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Nanowrimo - mid month update

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First off, my new interest here at FJ is Miss Raquel   - to the extent that I am following her at nano (buddy lists!), twitter and her blog.  Devious mystery/suspense writer that I (usually) am, I can feel the beginnings of a character forming.  Antagonist if you really want to know.  Yes, there are benefits to writing darker, twistier things.  One of them being, if you annoy me (or in this case intrigue me in some way) I can spin you off and kill you.  We'll file this tidbit under 'stress relief.'

As of last night I was a hair over 34k words. (for those that don't speak math or business when you see k put in ,000.  If you see m put in ,000,000.  In other words k is thousand and m is million).  I'm a bit ahead of track for my mathematical 1667 words per day for the last 19 days.   At times getting the daily count in has been a challenge.  I have a character who until a few days ago was rather uncooperative in her narrative duties - we seem to have come to some sort of agreement that may have involved bribery on my part in throwing an undesired by the author smut scene just to get her to do her job.  (characters, you create them, you give them life, you give them a world and they don't want to do their jobs.  What's a mother er author supposed to do?)  

I will confess - i am writing drek.  I am allowing myself to write drek.  And I am actually, despite writing drek, considering continuing working on this novel post November.  Granted it is going to take working on plot and character development.  Because my characters are flat.  And when I speed write (which is the only way I know to get through Nano) I tend to default to a bare bones action/dialogue style that leaves descriptive details, emotion and other lovely bits out.  

So onward.  16k more to go.  

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EyeQueue

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But you're *writing*. If it's drek, it can be re-worked later. I keep telling myself every year I'm going to do NANOWRIMO, and have never pulled the trigger. I have about 10 ideas in various states (from notes to chunks of actual text--the longest is about 50 pages), but things keep getting in the way. I need to just carve out the time to work on the most promising one.

Anyway, congratulations! This is inspirational. :)

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@EyeQueue - I've learned to make time for this.  It's my busy time of the year at work.  Granted, this year I didn't prepare like I had in the past.  (Although the last couple of years I've worked with characters from a fictional small town I'd worked with before so the prep wasn't as bad).  

To get your feet wet you might try Camp Nanowrimo in April or July.  You can set your own small goals then.  

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Passed 40K yesterday.

Checked on on Miss Raquel, she is still sitting at 19k per her week or so ago updated self report on the nano site.  

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