nearly the end
Nov. 29th, 2010 12:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zanzjanWhich is good, since most of you are probably sick to death of these updates.
It was a good writing day today, despite many obstacles including a toddler wide awake at 4:30am and hours of dead internet this evening[1], and I have to say I'm starting to feel almost optimistic about my chances of "winning" NaNoWriMo by straight wordcount, which means that other than adding words to something already in progress (I haven't counted any of the pre-November words in my NaNo total) I pretty much haven't cheated, either. Even more spectatularly, while there are small pockets of suck throughout the draft, I've managed to keep the overall plot structure on track and I think, on the balance, it's really not bad.
Day 28 total: 4243
NaNoCheaMo total: 45,424 (now behind by only ~1200 words)
Novel total: 88,053 (manuscript wordcount)
So I have two days to write a little over 4500 words. I can do that, maybe. If not, I can come really damned close. And you know, that's also going to bring me right up to the actual end of the novel. So there'll be months and months of horrific revisions ahead before it's ready to go anywhere, but a finished first draft is a finished first draft and *always* worth celebrating.
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[1] which you would think would increase my productivity, but instead I spent too much of that time screwing around with my computer, my wireless router, and then with my cable modem before I decided the problem was distinctly upstream from here. A phone call for the purposes of whingeing at my best friend then revealed that the outage was at the very least state-wide, and appeared to be a problem with Comcast's DNS. Feh. At least for now it seems fixed.
It was a good writing day today, despite many obstacles including a toddler wide awake at 4:30am and hours of dead internet this evening[1], and I have to say I'm starting to feel almost optimistic about my chances of "winning" NaNoWriMo by straight wordcount, which means that other than adding words to something already in progress (I haven't counted any of the pre-November words in my NaNo total) I pretty much haven't cheated, either. Even more spectatularly, while there are small pockets of suck throughout the draft, I've managed to keep the overall plot structure on track and I think, on the balance, it's really not bad.
Day 28 total: 4243
NaNoCheaMo total: 45,424 (now behind by only ~1200 words)
Novel total: 88,053 (manuscript wordcount)
So I have two days to write a little over 4500 words. I can do that, maybe. If not, I can come really damned close. And you know, that's also going to bring me right up to the actual end of the novel. So there'll be months and months of horrific revisions ahead before it's ready to go anywhere, but a finished first draft is a finished first draft and *always* worth celebrating.
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[1] which you would think would increase my productivity, but instead I spent too much of that time screwing around with my computer, my wireless router, and then with my cable modem before I decided the problem was distinctly upstream from here. A phone call for the purposes of whingeing at my best friend then revealed that the outage was at the very least state-wide, and appeared to be a problem with Comcast's DNS. Feh. At least for now it seems fixed.
