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I'm charting my daily progress on NaNoWriMo. Since you may or may not care, I'll kindly hide it behind a cut. Thanks for taking the time. :)
Notes:
This table shows each story and how many words I have written on it, regardless of the daily count. Titles or letters in red ("tomato") are ones where I'm not sure, yet, what the story will be.
| NaNoWriMo Progress: These Are the Dreams that Keep Sleep from Me | ||
| Actual | Required | |
|---|---|---|
| Progress | ||
| New Words Today | 6735 | 1666 |
| Daily Average | 6473 | 1667 |
| Remaining Req'd Daily Avg | 1324 | 1667 |
| Expected Total | 52000 | 50010 |
Notes:
- OK, seriously? These were supposed to be short stories, emphasis on short. I was thinking an average of 2000 words. B Is for Bard got away from me, too. But with this one, I know why. I knew what story I wanted to tell, but when I started writing, I decided I wanted to look at it from a different place, start the story elsewhere. And it wasn't until the bard had to explain his "affliction" (see below) that I realized I was right the first time, and the story should be first-person POV and should tell the story of how the bard gets his affliction, not how it gets partially cured.
- The framing story isn't finished, but the story-in-the-story of the bard telling the good king how he ended up like he is is complete.
- You know what the hell of it is? I like this character and the world so much that my brain is already thinking it might make a good novel. Oh, yeah, this has been a great exercise for me to get back into the short form. Really. <insert eyeroll that can be seen from Andromeda>
- Character names: Bran (the bard), Baldwin (the good king), Brendan (the prince), Vivienne (the saucy wench), Gustave (the wizard), Gawain (the dog)
- Just so I'll have it: I thought of the word Bard and then thought, 'Where's my story? What's the worst thing that could happen to a bard?' Answer: he loses his voice. Naaah, not bad enough. How about...he's cursed so he literally cannot sing. Naaaah, still not bad enough. Aha! He's cursed so that he cannot sing a word that isn't true. Bad, but...how can I twist the knife further? How about: the curse was badly worded, and anything he does manage to sing (at the cost of great pain) becomes true. So he's a bard afraid to sing, yet everyone who knows his story forces him to sing.
- Interesting things I had to look up: legitimate names for medieval men and women, parts of a castle, lutes, medieval clothing, bards, pre-tobacco pipe usage, random name generators for places (medieval), history of handkerchiefs, the differences between castles and keeps.
- Genre: Fantasy
This table shows each story and how many words I have written on it, regardless of the daily count. Titles or letters in red ("tomato") are ones where I'm not sure, yet, what the story will be.
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