Catching the Bus - 11.30.15, 11.14pm

New Words: 2930

Total Words: 56128

Page Count: 275

Reason for Stopping: Fatigue. For some reason, I was absolutely knackered all day today. Carried into the evening, but I'm happy with this word count. I got just about no work on the novel done over Thanksgiving weekend, thus scuttling any hopes of finishing ( Read more... )

Catching the Bus - 11.27.15, 11.12pm

New Words: 3101

Total Words: 53198

Page Count: 260

Reason for Stopping: End of scene/chapter.

Notes: Exhausted. Because of good things (Thanksgiving, way too much food, laughing too hard for too long with my mother and my two sisters on this quiet Friday where we were finally afforded time together, ( Read more... )

Catching the Bus - 11.24.15, 11.06pm

New Words: 2643

Total Words: 50087

Page Count: 244

Reason for Stopping: Goal reached./End of scene (chapter).

Notes: Well, there's 50k words for you. Third year in a row that I've won NaNoWriMo. Now, if I can squeeze the rest of this novel in by the end of November, that'll be the double hat-trick. (Is that ( Read more... )

Catching the Bus - 11.23.15, 11.53pm

New Words: 3321

Total Words: 47454

Page Count: 231

Reason for Stopping: End of scene.

Notes: This has gotten downright stygian. It's interesting that what was initially envisioned as the inciting incident has, it seems, become the prelude to the climax. The pacing of this thing has taken on a recognizable ( Read more... )

Catching the Bus - 11.22.15, 11.49pm

New Words: 2433

Total Words: 44133

Page Count: 215

Reason for Stopping: Exhaustion. Yesterday, at the Harvard-Yale tailgate, I used up all the weekend's emotional energy loving and being loved, dancing to Future, being admired for that "Hotline Bling" sweatshirt, seeing my Big Bro for the first time in ( Read more... )

Catching the Bus - 11.21.15, 12.00am

New Words: 2950

Total Words: 41700

Page Count: 203

Reason for Stopping: End of scene

Notes: This scene very much got away from me, something I'm more than happy to allow happen during NaNoWriMo. If it means more words on the page, I am content. I'm aided in this acclimation by what's attended the last few ( Read more... )

Catching the Bus - 11.19.15, 11.04pm

New Words: 2211

Total Words: 38750

Page Count: 190

Reason for Stopping: End of scene.

Notes: So, I thought The Sparrow was the darkest I ever got, as far as characters and what they would get up to. But this latest section about a guy who fights organizations like ISIS online, a bit of an ANON counter- ( Read more... )

Catching the Bus - 11.18.15, 12.26am

New Words: 4222

Total Words: 36539

Page Count: 178

Reason for Stopping: End of scene, luxury reading, sleep. Plot finally snuck up on me, which is to say that the "inciting incident" finally happened. Over halfway through this NaNoWriMo draft. I imagine nearly everything written before will be cut, but I don ( Read more... )

Catching the Bus - 11.16.15, 11.12pm

New Words: 4464

Total Words: 32388

Page Count: 158

Reason for Stopping: Sleep. One of the dangers of NaNoWriMo is that the priority becomes putting words on the page rather than organizing a narrative. This wasn't too much of a problem with the previous two efforts but I had outlines or previous material to ( Read more... )

Catching the Bus - 11.15.15, 10.18am

New Words: 4744

Total Words: 27924

Page Count: 134

Reason for Stopping: Spent last night watching the Ronda Rousey upset. These are yesterday's words, but I had to leave before I could get in a proper progress report. The emphasis of this story on social media is something I'm coming to really enjoy. And ( Read more... )