Thursday, November 03, 2005

Day Three

NaNoWriMo Progress I didn't hit 12K, but I also did better than I thought, and stayed ahead of the curve. I think I've hit my first sort of break in momentum, in that for at least one scene, I felt like it dragged. Now, I'm sure all my scenes drag, but this one, *I* felt like I was wading through mud. Tomorrow, he goes fishing, learns some information, and begins a trek with a caravan to a market at a nearby village, so it should at least provide some interesting material. So... yeah. 11,447. I'm on to you, Kerowack. I should be past you in less than a week! Fear me!!!

4 Comments:

At 10:25 PM, November 03, 2005, ei-nyung said...

I think it should now be a requirement to gratuitously namedrop kerowack in every blog entry.

What's that? It already was?

 
At 11:36 PM, November 03, 2005, ei-nyung said...

Ok, I just hit 8,321.

The story is not making any progress. But I arbitrarily introduced three more characters and wrote some more random scenes. Seems like I'm still fumbling around to "find" the characters and their inner motivations.

I spent a part of tonight writing about labor and childbirth. It's not done yet, but it'll be pretty much what happened with my mom when she gave birth to my little brother.

I also used a joke from Overhead in New York in a ball scene. Heh.

 
At 5:09 AM, November 04, 2005, kerowack said...

I don't think I could have done this thing "by the book"...heh.

The 15k head start was the kick in the pants I needed. I've got around 20k (if you count what I haven't typed yet, but have written) and if I were at say, 4k right now, I'd rush garbage to the page.

I'm pretty proud of the way I managed to push past a section that will definitely need a couple of rewrites, because in the past, I'd have been dead in the water and have given up.

Gratuituous mentions only make me stronger...Ha!

 
At 6:11 PM, November 04, 2005, casacaudill said...

Well, when you put it like that ... I'm doing quite poorly for myself. Must. Write. More.

 

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