Day Four.

7208.

Doing pretty well. I’ve been consistently ahead, since I managed to start day 1 with over 2k–I’m still about five, six hundred ahead even though it’s only 11:40 pm today, since I got a headstart from being over 1000 ahead yesterday. (Egad.) I’m pretty excited, although a lot of the prose is awkward so far and the planning a little hackneyed. I can edit later. Two days, and wordcount bribery ahoy!

DAY TWO

AND SIX HUNDRED WORDS AHEAD~

4034!!!!!!!

It’s not very interesting, aside from the prologue, but it’ll pick up in a chapter or two. My mantra is “I can always edit later.”

HAHAHAHA

It’s an hour-fifteen into NaNo and I’m already at 1215 for wordcount. Boo-yah.

Hahahahaha.

Yes, it’s one o’clock in the morning!

Granted, this is all probably because this chapter was based heavily on the prototype story that I wrote in March, but I’m hoping this is a good sign.

Decisions, Planning, etc.

Well, I think I decided I’m going to go for the project with the working title “A Wizard’s Work,” mainly because I want to get away from European-esque fantasy and castles and do something a little different. So we’re going to be writing in 1880s America.

The only real problem I have is that I don’t seem to have an antagonist, which I, well, need. I know what they do–I just don’t know who they are. I toyed with having it be the protagonist’s mother, or someone posing as her, but I just don’t know what their motivation is. And I’ve only got three days, so it’s time to think fast.

Wordcount Bribery

AKA: A good use for gift cards, Y/N?

10k: How Can We Be Silent, BarlowGirl
20k: Hourglass, Kate Rusby
30k: Girl Genius, Vol. 1
40k: Whatever the heck I want, because it’s 40k
50k: NaNo T-shirt

I figure that’s pretty good intervals. Last year I had them clustered at the beginning because I had no idea whether I was going to finish or not–but now that I know I can theoretically do it, I’m spreading out the incentives over the whole 50k.

Working on roughly what era to set the story in. Think I’m going to go for a slightly different geographical setting, just for interest.

Busy

Have been very busy lately, but I think I’ll be prepared in time for NaNo. If I can even manage it this year with my schedule, that is, but if I have to drop out, that’s okay. (I can still say that I’ve won once, anyway.) I’ve been doing some outlining for the various ideas that I have bouncing around in my head, and a couple of them are starting to solidify, so that’s good news.

Now to come up with some wordcount bribes for myself to get me to 50,000…

WINNERRRRRRR!!

50,003 at last validation.

WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

The Home Stretch…

49,350 words. 650 left to go.

No excuses, now. Unless I either die or suffer injuries in the next 24 hours which make it impossible for me to type, I’m going to finish.

This is a really cool feeling.

Day Twenty-Seven Report

Coming in at 46,545, over 1.5k over where I need to be! Yesterday I managed a lot of words, ending up at over 1.7k+, which is pretty darn amazing for me. Currently I’m looking at having to write just over 1.1k every other day until Thursday.

So NaNoWriMo’s drawing to a close. This is it. This is: THE END. I’m hoping to have the team get their acceptance letter before the end of November, which may happen. I also finally figured out what Maureen does, and it’s pretty cool, although I’m going to have to go back and change a few things. (Note to self–people able to see magic of other family members; accounts for Maureen not being seen as unusual by own family.)

I think things are falling into place.

You know, I never thought I’d get this far. Before I started I told myself, “I’m fine if I make it to 30k. 20k, even.” And now I’m less than 4k away from the big 50.

I’m proud of myself. If I can do this, surely I can do anything! (Now all I have to do is figure out how to finish this monstrosity.)

Days Twenty-Five (late) Twenty-Six (early) Report

So, currently JNW gives my wordcount at 43,678 while the NaNo validator gives me 43,940. I have no idea why, but that’s really awesome.

So we’re almost almost almost to the cool part of the book, where they start training for the tournament and then go to the tournament and pwn everyone. And I’ve just realized that this is going to be a really, really, really long book if I don’t cut some stuff out.

Hm. Well, I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it. Right now, my job is just to write and get that word count to 50k.

On the bright side, today we get another shot of Megalomaniac, Haruhi Suzumiya-channeling Anabelle. Like I’ve said, she’s sort of a cross between Suou Tamaki, Suzumiya Haruhi, and Regina George, which, as you might guess, makes for a very interesting character.