PBW Stories

NaNoWriMo Day #23

Today's Stats:

Wordcount: 3211
Total Wordcount: 54190
Pages: 14
Total Pages: 251
Time: 5:00 am - 8:30 am
Sessions: 1 @ 3 hours with three ten-minute hourly breaks

Labels: NaNoWriMo 2009

NaNoWriMo Day #22

Since I've hit my goal of 50K I'm going to shift around my WIPs now and spend more time with the contract work. I still plan to keep working on this, so I'll keep posting my wordcounts until the end of November.

Today's Stats:

Wordcount: 966
Total Wordcount: 50979
Pages: 5
Total Pages: 237
Time: 8:00 am - 9:00 am
Sessions: 1 @ 1 hour, no breaks

Labels: NaNoWriMo 2009

NaNoWriMo Day #21



Passed 50,000 words just a few minutes ago -- I did it!

Today's Stats:

Wordcount: 1976
Total Wordcount: 50013
Pages: 10
Total Pages: 232
Time: 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Sessions: 1 @ 2 hours, no break

Labels: NaNoWriMo 2009

NaNoWriMo Day #20

My work & family schedules were pretty tight today, so I did one extended writing session this morning versus the usual two. I thought I'd try to work in another this afternoon, but an emergency job came in so that didn't happen.

Story-lengthwise I've hit the middle of the novel, and sticking faithfully to the outline so the running threads don't thin or start sagging. Two of the minor characters performed according to spec, but a third decided to get mouthy on the page and I've marked that scene for a complete rewrite once the novel is finished.

Things are rolling along pretty well, I think. Once I hit the 50K mark I'll begin the conflict transition from building to resolving. That's when the intensity will be the thing I have to watch -- like Jenga, exciting to play with but easy to cause to collapse.

Today's Stats:

Wordcount: 2227
Total Wordcount: 48037
Pages: 10
Total Pages: 222
Time: 8:00 am - 11:00 am
Sessions: 1 @ 3 hours, no break

Labels: NaNoWriMo 2009

NaNoWriMo Day #19

Not as much fun as yesterday, but it was another good, solid writing day. I'm off to take one of the progeny to the orthodontist now.

Today's Stats:

Wordcount: 2682
Total Wordcount: 45810
Pages: 12
Total Pages: 212
Time: 8:00 am - 10:00 am, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Sessions: 2 @ 2 hours with 30 minute break in between

Labels: NaNoWriMo 2009

NaNoWriMo Day #18

What a great writing day.

I held onto him until I found my balance and smiled up at him. “Why would I run away from you?”

“You hate me,” he said. “You want me dead. If I walked in front of your convy, you’d run me down in the street.”

“Is that what you think?”

“It’s what you’ve said you’d do,” he reminded me, “along with shoving a spell scroll down my throat, using a rusted blade to relieve of my manhood, setting my carriage alight with me locked in it, and oh, yes, my personal favorite, hiring a thug to toss me over my own cliffs.”

“Lucien, Lucien.” I kept beaming as I stroked my hand up his arm and curled it around his neck. “Have you no understanding of women?”

“Evidently not.”

“Let me show you what I’ve always dreamed of doing to you.” I pulled his head down toward mine, and as soon as his eyelids drooped and his mouth parted I clutched his neck and rammed my knee into his groin.

It was like that all morning. I love writing pissed-off women. :)

Today's Stats:

Wordcount: 3100
Total Wordcount: 43128
Pages: 13
Total Pages: 200
Time: 8:00 am - 12:30 pm
Sessions: 2 @ 2 hours with 30 minute break in between

Labels: NaNoWriMo 2009

NaNoWriMo Day #17

Just this: got my game back. :)

Today's Stats:

Wordcount: 3435
Total Wordcount: 40028
Pages: 17
Total Pages: 187
Time: 8:00 am - 11:00 am, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Sessions: 2 -- 1 @ 3 hours; 1 @ 1 hour; 90 minute break in between

Labels: NaNoWriMo 2009