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To the stars, among a sea of ghosts.
Ghosts - 11.25.14, 20.26 (local time)
Total Words: 123473
Page Count: 598
Mean Things: All of it.
Reason for Stopping: Done.
Notes: Some of this is simply bracketed notes for scenes. Other parts are copied wholesale from the previous draft, but it is done. I can leave it alone and get to some of the other things I've been meaning to write ( Read more... ) -
"The child." It came out of Dante as a whisper.
Ghosts - 11.21.14, 04.15 (local time)
New Words: 4786
Total Words: 97531
Page Count: 468
Mean Things: I finally got to the part where the middle third of Italy gets sucked up into the sky.
Notes: I'm going to bed.
Currently reading: Underworld - Don DeLillo -
Some need cars, some need luck.
Ghosts - 11.17.14, 21.50 (local time)
New Words: 26994
Total Words: 92745
Page Count: 445
Mean Things: Caravan massacre.
Reason for Stopping: Study/work.
Notes: This was yesterday's total when I broke the tape on 50k for the month. Essentially the work of the past 11 days. Some of it is repurposed from previous works but it has all come ( Read more... ) -
You just practice with the young assassinators.
More substantive update forthcoming, but NaNoWriMo2014 is officially a wrap ( Read more... ) -
"Father is away on business."
Ghosts, 11.12.14, 2.25 (local time)
New Words: 4180
Total Words: 65751
Page Count: 314
Mean Things: Sibling rivalry.
Reason for Stopping/Notes: It's late, and I've got a big push ahead of me in the next few days. A part of the story that's pretty well mapped out, a bit more after that, then it's uncharted territory driven largely by the last ( Read more... ) -
I wanted you all to tell me who I am.
Ghosts - 11.9.14, 1.01 (local time)
New Words: 3064
Total Words: 61571
Page Count: 294
Mean Things: A lynching.
Reason for Stopping: Underworld has gotten really, really good.
Notes: The fun continues. I'm immensely happy with the stuff I've been able to explore here, particularly in this segment that managed to braid together a couple themes ( Read more... ) -
Then hit the club and turned the crowd to a mosh pit.
Ghosts - 11.8.14, 00.09 (local time)
New Words: 1916
Total Words: 58507
Page Count: 279
Mean Things: Immolation
Reason for Stopping: End of Scene/Tired/Need to write an essay due tomorrow.
Notes: This is fun. The Specials, the way they're constructed, give me absolute carte blanche when describing their powers and the use thereof. But I'm ( Read more... ) -
Not until she loves me.
Ghosts - 11.7.14, 02.00 (local time)
New Words: 2873
Total Words: 56591
Page Count: 271
Mean Things: Inmate pinball
Reason for Stopping: Sleep, boxing in the morning.
Notes: There're some ginormous paragraphs in there, but a lot of the freewheeling, digging deeper into a moment so that the sentence structure can (attempt to) mirror the ( Read more... ) -
Took a few years, 'cause Slaughter's what I had to do.
Ghosts - 11.5.14, 00.32 (local time)
New Words: 1387
Total Words: 53718
Page Count: 258
Mean Things: Suuuuuuuper drug withdrawal.
Reason for Stopping: Class early in the morning.
Notes: Had a 4-hr straight class this morning. Have the same one tomorrow morning and a replacement 2-hr class right after it. Not that the time isn't there to write ( Read more... ) -
Vast, unpopulated urban sprawl.
Borrowing matociquala's nomenclature, this has become #NaNoFinishMo
Ghosts - 11.4.14, 23.00 (local time)
New Words: 3210
Total Words: 52331
Page Count: 252
Mean Things: Forced psychoanalysis
Reason for Stopping: End of Chapter, luxury reading, need to get away from the computer/facebook
Notes: This chapter is HUGE.
52331 / 90000 words. 58% done!