I was just not well prepared this morning and I think it kind of showed.  I went to bed fairly early last night, but earlier I had been trying to work out some problems in Part 2 of the story.  I’d sketched out where the part started and where it would end and tried to…

Today is the 3/5ths mark for NaNoWriMo.  Participants keeping pace should hit 30,000 words today.  I pounded out 2,355 words this morning, bringing my 18-day total to 44,519 words.  That is about the 9/10ths mark, and indeed, I’m now about 14,000 words a head of pace, or more than 8 days.  It is a good…

I had the most fun this morning that I’ve had so far working on the novel.  My goal was to write Chapter 18, which I’d outlined as a fun chapter to write, and that turned out to be the case.  In fact, despite starting promptly at 5am, I couldn’t bring myself to stop and it…

This was the toughest morning so far.  I wasn’t enthusiastic about writing Chapter 17 which probably meant that I needed to reconsider it on the outline. When I got downstairs, I had virtually decide to skip the chapter for the day and write the more exciting Chapter 18. But I found myself coming back to…

Today marks the official halfway point for NaNoWriMo.  The challenges lasts for the month of November and November 15 is halfway through the month. Ideally, if you are keeping to pace, you should be at about 25,000 words by the end of the day today.  For the 15th consecutive day I have exceeded both the…

When I wrote my outline for Far Away Places, I had a rough I idea that the story would be told in three parts.  Since I was aiming for 90,000 words, I assumed that each part would represent a third of the novel, or about 30,000 words and I outlined accordingly.  This morning I finished…

I was up at 6:30 this morning as opposed to 7, thanks to going to bed just after 8 last night and getting a full night’s sleep.  I wrote chapter 13 this morning, which consisted of the first three scenes after the climactic Chapter 12.  I got in a total of 2,199 words (would have…

I finished up Chapter 12 at lunch today, adding another 1500 words and bringing my daily total to 3,862 words, which is my best day so far this year.  The extra session brought me past the 30,000 word mark so that my 12-day total now stands at 30,076 words–an average of just over 2,500 words/day.…

Whenever I hit a day where I don’t do quite as good as the previous day, I feel like I’ve missed my mark, and perhaps this is one of the downsides of NaNoWriMo.  In focusing on quantity, a good days writing session, well above your target, still fells like a failure if you didn’t do…

I passed the NaNo halfway mark this morning.  What began as another slow start ended in a mad race for me to wrap up a scene before 7am rolled around and before I knew it, I found I’d finished the day with 2,562 words.  It’s my second best day so far and it brings my…

I thought I was going to be able to tear through the morning and hit 2,500+ words because I was excited about the scenes I was writing, but things moved more slowly than I expected and I ended up with 2,115 for the morning.  That is still good, of course, but I felt like I…

My alarm went off at 5am and I struggled to get out of bed.  Normally I wake up before the alarm, but Zach had a rough night last night and he ended up sleeping right up against me from about 1am on and I was forced into a small corner of the bed and slept…