kaasirpent | NaNoWriMo 2012, Day 17

NaNoWriMo 2012

I’m charting my daily progress on NaNoWriMo. Since you may or may not care, I’ll kindly hide it. Thanks for taking the time. :)

	Actual	Required
NaNoWriMo Progress: Magic, Psi, and Necromancy for Normals
Progress
New Words Today	2888	1667
Daily Average	2273	1667
Remaining Req’d Daily Avg	812	1667
Expected Total	50000	50000

Notes:

Put off writing again, today. I don’t know why. I knew pretty much what I was going to write about, but for some reason it was just hard to get going.
Wrote more about psions, today. My characters are going to have fun with the powers I’m writing about, especially the one I spent most of my time explaining, which is “disguise.” Basically, a psion using this will look like whatever type of person the target is expecting to see.
For each power or whatever that I write about, I usually create a little historical story to go with it. A court case, an investigation, something. And so each day is almost like short stories. I find it much easier to explain these powers by telling a narrative story than writing it like in some sort of D&D manual.
Today I looked up Interstates in Louisiana, banks in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and the FBI. The “case” I was writing about was a string of bank robberies where the psionic criminal basically posed as a regular employee of the bank in order to steal cash. Sometimes, the banks didn’t even notice until much later. I don’t know how likely that is, but I’ll fix it later if it turns out to be implausible. The not noticing part, that is, not the psionic part. I know that’s pure fantasy. :)

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