes just little stuff--dialogue, the particular ways in which they rankle each other and hit each other's weak spots. (The two main characters start the book on opposite sides of a war. There's a lot of fencing, both literal and verbal.) Sometimes big stuff--one of them decided to do something very brave, quite understandable in his current situation, and INCREDIBLY STUPID, and I kind of love him for it. It led to one particular element (the demons of the pseudo-title) being introduced earlier than I expected, which was nifty.
So I kind of <3 my two main characters right now. In spite of their being butts to each other? No, especially because they're being butts to each other. It's justified.
My favorite line of dialogue so far: "Claws off, you leathery sack of shit!"
Also, for the record, the pseudo-title, as I have no real title for this yet, is to be said in a dry, underwhelmed, and quite bored tone of voice: "Oh, look, a demon." May possibly demonstrate this via recording at some point, when I am not out of brain-juice, as I find it consistently hilarious, because I am easily amused.
Words written today, out of my goal for the day: 3,314/4,000.
At least I've broken the five-digit barrier. :) And if I can keep this pace up until this weekend (when I will have to pause NaNoing in order to write the All Crotchety Old Men With Shotguns Game with
mllelaurel), I'll have caught up, and then some. Which is good, because I will probably then lose four or five days' worth of NaNo time to SLAW and the preparations for SLAW.I feel like I should be able to close those last 700~ words to meet today's goal, but I'm also brain-tired and have just written something traumatic. I find it fairly difficult to write other stuff immediately after writing something traumatic. And it's late. :P
I am lagging behind, but I think it's a manageable behindness, given that I can be sufficiently prolific when I am able to butt-in-chair.
In metrics that aren't sheer word count, I've finished the first section/large chapter. (At this point, I'm envisioning the book as somewhere between five and eight of these sections, and I'd guesstimate that it will be about 70-80k. So I'm v. unlikely to finish the story during NaNo. But if I can bang out a fair chunk of it, and then keep myself going through at the same pace, to finish in December, then I will have a finished draft of a novel. Which would be an awesome thing to have.)
(Saying this in my LJ will probably jinx it. Bah.)
Also, my characters are repeatedly surprising me. Sometimes just little stuff--dialogue, the particular ways in which they rankle each other and hit each other's weak spots. (The two main characters start the book on opposite sides of a war. There's a lot of fencing, both literal and verbal.) Sometimes big stuff--one of them decided to do something very brave, quite understandable in his current situation, and INCREDIBLY STUPID, and I kind of love him for it. It led to one particular element (the demons of the pseudo-title) being introduced earlier than I expected, which was nifty.
So I kind of <3 my two main characters right now. In spite of their being butts to each other? No, especially because they're being butts to each other. It's justified.
My favorite line of dialogue so far: "Claws off, you leathery sack of shit!"
Also, for the record, the pseudo-title, as I have no real title for this yet, is to be said in a dry, underwhelmed, and quite bored tone of voice: "Oh, look, a demon." May possibly demonstrate this via recording at some point, when I am not out of brain-juice, as I find it consistently hilarious, because I am easily amused.