Friday!

Yay!  It’s Friday and day 4 of Nanowrimo!  So far so good for me this Nano but I don’t want to jinx it so I won’t put into words just how awesome and great I feel like this week has been going.  Or, you know, more words than I just did.

Tomorrow, Saturday, November 5th is Double up Donation day for Nanowrimo.  It’s a day that encourages you to double your daily or total Nano word count and to also double up your donations to the site.  There will be virtual write-ins and word prompts all day long and a chance to win awesome prizes all day long on the site and Twitter.  While I didn’t win any of the prizes last year I did donate because Nanowrimo is such a big part of my year.  Please check out their homepage and learn how you can help Nano raise money and get some cool goodies for yourself.

I would love to double my word count tomorrow for Double up day but my Mother-in-Law is coming to town tonight and tomorrow we are going to see Wicked!  I think it’s fine that I probably won’t double my Nano word count if it means I get to go see Wicked.

I’ve added more words to my novel this past week than I thought I possibly could and I’m feeling great about my book for the first time in a long time.  I was stuck for months about basic decisions that needed to be made about this potential series.  Then I’ve been stuck for months on the first six or seven chapters of the current book.  I couldn’t get past them and my inner editor was going crazy.  Not the best thing to happen during a rough draft – that editor needs to be tied up and have her mouth duct taped so I can just get the words down.

I felt like I just couldn’t get parts of my plot to line up and I couldn’t really see how the story was going to come together even with a very rough outline.  (I really don’t like outlining – I feel like I’m trapped in the story and I don’t feel free to deviate from the outline.  Something I need to work on.)  But last week something happened in my brain I guess because I can finally see how the threads of the story are going to weave together for the most part.  And I finally gagged my inner editor and got past the problem chapters.  They still need a lot of work but that’s fine – that’s what the rewrite is for.

Since turning off that inner editor and pushing through the difficult part I’ve added a grand total of 23,380 words to my book in the last week!  Not too shabby after having a hard summer after our move.

I started writing the word count down in a prettier way since I was just randomly writing the dates and numbers on scraps of paper.  Too much longer of that method and I wouldn’t be able to see my progress easily.