The Words: 3490 today.

I set my goal for today at 3000 words again. I did a few word wars with people from my region on Slack first. My word count went down with every sprint we did. I had gone from smooth-flowing dialog into…a love scene. I enjoy romantic scenes (to a degree), but I have a harder time being quick with them.

Then I did some sprints with the @NaNoWordSprints feed on Twitter. I basically told myself to worry less about the emotion in the scene and more about getting through it more quickly. I sped up a little, but mostly it just helped when I got past that part.

The Story: The king and prince finished a somewhat heated conversation with Nathan and Clark. They also offered one of them a job, which I’m not even sure myself if he’ll take, because I didn’t even think of this until today’s writing.

Then we go back to “present” time and the king and prince go back to the capital city.  Events have been set in motion that have ramifications to the entire world!

That may sound very dramatic, but I just realized something unbelievable last night, which probably won’t make sense to anyone except for me. For a long time, I’ve known a huge secret about this world that none of my characters knew. But one of my characters was always destined to blow the lid off that secret, in what I have come to realize will likely be a trilogy of books within the greater series. I have written book 1, but have been unable to pin down what book 2 would entail. Last night, I realized that this might just be book 2! And I am both excited and a little nervous about this understanding. A lot more thinking and brainstorming will have to go into figuring this out. But that is a job for after NaNo.

Total word count: 72,229

Don’t forget to check out today’s NaNoToons if you haven’t already: 2018 – November 26th