NaNoWriMo Progress, Day 3

[kaasirpent]

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. :)

NaNoWriMo Progress: These Are the Dreams that Keep Sleep from Me
	Actual	Required
Progress
New Words Today	7702	1666
Daily Average	6882	1667
Remaining Req'd Daily Avg	1049	1667
Expected Total	52000	50010

Notes:

• I finally finished one in a day, which is what I was intending for all of them. Let's hope that Day 3 starts a trend that holds up through Day 26.


• "C Is for Clowns (that Creep Through the Yard)" was the very first story idea I wrote down when I came up with the idea for this whole enterprise. Well, at least the first one for which I had an entire story idea.


• Back in April or May of 2010—I can't remember which—my Second Life writing group The Quillians got together one night for the express purpose of doing a world-building exercise. We were then each supposed to write a 1000-word story using that world. The three prompts we were given to get the ball rolling were
  • A convention on an island
  • A suicide
  • A resurrection
  We batted around ideas for more than an hour, and whenever someone came up with something the rest liked, we ran with that. Eventually, it became a clown convention with some other stuff added which I won't go into because it would spoil the story. :) I ended up not submitting a story in that world because literally nothing would come to mind. Flash forward a year and three months. Boom. A fully-formed story idea pops into my head. I didn't even know I remembered that world-building exercise, much less intended to actually write something in it. Well, this is that story.


• I sat down to write this thinking the story was going to flow one way—kinda dark, but with a traditional 'happy ending.' But from the very first sentence, realized it needed to go in an altogether darker direction.


• After I finished this one, I went back and fleshed out a little more on Anchor and Bard. Got them both to the next logical scene end and made notes where they're headed.


• Oh, and bonus! I got the idea that partially coalesced what the story is and where it starts for W Is for Witness. At least I now know at what point to start the story (already in progress).


• Character names: Clarence (the main character), Chuck (his step-father, who is a clown), Carol (his mother, who is a clown fanatic), Dad (who never got an actual name)


• Interesting things I had to look up: US Marine recruitment and training, C4 explosives, detonating same, Bimini Island, resort hotels on same, famous clowns in history.


• Genre: Horror

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.

A Is for Anchor 8398	B Is for Bard 6549	C Is for Clowns That Creep Through the Yard 5700
D Is for Dragon 0	E Is for Egg 0	F Is for Fangs That Are Sunk in Your Leg 0
G Is for Graveside 0	H Is for Haunted 0	I Is for Investigation Unwanted 0
J Is for Jackpot 0	K Is for Kiss 0	L Is for Lightning A Hit or a Miss 0
M Is for Moons 0	N Is for N_____ 0	O Is for Oath __________ 0
P Is for Prey 0	Q Is for Quest 0	R Is for Rite __________ 0
S Is for Sinister 0	T Is for Twilight 0	U Is for U_____ __________ 0
V Is for V_____ 0	W Is for Witness 0	X Is for Xenogamy For Maximum Fitness 0
Y Is for Y_____ 0	Z Is for Zombie 0