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Breezeway Blows Town, Day 7:

12725 / 25000 words. 51% done!

Today I wrote 2,626 words (up from 10,099 words yesterday) and passed the halfway point for a half-assed NaNoWriMo goal of 25,000 words, or the one-quarter point for the full NaNo 50K.  It’s starting to look more and more like the full 50,000 words is doable, but you never know.  The big thing that I thought was going to cause all kind of havoc in November turned out to be nothing, which means that it’s just an ordinary month with a major holiday at the end of it.

I’m still in the very early stages of the story; in the last day or two it started to bog down a little, so I finished the early scenes with the Chief Protagonist and moved on scenes introducing to other point-of-view characters for a nice change of pace.

I haven’t gone for a run or gone to the gym since NaNo started, and I feel like a complete slug.  I still don’t know what I’m going to do tomorrow morning — I missed last Sunday’s long run, I don’t know about missing two in a row.  Maybe I’ll take a shorter long run as a compromise.  We’ll see.

Here’s an excerpt from today’s output:

As he fired up a five-dollar Rocky Patel, he heard the crackle of a patch of ice breaking behind him.  “Hello, Felicia,” he said without turning around.  “You’re getting clumsy in your old age.”

Try not to get too excited.

If you’re doing NaNoWriMo, you might want to give a listen to I Should Be Writing #135, which is all about NaNo, including interviews with pro authors and serious WriMos Nathan Lowell and David Niall Wilson, and NaNoWriMo founder Chris Baty.  Host Mur Lafferty is doing NaNo as well.

I just looked back through the archives and it took me exactly a month to get through the first 25,000 words of Meet the Larssons last year, as noted in this post.  I’ve got to believe I can do better now than I did in the first month I started writing again, right?

Now, if you’ll excuse me, Chadicus looks like he’s trying to catch up to my word count. Can’t have that…

No time for an update, it’s ridiculously late. I’m backdating the time stamp on this post by 10 minutes so it hits for the correct day. Been working on work work all evening, so no NaNo progress since the train home. Big day in other news, but that will have to wait until tomorrow or the weekend.

Breezeway Blows Town, Day 4:

7547 / 25000 words. 30% done!

My half-assed NaNoWriMo project continues apace.  While it looks like I’m on track to do a full NaNoWriMo novel at 50,000 words by November 30, I’m painfully aware that it’s only November 4, and a lot can happen to throw a wannabe novelist of his or her game.  I’m sticking to my 25,000 goal until I get a hell of a lot closer to 25K.

I finished rereading Stephen King’s On Writing this morning.  This is my third time reading it, and I think I got more out of it now that I’ve been writing my own fiction for close to two years.  If you’re writing and you haven’t read it, I strongly recommend it, even if you’re not necessarily a fan of King’s work.

I’m falling asleep at the computer pathetically early, but so it is.  It’s 10:37pm, and, after writing both ways on the train, at the ChiWriMo South Loop Write-In over lunch, and again at home, I’m falling asleep on the keyboard of my MacBook.

Here’s today’s chart for my NaNoWriMo progress:

Breezeway Blows Town, Day 3:

5766 / 25000 words. 23% done!

One resource for fellow Wrimos that I’m enjoying is the encore presentation of The Nanomonkeys over at The Secret Lair. This is an encore feed of a short daily podcast that ran during the 2006 and 2007 NaNoWriMos, but is essentially as useful today as it was then. Highly recommended.