Words/Time:  45 minutes doing preliminary work for finishing the new outline of “The Seeger Book.”

I was starting to think this character interview is just a stalling tactic. But what I’m actually realizing is that I am writing an outline for the story in a way. This is a side to the story that the reader won’t see much of. Just the parts that push through to the protagonist’s side. But it’s going to be really helpful to have all of this down when it’s time for me to go back to the actual outline. The sequence of events is coming out really clearly (I think).

I’m pretty happy to have worked another solid chunk of time that will keep me on track to finishing Camp NaNoWriMo with just a few more words per day as my goal. Monday is coming, and more work that has been my main reason for skipping so many days this month, but we’ll see how it goes.

Words/Time:  43 minutes doing preliminary work for finishing the new outline of “The Seeger Book.”

I’m still working through this character interview with the book’s antagonist. In the past, I have not been above pulling a ret-con in my conversations when my thoughts on something change part way through the conversation. But this one has been long enough, several things have changed, including some comments at the beginning of the conversation. As long as I don’t let it confuse me later when I re-read this, it’s okay.

But then there was one whole section that I realized needed to be different than we’d discussed, and different enough that I had to go back and make some changes. It’s a good thing I use erasable pens. I’m very excited that I’m really starting to get an understanding of the underlying forces at work in this story. I think the empty late-middle of the story is finally starting to get filled in with actual tellable story now too.

I’m hoping to still hit my Camp NaNoWriMo goal by the end of the month. That’s why I wrote exactly 43 minutes today (the amount the site says I have to write every day in order to win). We’ll see how well I continue to do with that.

Words/Time:  44 minutes doing preliminary work for finishing the new outline of “The Seeger Book.”

I don’t have a lot to say about today’s work. I continued my conversation with the antagonist of the book, which I think is now the longest character interview I’ve ever had. And it’s not over yet–I’m really starting to get more of a handle on this story, thanks to this conversation, so I’m not stopping ’til I’m satisfied.

According to the Camp NaNoWriMo site, I only have to work 43 minutes per day in order to still meet my goal this month. But that’s if I do it every day. And I’ve been struggling with working on writing every day. Because I work every day, and it’s soul-sucking work.

Words/Time:  37 minutes doing preliminary work for finishing the new outline of “The Seeger Book.”

And this is why it’s better to do at least a little writing work every day. The last time I posted, I said that in my conversation with one of the antagonists of the book, I had one more bit of information to get out of the character before moving on to lay out the plot points and see where we hit questions. But today…I had no idea what the bit of information was. Because I missed 3 days of writing, I read over the conversation so far, and read some other thoughts I’d written out on Friday when I last worked on this.

Doing this did lead me to some more solid ideas for the mystery-solving side of the story, so I’m glad for that. And then I decided to just go ahead and start talking to the antagonist about the events leading up to the climax. Hopefully if there really is something else I need to ask her outside of this, I’ll remember it along the way. Also hopefully I won’t keep taking days off.

Not surprisingly, I’m about 2 hours behind par for the goal I set for Camp NaNoWriMo. I may not win this month, but if I can keep coming back to the writing without letting this turn into another month-long break (or worse), it’ll still be something.

Words/Time:  55 minutes doing preliminary work for finishing the new outline of “The Seeger Book.”

I continued the character interview with the antagonist of the book. There’s just one more bit of information I want to get from this person, and then we will lay out the things that happen “behind the scenes” in the book, so I can see if any of it will actually be seen in the book in some way. I can’t quite remember why I thought this was an answer to my missing later section of the book, because most of it is really just lending itself toward a better climax. I can only think of one scene it adds, so it’s not exactly a huge filler. But we’ll see what the rest of the conversation brings.

I didn’t write for the last 2 days, so I’m about 50 minutes behind in the goal I set for Camp NaNoWriMo. I’m so over this work I’m doing–this work that leaves me wanting to do nothing more than play games in the evening. It will eventually end, but not soon enough. I’m glad to be making progress though, however sporadic.

Words/Time:  33 minutes doing preliminary work for finishing the new outline of “The Seeger Book.”

I continued the character interview with the antagonist of the book. I want to make sure I’m not just dragging this out to avoid going back to the harder work of the outline, but I can tell there are some more details to the new idea I just came up with yesterday that I still need to know. So I won’t stop until I feel I’ve exhausted the topic.

I’m only about 15 minutes behind par in the goal I set for Camp NaNoWriMo. I’m excited to have the thoughts flowing again, even if I am stopping earlier in the night than I normally do because I just want to go do something mindless to prepare for another day of mind-numbingly boring and aggravating work.