I realized a while ago that I wasn't going to finish my story in 50,000 words. Which was shocking. 50k sounded like _so_ much when I started and now I look at the 30k I have now and am like, "Nothing has happened." Now I'm not sure if I'll get the 50k done by the end of the month. Last week goofed me up pretty badly. Now I need to write 2700 a ( Read more... )

Whew, after three days of zero productivity, I finally get some words down. NaNo said my words per day to finish in time was 2279 today, and I squeezed out 2537 (which, btw, is my second highest daily count to date). Yay! That's not a _whole_ lot of ground made up, and NaNo is still counting Wednesday the 26th as a day in which to write 2,000+ ( Read more... )

22,695 and whew! _Still_ behind but I'm quite happy to report that not only did I meet my daily goal (which I was dismayed to realize yesterday _increases_ every time I don't meet it), but exceeded it with a bit of buffer. My daily goal for tomorrow is therefore less now. The downward spiral of not meeting the daily count making it harder to ( Read more... )

20k shoutout! Nearly halfway, eeeeeee! Dude. I don't think I'm anywhere _near_ halfway, plot-wise. I may hit 50k and be done with the challenge before my story is done. :0 Never thought I'd say something like that.

Oh, Wednesdays, you ruin me. Yeah, those solid red lines? The 5th and 12th.


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14,600+!!! Why hello there, creepy humpbacked oracle/potion maker, where did you come from?

Not sure whether it's a good or a bad thing that some random unknown character has thrown herself in Narcissa's path...

EDIT: 15k. I think this means creepy humpbacked oracle/potion maker was indeed a good thing.

Broke 13k, woot!! Gosh that's a lot of writing. Helped a lot by the fact that I remembered in the very wee hours of this morning that 1979 was a very bad year for the House of Black, and that at least _some_ mention of funerals should be made. "Some mention of funerals" turned into a few pages of action at one funeral. Huzzah!

Also, I told Mom ( Read more... )

Just hit 10k!!! *dies* I didn't realize until just now that I hadn't really expected to make it this far.

Also, Walburga Black is a raging bitch. No surprises there. But I think I actually kind of understand why she is the way she is, now. Did _not_ expect that to happen.

Another chapter down. I'm still behind where I'm supposed to be (10k yesterday), but am catching up. And since I don't have classes today, if Mom doesn't keep me too busy getting the apartment ready for our Christmas shopping party/open house/product expo thing on Sunday, I should be able to recover that lost ground. Yay! The next chapter should ( Read more... )

Have fallen off the wagon today. Rather, yesterday. It was a Wednesday and I knew my writing would be curtailed, but _damn_, I didn't realize that I would not get a single word written. Shite ( Read more... )