The Words: 3606 words today and 50k achieved! After yesterday, I realized I was only around 3500 words away from the end and knew I’d feel ridiculous if I took 3 more days to write that many words. I used to crank 2500-3000 words out daily during November. I didn’t have the time to devote to that most days this month, but I did today, so I set out to hit 50k and did it!

The Story: After hashing out some important details yesterday, I started a pivotal scene from yesterday over, and got to write a fairly momentous moment. I kind of stopped right before a huge reveal, and since I wasn’t really writing a draft of a book, I don’t know if I’ll ever get back to this. But knowing myself as I do, I wouldn’t be surprised if plenty of what I wrote today will end up in some book in the future after all. It will need a lot of fixing up, though, and not just fixing typos and mistakes. I wrote some things that I realized later were incorrect, so it may be more of an inspiration for future writing than directly used. Still, this was an interesting exploration of a place and time that was just a nebulous void before this month, so it’s pure win!

Total word count: 50,160

Since this is my last day of writing, I want to make sure to share the final episode of the NaNoMusical. Be sure to watch the wrap-up!

The Words: 1287 words today, not bad for Thanksgiving day! I’m so close to the end. In past years, I’d easily knock that much out in one day, but this year has just been so rough.

The Story: I started a new scene today, one I had sort of written about in a past, but briefly, in a character interview with one of the participants. But I’ve changed how I want this to go down since then, and then while I was writing the scene today I questioned even some of that. So I ended up doing some brainstorming to try to figure out how I really wanted the scene to go. Then where I ended up meant that I needed to re-start the scene, so I ended it there and will work on that tomorrow.

Total word count: 46,554

The Words: 1666 words today, about as close to exactly par as I’ve gotten all month. I thought about stopping at 1200 words, since I got such a late start tonight, but I remembered that I may not get more than a few hundred words tomorrow, so I need to save my lead for that.

The Story: I moved on to a completely new scene today, which was actually something that connects more directly with the novel I’m working to publish soon, “Power.” It was fun and a little sad. tomorrow I will probably go another entirely new direction that promises to be quite interesting too.

Total word count: 45,267

The Words: 1866 words today that were actually all in the form of brainstorming. I finally got to a point where the story, which was barely a story to start with, was going nowhere and I had to come up with some scenes to start into. Most of what I brainstormed were just things I already knew was going to happen because they coincide with “Power,” and I really want to try to include a few things that are completely unique to Garend, but I’ll go with what I came up with for now.

Total word count: 33,137
This is a good time to watch episode 4 of the NaNoMusical, where things really heat up!

The Words: 2008 words total for the day, in a sort of repeat of yesterday. I knew I’d be gone in the evening again and that when I got home, I’d probably be doing work around the house until it was time to go to bed. So I carved out 30 minutes in the afternoon and wrote. I thought yesterday’s 1800 words might be a record for a 30-minute sprint for me, but I was really surprised to see today’s count. I didn’t feel like I was typing any faster, so the difference might have been that today I wrote on my computer, while yesterday I wrote on my Freewrite Alpha at the table, which is higher than the keyboard tray on my desk. It’s not super comfortable to write there, plus it’s a smaller keyboard, so I think I type slower overall on the Alpha. Or maybe the words just really flowed today.

The Story: Garend had to incriminate himself by revealing that he’d shared a secret he’d been told not to share with Lex, his mom, and a third character in “Power,” the book I’m nearing publication with. His fears about destroying their lives is finally put to rest, and hopefully (for both our sakes) he’ll be able to move on from this evaluation soon. When my husband suggested showing Garend in Newland because of his story arc in “Power,” I’ll be he expected Garend to actually make it to Newland.

Total word count: 23,261

If the week 2 blahs have got you down (or even if they don’t), it’s a good time to check out the 3rd episode of the NaNoMusical!