First of all: I beat NaNo. Shiny winner profile! It was...rough. And not very fun at the end. But I learned some important lessons, namely don't fucking write 14K in the last two weeks of October and then edit 177K in November in addition to doing NaNo. (Before NaNo started, I was wondering aloud to
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current word count: 45,380 ( Read more... )

All right, there we go. Now I'm making progress. 48,155 per the site (48,375ish per Scrivener), and I can probably finish the rest tomorrow on the plane or in the airport ( Read more... )

Wordcount: 46,023
Writing Time: ....something stupid like 7 hours, very very intermittently. The last 700 were done in about a half-hour.
Victory Du Jour: Have started to get the cavalry trickling in unevenly for the Big Climax. Finally.
Argh du Jour: No longer really want to write any of these scenes (or much of anything ( Read more... )

Wordcount: 43,157
Writing Time: 3-ish hours?
Victory du Jour: oh hey look climax is starting to happen.
Argh du Jour: I...still have no idea how the climax is going to actually happen oh help I've gone off-outline at the worst time ever ( Read more... )

Wordcount: 41,265
Writing Time: Something ridiculous. I was perpetually distracted during NaNo party and such. :x
Victory du Jour: I got words. That is my victory.
Argh du Jour: I am at the end and I don't want to write any of the scenes I have left ( Read more... )

Wordcount: 33695
Writing Time: ....many hours.
Victory du Jour: endgame is beginning!
Argh du Jour: Endgame is 1/3 of the book. And I think the climax actually belongs to the *next* book. FML.

I am now 10K+/6+ days ahead. That's good, because this is another rough week.

And on that note, VICTORY FOR THE PACKERS and I am going to bed.

Wordcount: 25,095. Halfway there! (ohhhh, living on a prayer...)
Writing Time: 1.5 hours
Victory du Jour: Did the words even though I didn't want to; hit a scene that's been in my head since I started planning this damn thing.
Argh du Jour: Every day I'm a little less willing to put the words down ( Read more... )

Wordcount: 23,026
Writing Time: 2 hours.
Victory du Jour: Figured out a fun pothole to throw in front of Our Adorable Lovers.
Argh du Jour: description is hard, y'all.

also I have a sinus headache and it is all of a sudden fucking freezing outside, and all I really want is to curl up under a blanket with some hot cocoa. Alas, for I have ( Read more... )

Wordcount: 16,685
Writing Time: 2 hours
Victory du Jour: Four days ahead!
Argh du Jour: I think I put in five new variables today. omfg NAMES ( Read more... )