Today I hit 29,751 words. My goal was to hit 30k by the end of the weekend, but I don't think I'm going to make it. I've finished Chapter Two, which was difficult, because I had to get my character over a couple of emotional and geographical humps so he can end up in the place where he spends the rest of the novel. I suppose I could throw in forty-nine more words to hit my self-imposed mark, but no, that's okay. I struggle with the subconscious inclination to pad this story as is, and I'm not going to start doing so deliberately now. Besides, I'm well ahead of schedule. By now, mid-point in the month, I should be at 25,000 words even, so I'm a couple of days in the black. Not that I'm going to rest on those laurels, but I need to spend a little time figuring out what happens next. He's going to meet a variety of new people, my MC, and I need to sort them out in my head before I start writing about them.
The NaNoWriMo web site allows you to plug in daily word counts as you go along. I'm pretty good about updating this after I'm done for the day, although not always, but this gives me a pretty good idea of how I'm doing and how I've been doing. I'm quite pleased with myself so far. Let's see if I can do this well the rest of the month, but I feel a little pressure to finish early. Whoever decided to put this in the same month as a tryptophan-laden feast was clearly not from the U.S., and I'm afraid if I don't hit my 50,000 words by November 25, I may not finish at all.
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Congrats! It's always nice to be in the black (I rarely am, by much at all) but it's good insurance against that shitty day at work, when writing is the last thing you want to do at the end of the day.
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