NaNoWriMo Progress, Day 12

[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	4710	1667
Daily Average	5634	1667
Remaining Req'd Daily Avg	1799	1667
Expected Total	100000	50010

Notes:

• Wrists felt much better today, but still took it easy. :)


• "L Is for Lucky, a Hit or a Miss" is complete at 3212 words. I also tweaked a couple of the other unfinished stories and got them a little closer to finished.


• "Lightning" was my 'filler word' for L since August. And nothing would come to me at all for it other than a vague notion of something steampunky with zeppelins and someone collecting electrical energy from clouds using lightning. But I could come up with absolutely nothing of the story around that idea. Then last night veldah suggested that I make it an investigation of a murder in which the murder weapon was lightning. While that had slightly better prospects, I had just written a 'detective' story three days previous, and the one for "M" is also a detective story, so it was too much. So I went to bed sincerely hoping that I could make something out of it today when I got up. :) By chance, I happened to hear the word "lucky" in some context I don't even remember…and a story came to mind. But it's hard to rhyme with 'kiss,' so I wanted to keep the "hit or miss" part. I'm not entirely sure I did an adequate job, but hey. Oh, and it turned from steampunk into kind of a superhero type thing.


• veldah also gave me the crucial second character I needed to make "M Is for Moons" work tomorrow. Even though I'm relatively sure I don't know where I'll start or finish the story, I know the characters, and that might be enough. :)


• Character names: "My name is Lucas Matthew Barber. I’m 22 years old. As you can see, I’m six feet two inches tall, weigh about 180, and wear size 14 shoes. I shave my head, so under ‘hair color’ you can just put ‘none.’ It makes it easier. My eyes are blue. I’d like to tell you that I’m married or have a girlfriend or that I’ve even been to college or have a prospect of ever going to college. I’d like to tell you that I have great relationship with my friends and family. But I can’t tell you any of that, can I? All I have is this cell and the occasional interview with . . . well, someone like you. What agency are you from anyway? Defense? One of the intelligence agencies? Or do they even have a name?" The story is a monologue of this guy talking to another person he addresses only as "lady" or "you."


• Interesting things I had to look up: Korea, Kim Jong-Il, the DMZ, nuclear warheads, the probability of a coin landing on it's edge when flipped.


• Genre: Superhero, but told from the POV of a not-nice non-hero super.

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 8216 (617)
G Is for Gravesite 2204 (complete)	H Is for Haunted 5309	I Is for Investigation Unwanted 6627
J Is for Jackpot 3069 (complete)	K Is for Kiss 3191 (complete)	L Is for Lucky For a Hit or a Miss 3212 (complete)
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