NaNoWriMo Progress, Day 14

[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	4260	1667
Daily Average	5374	1667
Remaining Req'd Daily Avg	1547	1667
Expected Total	100000	50000

Notes:

• Wrists didn't hurt at all today.


• I had nothing for N. And I don't mean I had "Nothing" for N; I mean that I had literally no ideas for N. And then just before I left work to get lunch, I realized that Nocturnal rhymes with Eternal. N Is for Nocturnal, O Is for Oath of Service Eternal. Bingo.


• I struggled all morning trying to come up with a story involving Nyx, the Greek personification of Night. Because, honestly, hey. Noctural, Nyx . . . it kind of fits. But nothing would gel. So I came up with another idea. One involving an alien planet with a nocturnal species that only came out once every couple of thousand years. But after writing nearly 1500 words of that, I hated every syllable. Hated. Them. It just wasn't coming together. I had no character, no plot, the science was just all wonky . . . So I went back to Nyx. And it hit me: the POV character was wrong. It had to be a guy, on the prowl in a bar, meeting a literal goddess without realizing it. And not knowing what she has on her mind. Now there is a story. And yes, it gets . . . a tad erotic. But I'm still going to call it fantasy because it's a goddess. So there.


• Because of the lengthy false start, Nocturnal is another story where I have a bunch of crossed-out words that I will delete. 1527 of them, to be precise. The count is 4260 words, but with the 1527 removed, it's only 2733 words. I plan to complete the story after I post this, adding whatever words I type after midnight to my total tomorrow. (Which is how NaNoWriMo does it. If it were me, it's not tomorrow until I sleep.)


• I have several good ideas for Oath. I'm hoping it will come out short as well and allow me to work on some of the unfinished stories. Still unfinished: Anchor, Bard, Fangs, Haunted, Investigation, and Moons. Just six unfinished out of 14. That's not bad, is it?


• Character names: Nelson Mbumi Nathan Grant (says his name is Nicholas); Nyx, the goddess of night (says her name is Ratri, which is the Hindu goddess of night, so technically, she's not lying); Hal, the bartender.


• Interesting things I had to look up: "Nocturnal," Nyx, Hemera . . . and I tried to look up the dynamics of a planet revolving around a star with a close companion or companions. I don't have a degree in astrophysics. So I punted. And then I threw it all out except the Nyx reference and wrote a story with naked people. And mumps. I looked up mumps.


• Genre: Fantasy. Yes, that's right, fantasy. Goddess, and stuff. So 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 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 3378	N Is for Nocturnal 2733 (1527)	O Is for Oath of Service Eternal 0
P Is for Prey 0	Q Is for Quest 0	R Is for Rite a Demon to Best 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