Melisandrina, I wrote, I’m logging off.
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 a double-triple?)
A neat bit of plotting surprised me this evening and brought to life something I'd been meaning to get into and am a bit sad I didn't get to in this draft. Some of the troubles faced by women in tech and in the Internet. There are allusions to Ellen Pao early on, and bits of the novel brush up against GamerGate, but what I'd wanted for the main protagonist was a bit more of a deep dive into a lot of that. I'd read up on the Reddit shakeup and knew of GamerGate and the proxy wars fought through the Sad/Rabid Puppies campaign. I imagine, in revisions, that'll be one major thread that gets pulled up from the palimpsest.
Still, barreling towards the end like this feels good. It's hurried and messy, and I've lost all sense of form, but the End is near. Hopefully, this'll see a different result from The Sparrow, which didn't see me finish that draft until the following year, lol. This time around, I don't have school to get in the way.
Currently reading: The Town That Started the Civil War - Nat Brandt
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 a double-triple?)
A neat bit of plotting surprised me this evening and brought to life something I'd been meaning to get into and am a bit sad I didn't get to in this draft. Some of the troubles faced by women in tech and in the Internet. There are allusions to Ellen Pao early on, and bits of the novel brush up against GamerGate, but what I'd wanted for the main protagonist was a bit more of a deep dive into a lot of that. I'd read up on the Reddit shakeup and knew of GamerGate and the proxy wars fought through the Sad/Rabid Puppies campaign. I imagine, in revisions, that'll be one major thread that gets pulled up from the palimpsest.
Still, barreling towards the end like this feels good. It's hurried and messy, and I've lost all sense of form, but the End is near. Hopefully, this'll see a different result from The Sparrow, which didn't see me finish that draft until the following year, lol. This time around, I don't have school to get in the way.
Currently reading: The Town That Started the Civil War - Nat Brandt