NaNoWriMo Progress: Day 15 (The Halfway Point!)

[kaasirpent]

NaNoWriMo Progress: Killing Time
	Actual	Required
Progress
New Words Today	2531	50K 1667 75K 2500
Daily Average	2823	50K 1667 75K 2500
Remaining Req'd Daily Avg	50K 511 75K 2178	50K 1667 75K 2500
Expected Total	75000	50010

Notes:

• Today, I had fun with it. I decided yesterday that the next scene(s) would be comic relief. It's the hero character's wedding day (some 15 years before "current day") and the time travelers are trying to stir things up, either because they really are just trying to muddy the waters or just because they want to force the other group from the future to have to chase their tails trying to put out fires.


• But it's not all fun and games. In the "original" time line, Gerald married Steph and they were divorced several years later because they were really incompatible as it turns out. But this wedding is going to change that somewhat, and make Gerald a subtly different person when the time comes for him to make his Big Decision™.



• So I have set up a wedding where the best man and groom are discussing whether the bride is really right for the groom (and one or both of them is hung over), the priest, photographer, organist, and most of the guests are stuck behind a gigantic traffic accident, and the power is out in the church. I'm going to pile on some more misfortune to see what trouble I can make, then I'll wrap it all up nice and pretty, probably tomorrow night.



• If you can think of some more annoying, upsetting, non-bloody, non-fatal things to have go wrong for a wedding, comment and let me know. :) Maybe the reception, too, but I'm focusing on the wedding itself right now. It needs to be things that are seemingly random like the ones listed above rather than 'a waiter spills wine on the bride's gown,' although I may make that happen, too. :) The time travelers don't want to be too blatant.


• My favorite sentence from today:

  And all were dressed in a garish shade of pink that Virsil wished had died out with most of humanity.

  I'm told bridesmaid dresses are required to be hideous.

 Goody Two Shoes by Adam Ant from Top 1000 Pop Hits of the 80s (Rating: 0)

Comments

[dchenes.livejournal.com]

A reception suggestion: involve the fire marshal. (The cake is blocking an exit, there are too many people for the space, the caterers want to put up a tent with an oven in it...)

This is loosely based on my sister's wedding reception; the fire marshal lives half a block from the historic building the reception was in. We had to move the catering tent.