Anything Fictional

Word count: 17,680

I was surprised that I managed close to 2000 words today. Besides the fact that I got home from work late, took my time, and squeezed in a new episode of Heroes, I expected to write a thousand words at most before going to bed.

That is, complete a single scene. Not a difficult goal for any given day. So far, I’ve been aiming to get a single scene to be about 1,000 words. This particular scene, possibly one of the most important in the book took an interesting – and I hope, touching – direction about half way through, and I decided to let it run through to completion. So by the end of the scene, it was close to 2,000 words. Most likely I will let it stand alone as its own chapter.

It’s great when your subconscious gives you these great ideas that had never occurred to you before sitting down to write.

Word count: 15,765

I feel bad right now – I’ve just completed the first part of my NaNoWriMo novel, and I’ve done something very awful to my main character. I always knew it was coming, and it is necessary for putting the story on it’s true course, but I don’t like it at all.

It’s late Sunday night here, and I’ve just completed a few hours writing after getting back from a weekend in Sydney. I didn’t get time to do any writing yesterday, and even though I felt like I should have, I figured that I deserved a break after a week of solid writing already complete. I’d wanted to write this particular scene on Friday night, but I felt like it needed or deserved some dedicated time rather than just writing it in fits and spurts.

I’m still on track though – or 235 words short of my 2,000 / day word goal for Day 8.

Word count: 14,224

Once again, there seemed to be no end to the distractions tonight. The more I do NaNoWriMo – and writing in general – the more I realise that it’s much better in the long term to learn to write despite distractions, not to avoid them completely.

It was only about 1,200 words tonight, but I’m in a good position for not worrying or stressing over my word count on the weekend. Even if I can squeeze in 1,000 words a day, by Sunday I’ll still be on track for my own goal of 2,000 words a day. Even if I do nothing for the next 2 days, I’ll still be on ahead of schedule of a 1,667 / day word goal. So not bad…

The very next scene for me to right is the First Plot Point – where everything changes! Should be exciting

Word count: 13,030

Managed to add almost 2,000 to my word count today. Didn’t get to writing till about 8:30pm, and wrote till about midnight. I’m finding that writing at the pace of roughly 1,000 / 1.5 hours is comfortable, and doesn’t feel too rushed. It means I’ve gotta find 2.5-3 hours a night to write, which can definitely be difficult at times, but I’m at least happy with the quality of what I’m writing.

Word count: 11,169.

Still managed to make a decent addition to my word count for the day. Had some friends over for dinner – we went out to Andy’s YumCha in Essendon after work, and they came back to our place for coffees afterwards. Also chatted to my mum for half an hour – her and Dad are off on a holiday to Western Australia tomorrow.

Finally managed to get to some writing at about 9:30pm – did a normal day’s word count somehow. God bless outlining and knowing what scene I wanted to write!