Wow — as of today we’re on the tail end of the month — a downhill slide toward the final goal.
My word count continues healthy — I broke 33K today with a 1900+ word entry. That makes up for my taking Friday completely off, and being a bit short yesterday.
So here’s the interesting thing. I have very little idea of what comes next. I mean, I know what’s going on behind the scenes (mostly), and where I’m driving (so to speak) toward (sort of), and I have at least one flashback I can take advantage of …
But we’re now leaving the whole “Jill Intro” thing behind (which was about much more, of course, than just getting Jill into the story, though I am very pleased that I did, since clearly I do better when I can banter between characters than when I’m just narrating). Actually, it’s even a chapter break. So the question is — what next?
I suspect I’ll have at least one interlude before we get to Chicago. It might even be something that I’d actually originally planned for the opening scene of the novel. We’ll see.
At one point, I had a grand trilogy planned for this story. I even had three titles, of which “Mind and Matter” was the first (and actually made sense).
Alas, I didn’t write any of it down, which means I have no idea where (at that time) I was planning on taking the story to in this volume. Annoying.
Kitten didn’t have any words today. Again. In today’s case, she had the very legitimate excuse of a huge mass of homework dumped on her head. I need to figure out how to shoe-horn into her schedule somehow. Even if she just does five minutes, that’s five minutes more than nothing.
I have not been quoting from Doyce, or other purveyors of NaNoWriMo advice, of late. Work has been positively crappy, for reasons I can’t go into at the moment, and home has been just as busy. However, he is saying many things of value to the NaNoWriMoist, and while I plan to discuss them individually or in more detail eventually, I commend you to read them for yourself [1].
2 Comments To "Halfway there"
#1 Comment By Avocet On 18-Nov-09 @ 3:25am
Just read the start of Chapter 6. I haven’t been with the CoJ for some time now, and I don’t recognize the descriptions of some of its members, How about a scorecard so we can tell the players?
#2 Comment By Dave On 18-Nov-09 @ 9:34am
In-story, that was intentional. The names were less important than the descriptions (and someone rattling off a list that way, to that purpose, wouldn’t go into names — they would be obvious in that setting, just like someone describing football team members or cast members of a hit movie).
For the sake of the insider crowd, though, she’s referring to Torchielle, Psiren, Velvet, Truly Unstable, Kitsune, Al McGordo, OFFICER, and Kazima and Leilah.