NaNoWriMo Progress, Day 26

[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	2465	1667
Daily Average	4266	1667
Remaining Req'd Daily Avg	2266	1667
Expected Total	120000	50000

Notes:

• Again, being in someone else's house . . . I didn't get to write much. The story is just getting started where I had to leave it and make chocolate pudding cake.


• I've wanted Z to be a zombie story from the get-go, but a different sort of zombie than the traditional horror-movie zombie, either the slow, shambling ones or the fast, deadly ones. These are altogether different, or at least to me. There's probably 1000 stories out there with a similar setup, but since I don't read the zombie genre, I have no idea. :)


• "Z Is for Zombie" is incomplete at 2303 words. I've just introduced zombiism to the world and am writing the scene where the main character—the "zombie"—is trying to figure out a way to get out of the morgue, where he has just awakened and has no idea how he got there or how long it's been.


• Technically, I could "stop" because I've "completed" my "project" of "writing" 26 "short" "stories." If only they were all done, I suppose I could. Now I have four days to go back and write more stuff on the ones I didn't finish so I can try to get them to a finished state. And to catch up from my DISMAL word-counts for the days I've been visiting my mother. And I won't get much written tomorrow because we're driving back. That leaves Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday to try to finish as many of the unfinished stories as I can.


• Unfinished stories: Anchor, Bard, Fangs, Haunted, Investigation, Moons, Oath, Quest, Skullcosm, Vanish, Waste, Xenolith, Yesterday, Zombie. I'll probably start from Z and work my way backwards, since those are more fresh in my head.


• Character names: Well, you know it had to be Zach. :)


• Interesting things I had to look up: How morgues work, nanotechnology, the human genome project, whether mice have an appendix.

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 2204	Z Is for Zombie 2465