NaNoWriMo Day 14
Wrote about 2,000 words, which is good, but most of this is focused on the section I just completed, which was sort of expanded. It needs to happen, but that still, of course, leaves me behind in my project plan. Will keep plugging away.
NaNoWriMo Day 12
Wrote a little bit, nothing much to speak of. Going to spend a good bit of tomorrow night buckling down and getting organized again, ready for another push.
NaNoWriMo Day 11
No writing today. This was a day where my time genuinely needed to be elsewhere, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Well worth it.Intent is for early day tomorrow, starting off with writing.
NaNoWriMo Day 10
I had been shying away from writing. Fell off the wagon Saturday, and had a hard time getting back on until now. Something about this particular chapter. It’s a big fight scene, with multiple factions, and a lot of characters. It’s very busy, which it should be, and I always have trouble with those. It’s understandable for Virgil not to see or notice everything in a situation like that, but the reader still expects to have a narrative, so I have to balance the two. There’s a fight scene in Sorcerer Rising, when they’re in Africa, that had the same issue and it was one of the last things I finalized. And I think I had three, distinct drafts. Anyway, unacceptable for me to not be writing. Procrastinated, worked, slept, did things both worthy and unworthy of my time, but all still excuses not to write. Back on, and finished…