NaNoWriMo Day 14

I need to believe that rewrites can solve all my problems...

Even though I'm pretty sure they can't...

In other news, the female lead ending up in a lesbian relationship with one of the big bads would be much more believable than her ending up with the male lead...

Which would be fine, except ALL my characters seem like they'd work better if they were gay. Or at least most. And I'm pretty sure an entirely gay cast would be a hell of a statistical anomaly...

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~Psylash...

NaNoWriMo Day 13

I want to rant and rant about how much I fail at everything... But that would be stupid, and pointless, and whiny, and no one would fucking read it anyway, so I won't...

Instead I'll just say I'm past 40,000 words now, so there's that I guess, whatever...

ALSO MY INTERNET IS A PIECE OF USELESS SHIT JESUS MOTHERFUCKING CHRIST AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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~Psylash...

NaNoWriMo Day 12

Meh...

Just meh...

I'm really losing my confidence with this whole project... I'm a complete anti-social mess, and it's really showing in my complete lack of ability to write interesting characters... At all...

Real shame that writing is the closest thing to a skill I'm actually good at...

EMOEMOEMOEMOEMO FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Fuck...

I might just go for the 50k and then stop... Just to give me something to do...

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~Psylash...

NaNoWriMo Day 11

Not too much to say. A couple of the parts might be getting a little weird, I think. A certain character's certain power is probably a little confusing, to an extent. Or maybe not confusing so much as stupid. Either way.

I was very close to being at double the recommended word count for day 11 though (At 1666 2/3 words a day, day eleven should have at least 18333 or so, I had 36,306. So close!) But I didn't quite make it. That was disappointing, but I'm likely to try a little extra tomorrow night and finally hit that mark.

I'm thinking the book will be pretty long at this point, though. At least 60,000 words, likely more. Which means I have no idea when I might actually finish it, even if I hit 50,000 words on the 15th or sooner...

There's also now an excerpt posted on the NaNo site. Chapter 15, if you're curious (and exist).

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~Psylash...

NaNoWriMo Day 10

A new personal best in NNWM for me today, at 4708 words written (I got 76 more, but missed the site midnight update by seconds, so they'll count for tomorrow).

So, stuff is happening. Stuff and things and events even. The characters are being more proactive. They're being more varied in their interactions. There's a bit of mystery, a lot of action. Dare I say there's even a little suspense? All of which is really nice!

I'm especially worried about the ... well, basically the entire first half of the book... Very little really happens during it. Which is fine, I guess. It's setting up for the second half of the book, and for the rest of the series really. But I've read plenty of novel writing advice lately, and a lot of it recommends not waiting for things to pick up. There should be action or mystery or excitement in general throughout.

I'm working that weird, but hopefully that makes sense. The point is, the first half of the book is going to end up being boring as it stands right now. Hopefully that'll be mitigated by rewrites, but that's so far down the line I really don't want to even think about it right now.

Maybe I'll should enact Chandler's Law a bit...

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~Psylash...

NaNoWriMo Day 9

Welp, I broke the half way point (25000 words) first thing this morning, which was pretty cool! I'm really worrying about my character interactions at this point though. All the main characters have officially met now, and are working together, and I dunno if they're actually fun to see together.

I worry about that a lot, though.

Definitely kind of a problem is that characters are purposefully acting less than intelligently for the sake of advancing the plot... I'm trying to get them legitimate reasons to do it all, but that might not be good enough.

I'm also throwing in some random lesbian undertones. Which there's nothing wrong with, that works for me, I just thought I'd point it out.

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~Psylash...

NaNoWriMo Day 8

Fight scene! Possibly the best written scene so far! I'm thinking about using it as my Novel Excerpt on the NNWM site, but it'd probably be hard to follow out of context, so maybe not.

Took a while to get going today. I keep freaking out about the quality of the thing. I'm actually hoping to make a career out of this sort of thing, mind, not just churn out a 50k word file for NaNo. Self confidence isn't something I have a lot of typically, so I end up worried about this a lot.

But then I pushed through a few more boring bits, and got to have people trying to do violence to each other, and I felt a bit better!

Second day in a row I came in at under 3000 new words, though. Still more than 3k/day on average, but I hope my pace isn't going to be slowing too much.

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~Psylash...