NaNoWriMo Progress, Day 25

[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	2042	1667
Daily Average	4339	1667
Remaining Req'd Daily Avg	2306	1667
Expected Total	120000	50000

Notes:

• Today is a perfect example of why writing is so hard when people are around. I didn't get a single word written until late afternoon because I had no real time away to write until then, and by then I was hooked on a TV show that we were watching a marathon of. Who knew "Kitchen: Impossible" was so engrossing?


• My mother put "Yesterday" in my head, and I knew that was the word I wanted to use, but I couldn't think of a story. The song kept going through my head. "Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away. Now, it looks as though they're here to stay. Oh, I believe in yesterday. Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be. There's a shadow hanging over me. Oh, yesterday came suddenly." Something in that sparked the first line that I ended up keeping: "Yesterday, everything changed." But that's all I had.


• "Y Is for Yesterday" is incomplete at 2042 words. I'm not sure how long it'll be actually, because I don't really have an ending. Just a vague idea inspired by the song and by Dean Koontz's book Taken.


• Finally, it came to me. It's a first-person narrative in the same vein as a zombie story (see tomorrow), but told by the person who has lived through . . . whatever it was. He's telling about what happened . . . "Yesterday." What that thing was . . . could be interpreted a couple of ways: beings from another, fantasy dimension . . . or aliens. I haven't made up my mind, yet. :)


• Character names: A bunch of first names because they're co-workers in a crowded office building who must band together and survive in the aftermath of . . . this thing. The narrator is named Yosef.


• Interesting things I had to look up: Lyrics of the song, male names beginning with 'y.' :)


• Genre: Science Fiction. Or possibly {Urban | Dark} Fantasy. Maybe.

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 10092	C Is for Clowns That Creep Through the Yard 5719 (complete)
D Is for Dragon 6369 (complete)	E Is for Egg 4975 (complete)	F Is for Fangs That Are Sunk in Your Leg 9039 (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 3219 (complete)
M Is for Moons 3378	N Is for Nocturnal 4151 (1527) (complete)	O Is for Oath of Service Eternal 2101
P Is for Prey 3630 (complete)	Q Is for Quest 1557	R Is for Ritual Performed as a Test 4599 (complete)
S Is for SkullCosm 3872	T Is for Talents 3622 (complete)	U Is for Unicorn Imbalance 1826 (complete)
V Is for Vanish 1959	W Is for Waste 1053	X Is for Xenolith Deliberately Placed 2351
Y Is for Yesterday 2042	Z Is for Zombie 0