NaNoWriMo: Day 18
I'm at that stage in NaNo. That very special stage when you've just reached 50,000 words (in my case 50,021 by 11.50pm GMT) and you're thinking "Technically I've finished, but OMG I'm in the middle of a birth scene and also France is about to get invaded and I've got to read Occupation: the Ordeal of France in order to get in a good 2,000 words per day until the end."
This is an accurate description of my thought processes. I'm one of the 'fleet-fingered' typists who has passed the 50,000 mark in Week 3 and the official book is telling me to write like the wind until the end. So I'll have to, when, unfortunately, my novel is one of those that does require research to be done to progress. And I've also made a personal commitment to write more than 1667 words a day.
I'm also stuck not being able to follow Chandler's Law, partly because I like most of my characters and partly because of the whole "historical accuracy" thing. Oh, and partly because it's happening anyway. I wasn't planning on having a character give birth in May 1940 in Paris, but she had to engage in some hot'n'heavy in August 1939, didn't she? (Personally, I'm blaming the husband, and so is she.) So my main character is going to add "midwife" to the list of 1001 jobs he's done so far.
And now I've got to check rations, curfews and reprisal shootings... next year I'm going to be writing something comedic, and set in a spaceship.
This is an accurate description of my thought processes. I'm one of the 'fleet-fingered' typists who has passed the 50,000 mark in Week 3 and the official book is telling me to write like the wind until the end. So I'll have to, when, unfortunately, my novel is one of those that does require research to be done to progress. And I've also made a personal commitment to write more than 1667 words a day.
I'm also stuck not being able to follow Chandler's Law, partly because I like most of my characters and partly because of the whole "historical accuracy" thing. Oh, and partly because it's happening anyway. I wasn't planning on having a character give birth in May 1940 in Paris, but she had to engage in some hot'n'heavy in August 1939, didn't she? (Personally, I'm blaming the husband, and so is she.) So my main character is going to add "midwife" to the list of 1001 jobs he's done so far.
And now I've got to check rations, curfews and reprisal shootings... next year I'm going to be writing something comedic, and set in a spaceship.