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

[withorwithoutyou]

I wrote the first half of the final chapter today, and I'm just as unsure about what to do with that bittersweet feeling as I was last year this time.. At the beginning of the month, it was all brand new, waiting to be explored and written, and now coming to the end of it it feels like they're old friends that I'm not ready to give up. I can admit it- I don't want to stop writing the story, even if this is the natural end of it.
Looking back, knowing what the story was about and having a few basic ideas for it definitely helped, as did keeping a smaller focus. Instead of writing all sorts of subplots in and getting bogged down with nonessential details, they were simply alluded to. Maybe that's a project for later in the year. *grin*

How has yours been? The protags make any headway with those dark forces? ;D

[ladyseishou]

Sounds like you've made some really cool discoveries this month. Good luck with the second part of the last chapter! And I know what you mean about a bittersweet feeling but I like to think instead of my guys as taking a little well-earned vacation until I come back to them in a few weeks when it will be time to do a lot of cleaning and polishing (and yeah, there are a couple of pot holes that need filling and patching).

As for those dark forces... um, well let's just say that my protagonists have won the day but not the battle... yet ;-)

[twistingthetale]

I know how you feel, as I'm missing the writing :( My protagonists sort of won, but in a way they lost as well - no 'real' happy ending, but I think I'm allergic to those anyway.