Nov. 25th, 2008

miko2: Ranma disguised as a schoolgirl to fool Ryoga (Default)
So when I started NaNoWriMo this year, I waited almost a week before I really started writing. I was waaay behind from the start. I figured I probably would not actually catch up, but if I could manage 30,000 words or so that would still be good.

By the end of today I'm supposed to have 41,650 words written (based on averaging 1,666 words a day). At the moment, before I've even left work for the day, I'm at 41,000 words.

:D

Even better is the feeling that I've completed chapters 16 through 21 and should have chapters 22 and 23 done by the end of the month. They will need some editing before publication, but not a whole lot, I think. Best of all, chapter 23 should conclude my big Genma kidnapping plot story, which would leave me with maybe 1 chapter for wrap up before I can insert all of the chapters I wrote last year for my "magical girls" story arc. Those will need a bit of editing, too, of course... some sections more than others.

But I feel very accomplished because chapter 21 wraps up nearly all of my first-week plots, and chapters 22-24 should take care of all of my other ideas. The magical girls story arc was never finished, so I have things to write past the 50,000 words that I wrote last year... but overall I have a very big story here and I've managed to tell most of what I set out to tell. That feels good. ^_^
miko2: Ranma disguised as a schoolgirl to fool Ryoga (Default)
I'm at 42,000 words.

That's only 1,000 words more than I said I was at before leaving work... but actually I was rounding up then and I'm rounding down a bit now. It's closer to 1,500 words for the evening since getting off of work.

When I'm at work, I tend to jot down scenes and dialogue fast as they come to me and transfer them to my document pretty fast too. I get two 15 minute breaks and a half hour lunch, and even if I stretch that out a bit I don't really have the time to concentrate on writing an even semi-polished or complete scene. So when I get home, I often spend a lot of time polishing scenes up, rewriting things, etc. I did that tonight -- I deleted at least 500 words or so from scenes that I completely rewrote in a different way. Anyway, overall I'm doing good. For the first time this month I'm ahead of where I should be.

Just in time, too. I was thinking that I had a couple of days still before Thanksgiving, but I'll be heading down tomorrow night after work, so I'm not sure how much I'll get to write tomorrow. We'll see.

I'm not sure how much of Chapter 22 is done just yet. It's still taking shape, but this time yesterday there weren't even any completed scenes and I had 2 or 3 mutually exclusive opening scenes, and they all sucked. It wasn't until I woke up this morning that I knew how to write the first scene of chapter 22 correctly.

The Genma kidnap plot hasn't started yet. That may not start until chapter 23, and if so it may extend into a chapter 24.

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