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NaNoWriMo Day 4

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The Words: 2799 written today. We had the fourteenth meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book this evening, which starts at 9:30 pm and goes anywhere from 11:30-12:30. In preparation for that, I made sure to get some writing in during the day. My daughter joined me again, thus cutting my writing down just a bit. Then, after she was in bed, I had about 45 minutes to write some more, but suddenly my 12-year-old son decided he wanted to try doing NaNo too, so I had to set him up with a laptop. He said he wanted to use writerordie.com, a site that I use for my sprints, so I helped him with that too. In the end, I’m definitely happy to have written more than 1000 words past the daily minimum.

The Story: The second main character has finally been introduced. Her name is Leahna, and she’s a very close friend of the main character of the story I wrote last year. Unfortunately, she’s coming across very snobby and rude. That’s not her at all, but I will have to fix it in editing. I just got to the first part of this story that actually meshes with last year’s story (they run mostly parallel to each other), so it’s hopefully going to be even more fun to write for a little while.

 

Total word count: 17753

day 4

October 28

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Time worked:  3:00

Work done:  Thirteenth meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through 3 1/4 pages, which wasn’t looking good for a while. Then we got past an issue that took us a while, and just flew through the next page and a half. I also spent an hour in the morning working on the TCSTB shared document in preparation of tonight’s meeting.

October 21

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Time worked:  2:30

Work done:  Twelfth meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through just over three pages, and were pretty happy with it.

I have decided not to push myself to continue my individual revision of “Adventures in Pithea,” in anticipation of NaNoWriMo. I don’t want to burn out on the daily evening grind before November even starts. However, I would like to take some time in the next 10 days to write up a story introduction for “Pursuit of Power,” as well as at least one character introduction from the story, all from Drear’s POV (the narrator). We’ll see how that works out.

October 14

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Time worked:  1:30

Work done:  Eleventh meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through two and a half pages, and made a few notes for things to come back to later.

I haven’t posted in a week, and that is thoroughly reflective of the work I’ve done in that time. Actually, that’s not completely true. I did go over my outline for “Pursuit of Power,” the story I plan to start writing for NaNoWriMo in a few weeks. The busy season at my work has reached its conclusion, with the last show we have to go away for happening last weekend. I’ve been tired, cranky, busy, and just generally unable to focus on writing. The once-over I gave my outline happened in the evening at the show, but it was all I could do the whole weekend. These weekly meetings are wonderful, because I know that no matter what, I’ll still be brought back to my story every week. I truly can’t say what my plans are for the next two weeks until NaNo starts. I feel I should keep going forward on my revision for “Adventures in Pithea,” but at the same time, I’m not sure it’s worth dragging myself back into that story, just to completely switch gears to a new story when November hits. But I also don’t feel like it’s good to do absolutely nothing. So we’ll see.

October 7

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Time worked:  2:00

Work done:  Tenth meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through two and a quarter pages, which was further than I expected. We got a little hung up on some descriptions, only to decide we should skip all of that for now.

September 30

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Time worked:  2:30

Work done:  Ninth meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through over two and a half pages, beating last week’s record. We are now into chapter 3. Before the meeting, I also spent some time working on the outline for the story I’ll be writing for NaNoWriMo in a month.