NaNoWriMo Progress, Day 7

[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	5378	1667
Daily Average	6388	1667
Remaining Req'd Daily Avg	221	1667
Expected Total	52000	50010

Notes:

• Yay! This one came out to be 2204 words, which is right at the average I figured they'd all be.


• "G Is for Gravesite" came from a single image. A father and son standing at the grave of their beloved mother/grandmother, respectively. They begin walking away, and the son looks up at his father and says, "What kind of tree is she, Dad?" That was it. I tried for weeks to make something out of it, and failed. I hoped that inspiration would strike when I needed it. And it did. It all fell into place when I realized they were dryads.


• Finished this one, too. I really like how this one came out, although it could stand some tweaking. I think I either left too much unexplained or explained too much. Or both.


• I feel certain I drew on some source for this, but I can't pinpoint what it might be. I mean other than the blindingly obvious Greek mythology thing.


• My wrists hurt a little bit, tonight.


• Since I completed Gravesite, I worked a bit more on Anchor & Bard. Didn't finish either of those, either, but added a couple of scenes to both.


• Character names: Greg Drew, his 13-year-old son George, and 15-year-old daughter Grace. Oh, and the corpse of their recently deceased mother/grandmother, Olive Penn Drew.


• Interesting things I had to look up: dryads, which is where I found out their association with the goddess Artemis; how the Greeks may have worshipped Artemis; trees indigenous to Georgia and their scientific names (for instance, the green ash is in the Olive family and is Praximus pennsylvanica (See what I did, there?)); how burial vaults and coffins work; embalming.


• 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.

A Is for Anchor 10574	B Is for Bard 7547	C Is for Clowns That Creep Through the Yard 5700 (complete)
D Is for Dragon 6369 (complete)	E Is for Egg 4975 (complete)	F Is for Fangs That Are Sunk in Your Leg 6731 (617)
G Is for Gravesite 2204 (complete)	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 SkullCosm 0	T Is for Twilight 0	U Is for Unicorn __________ 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