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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #60 on: November 05, 2009, 07:51:25 PM »
I'm over 11k. w00t!  :o

Now to figure out how my character is in the twilight zone, how it works and why.
I have a few plot ideas that came to me but how to work them in.

*sigh*

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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #61 on: November 06, 2009, 05:26:37 AM »
Still grinding along,

14014 words......

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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #62 on: November 06, 2009, 02:25:57 PM »
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That's such a nice symmetrical number, I don't want to ruin it...

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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #63 on: November 07, 2009, 02:09:17 PM »
12,673 last night.  I feel like I'm finally starting to get a handle on the thing...
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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #64 on: November 08, 2009, 02:04:24 AM »
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Things have been really busy lately so I haven't had any stellar writing days but I've been able to crank along at right around 2000 words a day. I'm starting to figure out the story more. It's not great by any means but I've got it pointed in the right direction.
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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #65 on: November 08, 2009, 02:14:35 AM »
*rubs her eyes*  800 more words and I can stop for the night, just 800 more words and I can stop for the night. 

*sigh* Ok, let's go drag the werewolves and the witch to the Roman Catholic cathedral and see if Father Christopher's head explodes.
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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #66 on: November 08, 2009, 03:09:54 AM »
I have failed completely.  :'(

I was going to try to catch up for the last three days today, but I just can't get out of my head space and write....

all the while suspecting that if I just wrote, I'd get out of my headspace.  ::)
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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #67 on: November 08, 2009, 03:22:21 AM »
19,277 and I hope to break 20K by the end of the night...

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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #68 on: November 08, 2009, 05:49:07 AM »
Hey, it's not over until November's over. You can still write what you feel like writing.   ;)
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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #69 on: November 08, 2009, 11:46:54 AM »
Still grinding along,
But now my detailed notes are exhausted, just have the chapter heads left....

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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #70 on: November 08, 2009, 06:14:48 PM »
So far, not a single solitary word; colloquium took more out of me than I had feared.
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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #71 on: November 08, 2009, 07:58:50 PM »
I have made it to just over the halfway point.  26k.  I have brought in a lot of people I never expected to, so far:

1) Two cops
2) A landlady
3) Downstairs neighbors
4) A coffee shop owner/best friend
5) A smokin' hot Catholic priest
6) A facist witch and his cronie

The end is taking shape now.  I can see it in the murky distance.  It's going to involve earth soaked with holy water and a dagger shaped like a cross fichy.  I think.  Also, I have a title.  The "just to put something up there" title on the NaNo boards is "Little Black Box", but now I think it's "St. Ninian's Blessing".  Like all good titles, it'll have a dual meaning; the first is most obvious.  The werewolves in my book were created by St. Ninian in response to a bishop's prayer to save his people from a vampire.  So the werewolves don't consider it a curse.  It's St. Ninian's Blessing.

It feels good to break through a wall.  I'm going all Kool-Aid Pitcher Man. Oh yeahhhh!
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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #72 on: November 09, 2009, 03:10:16 AM »
15 k + words and trying to figure out how the last convo between two main characters will work out to something I have planned.

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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #73 on: November 09, 2009, 10:54:46 AM »
I'm getting close to half way by word count, but the action is starting to ramp up, and the resolution is in sight. I guess I will punch it out till the story is over and then go back and expand the thin spots...
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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #74 on: November 09, 2009, 01:30:54 PM »
Passed the 16,000 mark last night.  Anyone else feeling an almost overpowering urge to go back and edit?
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