Day Sixteen Report

Surprisingly, still on track despite a very busy day. I feel finishing in my future. Currently at 27,218 words.

I feel like my characters aren’t using enough magic for being at a magic school. Maybe I need to stick in some more classroom scenes. Or have Professor Sharpe do some real flashy magic, which she hasn’t really done yet, except to break up the badly-choreographed Anabelle vs Inge fight. I’m terrible at fight scenes.

On the other hand, Anabelle and Inge had a really nice heart-to-heart over detention. I realized that I skipped one of Anabelle’s detention scenes that had some really good Maureen development. I may have to go back and add that in, or change a couple scenes. Or maybe I’ll do that after I hit 50k. Decisions, decisions. Hm. I’ll probably do it after I hit 50k, mostly because I can’t afford to re-write when I need to be producing new material. Besides, what else is December for?

I’m beginning to really think that I’m going to do this. Wow.

Day Five Report, Part I

Apparently the NaNo word count thing that I have lies, because it says that I’m already over count for today, which I am not. In fact, I still have about 800 words to go. Strange. Probably a wonky calculation algorithm or something. Or it has something to do with the time of day. But I’m still at 7555, which is pretty good for 12:36. Still have half a day to go.

Going on with Scenes That I Didn’t Know Existed Until I Wrote Them, I wrote a scene today with Anabelle (MC) going to her school orientation, and managed to introduce two more major characters, though not by name. I’m proud of myself. I was intending for them to be rather generic at first, bit characters, but then I realized — hey, these characters fit the profile of my other characters, so why make new ones?

I think my winning strategy is just writing whenever I have time. In between other things, here there and everywhere. If you can just get one or two hundred words out at a time, if you just do that sixteen or eight times, you’ve got 1600 words, and that’s nearly your daily needed wordcount. It all adds up after a while, even though it seems insignificant.

Lah de dah. More to come later.