NaNoWriMo 2009 Day 29

[ladyseishou]

Day 29 - 1 day remaining

In baseball you get three strikes and you’re out.
In writing you get as many whacks at the ball as you want
until you finally get a hit.

- Tomie dePaola



The bases are loaded... batter up, Nano Writer!

So close to the end - today's word count is 48,333! Will you hit it out of the park or is it time to think about extra innings? Good luck to all our Nano Writers still swinging away! You can do it! Excerpts? Comments? Cracker Jacks? It's all good! Keep writing!

Comments

[sonjadenise]

I fell behind after being ahead for a while, but I did about 8,000 words today, bringing my total to 50,097.

...holy crap. After, what? Six years of trying to beat NaNoWriMo, I FINALLY DID IT. (Even if my novel still needs 40,000 more words, I now LAUGH at that number. Laugh, I tell you!)

And why'd I have to hit 50k at such a creepy spot in the story?

"Sex?" I asked. "You're willing to go before the council and defend this proposal if I have sex with you?" I looked him over; he wasn't an unattractive man, physically speaking, but in other ways I found him quite repellant.

"Are you willing to do it?" he asked.

"Yes," I replied without thinking. It seemed so ridiculous and inconsequential; I suppose if he was a stickler for the rules, if he wanted sex, there was only one place to get it from. And if this was the only way to get it from me, then so be it. Thinking of it that way, he was a pretty sad man. Made me feel a little sorry for that level of patheticness, but didn't make me like him any more. "I'll notify the council to assemble so that we'll be able to presenting to them."

"Later," The Father's Eyes said, taking a step closer to me so that we were nearly nose to nose. He circled his arms around my waist; I kissed him, trying to get into it, but not only was the kiss entirely unspectacular, I felt nothing. I closed my eyes, tried to imagine Kabu was here instead of him. Whatever helped.

But it was impossible to convince myself even for a few seconds and for the sake of fantasy that a man with such mechanical motions was Kabu. Instead, I simply compared the two men, and The Father's Eyes was clearly coming up short. Under normal circumstances, I would simply leave, but in this instance, we had an agreement, and if I expected him to hold up his end, I would need to hold up my end, first. At least it would only be this one time. At least, at least, at least, I told myself. Because it was an experience I never intended to duplicate if I could help it.

You Did It! *applause*

[ladyseishou]

Wow! That's fantastic work! And it is an interesting place to leave off - all the more reason to keep writing :-)

[twistingthetale]

Well done! And that really is an interesting place to hit the 50k :)