Word count: 15,082.

So I’ve lost now most of the head start on the word count that I developed in the first few days of NaNoWriMo, but as of this moment, I’m still not behind. At 1667 words a day, 15,000 is exactly where I need to be today to be on track.

But knowing that I wouldn’t get much of a chance to write this weekend was precisely the reason for the early sprints that I did. I didn’t get anything done until late in the afternoon and evening today. We’d been out all day catching up with friends in Sydney, and it wasn’t until we got to the airport to wait for our flight back home that I got a chance to pull out the computer and start pounding away at my story.

So I feel like the story is a bit sluggish at the moment. After a solid start in chapters 1 and 2, I kind of feel like chapters 3 and 4 are a little weak. I’m still struggling to work out the guts of the book – if I was to break it into the traditional 3 acts like a play, I think that I’m almost done with Act 1, I have some rough ideas for Act 3 (including the ending), but still have NFI how I’m going to bridge the distance in Act 2. I’ll be setting up a few things in the next few days that hopefully will give me something interesting to write about in Act 2 – there’ll be a high profile murder, an unexpected love interest for my main character – I should be able to find something to work with in there somewhere…