the bathroom window

Blue Sky & River
Working on: Boss battle
Word for this chapter: 1277

I am so behind this year; November was unexpectedly busy for me. I think I can do this, though.

The Gabled Window
Working on: The end!
Word for this chapter: 2514

Yeah, I got this.

Congrats to people who've already won!

I can't believe how different my word counts are:

NaNo - 37144
Google Docs - 38118
Written? Kitten! - 38527

I call shenanigans!

Catching up on NaNo this weekend. November's been a busy month - lots of school work and other responsibilities - and now I have to contend with both Skyrim and Skyward Sword. Video games! I ask you!

This draft is awful. Maybe a smidge better than last years, but still eye-bleedingly bad. Most of the cast is nameless (I've got Name, Namer, Dickface, Name, Nambles, Name, and Name-Name), half the word count is from directionless conversation ("What do you want to do today?" "I don't know - What do you want to do?"), and I've jumped forward in time so many times that I completely lost when the story is taking place. And also while I might be able to hit the 50k, the story won't be anywhere near done. So all in all, a relatively successful NaNo! I wish I were one of those people who are able to develop perfect manuscripts, who plot everything in their heads and then merely have to let their fingers walk over the keyboard to get it all down. My method of writing is to vomit up letters and hope that words come out of the mess.

Done with 58 minutes to spare! Khunamaar had a bittersweet ending - her lover left her and her brother was killed, but she did save the world from a zombie apocalypse, so I guess everything works out in the end. Yay Khuna!

My three main characters have names now, which is certainly an improvement from call them BROTHER, DUDE, and KARACTER. But one step forward two steps back: I've lost the plot. I swear I had one at some point. Now my main female character is sort of just wandering around looking at stuff. No interaction. No strife. No plot. Hoping to remedy that soon.

I'm surprised I've been able to keep up with Nano. At the moment I'm about a day behind schedule, which isn't so bad. I'm doing better than I did last year on keeping up with word counts.

I got into a conversation with Vanessa about Nano yesterday when we were talking about lugging computers around and our professor came over to talk about novel writing with us. They asked me about my story and how its progressing, and I had to admit that it's mostly random ramblings based on whatever I happen to be doing at the moment. I don't know how people get publish-quality writing out of Nano. Or out of first drafts in general. Maybe I'm just sloppy.

Second day of Nano! I got a surprisingly good amount of writing done on the train yesterday, which gives me more confidence that I might be able to win this year. I was worried that I'd have too much school work to do, but since I can't do much on the train anyway, this looks like it'll work out.

My plot's a'chugging along, although my characters don't yet have names. And I don't have a title. Whatever!

Just logged into my NaNo account.

Feels good, man.