This is a little crazy. In a month where I'm adding all this obligatory writing into my schedule with nanowrimo, I shouldn't be making even more work for myself by deciding I'm going to blog about the experience as well. And yet here I am.
The day started off to a...late start in a way. Most years I attempt to start writing at midnight but vhis year I was at the annual halloween party which went on longer than I think anyone expected. I got home at aboout three in the morning. Exhausted. Somehow, I still didn't end up going to sleep until about five though.I ended up getting woken up at around 8:30 which is probably a good thing since I had a brunch thing with a friend at 10:30. Somehow I made my way out of bed and onto a bus. it's probably good I didn't get too much sleep anyway. It would have more likely just made me more tired.
"Before-sleep" wordcount: 0
After the brunch (at Le Petit Culierre, which is an awesome teashop on East Braodway) I headed to the write-in at West Van Memorial Library. Ususally I wouldn't consider going there since I'm situated in Surrey and it would take me near forever to transit but, hey, I was downtown already and I was severely failig on the word thing.
I have to say, this library is really interesting looking. It has stone walls and random nook-like alcoves. I thought it was pretty cool. The write-in itself was...empty. When I got there at about two pm, only one other person was there and i caught her just as she was about to leave. While I was alone, I started working my way through his torturous scene where my character is ten and cuts vegetables and spies on a patron in the main room of her parents' pub. It's really a stupid scene of almost no importance but I had to start somewhere and I wanted to develop a sort of baseline for my character's personality before crap starts happening to her.
Anyway, I got about 300 words hammered out before someone else arrived. Is it bad I don't remember her name? I did the small talk thing for a while and found out about the story she was writing. his may or may not have been a ploy to put off getting back to my scene which I was struggling over. Eventually we got to writing and I was able to figure out where I wanted my scene to go. It took some effort though.Last year, things just sort of flowed out of me like water at the start but this time it seems to be taking some time. I finished the scene though. Evil scene. *glares*
Scene 1: 568 words
This immense hurdle over, I happily sipped at the coffee my writing friend had been kind enough to grab me. By the way, it's really cool that the cafe gives out free coffee to the nanowriters. I approve of this.
Contemplating the notebook before me, I decided to do a scene of my character escaping a volitile town. I'm a bit iffy on details of her history so I didn't really know where this would head but I figured she'd have done this at one point or another. It ended up devolving into a tangent on how she and her brother Daniel became couriers. By the way, she and her brother are couriers. Apparently. I didn't know this before now but I'm going with it. Unfortunately, it hit five pm and we had to vacate before I could finish the scene so it's just sort of hanging there right now. I'm thinking of mentioning how the two are looking for their younger siblings in this scene but we'll see what happens.
Scene 2: 361 words.
Words today: 929...apparently. 20 more than I thought I had when I did the math in my head earlier. This is good. Not as good as 1667 words though, which is the average that must be maintained to succeed this month. Somehow I'm thinking I'm not going to get any more words in my story done tonight. I'm a bit on the tired side.
Words to go: 49,071
New average that needs to be done: 1693
Should be finished by...Dec. 23rd. Right. No way. I'm going to have to finish scene 2 tomorrow and do some extra writing to bring up that average. I still haven't set up my excel stuff which I'll probably do tonight. Also, I should really check on my Storywrite group. i need to put up like a million topics, including widgets. I've been ignoring them, sad to say.
So hopefully I don't bail on this blog tomorrow and you get to hear my further adventures in Nanoland. Until then, a shoutout to all those writers out there. Good luck!
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