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Day 25, TINSEL RAIN NaNoWriMo: 51377/60000.

Filling in holes! So many, many holes.

Day 24, TINSEL RAIN NaNoWriMo: 49347/60000.

So close to the 50K point. Close enough I was half tempted to burn my way through, but I decided to keep to the pace. Besides, TINSEL RAIN is still not quite a book at this point. I’m gonna need every word of that 60K. 80K, really.

Day 23, TINSEL RAIN NaNoWriMo: 47328/60000.

Technically, the number is 50,000, so I could technically finish tomorrow or Wednesday. Realistically, it should be 80,000 but that’s really hard to do in a month without special training and no distractions. 60,000 is at about the height of my current prowess.

But I did write the ending today. Now we start throwing piles of words at places that I skipped over the first time!

Day 22, TINSEL RAIN NaNoWriMo: 45293/60000

I have no shame.

Day 21, TINSEL RAIN NaNoWriMo: 43260/60000

I’ll hit 50K before Thanksgiving, at this rate. Which is nice. Real nice.

Day 20, TINSEL RAIN NaNoWriMo: 41246/60000

Went well, although I’m going to need that extra 20 grand in wordcount to make this book coherent when it’s done. Also: margaritas! I wrote before I drank, don’t worry. But the week I had more or less required a discreet amount of tequila.

Day 19, TINSEL RAIN NaNoWriMo: 39208/60000.

Back in the saddle again! And almost at 40K words, too. Things are still on the beam.

Day 18, TINSEL RAIN NaNoWriMo: 37138/60000.

Today was almost a complete bye day – my youngest had to go to the dentist to get some baby teeth taken out, and that more or less torpedoed my schedule – but I did manage to get enough of my brain together to write some fight scene. Fortunately, I have a buffer, so I’m still ahead of my target number! Unfortunately, I now need to rebuild the buffer before Thanksgiving! Ach, well.

Day 17, TINSEL RAIN NaNoWriMo: 36392/60000.

60% done! Huzzah. It’s starting to feel kind of like a book, although this one isn’t being written all that sequentially. And, honestly, there’s 20K words that need to be added to TINSEL RAIN after NaNoWriMo*.

*I’d also like to note how there’s a tuckerization opportunity for TINSEL RAIN, courtesy of the new Kickstarter. Get your name in the book! One spot left!

Day 16, TINSEL RAIN NaNoWriMo Kickstarter: 34374/60000.

It’s starting to cohere. Maybe. I think. Gonna be a Frankenstein* of a book at 60K, though. I need to add at least 20K to it… probably next year.

*Somebody recently noted that knowledge is knowing Frankenstein’s creation is the monster; wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein himself is. I more or less agree with this.