Thanks to other things happening in my life, I got off to a slow start. Just over 1000 words on Day 1. But I started. I went with Heaven's Rejects, though Threefold Witches and Unruly are on stand by. Who knows what will happen. And the start went well enough, despite not getting 1667 words on the first day.
Day 2, and the words came out. I managed to catch up and get a bit ahead. Great news, except I was already planning on being out of town on Saturday on a trip I was looking for. But, briefly ahead, and I figured out how to get one of the elements I wanted in the work in there. For an extra bonus, the element let me add words without necessarily knowing where I was going in the story.
So, Day 3, out of town, but I got 92 words done. It was something, and let me continue my update streak on NaNo's site. This set me up for Sunday, the first library write-in. Write-ins are great - there's energy. Everyone is there also writing. There's writing sprints, short bursts where everyone is encouraged to just right. I came in hoping to get at least 2500 words to catch up and reach the 6667 words I should be at on Day 4. When I arrived, I put down 3000 words for my goal. My final total after the write-in? 3385 words, putting me at 7545 total, ahead of pace.
Coming up, the first full week of NaNo. More write-ins. More writing. And I still need to figure out where I'm going. The characters are interacting, I have a mysterious explosion to solve, by the cast and by me, and some more research to be done. And the research is getting interesting. The location of the explosion turned out to have been remodelled earlier this year. That changes the nature of the mystery, and now I might have an idea of what's going on.
If you want to follow my process, you can check my stats page over the month and see how I'm doing compared to where I should be.
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