NaNoWriMo Progress, Day 29

[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	2717	1667
Daily Average	4132	1667
Remaining Req'd Daily Avg	167	1667
Expected Total	120000	50000

Notes:

• I wanted to cross the 120,000 word mark tonight, but I just couldn't quite make it. I kept getting distracted. Ah, well. Work was busy and I had Tuesday night critique group tonight.


• "H Is for Haunted" is complete at 6073 words. I had written myself into a hole. How would a vengeful ghost with the power to place thoughts in the minds of people punish someone to whom every depravity is already commonplace? The answer I arrived at is . . . plant only wholesome thoughts into the man's head, even when he's trying to be depraved. Deny him the gratification even of remembering his former crimes. I don't love the ending, but I have an outline of the story I want to tell and can fix it in rewrite. :)


• That reminds me of the old joke:

  Masochist to sadist: "Hurt me!"
  Sadist to masochist: "No."



• Worked quite a bit on "O Is for Oath of Service Eternal" today, as well. That's the one I'm writing as a court transcript, with witnesses for the plaintiff and the defendant. It's weirdly difficult to write it because it's very much like writing a script, where only the dialogue has to convey everything. But I know exactly where I'm headed and I hope I can get there without too much more difficulty. And if I have to type "Objection!" one more time . . . But hey, I get to play with not just one unreliable narrator, but several. And a lot of "He said, the Demon said" situations, as well.


• There are demons in three of my stories. They could be in a connected world.


• Of the unfinished stories, the ends are clear and near in Bard, Fangs, Oath, Quest, Waste, and Zombie. The ends are clear but a way off in Investigation (which is turning into a novella; I can feel it), Moons, and Xenolith. The ends are over the horizon and very fuzzy on Anchor, Skullcosm, and Vanish. Those are, oddly enough, the three I went into the day writing with absolutely no idea of a plot, but only a concept that sounded like it should have a plot.


• Unfinished stories: Anchor, Bard, Fangs, Investigation, Moons, Oath, Quest, Skullcosm, Vanish, Waste, Xenolith, and Zombie.


• Today I worked on: Oath, Haunted, Fangs


• Interesting things I had to look up: More stuff about court proceedings and terminology. Next time I write something about a topic I know zilch about during NaNoWriMo, slap me, please.

This table shows each story and how many words I have written on it, regardless of the daily count. Titles highlighted by blue ("SkyBlue") are stories that are "complete" (for certain values of "complete").

A Is for Anchor 10574	B Is for Bard 10092	C Is for Clowns That Creep Through the Yard 5719
D Is for Dragon 6369	E Is for Egg 4975	F Is for Fangs That Are Sunk in Your Leg 9268 (617)
G Is for Gravesite 2204	H Is for Haunted 6073	I Is for Investigation Unwanted 6627
J Is for Jackpot 3069	K Is for Kiss 3191	L Is for Lucky For a Hit or a Miss 3219
M Is for Moons 3378	N Is for Nocturnal 4151 (1527)	O Is for Oath of Service Eternal 3824
P Is for Prey 3630	Q Is for Quest 1677	R Is for Ritual Performed as a Test 4599
S Is for SkullCosm 3672	T Is for Talents 3622	U Is for Unicorn Imbalance 1826
V Is for Vanish 1995	W Is for Waste 1068	X Is for Xenolith Deliberately Placed 2351
Y Is for Yesterday 3688	Z Is for Zombie 6827