NaNoWriMo 2015: Day 17

Interesting day today. My morning writing session was consumed by middle-of-the-book brainstorming. That is, I got to a point where I needed to assess where the book was headed. That’s natural for me...but not usually during NaNoWriMo when I need to maintain a pace. Almost all of my breaks at the day job were dedicated to brainstorming scenes. After family time and watching THE FLASH, I only started writing tonight after 10pm. I really don’t like writing at night anymore, but I had to tonight. I’ll be back bright and early tomorrow morning at my usual time.

Day 1: 3464 (3464 total; 46,536 remaining)
Day 2: 2325 (5789 total; 44,211 remaining)
Day 3: 2637 (8426 total; 41,574 remaining)
Day 4: 1709 (10,100 total; 39,900 remaining)
Day 5: 1732 (11,900 total; 38,133 remaining)
Day 6: 2453 (14,320 total; 35,680 remaining)
Day 7: 1767 (16,087 total; 33,913 remaining)
Day 8: 2371 (18,458 total: 31,542 remaining)
Day 9: 1712 (20,170 total; 29,830 remaining)
Day 10: 2023 (22,193 total; 27,807 remaining)
Day 11: 2181 (23,374 total; 25,626 remaining)
Day 12: 1801 (26,175 total; 23,825 remaining)
Day 13: 2008 (28,183 total; 21,817 remaining)
Day 14: 3539 (31,722 total; 18,2789 remaining)
Day 15: 2177 (33,899 total; 16,101 remaining)
Day 16: 1775 (35,674 total; 14,326 remaining)
Day 17: 1703 (37,377 total: 12,623 remaining)

NaNoWriMo 2015: Day 16

Two things combined to lessen my word count today. The first was various meetings at the day job. It knocked me out of my regular breaks which are the times I write. The second was the fuzziness of the scenes. The first scene all but wrote itself, but the second scene I had to write today I didn’t finish. I wasn’t too sure how to proceed despite what I know much occur in the scene. The vicissitudes of the writing vs. the outline finished on 31 October didn’t quite match. It’s actually not a bad thing to stop in the middle of a scene. Come 5am tomorrow, I know exactly where to start.

Day 1: 3464 (3464 total; 46,536 remaining)
Day 2: 2325 (5789 total; 44,211 remaining)
Day 3: 2637 (8426 total; 41,574 remaining)
Day 4: 1709 (10,100 total; 39,900 remaining)
Day 5: 1732 (11,900 total; 38,133 remaining)
Day 6: 2453 (14,320 total; 35,680 remaining)
Day 7: 1767 (16,087 total; 33,913 remaining)
Day 8: 2371 (18,458 total: 31,542 remaining)
Day 9: 1712 (20,170 total; 29,830 remaining)
Day 10: 2023 (22,193 total; 27,807 remaining)
Day 11: 2181 (23,374 total; 25,626 remaining)
Day 12: 1801 (26,175 total; 23,825 remaining)
Day 13: 2008 (28,183 total; 21,817 remaining)
Day 14: 3539 (31,722 total; 18,2789 remaining)
Day 15: 2177 (33,899 total; 16,101 remaining)
Day 16: 1775 (35,674 total; 14,326 remaining)

NaNoWriMo 2015: Day 15

After my personal best day yesterday, I’m down to a more reasonable 2,177 words today. I got slowed because I needed to rethink a few things in my flexible outline. Late last night, I reach a scene that I had mapped out back in October. The only problem was that, after actually going through the writing process, the scene as envisioned didn’t work. So I tweaked it. And then I had to tweak another one. And then a brand-new scene emerged.

Oh well. Progress was made and the story moved forward.

This is the exact halfway point of the month and the novel. At the start of the month, I said that my only goal was to complete the novel by month’s end regardless of word count. I think my pace proves that I’ll likely reach 50,000 and beyond, but my goal is still a completed novel, no matter the word count. If the story sudden resolves itself in 10,000 words, then it’s a win.

I hope y’all’re doing well. Onward and upward!

Day 1: 3464 (3464 total; 46,536 remaining)

Day 2: 2325 (5789 total; 44,211 remaining)

Day 3: 2637 (8426 total; 41,574 remaining)

Day 4: 1709 (10,100 total; 39,900 remaining)

Day 5: 1732 (11,900 total; 38,133 remaining)

Day 6: 2453 (14,320 total; 35,680 remaining)

Day 7: 1767 (16,087 total; 33,913 remaining)

Day 8: 2371 (18,458 total: 31,542 remaining)

Day 9: 1712 (20,170 total; 29,830 remaining)

Day 10: 2023 (22,193 total; 27,807 remaining)

Day 11: 2181 (23,374 total; 25,626 remaining)

Day 12: 1801 (26,175 total; 23,825 remaining)

Day 13: 2008 (28,183 total; 21,817 remaining)

Day 14: 3539 (31,722 total; 18,2789 remaining)

Day 15: 2177 (33,899 total; 16,101 remaining)

NaNoWriMo 2015: Day 14

Finally! I had the best day of the entire month today: 3,539 words comprising four chapters. Up until today, the best day was Day 1 with 3,464. Sure, I didn’t pass the threshold by much, but I passed it.

And I passed 30,000 words today. By my spreadsheet, I’m approximately 8,000 words ahead of schedule. What that means is that I could not write for over 4 days and I’d still be on track to finish 50,000 by the end of the month.

But I won’t be doing that. Late tonight, a new wrinkle I didn’t foresee cropped up. I’ll have to do a little deliberation tomorrow to determine how best to proceed. But proceed I will.

Onward and upward.

Day 1: 3464 (3464 total; 46,536 remaining)
Day 2: 2325 (5789 total; 44,211 remaining)
Day 3: 2637 (8426 total; 41,574 remaining)
Day 4: 1709 (10,100 total; 39,900 remaining)
Day 5: 1732 (11,900 total; 38,133 remaining)
Day 6: 2453 (14,320 total; 35,680 remaining)
Day 7: 1767 (16,087 total; 33,913 remaining)
Day 8: 2371 (18,458 total: 31,542 remaining)
Day 9: 1712 (20,170 total; 29,830 remaining)
Day 10: 2023 (22,193 total; 27,807 remaining)
Day 11: 2181 (23,374 total; 25,626 remaining)
Day 12: 1801 (26,175 total; 23,825 remaining)
Day 13: 2008 (28,183 total; 21,817 remaining)
Day 14: 3539 (31,722 total; 18,2789 remaining)

NaNoWriMo 2015: Day 13

I had a day away from the day job today and I expected to get some more words done. I had some other things crop up and a wonderful dinner with some friends visiting from Canada so my time was used up. Still, I managed to maintain my above-average pace and moved the bar forward.

 

Day 1: 3464 (3464 total; 46,536 remaining)

Day 2: 2325 (5789 total; 44,211 remaining)

Day 3: 2637 (8426 total; 41,574 remaining)

Day 4: 1709 (10,100 total; 39,900 remaining)

Day 5: 1732 (11,900 total; 38,133 remaining)

Day 6: 2453 (14,320 total; 35,680 remaining)

Day 7: 1767 (16,087 total; 33,913 remaining)

Day 8: 2371 (18,458 total: 31,542 remaining)

Day 9: 1712 (20,170 total; 29,830 remaining)

Day 10: 2023 (22,193 total; 27,807 remaining)

Day 11: 2181 (23,374 total; 25,626 remaining)

Day 12: 1801 (26,175 total; 23,825 remaining)

Day 13: 2008 (28,183 total; 21,817 remaining)

NaNoWriMo 2015: Day 12

Big News Today: I crossed the halfway point of the 50,000!

I took a quick time out in my 5am writing this morning to write out the next 12 scenes in order. I have all the note cards pinned to my cork board, but a few new scenes have cropped up and I needed to verify their proper place in the story. I have a three-day weekend starting tomorrow so I’m looking forward to keeping my momentum.

Day 1: 3464 (3464 total; 46,536 remaining)

Day 2: 2325 (5789 total; 44,211 remaining)

Day 3: 2637 (8426 total; 41,574 remaining)

Day 4: 1709 (10,100 total; 39,900 remaining)

Day 5: 1732 (11,900 total; 38,133 remaining)

Day 6: 2453 (14,320 total; 35,680 remaining)

Day 7: 1767 (16,087 total; 33,913 remaining)

Day 8: 2371 (18,458 total: 31,542 remaining)

Day 9: 1712 (20,170 total; 29,830 remaining)

Day 10: 2023 (22,193 total; 27,807 remaining)

Day 11: 2181 (23,374 total; 25,626 remaining)

Day 12: 1801 (26,175 total; 23,825 remaining)

NaNoWriMo 2015: Day 11

Today was the day in which scenes I didn’t foresee made themselves known. That’s perfectly fine. It’s also anticipated. What I like about my style of writing to date is that I create an outline--usually with note cards and/or brainstorming Google Docs file (so I can have it anywhere I am)--and keep it pretty high level. This allows for small nuances to show up and keep the prose interesting. Today was one of those days. Added a new scene that’ll set up later scenes already pre-planned. Good day overall: 2181 words.
 

Day 1: 3464 (3464 total; 46,536 remaining)

Day 2: 2325 (5789 total; 44,211 remaining)

Day 3: 2637 (8426 total; 41,574 remaining)

Day 4: 1709 (10,100 total; 39,900 remaining)

Day 5: 1732 (11,900 total; 38,133 remaining)

Day 6: 2453 (14,320 total; 35,680 remaining)

Day 7: 1767 (16,087 total; 33,913 remaining)

Day 8: 2371 (18,458 total: 31,542 remaining)

Day 9: 1712 (20,170 total; 29,830 remaining)

Day 10: 2023 (22,193 total; 27,807 remaining)

Day 11: 2181 (23,374 total; 25,626 remaining)

NaNoWriMo 2015: Day 10

After barely eking out the minimum quota yesterday, I came back strong today. 2023 words. The funny thing was that the photo I took of my cork board was a little too blurry to read properly. As a result, during my last break at the day job, I wasn’t able to keep writing. Oh well.

As a friend and fellow writer always says, “Onward and upward!”

Day 1: 3464 (3464 total; 46,536 remaining)

Day 2: 2325 (5789 total; 44,211 remaining)

Day 3: 2637 (8426 total; 41,574 remaining)

Day 4: 1709 (10,100 total; 39,900 remaining)

Day 5: 1732 (11,900 total; 38,133 remaining)

Day 6: 2453 (14,320 total; 35,680 remaining)

Day 7: 1767 (16,087 total; 33,913 remaining)

Day 8: 2371 (18,458 total: 31,542 remaining)

Day 9: 1712 (20,170 total; 29,830 remaining)

Day 10: 2023 (22,193 total; 27,807 remaining)

NaNoWriMo 2015: Day 9

All the late festivities from last night led to me sleeping in until 5:15am this morning. I was quite tired and only managed a little over 500 words. Then, long meetings and a deadline limited some of my writing time during day-job breaks, so I had to get to 1667 late tonight. I got there: 1712. Whew. I know I’m ahead of the actual pace and could conceivably write less than 1667 and not be behind...but I like the idea of a daily quota and 1667 is that quota for this month. Heading off to bed now--and stopped the writing mid-scene--so I’ll be refreshed in the morning.
 

Day 1: 3464 (3464 total; 46,536 remaining)

Day 2: 2325 (5789 total; 44,211 remaining)

Day 3: 2637 (8426 total; 41,574 remaining)

Day 4: 1709 (10,100 total; 39,900 remaining)

Day 5: 1732 (11,900 total; 38,133 remaining)

Day 6: 2453 (14,320 total; 35,680 remaining)

Day 7: 1767 (16,087 total; 33,913 remaining)

Day 8: 2371 (18,458 total: 31,542 remaining)

Day 9: 1712 (20,170 total; 29,830 remaining)

NaNoWriMo 2015: Day 8

Lots of things conspired to limit a greater word count: playing in church orchestra, preparing for a birthday dinner, and welcoming good friends visiting from Canada. 2371 words today. Had to fit in the writing between church services and in the spaces during our readying of the house. Thank goodness for being able to write on the iPod.

 

Day 1: 3464 (3464 total; 46,536 remaining)

Day 2: 2325 (5789 total; 44,211 remaining)

Day 3: 2637 (8426 total; 41,574 remaining)

Day 4: 1709 (10,100 total; 39,900 remaining)

Day 5: 1732 (11,900 total; 38,133 remaining)

Day 6: 2453 (14,320 total; 35,680 remaining)

Day 7: 1767 (16,087 total; 33,913 remaining)

Day 8: 2371 (18,458 total: 31,542 remaining)

NaNoWroMo 2015: Day 7

Even though it is a Saturday, I didn’t get much more than the minimum. But I got there and moved the bar forward. 1767 words.
 

Day 1: 3464 (3464 total; 46,536 remaining)

Day 2: 2325 (5789 total; 44,211 remaining)

Day 3: 2637 (8426 total; 41,574 remaining)

Day 4: 1709 (10,100 total; 39,900 remaining)

Day 5: 1732 (11,900 total; 38,133 remaining)

Day 6: 2453 (14,320 total; 35,680 remaining)

Day 7: 1767 (16,087 total; 33,913 remaining)