Boy and Fox, 10 days in

10K into the story. So far the oddest part has been the creation of GROWL (Grassroots Organization for Werewolf Liberation) and STARVE (Society to Achieve Responsible Vampire Emancipation). Both of which took over twenty minutes each to think up ....

Boy and Fox post

7 days into Boy and Fox (as of last night) and 7K and change written. A much slower pace than nano, but also a very different story. It's about a young man, currently named Boy (he has forgot his name) who is wandering a (the?) spirit world, en route back to his body. He knows he is looking for someone, but is unsure who, or even why. Currently he has been befriended by a fox that was eaten by ogres.

Summing Up

Nanowrimo went rather well, all told. Had four 10K+ days (the last almost 11K), average pace ended up at 6,000 words per day, which is decent. Had two 2K days and six 3K days on the low end. Nano #3 is also the first time I've ever gone: "Okay, I need X words by this day, Y by this day ..." and so on. I'm pretty pleased I managed to finish it with a few days to spare and didn't stress myself over it.

For next year, I'd like to do two 70-80K novel drafts, I think. I have no idea what yet, of course, and probably won't until, say, October.

And done

151515 words, by nanowrimo's count. Brain is dead.

On the plus side, I have now written a lot for nano.

2003, Waking Dreams: 52,214
2004. Higher Ground: 105,857
2005, Guardian Monsters: 54,347
2006, My Cat Used To Be A Buddhist: 50,074
2006, New Fires: 50,857
2007, The Coroner's Tale: at 62,857
2007, Roadside Attractions at the End of the World: 50,314
2008, Necessity and Power: 74,988
2009, Roadside Attractions (new version): 50,269
2009, The Adventures of the Miskatonic Elementary School Kids #1: 50,277
2009, Shadows of Never: 50,002

For a grand total of: 652,056. Damn.

And the 24th

33K total. Tonight could be 5K, but just feeling bleh and need to work earlier than usual so shall end it here (also at the end of a section). Next up is the Emily and Indians scenes, which should be fun. Tiger Lily will have someone to confide in and she'll realize how little power mother's have here and prepare to make a deal with the mermaids to break Marooners Rock and bring Captain Hook back from the dead. With luck.

And an update...

Managed to hit the 25K by Sunday night goal with an hour to spare. Kept going enough to pull off 10,400 words and beat my dad one record of 10,200 and change. Right hand is pretty sore this morning, but I did do almost 19K in 2 days so that's to be expected. (It's frustrating, since before the incident at work involving glass, a window, tendons and so forth I had never had any problems whatsoever with typing.) Now, I think that doing more than 3 nanos (Or, say, 150K itself) in a month isn't physically possible for this hand, even if I could pull it off.

Interestingly, I probably could manage it with the right story if I really wanted to. I wrote barely 100 words and change one day (didn't even bother to update word count) and had a couple of 2K and some weak 3K days. I think next years goal will be a 100k+ single novel, rather than the smaller nanoes and 70K stuff I normally do. Not sure what I'll write, yet, but some of us have been bandying about the idea of a group taking the same basic premise and seeing where everyone goes with it.

22 days in....

And 19K into nano #3. So far the entire family is in Neverland, or on their way to it. (Emily is in Everafter, the girls version of Neverland.) So far I'm doing 5K sections with each of the characters, so shall see how that goes. The story has been pretty fun so far, and it shall be interesting to see how it goes.

So far, plotting includes Peter Pan getting his shadow back when Emily gives him a good spanking, Kirby having to deal with the ramifications of his actions in Neverland and Dan remembering that he was in it years ago, and maybe even learning to fly again. I'm pretty much writing this one seat-of-pants style, so it's coming slower than I'd like.

And end of nano #2!

Clocking in at 50,227. As with many nanoes when I set out fro 50K I tend to hit the last couple of scenes close to the mark, sometimes stretching them a little. It was fun, and some day I may seriously do a sequel in the world. However, my pre-nano project partially involves a high school so I didn't want to throw a school setting into the next nano.

Shadows of Never can be summed up succinctly: "Psychotic child tries to convince man to hack off own hand and become a pirate. In essence." It's going to be more of a thrilleresque story and not at all humourous.

Nano, day 14.

brain dead, quick post: made it to 35K for nano #2. The plot is gathering steam towards the end, various factions marshalling their pawns and the MC is about to find some clues to his own destiny and, possibly, chat to Some Terrible Dread and emerge halfway sane.

And nano for friday the 13th ...

Passed 26K on Miskatonic. I'm hoping to hit ~40K by Sunday, 50 by Tues and if all goes well try for a third nano as a sequel to this one. Currently Clay is trying to deal with finding out his mother is a witch, a difficulty about to be interrupted by a vampire needing his aid and eventually by a pharaoh's daughter. Plot wise, things are coming together quite well: Clay shall realize what he's capable of (and deny it), get involved in a minor school war between the chess club and the cheerleaders and then rescue a substitute teacher from being sacrificed to the Great Old Ones.

Which may cause him to fail math.