It was the day before the day before Thanksgiving...

Its Tuesday. Since I last posted I have moved my word count upwards of 25,000. I should be around 33,000 words by now, so I need to pick up the pace and make some real progress over the Thanksgiving Holiday. Luckily I will be riding the train for 4.5 hours on Turkeyday up to my family in Fort Worth, so I plan to sit in the observation car, plug in and tear up writing. The internet connectivity is typically non-existent on the train, so no distractions. I do wish that the Amtrak train that runs the San Marcos - Fort Worth route would get outfitted with it though. Makes doing research on the fly very difficult as cell coverage is also quite limited in the more remote points of the trip.

As I go back and look at my writing thus far, I find that almost all of my chapters, or sections are right around 8,300 words. Is that coincidence you think? Is that just my style, or where my mind thinks good breaks in the story should happen? I dunno, but it is kinda freaking me out.

I mentioned in my last post that I had come up with a way to merge the real world and my fantasy world together, so I have been juggling between just writing in the real world and moving back into my fantasy land to finish off the last chapter I was working on. I have developed my female main character in the real world, her name is Caitlyn. Caitlyn is finishing her studies in Linguistics at Harvard University and has stumbled upon a journal written in an unknown language that has led her to a very remote area where a scientific/archeolgoical dig will reveal findings that shatter everyone's paradigm!

NaNoWriMo Update

Today is the 13th day of NaNoWriMo (yea 13) and I am currently at around 15,000 words. Thats slightly behind where I should be, but I think I will have a chance to catch up to the pace in the next few days.

One of the benefits so far of the exercise in writing, is that I came up with this really cool idea about how to merge my fantasy world with the real world and still keep it all believable (I hope anyway).

So now I have essentially two stories running - one that occurs today in the real world, and one that occurs in the fantasy world in the past. I haven't quite designed how the two will collide, but I plan for them to, I've just got to keep chewing on it in my mind for a while and looking for opportunities.

NaNoWriMo is here!

Oh I am super excited. NaNoWriMo began Nov 1 (All Saints Day, right? Cool!) So I started cranking out new ideas to get the story popping. Plus I get to solicit feedback on what I am writing immediately from others who, lets face it, are only motivated to critique mine so someone else will critique theirs. I am totally ok with that.

I tend to write late in the day (evening). I write better in the dark, and better in the winter. Don't know why, but that is when my creative juices really flow.

Today is day 3 of the competition and I am at roughly 8,800 words. As I mentioned in my last post, the goal is to get to 50,000 by the end of the month.

My motivation is high, and I am eager to hear what others think of the story. Off to work I go!