NaNoWriMo 2012 - Day 7

[ladyseishou]

Day 7 - 23 days remaining


The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire
to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order.

— Janet Burroway






Today's word count is 11, 669! And we're coming up on the end of the first week! How's everyone doing? Has your protagonist taken that first important step away from what's comfortable, venturing out into the unknown in pursuit of some overwhelming desire or need?

Hold onto that desire, keep it up front and in your sights as we move into our second week of writing to stave off the infamous NaNoWriMo doldrums, still waters of doubts and don't-wanna's.

Because you can do it Nano Writer!

Questions? Comments? Excerpts to share? So what happens next? It's all good - so keep writing!

Comments

[eien_herrison]

My character has indeed taken the first step away from the familiar; she's won her first Gym battle and she started the day off by being very deep in the Viridian Forest, looking for an elusive Pikachu (one of only two easily-accessible elctric pokemon in Kanto at this early stage).

Current word count is 22,305, of which 3,386 was written today. I added up my outline total just out of curiousity and saw that it's already 5k in and of itself, so if I did count that I'd be up to about 28k.

I'm running out of outlines, so I have half an hour before I reward myself with some TV, and here's hoping I can get a decent amount done -- thankfully the next scene to write is battle (and scene) heavy, so that should give me some decent wordcount.

[ladyseishou]

A freaking fantastic word count! And an upcoming battle scene - that should be fun! And it seems that outlining really works for you!

[eien_herrison]

I'm boggled! I keep looking at my wordcount and going "...I've got that much and it's only the seventh?" (well, eighth today, but I've not yet written anything). The fight scene on its own should add about 2.5k-3k (my writing tends to go for every 1k of outline, I get 2.5k-3k of story, and the outline for it is just a bit under 1k).

Outlining definitely works for me, and I suspect I'll have to start planning non-fandon NaNos in about May to get all the little details down -- WriteWay is also working excellently for my purposes, I'll just have to remember to take advantage of their 50% off offer before Dec 15th.