I thought, actually, that I would just write out a few hundred words and claim (my thankfully clearing up) sickness to excuse the rest. But I got back into the groove. I’m still a couple of thousand words behind, but we’ve stopped the falling.
Category: Books
NaNoWriMo, Day 9: 535/1044/13489.
I am, alas, sick. I caught whatever kept my youngest kid out for two days earlier this week, and I am shamelessly combining the prologue that I should have been counting all along with my actual wordcount to come up with today’s number. And now I will probably put up a music video and go to bed.
But I wrote something! I didn’t just use being sick as an excuse not to. Gotta keep plugging away at this.
NaNoWriMo, Day 8: 629/12445.
As I noted earlier and yesterday: I took my wife out for our anniversary this evening. I am pleased that I got this many words out, particularly since there was wine with both dinner and desert. The important thing was to sit down for at least an hour and work. Which I have done, so I suspect that I will be sleeping soon.
NaNoWriMo, Day 7: 1909/11811.
A good day, although one that started slowly. The great test shall be tomorrow. Tomorrow is an anniversary dinner with my wife. We shall probably be home late, and I will certainly will have had a beer, at bare minimum.
Still. almost 12K words. If I’m not careful, this could turn into a book.
NaNoWriMo, Day 6: 1639/9909.
…Today was not a great day in general. It took a while before I could sit down to write anything, in fact. I consider it almost a special miracle that I got 1639 words out today.
But, hey: 10K words tomorrow. Or, more accurately: 11.5K. Maybe even 12K, if the keyboard is hot…
NaNoWriMo, Day 5: 1721/8270.
Geez. At this point I’m going to have over 10K words written within the next two days. I haven’t even gotten that far along in the plot yet!
Patreon microfiction: ‘Fear Not.’
“Fear Not…” ah, angels are fascinating concepts. Fascinating, infinitely suitable for stories, and terrifying beyond rational thought. You can run them through the Michael Landon filter for a while, but… they always snap back to the original conception.
Book of the Week: The Princess Bride.
Yes, The Princess Bride the book is not as good as The Princess Bride the movie. William Goldman was a little sad, and perhaps a little weary, when he wrote it. Keeping that out of the movie was a smart call. But it’s such a good book, nonetheless. It’s unfair to judge it by its cinematic version.
And so, adieu to Anno Dracula: One Thousand Monsters.
NaNoWriMo, Day 4: 1471/6508.
I know that this is not, strictly speaking, long. But 6,500 words is rather longer than what I am used to. Fortunately, I still retain an idea of what happens next. I fear the day in all of this when I will not.
NaNoWrimo, Day 3: 1860/5057.
I woke up this morning and figured out what the book is going to be about. Not the plot, because I more or less knew the plot already. What I hadn’t figured out was the style and conceit of it all. But once I knew what was going on, it was somewhat easier to get the words out.
Although that may be the flu shot. ‘Flu-like symptoms?’ Oh, my, yes. I don’t know whether to crash for a day, or go back tomorrow for another dose.